IBM and SAP announced mutual plans to promote the modernization of customer systems and processes and accelerate the migration to the digital economy.
Companies plan to co-innovate to deliver solutions that increase value for customers through enhanced technologies and experiences and industry-specific functionality, all from the SAP S/4HANA real-time management solution available for on-premises deployments. or in the cloud.
With the extension of the long-standing partnership between the two companies, SAP and IBM will allocate resources in the research and innovation centers in Walldorf, Germany, and in Palo Alto, California (USA). In addition, the companies will present new solutions and creations to customers at IBM and SAP innovation centers around the world.
With customers rethinking their processes, work patterns and user experience and changing their business models to explore new market opportunities, this co-innovation partnership between SAP and IBM envisions:
• Cloud-based solutions: Companies will benefit from the successful, strategic partnership between IBM and SAP through the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services announced in October 2014, which expand IBM's cloud platform to meet the unpredictable demands of digital transformation. In addition, IBM and SAP will work together on industry-specific cloud solutions and expand existing SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to include application maintenance and support.
• On-premise solutions: SAP and IBM will enable customers to use on-premises and hybrid offerings with SAP HANA on IBM Power systems, from the new IBM Power Systems Center of Excellence for SAP HANA in Austin, Texas (USA).
• Cognitive resources: IBM will develop cognitive solutions for SAP S/4HANA and enterprise business applications that harness the power of IBM's cognitive APIs to enable information-driven decision making, benefiting a wide range of business users and across the board. the management positions (C-suite) of the organizations.
• Customer and User Experience: IBM Interactive Experience (iX), the world's largest digital agency, SAP Global Design, and SAP's Customer Engagement and Commerce team will work together to create pre-built experiences that can also be more personalized for customers and customers' employees. . The collaboration will also apply IBM's iOS design competencies with mobile app users in mind.
• Integrated Services: The companies will develop collaborative consulting models based on agile, tested and approved support methodologies services from both organizations.
• Roadmaps for specific sectors: IBM's Institute for Business Value and SAP's Value Engineering organization will jointly create digital transformation roadmaps for specific industries and C-suite functions.
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