New Value Generation partnership initiative focused on delivering greater client productivity and innovation with new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions.
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鈥淚BM and 麻豆原创鈥檚 shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to听optimize business outcomes,鈥� said听John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting. 鈥淥ur new Value Generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI.鈥�
鈥淚t makes perfect sense to expand our partnership with IBM to help more customers accelerate their cloud journey leveraging RISE with 麻豆原创 and realize the transformative benefits of generative AI for business in the cloud,鈥� said听Scott Russell, Chief Revenue Officer & Executive Board Member, Customer Success of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭his expanded partnership will help more of our joint customers reach new heights by innovating through the cloud, data and business AI to grow and transform their businesses.鈥�
听and 麻豆原创 aim to accelerate transformation enabled by RISE with 麻豆原创 by supporting clients in the following key areas:
- Next-Generation AI听Business Processes: Together, the companies are exploring opportunities to build new generative AI capabilities for RISE with 麻豆原创 and infuse AI into 麻豆原创 business processes across industry-specific cloud solutions and line of business applications. Initially, IBM plans to extend AI capabilities across 麻豆原创鈥檚 portfolio of cloud solutions and applications, all of which are underpinned by 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP). This includes RISE with 麻豆原创, the GROW with 麻豆原创 solution, financial solutions for the office of the CFO, supply chain management solutions, 听solutions for human capital management, 麻豆原创 Customer Experience solutions and intelligent spend management solutions. IBM also plans to leverage 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 Business AI solutions to help define next-generation business processes through a proof-of-concept adoption program.
- Next-Generation Industry Innovation: IBM and 麻豆原创 plan to build intelligent industry use cases, enabled by data-driven insights, into end-to-end business processes to fuel next-generation industry innovation. These use cases will initially focus on the industrial manufacturing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, defense, automotive and utilities industries. This includes IBM鈥檚 recent work with 麻豆原创 to develop new AI solutions for the CPG and retail 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. In addition, IBM plans to develop prescriptive industry value maps that define next-generation business processes and opportunities for impact with AI. Clients will be able to access all of these new AI solutions through the global听听and听听sites.
- Next-Generation Platform Architecture and Customer Adoption Approach: Next-generation enterprises require next-generation platform architectures and a modernized approach to customer adoption. 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 麻豆原创 BTP, 麻豆原创 Signavio and 听LeanIX solutions. These new reference architectures will help define standards across data, process, systems and device integration, process orchestration and automation. IBM consultants supporting clients on 麻豆原创 projects can also leverage IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM鈥檚 AI services platform, and its portfolio of proprietary methods, assets and Assistants to bring more repeatability and consistency to client delivery. 听With IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM consultants can transform the way they deliver 麻豆原创 solutions to boost productivity and mitigate risk by leveraging generative AI to help complete tasks like generation of user stories, test scripts, training and change management content and code creation.
- Next-Generation Ecosystem Expansion: IBM and 麻豆原创 plan to partner around their respective employee network groups and 鈥渘ext-gen鈥� communities, such as the business women鈥檚 networks at IBM and 麻豆原创, the听听program and the听听program of 麻豆原创 and Veterans at IBM to increase the 麻豆原创 solutions experience in the consulting workforce and develop the next generation of talent. The companies also plan to explore new ways to collaborate on social impact programs, such as training at- risk youth in the IT sector and accelerating the integration of social businesses into global supply chains.
- watsonx Planned Availability on the Generative AI Hub: IBM Granite Model Series are expected to be accessible for use across 麻豆原创鈥檚 portfolio of cloud solutions and applications 鈥� which is underpinned by the generative AI hub in 麻豆原创 AI Core. The generative AI hub facilitates relevant, reliable and responsible business AI and provides instant access to a broad range of large language models (LLMs). This expands on IBM and 麻豆原创鈥檚 collaboration around听. To further highlight watsonx.ai Granite capabilities, IBM Consulting plans to build extensions using the model on the generative AI hub for select customers.
This initiative will build on the companies鈥� over 50-year collaboration based on deep technology, industry and domain expertise and demonstrates the two organizations鈥� joint commitment to continue to evolve to put clients first and meet market demand.
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