IBM and SAP: A Cloud Pact That Solves Problems and Holds Promise - NYTimes.com

Quite a range of perspectives on this cloudy partnership; e.g., also see SAP And IBM Get Intimate--Real Value Or Hook Up Of The Oldies? (Forbes)

"Erich Clementi, a senior vice president in IBM’s services business, said, “IBM could tick off all the boxes in a way our nonenterprise competitors could not.”

Analysts shared his assessment of the competition. “SAP looked around and concluded that IBM had the most mature enterprise cloud technology,” said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT Research."

IBM and SAP: A Cloud Pact That Solves Problems and Holds Promise - NYTimes.com