At the annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled key innovations and partnerships in generative AI, showing how the company is taking business to the next level in the age of AI. By integrating Business AI into its portfolio of cloud solutions for businesses – which powers the world’s most critical processes – and by partnering with companies that make the impossible possible in terms of AI, SAP is generating a new wave of knowledge. and ingenuity in global business.
”The AI announcements and partnerships we are making at SAP Sapphire 2024 are based on our commitment to delivering revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers have the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed. in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape”, it states Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Board of Directors of SAP SE. “Enterprise AI innovations “They will redefine the way companies are managed.”
AI for business
As SAP incorporates Business AI into its business solutions, it makes valuable information available to users, allowing them to obtain better results and further enhance the creative problem solving that, in itself, humans do better than animals. machines. Examples include AI-generated reports in SAP SuccessFactors solutions, which provide people managers with responsibly sourced insights to prepare compensation discussions and analysis, as well as forecasting capabilities in SAP Sales solutions. Cloud that predict the combinations of sellers and products most likely to drive sales. At the same time, SAP Business Technology Platform is adding large language models (LLMs) from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This capability in the SAP AI Core infrastructure makes it easy to create generative AI use cases for SAP applications.
Joule, SAP’s generative AI co-pilot – which rapidly classifies and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision making – is being extended across the company’s entire solutions portfolio. Incorporated into SAP SuccessFactors solutions last fall, it has now been integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others such as SAP Build and SAP Integration Suite. By the end of the year, it will be integrated into SAP Ariba and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions. In addition, in SAP Sapphire, the company has also announced its plans to further expand the reach of Joule by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot, in order to obtain even richer information. This complete, two-way integration offers users a unified experience integrated directly into the workflow, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with SAP and Microsoft 365 business applications.
Reflecting the growing importance of enterprise AI, SAP is redoubling its commitment to the principles of relevant, trustworthy and responsible AI that it pioneered. SAP has announced the adoption of the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which aims to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used in ways that respect human rights, promote equity and contribute to sustainable development.
Alliances that enhance innovation
SAP is partnering with top technology leaders to push the boundaries of generative AI capabilities at the enterprise level. In addition to new collaborations with AWS and Microsoft, alliances with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure that SAP can harness the potential of AI-ready technology to innovate at speed and deliver rich results in the real world.
Of the new developments in the area of alliances, the following stand out:
Google Cloud
SAP and Google Cloud expand their partnership to integrate Joule and the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with AI assistant for Google Cloud Gemini models and Google Cloud Cortex Framework data support. This integration will help companies better predict and mitigate supply chain risks in order to minimize supply chain disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels.
Goal
SAP will benefit from Meta Llama 3 to generate scripts that render highly customized analytical applications in SAP Analytics Cloud. Meta’s next-generation AI model stands out for its linguistic nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating companies’ business requirements into tangible results.
Mistral AI
SAP will also add to the SAP AI Core generative artificial intelligence core new major linguistic models from Mistral AI, a global company, based in Paris, specialized in generative artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA
SAP and NVIDIA Corporation advance their collaboration 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 next-generation AI models examine SAP consulting assets to provide relevant and accurate answers to related questions. with implementation;
- As SAP incorporates 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 drives agility and sustainability
Business success in the age of AI means being in the cloud. SAP is making the shift easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed to evolve to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Other cloud innovations unveiled in SAP Sapphire include features that help organizations measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprints at scale and help companies comply with regulations.
