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Artificial intelligence is by far the disruptor of this decade. Search, summarize, and analyze vast data stores, giving your employees data-driven insights in minutes. You can also generate content for anything from text to software code, streamlining your workflow and saving valuable time and money.
And that's just the surface. We are yet to learn how much of an impact it will have on the workplace.
As we explore this new frontier and the vast potential of AI, SAP has adjusted its strategy with the goal of becoming not only a leading enterprise application provider, but also the No. 1 business AI company. This foundation is now available in SAP Business AI, providing SAP customers with a portfolio of reliable, relevant, and responsible AI solutions.
A key element of that strategy is leveraging the expertise of SAP partners. The trusted relationships that SAP partners have built with their mutual customers are essential to communicating the value of SAP's AI solutions and finding the best SAP product to meet your business goals. It also presents a great opportunity for partners to expand their business.
But first, let's take a step back and explore why SAP is best positioned to deliver business AI opportunities.
Benefits of AI from SAP
In-depth knowledge of business processes
Before AI can make operations faster, more data-driven, and more efficient, organizations need to optimize their business processes. SAP brings a deep understanding of business processes to AI applications, enabling solutions that orchestrate workflows, data sharing, and automation for maximum efficiency and productivity.
SAP data
AI solutions require data to train algorithms to provide accurate and relevant real-world output. SAP can leverage business data from thousands of customer systems across the value chain to address customer challenges and drive digital transformation.
Focus on creating your application
SAP partners with technology providers to maximize the opportunities of AI by creating value with new applications. For example, large-scale language models (LLMs) can be a solution differentiator. LLM performs a variety of natural language processing tasks. By combining LLM and AI solutions, the delivery of insights is automated and the user no longer has to wait for assistance from his IT or data science department. This allows companies to focus on data insights rather than focusing on the technology that generates them.
Strong partner ecosystem
SAP recognizes that it cannot reach the entire addressable market on its own. That's why his ecosystem of over 25,500 partners is a great advantage when providing business AI solutions. By working together, we can drive innovation, accelerate our AI roadmaps, and extend AI capabilities beyond limits.
I cannot stress enough how important this fourth element is to our AI strategy. It's the key to our success. That is why we need to ensure that we create win-win scenarios for our partners that will benefit both parties in the long term.
partner opportunities
While AI offers many benefits for SAP customers, it also presents significant opportunities for SAP partners. As part of the SAP ecosystem, partners can provide advanced out-of-the-box functionality with built-in AI capabilities within SAP applications. You also need to take advantage of the virtually limitless opportunities that AI offers, regardless of the business model of your chosen SAP partner.
- sell: Partners who resell SAP solutions can leverage SAP's embedded AI portfolio to accelerate their RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP transactions. Resellers can also enhance their cloud appeal with AI capabilities exclusive to SAP Cloud Solutions and expand their business with SAP's AI unit for premium AI capabilities.
- service: Service partners can accelerate adoption of SAP's AI portfolio and custom AI capabilities built on SAP by bundling services and support with them. With this approach, customers gain value through customized generative AI use cases built on the foundation of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), including the generative AI hub, and cloud migration and You can accelerate business transformation.
- Innovate: Partners also have the opportunity to develop innovative AI solutions and enhancements that enhance the SAP portfolio. Partners can use SAP's AI services on SAP BTP to build customer-specific, repeatable use cases to enhance their customers' business processes.
Next step
Ready to expand your partnership with SAP and build on AI opportunities? Explore our AI portfolio and visit the SAP Partner Portal site to learn more. If you are not currently an SAP partner, now is the perfect time to consider the benefits of becoming part of the SAP ecosystem.
If you are ready to begin your SAP partnership journey and deliver reliable and effective AI solutions to enterprises in the market, start here today.
Karl Fahrbach is Chief Partner Officer at SAP.
