SAP, IBM Consulting partner to offer genAI-based services
“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.
