IBM and SAP said they will collaborate on generative AI models aimed at industries.
The "Value Generation" partnership will focus on generative AI and industry cloud applications. SAP is trying to migrate its customer base to the cloud and S4/HANA via its RISE with SAP program. IBM's approach to generative AI includes an open ecosystem and models that are focused on industries and specific use cases.
SAP and IBM have been partners for decades and have a bevy of joint customers across industries. This generative AI partnership revolves around IBM Consulting, which is already helping migrate SAP customers.
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The companies said IBM Consulting and SAP will focus on the following areas revolving around RISE with SAP.
- AI and process improvements. IBM and SAP said the two companies are looking to leverage AI in SAP business problems for industry cloud applications. IBM will extend AI into SAP-driven finance, supply chain and human capital management systems. IBM will also use SAP Signavio for process mining and SAP Business AI to retool processes.
- Industry generative AI use cases. The two companies said they will focus on industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, retail, defense, automotive and utilities. IBM is building models for these industries already and would tie in SAP processes.
- Reference architectures. IBM and SAP said they will provide reference architectures to define data, process, systems, orchestration and automation. IBM said it will leverage SAP BTP, SAP Signavio and LeanIX. IBM Consulting is a big partner of Celonis and UiPath too.
- IBM models available on SAP. IBM said watsonx will be available on SAP's Generative AI Hub so its Granite model family will be available across SAP apps.
