ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Business AI Innovations and Collaborations with Partners including Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and NVIDIA Ignite Ingenuity
ORLANDO β At its annual ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sapphire conference, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ unveiled generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level in the era of AI.
By infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the worldβs most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of whatβs possible with AI, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.
βThe Business AI innovations weβre announcing at ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses run,β says Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ SE. βTodayβs AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to deliver revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unleash the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in todayβs fast-moving business landscape.β
AI That Means Business
As ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ embeds Business AI across its enterprise solutions, it puts rich insights at usersβ fingertips, empowering them to deliver better outcomes and elevate the creative problem-solving humans do best. Examples include AI-generated reports in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ SuccessFactors solutions that give people managers responsibly sourced insights for compensation-related discussions as well as forecasting capabilities in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sales Cloud solutions that predict combinations of salespeople and products most likely to drive sales. Meanwhile, the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Business Technology Platform is adding large language models from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This capability in the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ AI Core infrastructure makes it easier to build generative AI use cases for ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ applications.
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄βs generative AI copilot Joule, which quickly sorts and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision-making, is expanding throughout the companyβs solution portfolio. Joule launched inΒ ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ SuccessFactors solutions last fallΒ and is now embedded into ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others including ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Build and ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Integration Suite. Further expansion by year-end will include ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Ariba and ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Analytics Cloud solutions. At Sapphire, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ also announcedΒ plans to further broaden Jouleβs scopeΒ by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot to surface even richer insights. This deep, bi-directional integration gives users a unified experience built right into the flow of work, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with business applications in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and Microsoft 365.
Reflecting Business AIβs increasing importance, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is redoubling its commitment to the principles of relevant, reliable, and responsible AI it pioneered. At Sapphire, ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is adopting 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, promote fairness and contribute to sustainable development.
Partnerships That Scale Innovation
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is partnering with best-in-class technology leaders to push the limits of what generative AI can do at an enterprise level. In addition to our expanded collaborations withΒ AWSΒ and Microsoft, partnerships with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ can harness the power of AI-ready technology to innovate at speed and deliver richer real-world results.
Google Cloud
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, using Business AI to help enterprises better predict and mitigate supply-chain risks to minimize disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels. The companies will integrate Joule and the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with Google Cloudβs Gemini models AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Frameworkβs data foundation.
Meta
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ will leverage Meta Llama 3 to generate scripts that render highly customized analytics applications in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Analytics Cloud. Metaβs next-generation AI model excels at language nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating enterprise business requirements into tangible outcomes.
Mistral AI
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ will also addΒ new large language models from Mistral AI, a global company headquartered in Paris specializing in generative AI, to the generative AI hub capability in ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ AI Core.
NVIDIA
ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ and NVIDIA Corporation advance aΒ Β to embed cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications:
- As ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ trains Joule to serve as an AI assistant for the RISE with ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ solution implementations, NVIDIAβs state-of-the-art AI models sift through ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ consulting assets to provide relevant and precise answers to implementation-related questions;
- As ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ embeds Joule in the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ developers, NVIDIAβs accelerated infrastructure will run, scale, and manage ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄βs generative AI model for ABAP code generation;
- As ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ infuses generative AI into the ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Intelligent Product Recommendation solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs enable the simulation of complex manufacturing products and configurations as industrial digital twins.
Cloud Technology That Drives Agility and Sustainability
Business success in the era of AI means being in the cloud. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ is making the move easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed for complex ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Further cloud innovations at ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sapphire include features that help the worldβs organizations measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sustainability Control Tower and ΒιΆΉΤ΄΄ Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprints at scale and help businesses meet regulatory standards.
