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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
SAP and Microsoft broaden cloud ERP alliance
This story was originally published on CIO Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CIO Dive newsletter. SAP expanded its partnership with Microsoft to help drive enterprise adoption of the ERP provider's Business Suite bundles for finance, supply chain, human resources, procurement and customer experience functions, the two companies said Tuesday. The joint migration acceleration initiative complements extensive platform integration plans unveiled along with the Business Suite offerings last week during SAP's annual Sapphire conference. The integrations announced May 20 connect SAP's Joule AI assistant with the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity tools, including Copilot, Teams, Outlook and Word. Microsoft also extended its Sentra, Defender and Entra security tools across SAP's cloud ERP and aims to launch SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks on Azure analytics services later this year. SAP is counting on technology partners to guide customers to its S/4HANA cloud-based ERP as the company prepares to terminate mainstream support for on-premises ERP Central Component deployments in 2027. 'By combining forces, we provide partners with proven frameworks, shared resources, and scalable tools that address complex challenges,' Karl Fahrbach, chief partner officer of SAP, said in the Tuesday announcement. The bundled offerings are designed to ease migrations by targeting function-specific business processes with traditional ERP capabilities in combination with data pipeline, analytics and AI services. While Microsoft is the first hyperscaler to offer the Business Suite Accelerator program, SAP recently expanded existing pacts with AWS and Google Cloud to ease the flow of ERP data across clouds. AWS and SAP launched a generative AI development initiative to help Accenture, Deloitte and other ecosystem partners build agentic tools using ERP data and the hyperscaler's Bedrock platform, the companies announced on May 20. Initial use cases include identifying financial anomalies in real time and mitigating supply chain disruptions, according to SAP CTO and Chief AI Officer Philipp Herzig. In addition to integrating the Databricks-powered Business Data Cloud on Azure, SAP connected the data pipeline to Google Cloud's BigQuery data warehouse to bring together data stored in ERP and third-party repositories. SAP Business Data Cloud will be deployed in three Google Cloud regions in later this year, according to a May 20 announcement. SAP was among the first cadre of providers to sign on to Google Cloud's Agent2Agent open protocol for multi-agent AI orchestration in April. The two companies gave SAP customers access to Google's Gemini family of large language models through SAP Business Technology Platform's generative AI hub and opened SAP data to the hyperscaler's Agentspace tool-building platform earlier this month. 'Our objective is to enable all enterprises to streamline data integration and data science, enhance their analytical workflows, and accelerate their transformation into an AI-driven enterprise,' the companies said in the announcement.
Channel Post MEA
27-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
SAP & AWS Unveil AI Co-Innovation Program To Create Generative AI Solutions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP have announced the launch of a new AI Co-Innovation Program to help partners build generative artificial intelligence applications and agents that help customers rapidly solve real-time business challenges. Many organizations recognize generative AI's potential to transform their business, but don't know where to start. By combining advanced generative AI technologies with enterprise resource planning (ERP) data from critical systems, companies can unlock significant enterprise value: for example, optimizing delivery routes, anticipating potential impacts to supply chain operations, or developing precise financial outlooks. Many organizations recognize generative AI's potential to transform their business, but don't know where to start. By combining advanced generative AI technologies with enterprise resource planning (ERP) data from critical systems, companies can unlock significant enterprise value: for example, optimizing delivery routes, anticipating potential impacts to supply chain operations, or developing precise financial outlooks. The AI Co-Innovation Program represents the two companies' shared vision to help partners define, build, and deploy generative AI applications tailored to their ERP workloads. The program brings together enterprise technology from SAP and generative AI services from AWS with professional expertise from both parties — including teams of AI experts, professional services consultants, and solutions architects — to help support customers in their implementation journeys. The program will include dedicated technical resources, cloud credits, and more to support the development, testing, and deployment of industry-specific applications. 'AWS and SAP's long-standing partnership has helped customers accelerate their cloud journey and unlock more value from their business data,' said Ruba Borno, vice president of Specialists and Partners at AWS. 'Our AI Co-Innovation Program is a significant next step that will give organizations the security and flexibility to build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock that can analyze and act on their most critical SAP data. This will help customers transform decades of business information into actionable insights while accelerating their path to becoming more agile, data-driven organizations.' 'Through the AI Co-Innovation Program with AWS, we're enabling businesses to solve their most complex operational challenges with precision and speed,' said Philipp Herzig, CTO and chief AI officer at SAP. 'By combining the power of our fully integrated platform with SAP BTP and our deep business process expertise with AWS's comprehensive generative AI capabilities, partners can now create purpose-built AI agents that solve their most pressing challenges — identifying financial anomalies in real time to automatically optimizing supply chains during disruptions.' The program also allows partners to rapidly build and scale generative AI applications using the latest generative AI tools and services from Amazon Bedrock, including large language models (LLMs) such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude in AI Foundation on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). 0 0
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Vianai Collaborates with SAP to Bring Together Gen AI Tools
