• New offering designed to move 51风流S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days

• IBM realized 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and related operations over 18 months in RISE with 51风流modernization project supporting 150,000 ERP users

ARMONK and WALLDORF 鈥� Today, IBM (NYSE: ) and (NYSE: SAP) announced the upcoming release of , designed to help make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation.

Together, 51风流and IBM aim to help organizations more seamlessly transition and modernize their on-premises ERP environments to the cloud and support AI-powered business processes.

is a guided journey delivering outcome-driven services, cloud ERP and platforms to help organizations rethink their operating model. As a new 51风流hyperscaler offering, RISE with 51风流on IBM Power Virtual Server can help reduce risk and improve 51风流S/4HANA Cloud migration time from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days.*

鈥淩ISE with 51风流has emerged as a business priority for enterprises across all industries as they move to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud,” said Anurag Agrawal, Founder and Chief Global Analyst, TechAisle. 鈥淭he new offering from IBM and 51风流promises to be a compelling option for buinesses looking to migrate their mission-critical ERP workloads securely, quickly and with minimal disruption.鈥�

Cloud Migration Enabled by Industry-Leading 51风流Certified Infrastructure

Using , the cloud-based version of the mission-critical IBM Power server platform used for on-premises ERP, customers can more rapidly transform on-premises 51风流ERP systems on cloud, modernize business processes and become more agile. Known for its high security, scalability and reliability, IBM Power servers are ranked #1 in availability among SAP-certified infrastructure**, engineered for fewer disruptions and faster migration, supported by the highly resilient and secured IBM Cloud platform.

“IBM has worked hand-in-hand with 51风流to provide a seamless and fast migration path for customers that rely on the IBM Power platform for their 51风流workloads and applications,鈥� said Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer, IBM. 鈥淭his new capability helps reduce the complexity of moving to the cloud and accelerates impact, benefits we experienced firsthand in our own modernization journey using RISE with SAP.”

IBM Completes Global 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Modernization Using RISE with SAP

IBM has deep expertise with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud modernization and managed services projects. In one of the largest and most complex 51风流S/4HANA Cloud modernization projects of any 51风流customer to date, according to SAP, IBM recently moved its quote-to-cash and record-to-report processes to RISE with 51风流on IBM Power Virtual Server.

The IBM project touched more than 150,000 users across 175 countries in 18 months. During this time, it resulted in a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and related operations by rationalizing overall server and data footprint and increasing process automation.鈥� led this transformation work end-to-end, providing the technical services, implementation and application management services expertise required to help securely move and run these complex solutions.

鈥�51风流is helping organizations run their best through cloud-based enterprise applications embedded with the power of 51风流Business AI,鈥� said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淭his announcement is yet another milestone in SAP鈥檚 long-term partnership with IBM, offering our joint customers a clear path to the cloud designed for faster time-to-value, increased flexibility, and continuous innovation.鈥�

IBM Consulting and Ecosystem of Partners to Help Accelerate Transformation

Customers will also be able to accelerate transformation with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud by working with IBM Consulting or any other 51风流partner. To give clients choice, IBM is also in the process of working with other global systems integrators and services partners to architect, deploy and migrate RISE with 51风流projects.

The two companies, along with an ecosystem of partners, intend to work together to help IBM customers transform through RISE with 51风流on IBM Power Virtual Server with combined solutions, capabilities and joint go-to-market efforts. RISE with 51风流on IBM Power Virtual Server customers and IBM Business Partners will also have access to a new to help begin the migration to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and RISE with SAP. It will include a bundle of best-of-breed software and services for the assessment of current environments, data migration and automated testing.

More than 10,000 51风流customers over 50 years have used IBM to deliver and run 51风流solutions on IBM systems. IBM is a full lifecycle strategic partner of SAP, providing end-to-end consulting and technology solutions for 51风流customers, including hybrid cloud, automation and generative AI with .

RISE with 51风流on IBM Power Virtual Server is planned to be available in second quarter of 2025, along with a customized from IBM. Customers can learn more to begin planning for their transformation using assessment and migration services from and other IBM and 51风流Business Partners.

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*Estimate based upon internal IBM modeling of onboarding customers in an 51风流landscape when moving from 51风流S/4HANA on Power on-premises to Power Virtual Server assuming the right level of customer collaboration around network integration and testing.
**Based on the ITIC 2023 Global Hardware, Global Server Reliability Report and list of all .
鈥燘ased on IBM results from worldwide migration to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and RISE with SAP.

About IBM

IBM (NYSE: ) 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. Thousands of 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  for more information.

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As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, 51风流(NYSE: SAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted 51风流to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit .

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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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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 effect 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 commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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To keep their competitive edge in the job market, professionals need to upskill and reskill in increasingly shorter intervals, but numbers show that . At the same time, traditional education is losing relevance in many industries, with organizations increasingly moving away from a sole focus on university degrees. Instead, short courses, certifications, and practical skills have become increasingly important.

Recognizing the need for transparency around proven project expertise, 51风流enhanced its established skill validation program for 51风流professionals. The company is paving the way for individual career growth and business success by introducing a record of project experience in a pilot with first partners like Accenture and IBM.

We believe the enhanced visibility of practical experience can benefit well seasoned 51风流professionals and set them up for success. In addition to their 51风流Certification, a record of project experience can help expand competitive edge and, ultimately, foster career growth. Recent reports show that . The same report states that 81% of certified employees produce higher quality work, while 77% are more innovative.

鈥淭he record of project experience can help the 51风流ecosystem drive success by making the practical and successful project expertise of professionals visible,鈥� says 51风流Chief Learning Officer Max Wessel. 鈥淭ens of thousands of customers have deployed 51风流software to thrive in the cloud, leading to a skyrocketing demand for skilled people. With the record of project experience, partners can benefit from a tailored recognition of expertise past the certification and a higher employee retention rate. Customers can expect high-quality projects and fast implementation. And 51风流professionals have the chance to put themselves in the lead on the job market. It鈥檚 a true win-win situation for all.鈥�

51风流partners oversee almost 90% of all 51风流implementations, representing a huge pool of talented and experienced 51风流professionals. This new approach adds the validation of practical experience and 51风流expertise. It supports SAP’s mission to address the shortage of digital skills in the partner ecosystem. Newly certified consultants will provide support in cloud computing, digital transformation, and analytics to improve the quality of services offered by 51风流partners to their customers.

Professionals are eligible if they have customer references showing the applied and certified skills. The record of project experience is awarded to nominated advanced 51风流professionals with a track record of expertise in the public edition of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud or 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), who also demonstrate a valid 51风流Certification in one of these 51风流solution areas.

