For years, defense agencies and departments have faced an impossible choice: embrace cloud innovation or maintain strict compliance with security requirements. That compromise is over.
SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2®) is expanding secure cloud access for mission critical organizations by delivering SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition on Google Cloud using Data Boundary via Assured Workloads to support FedRAMP+ Impact Level 2 (IL2) and Impact Level 4 (IL4) requirements. This milestone enables U.S. defense organizations to modernize their mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems–essential business software used to manage day-to-day finance, human resources, and supply chain operations–without sacrificing security.
Why this matters for our customers
Our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition offering on Google Cloud represents a significant expansion in deployment options for our customers. By leveraging Google Cloud’s Data Boundary via Assured Workloads, we can now offer our U.S. defense customers an additional hyperscaler choice to deploy SAP ERP solutions.
The SAP NS2 advantage
What sets SAP NS2 apart isn’t just our compliance credentials, it’s our unwavering commitment to delivering the full power of SAP innovation within secure boundaries. Through strategic partnerships with leading infrastructure providers like Google Cloud, we provide customers with the best of both worlds: robust capabilities with secure innovation features such as Data Boundary via Assured Workloads, combined with access to a continuous pipeline of cutting-edge innovations and extensive deployment support backed by deep industry expertise.
SAP NS2 delivers a fully managed cloud where the customer’s landscape is supported and accessed solely by U.S. citizens. The SAP NS2 operations team has almost a decade’s worth of support for regulated and security-conscious customers. Their all-encompassing support model provides guidance for cloud solutions, infrastructure, and migration needs.
“Our collaboration with SAP NS2 delivers on a core imperative: providing the public sector with the same world-class innovation that the private sector has enjoyed for years. By running SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud with FedRAMP+ IL4 compliance, we’re ensuring that organizations don’t have to choose between cutting-edge capability and strict security. Together, we are bringing commercial technological parity to the mission, allowing agencies to modernize their most critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems on secure infrastructure.”
— Jim Kelly, Vice President of Federal Sales, Google Public Sector
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Overview
The FedRAMP+ IL4 offering of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition is designed to address cross-organizational lines of business, including finance, human resources, spend, and supply chain operations. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition is an enterprise resource planning cloud solution that packages applications, support, infrastructure, and technical managed services into a single software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. SAP NS2’s ability to deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition within the FedRAMP+ IL4 cloud environment enables defense organizations to improve operational efficiency across their enterprise while keeping mission-critical information protected.
Many more applications are included in the scope. For more details, please contact an SAP NS2 representative.
Google Cloud Data Boundary via Assured Workloads
Google Cloud Data Boundary via Assured Workloads allows Google Cloud customers to deploy their cloud workloads on secure, authorized infrastructure. The deployment of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition on Google Cloud Data Boundary via Assured Workloads delivers enterprise-grade ERP capabilities with enhanced security, compliance, and scalability. SAP NS2 and Google Cloud enable public sector agencies and the U.S. Department of War to innovate with confidence while maintaining their strict governance standards. Together, customers can manage SAP solutions within a secure, compliant cloud environment.
Looking ahead: Expanding the secure cloud ecosystem
This Google Cloud deployment is part of SAP NS2’s broader strategy to provide customers with choice and flexibility. By combining SAP’s end-to-end business processes with secure-by-design cloud infrastructure, we’re helping our customers architect their future without compromising their security posture.
Ready to modernize your mission-critical systems?
While this milestone primarily focuses on customers in the Defense Industrial base (DIB), federal civilian agencies, and the U.S. Department of War, the secure cloud infrastructure and compliance framework established by SAP NS2 on Google Cloud is equally transformative for other highly regulated industries.
Sectors such as healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals can now leverage this solution to modernize their mission-critical ERP systems. By doing so, these organizations can harness the full potential of cloud innovation while maintaining the highest levels of security and data sovereignty, ensuring that even the most sensitive data remains protected within a robust, secure environment.
Whether you’re subject to ITAR, FedRAMP, or DOW compliance requirements, SAP NS2 offers a clear framework for success with cloud adoption. Contact us to learn how we can support your organization’s secure digital transformation.
