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SAP Business AI innovations and collaborations with partners such as Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and NVIDIA Ignite Ingenuity

ORLANDO — At its annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP revealed generative AI innovations and partnerships that demonstrate how the company is taking its business to the next level in the AI ​​era.

By integrating business AI into an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world’s most critical processes and partnering with companies that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI, SAP is unleashing a new wave of knowledge and ingenuity in global trade.

“The business AI innovations we are announcing at SAP Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses operate,” said Christian Klein, CEO and board member of SAP SE. “Today’s AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to delivering breakthrough technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unlock the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape.

AI that makes sense

As SAP integrates business AI into its enterprise solutions, it puts rich insights at the fingertips of users, enabling them to achieve better results and elevate humans’ creative capabilities in solving problems. problems. Examples include AI-generated reports in SAP SuccessFactors solutions that provide personnel managers with reliable insights into compensation-related discussions, as well as forecasting capabilities in SAP Sales Cloud solutions that predict salesperson mixes and products most likely to generate sales. Meanwhile, SAP Business Technology Platform adds large language models from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This feature of the SAP AI Core framework makes it easier to create generative AI use cases for SAP applications.

SAP’s generative AI co-pilot, Joule, which quickly sorts and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision-making, extends across the company’s solutions portfolio. Joule thrown into SAP SuccessFactors Solutions Last Fall and is now integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others, including SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite. Further expansion by the end of the year will include SAP Ariba and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions. At Sapphire, SAP also announced plans to further expand Joule’s scope of action by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot to reveal even richer information. This deep, two-way integration provides users with a unified experience integrated directly into the workflow, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with business applications from SAP and Microsoft 365.

Reflecting the growing importance of business AI, SAP is doubling down on its commitment to the principles of relevant, trustworthy and responsible AI that it pioneered. At Sapphire, SAP adopts the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which aim to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used in ways that respect human rights , to promote equity and contribute to sustainable development.

Partnerships that drive innovation

SAP is partnering with top technology leaders to push the boundaries of what generative AI can do at the enterprise level. In addition to our expanded collaborations with AWS and Microsoft, partnerships with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure that SAP can harness the power of AI-ready technology to innovate quickly and deliver richer real-world results.

Google Cloud

SAP and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership using Business AI to help businesses better predict and mitigate supply chain risks to minimize disruption and maintain optimal inventory levels. Companies will integrate Joule and the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with Google Cloud’s Gemini AI model assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework database.

Meta

SAP will leverage Meta Llama 3 to generate scripts that render highly customized analytics applications in SAP Analytics Cloud. Meta’s next-generation AI model excels at linguistic nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating the company’s business requirements into tangible results.

Mistral AI

SAP will also add new major language models from Mistral AIa Paris-based global company specializing in generative AI, to the capacity of the SAP AI Core Generative AI Hub.

Nvidia

SAP and NVIDIA Corporation advance a multi-product partnership* to integrate cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications:

• As SAP trains Joule to serve as an AI assistant for RISE with SAP solution implementations, NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI models sift through SAP consulting assets to provide relevant and accurate answers to implementation-related questions. implemented;
• While SAP integrates Joule into the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for SAP developers, NVIDIA’s accelerated infrastructure will run, scale and manage SAP’s generative AI model for ABAP code generation;
• As SAP integrates generative AI into the SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs enable the simulation of complex products and manufacturing configurations as industrial digital twins.

Cloud technology that promotes agility and sustainability

In the age of AI, business success depends on the cloud. SAP is making the transition easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed for complex SAP S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Other cloud innovations at SAP Sapphire include capabilities that help organizations around the world measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprint at scale and help businesses meet regulatory standards.

*NVIDIA blog link will be available at 10:00 a.m. ET/4:00 p.m. CEST on June 4

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