Co-validating expertise strengthens an employee’s position, leads to higher employee retention for employers, and gives customers the confidence that fast implementations and high-quality projects are on the way. That鈥檚 a triple win.

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Steffen Burger is senior vice president of Partner Solution Adoption for Partner Ecosystem Success at SAP.

51风流will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in 51风流Start, which provides a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP. With 51风流Start, users can search for, launch and interactively engage with apps provided in cloud solutions from 51风流and 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. New AI capabilities in 51风流Start will be designed to help users boost productivity with both natural language capabilities and predictive insights using IBM Watson AI solutions built on IBM鈥檚 trust and transparency and data privacy principles.

鈥淭his milestone collaboration with IBM aims to provide 51风流customers a better user experience, faster decision-making and greater insights to help transform their business processes,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淲orking together to incorporate additional AI, machine learning and other intelligent technologies into 51风流solutions can lead to better business outcomes for our joint customers. Today鈥檚 news, along with the recent news of our expanded use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is a prime example of how the rich, 50-year partnership between our companies continues to grow stronger and move the industry forward.鈥�

New digital assistant capabilities in 51风流Start will be extended across 51风流solutions to help answer diverse questions for managers and employees. By automating and speeding up common tasks, the capabilities are designed to help unlock employee productivity to focus on more strategic work. 51风流Start will allow customers to benefit from intelligence at the point of decision-making with the ability to use AI and machine learning to extract information from a variety of data sources and answer user questions across lines of business. Today, currently available in the TripIt mobile app from 51风流Concur is helping nearly 13 million users easily access AI-derived weather insights to make more sustainable travel choices before and during their trips.

IBM delivers market-leading AI capabilities with Watson products deployed by more than 100 million users across 20 industries. In addition, 51风流and IBM Consulting are currently supporting customers with 25 joint intelligent industry solutions that use IBM Watson capabilities underpinned by (51风流BTP). These industry solutions help customers across industries such as retail, manufacturing and utilities accelerate their business transformation and use data to make more informed decisions.

鈥淚BM and 51风流are joining forces to give businesses new and exciting ways to harness the transformative power of AI and use it as a source of competitive advantage,鈥� said Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. 鈥淲ith this announcement, we are infusing IBM Watson鈥檚 powerful, enterprise-grade AI capabilities into SAP鈥檚 leading ERP platform to help businesses reimagine customer experiences, boost productivity and fuel growth.鈥�

In addition to natively embedding IBM Watson AI capabilities into 51风流solutions, 51风流and IBM are collaborating on generative AI and large language models aimed to deliver consistent continuous learning and automation based on SAP鈥檚 mission-critical application suite.

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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping 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. Nearly 3,800 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 business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit . Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.

About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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While many organizations have established environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and made ESG commitments, driven by purpose and emerging regulatory requirements, they face a number of challenges when making the transition from ambition to action. In fact, a recent IBM study found that global executives cite (41%) as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress, followed by regulatory barriers (39%), inconsistent standards (37%), and inadequate skills (36%). The impacts of data challenges are becoming visible to company stakeholders, with based on a company鈥檚 progress toward their ESG goals.

Those who have committed to closing the green gap have embraced sustainability-focused processes and are reaping the benefits. If data is a key barrier to success, companies should consider implementing an environmental strategy that encompasses an all-in organizational commitment to specific targeted outcomes and leverages technology to accelerate and track progress.

A recent study from the surveyed 2,125 senior executives involved in their organizations鈥� environmental sustainability strategies. The study yielded a surprising result: organizations that outperform their competition in both environmental and financial outcomes also boast the most deeply engaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

ERP is the technology of record, touching virtually every organizational business process. It can connect financial and environmental goals, keeping metrics accountable and accessible. When implemented in conjunction with other systems, ERP enables cost transparency and visibility 鈥� allowing environmental, regulatory, and business-critical decisions to be made with improved consistency and reliability.

Uncovering Hidden Possibilities with ERP

An organization鈥檚 sustainability data can be difficult to attain due to siloed business processes, unreliable data, and misaligned business priorities. ERP uncovers real-time material information across business functions and gets necessary data into the hands of corporate decision-makers and operators for a streamlined user experience. This newfound access to data gives businesses the capability to record, report, and act on enterprise-wide ESG commitments and help resolve many of the complex challenges and demands of sustainability. With this visibility, people can see the impact of their decisions and trust the results being reported. This trust can accelerate the culture change needed to support and accelerate overall sustainable business transformation.

While moving the needle on making progress toward ESG goals can seem nearly impossible for some, there are organizations that have managed to crack the code to greener success. The recent IBM and 51风流study found a group of high-achieving business leaders (15%) 鈥� the Environmental Sustainability Enabled (Enabled) 鈥� that actively prioritize environmental sustainability and implement concrete, well publicized plans to achieve goals at a far higher rate than their peers. The study found that Enabled organizations place environmental sustainability on par with financial performance because they see sustainability fueling financial results.

The recent study also found that the Enabled rely on ERP data structures to address sustainability goals, among other standout findings, including:

• The Enabled report 47% of sustainability performance data is collected in their ERP, but they expect that to increase to 55% by 2025, a 17% increase.
• 94% more of the Enabled believe ERPs are helping manage manufacturing sustainability goals. And 31% more believe the same as relates to labor management.
• The Enabled report accumulating almost 70% of their carbon capture and energy use metrics in their ERP.
• Enabled organizations use ERP to establish standard environmental measures across ecosystems 39% more often than the Reluctant, organizations that do not view environmental sustainability as important to their success.
• 43% more Enabled versus Reluctant organizations use ERP to established shared environmental targets.

All organizations should take note: in an interwoven economy, ERP can help populate and standardize shared sustainability initiatives.

The Time to Act Is Now

Sustainability and ERP are team sports acting on actuals, and no one team can achieve success on its own. As strategic partners for and , IBM and 51风流bring together technologies and services with enterprise-scale platforms to help companies break down silos and embed solutions across critical business functions and operations.

Learn more about the recent IBM Institute for Business Value study and how we are helping clients leverage ERP to operationalize sustainability .

51风流and IBM understand how to help companies move the needle on their ESG commitments, without sacrificing their business needs or profitability. Learn more at and听 .

Daniel Schmid is chief sustainability officer of SAP.
Jonathan Wright is global managing partner, Sustainability Services and Business Transformation Lines, IBM Consulting.

