waldorf and armonk — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IBM Watson technology will be built into SAP solutions to deliver new AI-driven insights and automation to accelerate innovation and drive greater efficiency across SAP. and to create an effective user experience. application portfolio.
SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power SAP Start’s digital assistant, which provides a unified entry point for SAP’s cloud solutions. SAP Start allows users to find, launch, and interact with apps provided by SAP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud cloud solutions. The new AI capabilities of SAP Start empower users to be productive with both natural language capabilities and predictive insights using IBM Watson AI solutions built on IBM’s principles of trust, transparency and data privacy. Designed to improve.
Christian Klein, SAP SE CEO and member of the Executive Committee, said: “Together, we can improve business outcomes for our mutual customers by incorporating additional AI, machine learning, and other intelligent technologies into our SAP solutions. Together with recent news, it’s a great example of how the 50-year rich partnership between our companies continues to strengthen and move the industry forward.”
The new Digital Assistant feature in SAP Start extends across SAP solutions and can answer a wide variety of questions for managers and employees. It’s designed to automate and accelerate common tasks to unlock employee productivity so they can focus on more strategic work.. SAP Start enables customers to use AI and machine learning to extract information from various data sources to answer user questions across business units, thus benefiting from intelligence at the point of decision making. I can. IBM technology, now available in SAP Concur’s TripIt mobile app, enables nearly 13 million users to easily access AI-derived weather insights to make more sustainable travel choices before and during their trip. We support you to do
IBM delivers market-leading AI capabilities in its Watson products, deployed by over 100 million users across 20 industries. Additionally, SAP and IBM Consulting currently support customers with 25 joint intelligent industry solutions that use IBM Watson capabilities underpinned by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). These industry solutions help customers across industries such as retail, manufacturing, and utilities accelerate business transformation and use data to make more informed decisions.
Arvind Krishna, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, said: “With this announcement, we are infusing IBM Watson’s powerful enterprise-level AI capabilities into SAP’s leading ERP platform to help companies reimagine the customer experience, boost productivity and drive growth. We support.”
In addition to embedding IBM Watson AI capabilities natively into SAP solutions, SAP and IBM are collaborating on generative AI and large-scale language models for consistent, continuous learning and automation based on SAP’s mission-critical application suite. Realize
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