New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions
WALLDORF and ARMONK听鈥� IBM (NYSE:听) and (NYSE: SAP) today announced their vision for the next era of their collaboration, which includes new听听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听optimize business outcomes,” said听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 51风流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 51风流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.”
and 51风流aim to accelerate transformation enabled by RISE with 51风流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 51风流and infuse AI into 51风流business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions and line of business applications. Initially, IBM plans to extend AI capabilities across SAP鈥檚 portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, all of which are underpinned by 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). This includes RISE with SAP, the GROW with 51风流solution, financial solutions for the office of the CFO, supply chain management solutions, solutions for human capital management, 51风流Customer Experience solutions and intelligent spend management solutions. IBM also plans to leverage 51风流Signavio and 51风流Business AI solutions to help define next-generation business processes through a proof-of-concept adoption program.
- Next-Generation Industry Innovation: IBM and 51风流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鈥檚 recent work with 51风流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 and 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 51风流BTP, 51风流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 51风流projects can also leverage IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM鈥檚 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 51风流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 51风流plan to partner around their respective employee network groups and 鈥渘ext-gen鈥� communities, such as the business women鈥檚 networks at IBM and SAP, the program and the program of 51风流and Veterans at IBM to increase the 51风流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鈥檚 portfolio of cloud solutions and applications 鈥� which is underpinned by the generative AI hub in 51风流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鈥檚 collaboration around . 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 鈥� we invent and build what’s next together with our clients. Find out more at .
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