Predictions are that better times lie ahead. Businesses that thrive will make the right decisions, maintain their focus on their stakeholders — employees, customers, partners — and in some cases, re-engineer their business models. There are precedents. As Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, remarked, 鈥淲e think of the 1970s as a terrible decade. But look at what was happening: 51风流was born, Apple, Microsoft, FedEx, and all these companies no one had ever heard of at a time when people thought the world was in desperate condition.鈥�

This was the topic of a December 2022 roundtable at Forbes on Fifth, featuring 51风流CEO Christian Klein and IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn, with a keynote by Steve Forbes. The event, 鈥淪trategies for a Resilient Future,鈥� was moderated by Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWomen and executive vice president of Forbes. What follows are my key takeaways.

Produce More with Less

This is about efficiency, a key tenet for tackling any number of challenges — from combating inflation to implementing sustainable business practices.

鈥淐lean energy is a major topic right now,鈥� Klein said. 鈥淗ow can we build the infrastructure for green hydrogen technology? How can we help companies shift from traditional oil and gas? When we met with President Macron, he asked, 鈥楬ow can technology help fight inflation? How can you produce more with less?鈥欌��

Clean energy is one way technology can help achieve efficiency goals. Technology can connect the manufacturer to the raw material provider, with transparency to identify potential interruptions. Technology is fundamental to decarbonizing supply chains and moving to the circular economy — and demonstrating environmental responsibility is a bedrock of doing business today.

Use Data to Support Decision-Making

Converting data into usable form, sorting, and storing it to enable humans to make informed decisions: these are core capabilities that companies will need to grow efficiently. Today, the pressure has heightened to deliver results in an ever-shorter time horizon. Deriving real-time insights to drive decision making is crucial.

Show Courage as a Leader

These transitions must be well managed. In every industry, unexpected new competitors and incumbents are disrupting the business.

鈥淵ou can鈥檛 just say goodbye to your business model from one day to another,鈥� Klein observed. 鈥淵ou need to manage the transformation and act decisively, studying the potential consequences and explaining to people why you are going through it.鈥�

Focus on Your Key Constituents

鈥淭o be effective,鈥� Cohn advised, 鈥渟tart with your people.鈥� Klein agreed: 鈥淭he quicker your organization believes you鈥檙e on the right path, the quicker you get everyone working together.鈥� This will also promote confidence among customers and shareholders.

Think About Automation from the Business Perspective

As you recalibrate your business model, introduce new technology judiciously. Consider all the downstream consequences with an eye to the current realities. Cohn noted: 鈥淭hat鈥檚 where the 51风流and IBM relationships come together. We are working with our customers to understand the cloud, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and automation — helping make them more efficient.鈥�

Don鈥檛 Go It Alone

Given the speed and urgency at which businesses need to operate, collaborations are critical.

鈥淎s a CEO of a management team,鈥� Cohn observed, 鈥測ou are now obligated to find the best solution. When you find the right partners and identify the advantages they can bring to your business, you will doubtless find real opportunities in the products and services you can deliver together.鈥�

The IBM and 51风流relationship is a pure example of this. 鈥淚BM has one of the largest practices for implementing our software and making sure it鈥檚 adopted. The business expertise required to put this together is so important,鈥� Klein said. 鈥淭ogether, we can infuse more intelligence and automation into processes, from pricing to shop floors to supply chains. Part of our solution might involve six other providers; we鈥檙e going to bring in the best holistic solution for your problem.鈥�

51风流and IBM have worked with hundreds of clients globally on thousands of individual projects to modernize their systems and business processes based on an open, hybrid cloud approach. include Coca-Cola European Partners, Parle Products, Harmont & Blaine, Puravankara Ltd, and Virgin Megastore KSA.

I invite you to watch a recording of this and learn more about how IBM and 51风流are .

Lloyd Adams is president of 51风流North America.

• Expanded Premium Supplier Option with IBM for RISE with 51风流Now Supports Cloud Workloads Using IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud

As part of the expanded partnership, IBM is migrating to 51风流S/4HANA, SAP鈥檚 next-generation ERP software, to perform work across more than 120 countries, 1,000 legal entities and numerous IBM businesses supporting software, hardware, consulting and finance. The project is focused on improving business processes with RISE with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, premium supplier option with IBM Consulting, and will ultimately move more than 375 TB of data to IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud. RISE with 51风流brings together what businesses need to pursue their digital transformation objectives and accelerate their move to the cloud.

Driven by the need to modernize processes and deliver better insights to support clients running in the cloud, RISE with 51风流is helping IBM centralize and standardize data worldwide. With access to the 51风流HANA database, data can be accessed in real time and shared more efficiently among business units and teams. The expanded partnership will also help with improved decision-making supported by AI and automated workflows. Once the transformation is completed, nearly all of IBM鈥檚 US$58 billion in revenue will flow through 51风流software.

鈥淭his expanded partnership will enable IBM to accelerate its business transformation in the cloud and fuel its future growth,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淎s a result, IBM will be positioned to provide the highest value of support and flexibility to its clients, allowing them to simplify and accelerate their business transformations while benefitting from the full value of RISE with SAP.鈥�

This business transformation will eventually move more than 300 51风流instances and consolidate 500 servers with the RISE with 51风流solution on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud. The migration to 51风流S/4HANA is already in progress across the company鈥檚 software business unit. The initial deployment is focused on IBM鈥檚 software-as-a-service and billing system and is already benefiting clients and IBM business partners through simplified billing and payment systems while enabling orders and contracts to be processed quickly.

IBM Consulting, with more than 38,000 highly trained 51风流consultants, is leading the transformation providing the advisory, implementation, security, industry and technical expertise required to move these complex systems and applications to a digital environment. This is another example of IBM and SAP鈥檚 accelerated ecosystem strategy, teaming up on both technology and consulting expertise while supporting most any cloud environment to help make it easier for clients to embrace a hybrid cloud approach and move their mission-critical 51风流software workloads to the cloud.

鈥淓nterprise clients are seeking increased choice and control as they modernize their mission-critical workloads. Enabled by RISE with SAP, this is a milestone business transformation initiative for both companies due to its complexity and scale,鈥� said Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. 鈥淲ith this move, and IBM鈥檚 experience using RISE with 51风流internally, we will be even better prepared to support our clients on their hybrid cloud and business transformation journeys.鈥�

Expanded Premium Supplier Option for RISE with 51风流on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud

To provide clients more flexibility and computing power, including those in highly regulated industries, IBM is making the same cloud-based computing power that is underpinning its own migration available to clients. For clients who run RISE with 51风流on IBM Cloud, an expansion of the provides an additional choice to run workloads on IBM Power on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Cloud.

