SAP, NVIDIA Partner on SAP Business AI for Enterprise Innovation
SAP Business AI, a groundbreaking collaboration between SAP and NVIDIA, is poised to revolutionize the way enterprises harness the power of data and generative AI across SAP’s extensive portfolio of cloud solutions and applications.
The partnership aims to deliver scalable, business-specific generative AI capabilities within the Joule copilot from SAP and throughout SAP’s ecosystem, all underpinned by the SAP generative AI hub. The hub facilitates relevant, reliable, and responsible business AI while providing instant access to a wide range of large language models (LLMs), enabling enterprises to leverage the latest advancements in AI technology.
Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, emphasizes the crucial role of strategic technology partnerships, such as the one between SAP and NVIDIA, in maximizing the potential and opportunity of AI for businesses. He believes that NVIDIA’s expertise in delivering AI capabilities at scale will help SAP accelerate the pace of transformation and better serve their customers in the cloud. This collaboration is at the core of SAP’s strategy to invest in technology that delivers real business value and empowers enterprises to stay ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, recognizes the immense potential of SAP’s enterprise data, which he likens to a “gold mine” that can be transformed into custom generative AI agents to help customers automate their businesses. By combining SAP’s deep understanding of enterprise processes and data with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI technologies, the partnership aims to bring custom generative AI to thousands of enterprises worldwide that rely on SAP to power their operations. This collaboration represents a significant step forward in the adoption of generative AI at scale across organizations, enabling businesses to unlock new insights, streamline processes, and drive innovation.
Integrating Generative AI into SAP’s Cloud Solutions and Applications
SAP and NVIDIA are working together to seamlessly integrate generative AI into various cloud solutions from SAP, including the latest release of the SAP Datasphere solution, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), and RISE with SAP. SAP plans to build additional generative AI capabilities within SAP BTP using NVIDIA’s generative AI foundry service, which features NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and NVIDIA AI Foundation models. These new capabilities are also designed to be the foundation of SAP’s development and deployment of generative AI for customers and are expected to be accessible in the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core and SAP Datasphere.
The partnership also encompasses several other initiatives aimed at enhancing the capabilities of SAP’s solutions and applications. These include new capabilities for the Joule copilot, which can leverage retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities built by NVIDIA and SAP, deployable on leading hyperscalers or SAP’s own cloud environments. Additionally, SAP and NVIDIA are exploring more than 20 generative AI use cases where the companies can combine assets to enhance digital transformation, leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Signavio.
Another key aspect of the collaboration is the unification of AI data sources with SAP Datasphere. Built on SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere enables integration and a unified view of semantically rich SAP data with third-party data across the enterprise landscape, providing a comprehensive foundation for generative AI applications. Furthermore, SAP plans to use NVIDIA AI foundry services to assist in fine-tuning LLMs for the ABAP programming language, aiding developers in creating domain-specific language code.
Collaborating to Build and Deliver SAP Business AI
Moreover, SAP Business AI represents a significant milestone in the adoption of generative AI at scale across organizations. By combining SAP’s deep understanding of enterprise data and business processes with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI technologies, the partnership aims to deliver real business value to customers. The integration of generative AI capabilities into SAP’s cloud solutions and applications will also enable enterprises to gain valuable insights, automate processes, and make data-driven decisions more efficiently than ever before.
As the world continues to embrace the transformative power of AI, SAP Business AI stands at the forefront of this revolution, empowering enterprises to harness the full potential of their data and drive innovation across their operations. With the combined expertise of SAP and NVIDIA, businesses can look forward to a future where generative AI is seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows, unlocking new opportunities for growth and success in the digital age.
