IBM and SAP Plan to Expand Collaboration to Help Clients Become Next-Generation Enterprises with Generative AI
New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions
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Next-Generation AI Business Processes: Together, the companies are exploring opportunities to build new generative AI capabilities for RISE with SAP and infuse AI into SAP business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions and line of business applications. Initially,
IBM plans to extend AI capabilities across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, all of which are underpinned by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). This includes RISE with SAP, the GROW with SAP solution, financial solutions for the office of the CFO, supply chain management solutions, solutions for human capital management, 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 adoption program. -
Next-Generation Industry Innovation:
IBM and SAP plan to build intelligent industry use cases, enabled by data-driven insights, into end-to-end business processes to fuel next-generation industry innovation. These use cases will initially focus on the industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, defense, automotive and utilities industries. This includesIBM's recent work with SAP to develop new AI solutions for the CPG and retail industries. As part of this initiative,IBM has begun the development of an extensive portfolio of over 100 AI solutions across industry, line-of-business and product delivery. In addition,IBM plans to develop prescriptive industry value maps that define next-generation business processes and opportunities for impact with AI. Clients will be able to access all of these new AI solutions through the globalIBM Innovation Studios and SAP Experience Center sites. -
Next-Generation Platform Architecture and Customer Adoption Approach: Next-generation enterprises require next-generation platform architectures and a modernized approach to customer adoption. Through the Value Generation partnership initiative,
IBM intends to provide next-generation reference architectures that enable a clean core approach. To do this,IBM plans to leverage SAP BTP, SAP Signavio and LeanIX solutions. These new reference architectures will help define standards across data, process, systems and device integration, process orchestration and automation.IBM consultants supporting clients on SAP projects can also leverage IBM Consulting Advantage,IBM's AI services platform, and its portfolio of proprietary methods, assets and Assistants to bring more repeatability and consistency to client delivery. With IBM Consulting Advantage,IBM consultants can transform the way they deliver SAP solutions to boost productivity and mitigate risk by leveraging generative AI to help complete tasks like generation of user stories, test scripts, training and change management content and code creation. -
Next-Generation Ecosystem Expansion:
IBM and SAP plan to partner around their respective employee network groups and "next-gen" communities, such as the business women's networks atIBM and SAP, the SAP University Alliances program and the Veterans to Work program of SAP and Veterans atIBM to increase the SAP solutions experience in the consulting workforce and develop the next generation of talent. The companies also plan to 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 businesses into global supply chains. -
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. The generative AI hub facilitates relevant, reliable and responsible business AI and provides instant access to a broad range of large language models (LLMs). This expands on
IBM and SAP's collaboration around embedding IBM Watson AI technology into SAP solutions. To further highlight watsonx.ai Granite capabilities,IBM Consulting plans to build extensions using the model on the generative AI hub for select customers.
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.
To learn more about the Value Generation partnership initiative, visit https://www.ibm.com/info/sap-value-generation
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