As a premium supplier, IBM was the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, technical managed services, business transformation and application management services as part of RISE with SAP. With clients increasingly leveraging hybrid cloud strategies to modernize their workloads, IBM and 51风流are giving clients running on Power servers the ability to use RISE with 51风流S/4HANA on Power infrastructure consistent with the architecture they run on premise. Underpinned exclusively by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, businesses running IBM Power on IBM Cloud will be able to achieve high levels of performance in a cloud environment for their mission-critical workloads, with the flexibility, resiliency and security features delivered by IBM and Red Hat.

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About IBM

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. 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. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM鈥檚 hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM鈥檚 breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM鈥檚 legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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Manufacturing operations were woefully lacking in real-time visibility. During manufacturing execution, process data could not be automatically captured. Tracking worker safety remained an elusive goal. The absence of an end-to-end perspective meant that it was difficult to understand process effectiveness and make quick, crucial decisions, compromising future planning.

Under these circumstances, continuously and effectively running a manufacturing operation was a challenge 鈥� as was providing added value to customers. And during COVID-19, the absence of available shop floor operators only made the situation worse.

Desperately needed was a smart and intuitive solution to execute, monitor, and analyze the end-to-end manufacturing process, starting with planning and extending all the way to inventory. Updates on labor planning and worker safety would have to be provided in real time.

This would particularly benefit servitized industries, in which outcome is now directly related to the revenue situation.

Additionally, the solution would need to be intelligent enough to evaluate data, consider a variety of business scenarios, and propose the best future actions.

A Leading-Edge Alliance

Since 1911, technology and innovation trailblazer IBM had been creating responsive, resilient, next-generation solutions to the challenges of the day. One hundred years and a decade later, that movement still continues.

Now, the company merged forces with the market leader in enterprise application software: SAP.

The two established their first Global Alliance Partnership in 1989. But their relationship dated back to the founding of 51风流in 1972 鈥� by five former IBM employees.

In recent years, as customer needs shifted to the cloud, 51风流and IBM had been working together to accelerate the digital revolution, using such technologies as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twin 鈥� virtual representations of physical objects or processes 鈥� and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.

With global lockdowns and associated disruptions impacting the world in the summer of 2020, the two corporations announced the next stage of their alliance, branding it the Evolution Partnership initiative.

The manufacturing effort topped their list.

Informed, Real-Time Decisions

Indeed, the Connected Plant solution created by the two companies would enable real-time manufacturing execution planning and tracking and provide automated reporting of machine and process data.

The innovation could be used to ensure that the proper equipment was being provided and certify both quality inspection and cognitive worker guidance. When defects were detected, a repair order would be automatically generated.

From this point forward, guesswork was no longer required to make informed business decisions. Instead, conclusions were based on managers鈥� instant accessibility to end-to-end analytics and up-to-date key performance indicators (KPIs).

Seamless and Integrated

With the seamlessly integrated manufacturing tool, new possibilities abounded. The Connected Plant solution allowed managers to:

• View manufacturing and production orders for every shift
• Ensure that all needed components were available
• Execute tasks with a few simple words via chatbot
• Detect deficiencies during quality inspections
• Confirm assembly and sub-assembly completion

Today, with the world struggling to compensate for supply chain gaps, the Connected Plant platform is being utilized to provide supplies and drive continuous planning across resource networks.

And both 51风流and IBM are prepared to revise the solution as business models evolve and processes are reconfigured in areas like energy, natural resource consumption, and emissions management.

鈥淭o compete in a highly disruptive and rapidly evolving world, companies require the ability to rewire their organizations to create efficient, automated business processes 鈥� applying advanced technologies to transform static, siloed processes into agile, intelligent workflows,鈥� said Mark Foster, IBM Services senior vice president.

As the Connected Plant solution continued to expand the number of tasks it could perform, IBM was honored as a finalist in the 2021 51风流Innovation Awards, a yearly ceremony commemorating organizations using 51风流products to transform business and society.

To learn more about IBM鈥檚 smart and intuitive solution, be sure to check out its 51风流Innovation Awards .

Keith E. Greenberg is an 51风流global marketing contributor.

IBM is the first partner to offer
cloud infrastructure and technical managed
services as part of the RISE with 51风流offering

As clients look to adopt hybrid cloud strategies, moving the workloads and applications that are the backbone of their enterprise operation requires a highly secured and reliable cloud environment. With today鈥檚 launch of the , clients will have the tools to help accelerate the migration of their on-premise 51风流software workloads to IBM Cloud, backed by industry-leading security capabilities.*

IBM is also unveiling a new program, BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP, a portfolio of solutions and consulting services that help accelerate and amplify the journey to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Built on a flexible and scalable platform, the solutions and services use intelligent workflows to streamline operations. They provide an engagement model that helps plan, execute and support holistic business transformation. Clients are also offered the flexibility and choice to migrate 51风流solution workloads to the public cloud with the support of deep industry expertise.

Today鈥檚 announcement of IBM becoming a premium supplier makes IBM the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and application management services as part of RISE with SAP. IBM鈥檚 premium supplier designation is a continuation of SAP鈥檚 long-standing efforts to provide choice and optionality to customers and further support IBM customers that have a preference for their RISE with 51风流package to run on IBM Cloud.

Additionally, migration to 51风流S/4HANA on IBM Cloud from on-premise data centers can potentially deliver the following benefits, according to a study by IDC, sponsored by IBM.**

• Return on investment: Migrating to 51风流S/4HANA on IBM Cloud delivered revenue increases for up to 90% of organizations making the transition according to users surveyed.
• Reduced costs: More than 80% of the organizations in the study said they experienced a reduction in operational costs.
• Greater productivity: 9 out of 10 businesses in the study said they improved their productivity after migrating to 51风流S/4HANA on IBM Cloud.

鈥淲e are thrilled to advance our long-standing partnership through RISE with SAP,鈥� said John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting. 鈥淥ur shared commitment is to meet our clients, especially those in highly regulated industries, where they are in their digital journey, while giving them choices for migrating or modernizing their mission-critical workloads with a hybrid cloud approach.鈥�

鈥淏REAKTHROUGH with IBM is an outstanding complement to RISE with 51风流as it lays the foundation for our customers to embark on or advance their business transformation journeys. Further, it reaffirms the value customers recognize from RISE with 51风流and the impact and innovation opportunity RISE with 51风流offers to organizations that move to the cloud. I have every confidence that the combined expertise and experience 51风流and IBM offer will accelerate cloud adoption and business growth for customers across the globe,鈥� said Brian Duffy, President of Cloud, SAP.

