SAP and S3NS Accelerate Trusted Cloud Adoption in France With Thales as First Strategic Customer

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A decisive step in scaling trusted cloud in Europe

The strategic partnership between SAP and S3NS, the trusted cloud provider established by Thales and Google Cloud, will strengthen trusted cloud capabilities in France and support Europe’s growing demand for cloud business transformation.

SAP RISE private cloud edition will be deployed by SAP Sovereign Cloud on S3NS’ SecNumCloud-qualified Cloud Platform, known as PREMI3NS, by H2 2026 enabling organizations to run critical workloads in a trusted environment aligned with French and European regulations. Data will remain stored, processed, and encrypted in France under French jurisdiction, while benefiting from the best cloud technology and SAP’s full innovation stack, including AI-driven capabilities.

“This partnership represents a major step forward for our customers in France and sends a strong signal across Europe. Customers can combine SAP’s innovation and scalability within an environment that meets the highest regulatory requirements, enabling transformation without compromise,” said Thomas Saueressig, Chief Customer Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.

Thales leads the way as first SAP customer on S3NS’ SecNumCloud infrastructure

As first SAP customer within the S3NS trusted cloud, Thales is undertaking a transformational refoundation of its SAP ERP landscape, adopting SAP's 'clean core' principle to ensure long-term agility and future-readiness. This program will unify core business processes, including finance, supply chain, manufacturing and procurement, on PREMI3NS, the Trusted Cloud by S3NS.

“SAP is a cornerstone of Thales’ transformation, with a proven track record in supporting complex industrial operations and supply chain environments. Leveraging SAP within a trusted cloud platform such as PREMI3NS by S3NS is a natural step in our transformation journey, delivering the security, resilience, and compliance the Group requires,” said Pascal Bouchiat, Senior Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer, Thales.

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SAP selects S3NS to expand its cloud ecosystem in France, leveraging S3NS’s SecNumCloud-aligned infrastructure, which is designed to address requirements related to the protection of sensitive data against extraterritorial laws, with the offering expected to be commercially available and deployed by H2 2026.

“France is leading the way in shaping digital sovereignty in Europe, and SecNumCloud sets a clear benchmark for a trusted cloud environment. Together with S3NS, we are enabling customers to move their most critical workloads to the cloud under French jurisdiction - combining sovereignty and innovation in one consistent model. Thales, a global tech leader in defence, aerospace, cyber and digital, choosing this setup is a strong signal that sovereign cloud is becoming a reality at scale,” said Martin Merz, President SAP Sovereign Cloud.

“Having a partner as demanding as SAP choosing S3NS is a strong endorsement of our trajectory and the continuous enrichment of our trusted cloud offering. This collaboration marks an important step in expanding our ecosystem of leading software publishers, while accelerating our development. It also enables regulated sectors in France to fully benefit from SAP’s capabilities in a trusted cloud environment. Customers can now access the same level of performance, innovation, and functionality — with the added guarantees of security, compliance, and digital sovereignty provided by S3NS,” said Hélène Bringer, President of S3NS.

S3NS already serves more than sixty customers and offers the broadest range of services on the market: 30 managed services with 30 more planned over the next 12 months, including Vertex AI services that facilitate AI adoption.

A strong signal to the market and regulated industries

About SAP
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP (NYSE: SAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: www.sap.com.

About S3NS
An alliance between Thales, a global leader in data protection and cybersecurity, and Google Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud technology providers, S3NS offers public institutions and private companies—seeking to further protect their most sensitive data—highly secure public cloud solutions to support their transition to a trusted cloud, in compliance with the SecNumCloud framework defined by ANSSI, the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems. S3NS is a company incorporated under French law and wholly controlled by Thales.

About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies for the Defence, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital sectors. Its portfolio of innovative products and services helps address several major challenges: sovereignty, security, sustainability and inclusion.

The Group allocates €4.5 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Quantum and Cloud technologies.

Thales has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries. In 2025, the Group generated sales of €22.1 billion.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center was running out of options Friday evening to keep President Donald Trump's name on the facade of the iconic performing arts venue.

A judge earlier in the afternoon rejected a request to pause a court-ordered deadline of Friday to remove references to Trump from the building and other aspects of the Kennedy Center's operations. The institution appealed that ruling, an effort that was also rebuffed Friday evening.

Scaffolding was erected earlier in the day around a section of the building that includes Trump's name. After a round of storms passed Friday evening, multiple workers were back at the scene further building out the scaffolding in an apparent effort to prepare for removing the letters referencing the president.

After ignoring the Kennedy Center for much of his first term, Trump has wielded tremendous influence over the venue during his return to office. Just a month into his second term, he ousted the center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a board of trustees that named him chairman. Trump's name was quickly added to the building.

In his ruling that only Congress could make changes to the Kennedy Center's name, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July and last for two years.

The Kennedy Center's leadership argued in its appeal Friday that the renovation was badly needed and accused the lower court, in terms that seemed similar to Trump's speech patterns, of interfering in the effort.

“The District Court is not allowing us to close in order to properly fix up and repair the Building, including potentially life threatening structural damage like beams and parking garage ceilings that are rusted, and in serious danger of falling onto people below,” according to the appeal. “Indeed, total collapse!”

Even as the Kennedy Center has fought efforts to remove Trump's name from the building, it has taken steps to comply with Cooper's initial ruling.

A June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center’s website has dropped Trump's name. And an earlier email sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump’s name.

Associated Press journalists Mark Sherman and Emily Wang in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Workers construct scaffolding at the sign for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, June 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Workers erect scaffolding in front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sign in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Workers construct scaffolding below the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sign Friday, June 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Workers erect scaffolding in front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sign in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

A worker sits on scaffolding at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)