IBM and SAP expand collaboration on generative AI

New value-generating partnership initiatives focus on increasing client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions

Waldorf and Armonk — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced their vision for the next era of their partnership. This includes new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions to help clients unlock business value.

“IBM and SAP's shared approach to generative AI, built on open ecosystems, trust, and purpose-built models, helps our clients optimize business outcomes,” said a senior at IBM Consulting. said John Granger, Vice President. “Our new value-generating partnership initiative will enable our clients to accelerate their path to innovation, competitive advantage and become next-generation enterprises through generative AI.”

“RISE with SAP will enable more customers to accelerate their journey to the cloud and realize the transformative benefits of generative AI for business in the cloud,” said Scott Russell, chief revenue officer and executive officer. “Expanding our partnership with IBM makes perfect sense.” SAP SE Customer Success. “This expanded partnership will enable more joint customers to reach new heights by innovating, growing and transforming their businesses through cloud, data and business AI.”

IBM Consulting and SAP aim to accelerate the transformation enabled by RISE with SAP by supporting clients in the following key areas:

• next generation AI business process: Together, the companies are building new generative AI capabilities for RISE with SAP and exploring opportunities to bring AI to SAP business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions and line-of-business applications. IBM initially plans to extend AI capabilities across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, all of which are powered by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). These include RISE with SAP, GROW with SAP solutions, financial solutions for CFO offices, supply chain management solutions, human capital management solutions, SAP Customer Experience solutions, and intelligent spend management solutions. IBM also plans to leverage SAP Signavio and SAP Business AI solutions to help define next-generation business processes through a proof-of-concept implementation program.
• Next generation industrial innovation: IBM and SAP plan to build intelligent industry use cases enabled by data-driven insights into end-to-end business processes to power the next generation of industry innovation. These use cases will initially focus on industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, defense, automotive, and utility industries. This includes recent work with IBM and SAP to develop new AI solutions for the consumer goods and retail industries. As part of this effort, IBM has begun developing a broad portfolio of more than 100 AI solutions across industries, lines of business, and product offerings. In addition, IBM will develop a prescriptive industry value map that defines next-generation business processes and opportunities for AI impact. Customers will have access to all of these new AI solutions through global IBM Innovation Studios and SAP Experience Center sites.
• Next-generation platform architecture and customer adoption approach: Next-generation enterprises require next-generation platform architectures and modern approaches to customer adoption. Through its Value Generation partnership initiative, IBM plans to deliver a next-generation reference architecture that enables a clean core approach. To achieve this, IBM plans to leverage SAP BTP, SAP Signavio, and LeanIX solutions. These new reference architectures help define standards across data, process, system and device integration, process orchestration, and automation. IBM consultants supporting clients on SAP projects can leverage IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM's AI services platform, and a unique portfolio of methods, assets, and assistants to improve reproducibility and consistency of client delivery. You can also. With IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM consultants can transform the way they deliver SAP solutions and leverage generative AI to complete tasks such as user story generation, test scripts, training, and change management content and code creation. By doing so, you can increase productivity and reduce risk.
• Expanding the next generation ecosystem: IBM and SAP partner around their respective employee network groups and “next generation” communities, including the IBM and SAP Business Women's Network, the SAP University Alliances program, the SAP Veterans to Work program, and the IBM Veterans to Work intend to do something. Increase the SAP solution experience of consulting talent and develop the next generation of talent. The companies will also explore new ways to collaborate on social impact programs, such as training at-risk youth in the IT sector and accelerating the integration of social business into global supply chains. .
• Planned availability of watsonx on Generative AI Hub: The IBM Granite model series is expected to be available across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, powered by SAP AI Core's Generating AI Hub. Generative AI Hub facilitates relevant, reliable, and responsible business AI and provides instant access to a wide range of large-scale language models (LLMs). This expands the collaboration between IBM and SAP to incorporate IBM Watson AI technology into SAP solutions. To further highlight the capabilities of watsonx.ai Granite, IBM Consulting plans to build extensions using the models on the Generated AI Hub for some customers.

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