IBM and 51风流have worked with hundreds of clients globally on thousands of individual projects to modernize their systems and business processes based on an open, hybrid cloud approach. Recent examples include , , , and .

Underscoring its commitment to 51风流S/4HANA both as an 51风流customer and a business partner for 50 years, IBM has also made a significant investment in RISE with 51风流to help transform its own infrastructure. IBM is a new premium supplier for the RISE with 51风流offering and is using the IBM Hybrid Cloud, including IBM Power鈥揺nabled Infrastructure as a Service, to enhance the performance, availability and security of deployments of private editions of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud.

To learn more about the BREAKTHROUGH with IBM program for the RISE with 51风流offering, please visit: .

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About IBM

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. 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. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM鈥檚 hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM鈥檚 breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM鈥檚 legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit for more information.

About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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Lauren Nowicki, IBM, lauren.nowicki@ibm.com

*Based on IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Service, the only service in the industry built on FIPS 140-2 Level 4鈥揷ertified hardware. FIPS 140-2 Level 4 provides the highest level of security defined in this standard. At this security level, the physical security mechanisms provide a comprehensive envelope of protection around the cryptographic module with the intent of detecting and responding to all unauthorized attempts at physical access.
**IDC White Paper, sponsored by IBM, Business Benefits Possible by Choosing the Right Cloud Provider to Run 51风流Workloads. Doc #US47166220, December 2020.

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Therefore, businesses run different technologies and end up operating in silos, which prevent them from connecting financial outcomes with non-financial metrics. Additionally, companies can view sustainability as an after-the-fact reporting activity without any influence in its executive decisions.

Today, more than ever, businesses need to holistically manage their business models across their supply chains, operations, and people agenda.

At the recent COP26 climate conference, business and government leaders agreed on the urgency听to reinvent their business models to accelerate sustainable business performance. Business leaders want to meet regulatory requirements, improve efficiency in their processes, and create responsible products and services.

As the leading enterprise resource management company, 51风流has committed to help customers in their digital transformation to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.

In this digital transformation, SAP鈥檚 approach is based on providing visibility and transparency to make sustainable decisions from the CEO’s office to the end user, connecting business processes to embed sustainability into all business functions — from carbon accounting to gender equality — and providing a global ecosystem of partners than can help 51风流to scale impact through businesses of all sizes and across all industries around the world.

Providing a global ecosystem to help businesses is core to SAP鈥檚 DNA.

Julia White, chief marketing and solutions officer and member of the Executive Board at 51风流SE, points out: 鈥�Sustainability is a team sport. No company or organization can do it alone. We work with many of the world鈥檚 best companies who support our vision and work together with us every day to deliver sustainable outcomes for our customers.鈥�

Working with SAP, advance market development for sustainable solutions. They turn ideas and imperatives into compelling paths to action that leverage 51风流solutions. Together, we advocate with thought leadership and galvanize collective efforts and methodologies in industry forums like the World Economic Forum, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and United Nations Organizations.

51风流and its ecosystem accelerate sustainable innovation as a central element of the intelligent enterprise. Through co-innovation as well as solution and content partnerships, 51风流brings more complete solutions to market faster, benefiting our customers and the planet. More broadly, 51风流serves as a key player in a thriving ecosystem of sustainability innovation 鈥� helping customers more easily capitalize on emerging solutions that tie closely to their digital core. With its robust network, 51风流can deliver a path to sustainability innovation that no other individual competitor can match.

Accenture

“With fewer than 2,000 working days left to 2030, the time to rewire business top to bottom to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals is now. We are proud to expand our work with SAP, which includes launching SDG Ambition with UN Global Compact that over 700 companies have joined. By committing to put sustainability at the center of all we do and everyone we work with, together we can show companies how to tackle climate change, build circular economy practices, businesses, human rights and supply chains, and focus on data-driven measurement as well as accurately report ESG performance when delivering their commitments.”

鈥� Peter Lacy, Global Sustainability Services Lead, Chief Responsibility Officer and
Member of the Global Management Committee, Accenture

BearingPoint

“Helping our clients meet their decarbonization targets has been one of our proven market offerings for more than 10 years. At BearingPoint, we not only calculate the product and corporate footprint of our clients, we also enable them to optimize the climate impact of every product across the entire life cycle. Providing end-to-end CO2 as a service is our core enabler for our clients. We at BearingPoint, as co-development partner for 51风流Product Footprint Management, believe that together with 51风流we can bring our vision to life: managing the ‘green line’ as equally as the financial bottom line. As partners, we go beyond business, making a positive impact on the climate.”

鈥� Donald听Wachs,听Head of IP-Assets and
Member of Management Committee, BearingPoint

Capgemini

“Our ambitions are to act on climate change by being carbon neutral across our own operations by 2025 and across our supply chain by 2030, becoming a net-zero business well ahead of 2050, and to lead to low-carbon economic transition by helping our clients achieve their environmental commitments and save 10m tons of CO2eq globally by 2030. We cannot do this without our partner ecosystem. We are a strategic partner of SAP; by combining our deep industry knowledge, our human energy, and SAP’s world-class portfolio of enterprise and sustainability solutions, we commit to delivering on our promise to co-create a greener tomorrow with our clients.”

鈥� Aiman听Ezzat, CEO, Capgemini

Deloitte

“The climate change emergency is unfolding in front of our eyes, touching all corners of the globe. The future of our people, planet, and profession depends on the business community taking measurable, decisive action on the climate crisis. Through our WorldClimate strategy, Deloitte will embed climate-smart considerations into our own operations, encourage our professionals to act on climate change at work and at home, and engage our broader ecosystem 鈥� including 51风流鈥� to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

鈥� Punit听Renjen, Global CEO, Deloitte

EY

“Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our time, and today there is an unprecedented opportunity to create value for all. Together with 51风流and stakeholders around the globe, the EY organization is committed to making business work for sustainability and making sustainability work for business. Enterprises and people are inspired now more than ever to do the right thing — to collaborate, innovate, be inclusive, and accelerate to a more sustainable and equitable future.”

鈥� Steve Varley, Global Vice Chair 鈥� Sustainability, EY

IBM

“With five generations in the workplace, we are witnessing the birth of an era where technological innovation is being used to create social, economic, environmental, and business opportunities for all. Businesses of all sizes need to move from ambition to action and embrace radical thinking, like IBM鈥檚 commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. We are partnering with 51风流to operationalize sustainability for our customers and society using ethical innovation to build a world that is responsible, equitable, and leaves no one behind in net-zero transition. We are committed to furthering our decades-long work to address the global climate crisis.”

