New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions
IBM and SAP announce their joint vision for the future of collaboration, emphasizing new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions to unlock business value. This partnership aims to propel clients towards innovation, competitive advantage, and next-generation enterprise transformation through generative AI technologies.
- Empowering Business Outcomes with Generative AI:
- Emphasis on open ecosystem, trust, and purpose-built models to optimize business outcomes.
- Introduction of Value Generation partnership initiative to accelerate innovation and competitive advantage.
- Redefining AI Business Processes:
- Integration of generative AI into RISE with SAP to enhance business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions.
- Initial focus areas include RISE with SAP, GROW with SAP, financial solutions, supply chain management, human capital management, customer experience, and intelligent spend management.
- Driving Industry Innovation:
- Collaboration to develop intelligent industry use cases across manufacturing, CPG, retail, defense, automotive, and utilities sectors.
- Development of over 100 AI solutions and prescriptive industry value maps to define next-generation business processes.
- Platform Architecture and Adoption Approach:
- Introduction of next-generation reference architectures leveraging SAP BTP, SAP Signavio, and LeanIX solutions.
- Utilization of IBM Consulting Advantage platform to boost productivity and mitigate risk through generative AI.
- Expanding Ecosystem and Talent Development:
- Partnership to enhance consulting workforce experience and talent development through employee networks and next-gen communities.
- Exploration of collaboration on social impact programs, including IT sector training for at-risk youth and social business integration into global supply chains.
- Planned Availability on the Generative AI Hub:
- Accessibility of IBM Granite Model Series across SAP’s cloud solutions through the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core.
- Highlighting watsonx.ai Granite capabilities through IBM Consulting extensions for select customers.
The collaboration between IBM and SAP signifies a commitment to innovation, client-centricity, and meeting market demands. By leveraging generative AI technologies, the partnership aims to accelerate business transformation, driving sustainable growth and value creation for clients worldwide.
