New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation.
IBM and SAP have outlined their vision for the next era of their collaboration, which includes 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 and 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: Exploring opportunities to build new generative AI capabilities for RISE.
Next-Generation Industry Innovation: The building of intelligent industry use cases, enabled by data-driven insights, into end-to-end business processes to fuel next-generation industry innovation.
Next-Generation Platform Architecture and Customer Adoption Approach: Through the Value Generation partnership initiative, IBM intends to provide next-generation reference architectures that enable a clean core approach leveraging SAP BTP, SAP Signavio and LeanIX solutions.
Next-Generation Ecosystem Expansion: IBM and SAP plan to partner around their respective employee network groups and “next-gen” communities, such as the businesswomen’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.
Planned Availability of watsonx 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.
IBM Consulting plans to build extensions using the model on the generative AI hub for select customers.
This initiative will build on the over 50-year collaboration between the two companies based on deep technology, industry and domain expertise and demonstrates the joint commitment of both to continue to evolve to put clients first and meet market demand.