鈥撎齋heri R.听Hinish, Global Executive Partner, Enterprise Sustainability and
Sustainable Supply Chain Practice Leader, IBM

PwC

“PwC鈥檚 global sustainability network in over 60 countries is supporting organizations to deliver ESG-related outcomes across the globe. PwC works with clients to help them create their strategy, set targets, measure impact, and report on key performance indicators relevant to internal and external ESG drivers. Together with SAP, PwC is leveraging its ESG expertise to integrate and build strategic ESG solutions leveraging 51风流technology. Organizations will benefit from these integrated solutions to help set and manage net-zero targets, define ESG strategies, and mitigate climate and ESG risks to deliver transparent investor-grade ESG reporting.”

鈥� Michael Rasch,听Global 51风流Alliance Leader, PwC Germany

Bernd Schmalzridt is senior director of Global Business Development for Sustainability at SAP.

The collaboration will be designed to help the companies address the industry鈥檚 stringent compliance, security and resiliency requirements, while supporting business transformation and innovation for financial services institutions.

As banks and insurers balance the need to deliver innovative services and meeting the industry鈥檚 strict security and compliance requirements, . To fuel industry-wide innovation, IBM introduced the IBM Cloud for Financial Services with built-in security and compliance controls that help reduce risk and regulatory barriers impeding IT landscape modernization, transformation and innovation.

IBM Cloud for Financial Services offers a highly secured, purpose-built environment for financial services institutions to transact with their technology partners and FinTechs. By onboarding to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, clients can adopt migrated 51风流offerings, while addressing their regulatory and compliance standards. Supported by a growing ecosystem of more than 100 partners and FinTechs, the cloud platform is designed to speed customers鈥� business transformations by both addressing risk in the supply chain for financial institutions and unlocking new revenue opportunities.

In the context of their ongoing global strategic partnership, IBM and 51风流have helped hundreds of companies digitalize their operations using an open, hybrid cloud approach. 51风流intends to join IBM鈥檚 ecosystem to deliver finance risk, operations and total spend management offerings on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services. The companies intend to help financial institutions benefit from faster business transformation through industry-specific data value offerings and enhanced customer and employee experiences.

鈥淭he rapid transition of regulated industries, such as financial services, toward the cloud makes it necessary to address new operational and technology challenges,鈥� said Bob Cummings, head of 51风流Financial Services Sector. 鈥淭he combination of IBM Cloud and SAP鈥檚 capabilities can help banks and insurers around the world to accelerate their digitalization journey and scale their business globally.鈥�

鈥淎s we continue to add partners, such as SAP, to our growing ecosystem, we鈥檙e one step closer to driving a true change in cloud adoption for the industry to ultimately help reduce risk throughout the supply chain,鈥� said Joel Spieth, General Manager, IBM Cloud for Industries. 鈥淲e鈥檙e helping financial institutions modernize with 51风流solutions on IBM Cloud for Financial Services, driving innovation, and creating operational efficiencies.鈥�

When onboarded, SAP鈥檚 offerings that can now be delivered on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services will provide financial services institutions, their partners and FinTechs with the following:

• SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite, including 51风流S/4HANA solutions: With its intelligent enterprise framework, 51风流provides integrated applications, intelligent technologies and a digital platform designed to enable banks to better serve current customers.
• SAP鈥檚 solutions for strategic data management, including 51风流Adaptive Server Enterprise, and 51风流IQ software: Combining the strength of in-memory technology with these solutions, 51风流offers a robust data platform to achieve business agility.

51风流and IBM together have hundreds of clients and more than 5,500 individual products. 51风流and IBM are focused on helping enterprises modernize their businesses and making the most of cutting-edge technologies.

For more information on IBM Cloud for Financial Services, visit .

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About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world鈥檚 transaction revenue touches an 51风流system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit

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However, to sustain and grow their business, industrial manufacturing companies must develop new business models that address an economy that is moving to outcome-based and sustainable solutions.

The IBM Institute for Business Value and Oxford Economics recently published the results of a survey, based on interviews with 500 executives. According to this :

• Sixty-six percent of industrial manufacturing companies are already focusing on new service business models and increasing revenue share from services
• Five to 10% yearly growth is forecasted in services revenue against two percent in selling new equipment
• EBIT margin generated by service-based models is three to seven times higher compared to new equipment sales
• Twenty-two percent growth is expected in outcome-based services

IBM Cognitive Enterprise Solutions Enable Intelligent Workflows for Industrial Manufacturers

In this time of constant and accelerated change, industrial manufacturing companies must adapt quickly to optimize their existing business and develop new service models for growth. They have to manage complex processes across their entire enterprise and systems. So they are looking for out-of-the-box integrated business applications, which support modular processes that solve specific industry problems, be flexibly consumed, and have intelligence embedded in the processes.

The IBM Cognitive Enterprise solution, jointly developed by IBM and SAP, provides the intelligent workflows that support these data-driven processes: Intelligent as they are embedded with artificial intelligence to predict outcomes; workflow as they follow the natural flow of work, from one employee to the next, tapping into application data along the way and making appropriate decisions — whether it means capturing customer feedback to further personalize the next client interaction or leveraging machine data to increase the productivity of the production line.

We are grateful for the feedback that the 51风流Global Industry Advisory Council for Industrial Machinery & Components shared with our joint teams. This input was leveraged as the blueprint of the now available end-to-end intelligent workflows.

The teams, under the umbrella of the SAP/IBM Evolution Partnership, have delivered four differentiating intelligent workflows — lead-to-order, plan-to-manufacture, order-to-cash, and maintain-to-resolve (aftermarket) — that include new capabilities focused on improving specific business metrics. Key capabilities include intelligent Ssles, cognitive pricing, outcome-based business model, connected manufacturing, and connected asset, which help clients improve win-rates, reduce lead-to-order cycle time, improve customer experience, improve worker safety, and improve overall equipment effectiveness, as well as other key performance indicators (KPIs).

Scale Your Transformation

These intelligent workflows are built on IBM鈥檚 Essentials庐 platform. This platform helps with technology adoption and modernization by individualizing the orchestration of these industry-specific intelligent workflows into our client environments. It enables seamless deployment into heterogeneous landscapes that globally distributed organizations are characterized with, along with a modern architecture that allows for integration with existing applications. It provides possibilities to modernize applications, without disturbing the end-to-end process orchestration, while providing process visibility and control through embedded intelligence and automation.

