The partnership will see both companies offer generative AI-based services to enterprises via RISE with SAP offering. Credit: Shutterstock IBM’s consulting arm and SAP are partnering to offer generative AI-based services to enterprises to help accelerate digital transformation. The partnership, announced on Wednesday, will see both companies offer generative AI-based services via RISE with SAP offering, the companies said in a statement. RISE with SAP is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider’s managed offering that helps enterprises move their on-premises ERP operations to the cloud. Earlier in May last year, SAP partnered with IBM to infuse the latter’s Watson AI engine across its solutions portfolio, including SAP S/4 HANA, S/4 HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign. That move was expected to help SAP exploit the natural language processing capabilities of Watson AI along with predictive insights, with the aim of jointly developing large language models (LLMs) and generative AI capabilities. Thursday’s partnership, according to the companies, will help them jointly provide generative AI use cases and services to enterprises for business processes and platform architecture. “Initially, IBM plans to extend AI capabilities across SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, all of which are underpinned by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP),” the companies said. These applications and offerings include RISE with SAP, GROW with SAP offering, financial services for the office of the CFO, supply chain management services, human capital management, SAP Customer Experience and intelligent spend management offerings. IBM also plans to leverage SAP Signavio and SAP Business AI solutions to help define next-generation business processes through a proof-of-concept adoption program, the companies said. Targeting new industry use cases Additionally, both companies said the partnership would help them foster innovation for several industry sectors, with an initial focus on industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, defense, automotive, and utilities 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,” the companies said, adding that enterprises will be able to access all of these new AI solutions through the global IBM Innovation Studios and SAP Experience Center sites.In order to onboard enterprises, the companies have devised a value-generation initiative. “Through the Value Generation partnership initiative, IBM intends to provide next-generation reference architectures that enable a clean core approach. To do this, IBM plans to leverage SAP BTP, SAP Signavio, and LeanIX offerings,” the companies said, adding that the new reference architectures will define standards across data, process, systems, process orchestration, and automation. Further, the companies said that IBM consultants supporting enterprise clients on SAP projects can also leverage IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM’s AI services platform, and its portfolio of proprietary methods, assets and Assistants. The collaboration will also see SAP access IBM’s Granite family of large language models to develop AI use cases. Related content news SAP AI pact with AWS offers customers more gen AI options SAP wants to work more closely with AWS on AI, complementing existing partnerships with Google and Microsoft. By Martin Bayer May 29, 2024 3 mins Amazon Web Services Generative AI SAP brandpost Sponsored by DataXstream Leveraging Intelligent Automation (IA) to streamline sales order processing AI gives your organization substantial advantages for selling to and supporting customers. Learn more today. By DataXstream May 29, 2024 6 mins Artificial Intelligence brandpost Sponsored by SAP Accenture’s cloud migration sets standard for other large businesses Embracing its mantra of “Let there be change,” Accenture embarked on an ambitious journey to transform both its technology landscape and its workforce. By Keith E. Greenberg, SAP Contributor May 29, 2024 4 mins Digital Transformation news Ex-Open AI researcher Jan Leike joins Anthropic amid AI safety concerns Leike’s departure from OpenAI was one of several recent high-profile exits based on the premise that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat” at the ChatGPT creator. By Gyana Swain May 29, 2024 3 mins Technology Industry IT Governance Artificial Intelligence PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe