IBM and SAP SE announced their vision for the next era of their collaboration, which includes new GenAI capabilities and cloud solutions for helping clients unlock business value.
“IBM and SAP’s shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes,” said John Granger, SVP, IBM Consulting. “Our new value generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI.”
“It makes perfect sense to expand our partnership with IBM to help more customers accelerate their cloud journey leveraging RISE with SAP and realize the transformative benefits of generative AI for business in the cloud,” said Scott Russell, CRO and executive board member, customer success with SAP SE. “This expanded partnership will help more of our joint customers reach new heights by innovating through the cloud, data and business AI to grow and transform their businesses.”
IBM Consulting and SAP are aiming to accelerate transformation, enabled by RISE with SAP, by supporting clients across several areas:
- Next-generation AI business processes – Exploring opportunities to build new GenAI capabilities for RISE with SAP and infuse AI into SAP business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions and line of business applications.
- Next-generation industry innovation – Building intelligent industry use cases, enabled by data-driven insight, into end-to-end business processes to fuel next-generation industry innovation.
- Next-generation platform architecture and customer adoption approach – IBM intends to provide next-generation reference architectures that enable a clean core approach.
- Next-generation ecosystem expansion: Partnering around their respective employee network groups and ‘next-gen” communities, such as the business women’s networks at IBM and SAP, the SAP University Alliances program and the Veterans to Work program of SAP and Veterans at IBM to increase the SAP solutions experience in the consulting workforce and develop the next generation of talent.
- watsonx planned availability on the generative AI hub – IBM Granite Model Series are expected to be accessible for use across SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions and applications – which is underpinned by the generative AI hub in SAP AI core.
This initiative will build on the companies’ over 50-year collaboration based on deep technology, industry and domain expertise and demonstrates the two organizations’ joint commitment to continue to evolve to put clients first and meet market demand.
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To learn more about the Value Generation partnership initiative, visit ibm.com/info/sap-value-generation.
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