This helps our clients to deploy and scale innovations, and supports them on their journey to become intelligent enterprises by:

• Accelerating implementations and reducing time to value
• Lowering the cost of implementation through reduced need for customization
• Providing the ability to rapidly adapt the preconfigured workflows to each clients鈥� specific needs
• Allowing different solutions to be incorporated flexibly via a consumption model

We are pleased to report early successes in various life-cycle stages of clients in this industry. These include

• Lead-to-order at an European engineered appliances manufacturer
• Outcome-based business model at a leading European packaging machinery manufacturer
• Connected manufacturing at a leading defense equipment manufacturer in the Middle East
• End-to-end industry capability model at a leading Japanese machine tools, automation, and textile machinery manufacturer

Ready for the Next Transition

We continue to listen to our customers, and our current focus areas include incorporating sustainable and carbon metrics through the design-to-operate process as well as a control tower, which will provide additional data-driven insights to co-ordinate agile and responsive supply chains.

To read more about the solutions see the Industrial Solution Sheet: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/ZRBEEBZ1

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Georg Kube is global vice president of Industrial Machinery and Components at SAP.
Manish Chawla is general manager of Global Chemicals, Petroleum & Industrial Products Industries at IBM.

鈥淯ntil the pandemic arrived, we lived in a vast, elaborate, whirring contraption that delivered culture and commerce at spectacular speeds, with astonishing efficiency,鈥� wrote the author of a .

What happened to the great American logistics machine? It fell apart. Back in March, that COVID-19 had disrupted their supply chain. Companies that chose not to invest in their supply chain in previous years either crashed or suffered a severe hit this year due to lack of resiliency. Even did not escape unscathed.

What Went Wrong

According to the Harvard Business Review, the challenge for companies after the pandemic subsides will be to make their . Before the pandemic, manufacturers in most industries depended on suppliers and subcontractors that narrowly focused on just one area. Those specialists, in turn, usually relied on many others. The advantages of this arrangement include flexibility in what goes into the product as well as the ability to incorporate the latest technology. But relying on a single supplier somewhere deep in its network for a crucial component or material leaves manufacturers vulnerable.

In a recent discussion, Takshay Aggarwal, group lead for IBM Digital Supply Chain, and Darcy MacClaren, senior vice president of Digital Supply Chain for 51风流North America, discussed reasons for supply chain failure and talked about the IBM and 51风流partnership, which offers a truly transformative road map for supply chain excellence.

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Aggarwal spoke about logistics problems during the pandemic. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of logistics transformation going on right now,鈥� he said. 鈥淪upply chains broke down because in their efforts to save dollars, companies were single sourcing things. They didn’t have alternatives. And when there were fluctuations, they were not able to accommodate them with alternatives such as other transportation lanes.鈥�

He explained that companies were not prepared for shifts in demand, such as selling to more grocery stores rather than to restaurants. Grocery retail requires different packaging and different types of transportation. Local optimum does not mean global optimum. It is not enough to have islands of excellence in each function, so enterprises are moving toward intelligent workflows, which are more agile by nature. Aggarwal believes companies will have to look at their overall logistics strategy, from carrier network rationale to their ability to react to change.

What Needs to Change

MacClaren said data has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks for most enterprises, because they store massive amounts of data in different silos.

鈥淟ack of visibility into real-time data greatly hampers a company鈥檚 predictive capabilities,鈥� she explained. 鈥淎ll our customers want to improve their ability to predict the future. And if that鈥檚 not possible, then they want to improve their response.鈥�

MacClaren believes the best way for suppliers to meet the challenge is by putting the customer at the center, then organizing to deliver the perfect experience through a multichannel, multimodal supply chain.

Both experts agreed on the two key factors behind the collapse of supply chains: lack of agility and the inability to respond in real time. One factor preventing agility is the use of disparate systems. 鈥淚f you have to pull all the information you need for analysis from different points, and then you have to do it again and again, it really slows you down,鈥� MacClaren said. 鈥淔olks just didn’t have visibility to do their job. True agility depends on the interoperability of systems.鈥�

They also agree on the critical factors for recovery. Companies should begin by figuring out what part of the process is most broken. While it is important to create a holistic journey for transformation, every supply chain has its own needs depending on the industry and the customer. In addition to applying technology to the supply chain, companies also need to facilitate cultural change. This is where the concept of intelligent workflows, rather than individual processes, plays a key role.

Win-Win for Customers

Aggarwal sees a huge opportunity for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for demand sensing and forecasting. 鈥淚BM has always been on the cutting edge of emerging tech;,be it blockchain, AI, or IoT,鈥� he shared. 鈥淏y combining SAP鈥檚 industrial scale enterprise solutions with IBM鈥檚 new, most promising technology, we can drive that exponential value for our customers.鈥�

For MacClaren, the 51风流and IBM combination of intelligent technologies and a truly transformational road map of where to go is what can make the difference for future supply chain excellence. Now is the time to prepare, she said, so those 鈥渧ast, elaborate, whirring contraptions鈥� really do deliver culture and commerce at spectacular speeds, with astonishing efficiency, even amid a global crisis.

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The Evolution Partnership initiative intends to deliver new intelligent industry solutions to enable end-to-end processes that help companies accelerate the modernization of systems and workflows

Over 400 businesses have modernized their enterprise systems and business processes through IBM and SAP鈥檚 . As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to significantly impact many industries across the globe, organizations are realizing they need the agility to seamlessly adapt to changing market conditions and customer demand.

鈥淥rganizations鈥� short- and long-term futures are being defined by their ability to proactively respond to today鈥檚 challenging, unprecedented market conditions,鈥� said Adaire Fox-Martin, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淐ompanies gain competitive advantage by unlocking data up and down their value chain, uncovering new revenue opportunities and creating exceptional experiences for their customers and employees, while also demanding faster time to value. SAP鈥檚 partnership with IBM brings together the power of world-leading intelligent applications and technology expertise to realize value more quickly, which in turn fuels the transformations that will support businesses today and into the future. This partnership will serve our customers in the marketplace and on their balance sheets.鈥�

The next evolution of the IBM and 51风流partnership aims to help drive faster business transformation time to value, accelerate industry innovation through industry-specific data value offerings, turbocharge customer and employee experiences and provide ultimate flexibility and choice to run their workloads in hybrid cloud environments.

