New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on
delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new
generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud
solutions
ARMONK,
N.Y. and WALLDORF, Germany, May 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today
announced their vision for the next era of their collaboration,
which includes new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific
cloud solutions that can help 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, Senior Vice President, 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, Chief Revenue Officer & Executive Board Member,
Customer Success of 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 aim to accelerate transformation enabled
by RISE with SAP by supporting clients in the following key
areas:
- 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
includes IBM'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 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 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 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. 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.
IBM Consulting accelerates business transformation for our
clients through hybrid cloud and AI technologies, leveraging our
open ecosystem of partners. With deep industry and business
expertise spanning strategy, experience design, technology, and
operations, we have become the trusted partner to the world's most
innovative and valuable companies, helping modernize and secure
their most complex systems. Our 160,000 consultants embrace an open
way of working and apply our proven, collaborative engagement
model, IBM Garage, to scale ideas into outcomes. As the only major
global systems integrator inside a technology company, we
don't just advise – we invent and build what's next together with
our clients. Find out more at IBM.com/consulting.
To learn more about the Value Generation partnership initiative,
visit https://www.ibm.com/info/sap-value-generation
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and
consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries
capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business
processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their
industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in
critical infrastructure areas such as financial services,
telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud
platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and
flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's
long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service.
Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
About SAP
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI,
SAP (NYSE:SAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For
over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their
best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance,
procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more
information, visit www.sap.com
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