“To compete in a highly disruptive and rapidly evolving world, companies require the ability to rewire their organizations to create efficient, automated business processes 鈥� applying advanced technologies to transform static, siloed processes into agile, intelligent workflows,鈥� said Mark Foster, IBM Services senior vice president. 鈥淭he new solutions unveiled today are another milestone in IBM鈥檚 48-year partnership with 51风流as we help fast-track our clients鈥� journey to becoming cognitive enterprises. Our collaboration with 51风流is designed to help clients increase the speed of how decisions are made and create more meaningful experiences for their customers and employees.鈥�

This new IBM and 51风流collaboration plans to deliver solutions designed to unlock new value for clients:

Reinvent Workflows with Intelligent Industry End-to-End Processes

Announced last week, delivers innovative, vertical solutions to drive cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth. To further address market demand for industry-specific innovation, IBM and 51风流have started to jointly define and have delivered cloud-based solutions with intelligent end-to-end industry workflows to enable clients to make business decisions based on data-driven insights. The first offering will focus on lead-to-order and plan-to-manufacture business processes for the industrial machinery and components (IM&C) industry, to help industrial manufacturers reinvent workflow processes to increase productivity and customer satisfaction. IBM and 51风流teamed up with leading IM&C companies to design and build out future capabilities. As a development partner for the service, IBM is also working with 51风流to develop an 51风流Model Company service for Telecommunications that will help telecom providers transform their customer-facing and back-office processes 鈥� as well as helping to maximize the return of their 5G investments.

Flexibility with Hybrid Cloud Solutions

According to a of the Americas鈥� 51风流Users鈥� Group (ASUG), a majority of respondents said that they are running or planning to run 51风流S/4HANA in a hybrid cloud model. Companies continue to rapidly evolve business models and reconfigure processes to better support their customers and meet new market demands. Many are turning to a hybrid cloud strategy to drive intelligent enterprises. To help empower clients with the flexibility to run workloads in the most optimal cloud environment, IBM, Red Hat and 51风流will collaborate to bring managed services from 51风流on premise by validating private deployments of 51风流Cloud Platform and related backing services on Red Hat OpenShift. Currently with select early adopter clients, this solution, when available, is planned to enable customers to build side-by-side extensions with the desired security 鈥� a critical requirement for customers in regulated industries.

Reimagine Customer and Employee Experiences

With the internet, smartphones and social media, it has never been easier for customers and employees to share their feedback on the quality of experiences they have with companies, products, managers or shared services. IBM鈥檚 found that 82 percent of business leaders strongly believe that data helps create a strategic advantage, strengthening customer trust and increasing bottom lines. To help companies increase value from data, IBM and 51风流plan to provide technology and services leveraging the 51风流Customer Experience portfolio and Experience Management solutions from 51风流(Qualtrics) to enable clients to deliver a next-generation omnichannel experience and measure and improve the effectiveness of stakeholder experiences. This collaboration is designed to help drive customer loyalty, customer and employee engagement and brand and product quality across multiple industries. IBM plans to incorporate the use of Experience Management solutions from 51风流in project delivery as part of IBM鈥檚 organizational change management framework to deliver a differentiated and optimized project experience for clients.

Automating Processes to Accelerate Transformation

IBM and 51风流are working together to establish the IBM Accelerated Move Center, a next-generation migration factory designed to further automate and accelerate the journey to the intelligent enterprise and give clients more predictability on their path to 51风流S/4HANA. This new offering will be a prepackaged integration approach that utilizes preconfigured baseline industry templates and leverages automation and configuration tools built in conjunction with IBM Research.

These new offerings will be based on SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite and SAP鈥檚 industry cloud solutions and will enable clients to benefit from 51风流and IBM technologies, such as AI, machine learning, automation and analytics. These offerings will be built on IBM鈥檚 new evolution platform, which provides a single view of IBM solutions, including preconfigured Industry Impact Solutions, and interoperates with SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform, allowing enterprises to create advanced insights, integrate capabilities and build, extend and enhance 51风流applications. This combination aims to help clients more efficiently benefit from SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite, migrate to the cloud, transform data into business value and utilize emerging technologies to support intelligent workflows.

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As the Experience Company powered by the Intelligent Enterprise, 51风流is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world鈥檚 transaction revenue touches an 51风流system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 440,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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The latest thought leaders to join the platform are from IBM and the University of St. Gallen. The new course, , 听offers insights into how structuring and planning an enterprise architecture can support a company鈥檚 move to an intelligent enterprise.

Robert Heidasch, global 51风流Digital and Innovation lead at IBM and course instructor, shares more about why you should sign up.

Q: What is an intelligent enterprise?

A:听The Intelligent Enterprise is a strategy for enabling the rapid transformation of data into insight 鈥� feeding process automation, innovation, and optimal experiences. The Intelligent Enterprise leverages emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and analytics to enable the workforce to focus on higher-value outcomes.

What is enterprise architecture and how does it support the Intelligent Enterprise?

When organizations standardize and organize IT infrastructure to align with their business goals, the result is called enterprise architecture. The transformation from a 鈥榯raditional鈥� to an intelligent enterprise requires a scalable process where enterprise architecture and enterprise architecture management considerably reduce complexity and make it more manageable to achieve an optimized business outcome.

What will I gain from joining this course?

You鈥檒l get an introduction to the concept of the Intelligent Enterprise and its architecture 鈥� the business platform, tools, and methodologies to manage its complexity and transformation. We鈥檒l discuss the value of data and the architecture of business platforms, how to simplify them and redesign processes around AI, and how to enable people, the most valuable resource in your enterprise. We鈥檒l also show you how to influence leaders using enterprise architecture management. The content is aimed at enterprise architects, business and technology leaders, and experts interested in the transformation toward an intelligent enterprise.

The instructors are from IBM and the University of St. Gallen. What鈥檚 the reason for bringing these different backgrounds to the course?

The intention is to provide an understanding of the new megatrends 鈥� intelligent enterprise and the enterprise architecture from an academic and a practical point of view. We share the experience of a leading university in the enterprise architecture and enterprise architecture management space and combine it with IBM鈥檚 deep industry experience in cognitive enterprise, like SAP鈥檚 ideas on the Intelligent Enterprise. We also present the new business and IT paradigms and discuss topics like transformation, required simplification, and people engagement to achieve the best possible business value for your enterprise.

Who is this course meant for?

The content is aimed at enterprise architects, business and technology leaders, and experts interested in transformation and on their way to the Intelligent Enterprise.

What is the structure and how much time will it take to complete?

The course starts March 31 with additional content released on April 7. The course will take three to four hours to complete and you can complete units in 20-minute slots. To earn a certificate at the end of the course, you must complete the assignments by April 29.

How do I join?

The is provided free of charge and all you need to sign up is a valid email address. .