The collaboration builds on the strengths of the SAP Joule copilot, the just ask feature of SAP Analytics Cloud, and hila, and seeks to fundamentally transform analytics on enterprise data PALO ALTO, Calif., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vianai Systems, Inc. today announced at SAP Sapphire in Orlando a collaboration with SAP to bring together the best generative AI capabilities of the SAP Joule copilot, the just ask feature of SAP Analytics Cloud and Vianai's hila to customers worldwide, leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud, part of the SAP Business Data Cloud solution, as the foundation. Combined, Joule and just ask plus hila will allow for a natural-language interface for generative AI that works across all structured data — cube and analytics models in the SAP Analytics Cloud, part of the SAP Business Data Cloud solutions, third party data, and other raw, transactional, non-aggregated data. "SAP is committed to advancing enterprise-ready AI that delivers real business impact," said Dr. Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at SAP SE. "Our exploration with Vianai reflects our drive to push the boundaries of conversational analytics – enhancing decision-making precision and extending the reach of SAP's AI capabilities across and beyond the enterprise landscape." Vianai has developed advanced anti-hallucination and deep analysis technology in generative AI and specializes in getting highly accurate results directly from raw structured data, while maintaining responsiveness and low costs. "We are thrilled to collaborate with SAP to help bring together our hila product with Joule, the just ask feature and the underlying foundation of SAP Analytics Cloud, part of the SAP Business Data Cloud solution," said Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO/Founder of Vianai. "This breakthrough collaboration promises to deliver trusted, scalable generative AI into the hands of business users at enterprises around the world and empowers them to realize massive value by fluently engaging with their data." This initiative validates the massive market opportunity for transformative solutions in business data analytics using the power of AI, large language models and agentic technologies. The collaboration will help unlock the potential of both SAP and Vianai solutions by enabling business users to leverage their SAP investments and engage directly with their structured data assets with accuracy and speed, while maintaining security and low costs. GenAI-driven analytics represent a new era in data-driven decision-making, empowering enterprises worldwide to grow, optimize, and innovate leveraging data, with unprecedented simplicity and trust, embodying the shared vision of technology as a powerful human amplifier About Vianai Systems Vianai Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of natural language to code applications and platform, hila, built for the enterprise. The hila Platform uniquely brings the combined capabilities of domain-specific conversational AI for crucial enterprise data with patented anti-hallucination techniques, for maximum accuracy and reliability of Generative AI for enterprises. The hila Platform helps enterprises minimize the risks of AI, while taking full advantage of the transformation potential of reliable AI systems. Follow Vianai Systems on X and LinkedIn. For more information, contact: Rebecca Schupp, 650-619-2895, 395559@ SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Any statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties described in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC), including its most recent annual report on Form 20-F, that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. SAP cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which SAP has no obligation to update and which speak only as of their dates. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Vianai Systems Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Business
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Vonage Joins Forces with SAP to Deliver Agentic AI-driven Experiences for Enterprises
HOLMDEL, N.J., March 04, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation and a part of Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), today announced an expanded collaboration with SAP to help bring agentic AI-driven experiences to enterprises worldwide. By combining Vonage's cutting-edge communications and network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and SAP Business AI, the collaboration aims to create tangible impact through intelligent, next-generation applications seamlessly integrated into existing workflows and systems. The collaboration also represents a significant step forward in revolutionizing how businesses use AI and network APIs to enhance operations and customer experiences. SAP provides the foundational platform, integrating SAP Business AI with SAP BTP. Vonage helps to elevate these capabilities with communications and network APIs, leveraging Ericsson's expansive telecommunications ecosystem. Philipp Herzig, CTO and Chief AI Officer at SAP SE, said, "This collaboration with Vonage is a great example of how powerful AI agents will be able to handle multi-step processes, interacting with humans when there is the need and otherwise solving issues autonomously." The collaboration will focus on pilot use cases and proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrations, beginning with a showcase at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona. The companies are teaming up with Accenture to showcase a POC that demonstrates a multimodal application of Agentic AI, integrated with Vonage APIs. The integration shows how AI can amplify operational efficiency and customer experience through real-time network and communication-enabled insights. The demo will also spotlight innovative solutions targeting large enterprises. Seckin Arikan, Head of API, Vonage, shared, "This collaboration signifies a major step in advancing network and AI-driven applications. By integrating Agentic AI and network APIs with SAP Business AI capabilities, we are providing businesses with tools to reimagine operations, improve customer experiences, and meet the growing demands of digitization. Together with SAP, we are turning innovation into actionable business value for enterprises." Vonage's network APIs can offer enterprises significant competitive advantages, including streamlined user authentication processes and network location capability, helping to improve existing efficiencies and enabling them to develop new and innovative use cases. The collaboration aims to help empower enterprises to fully leverage the capabilities of AI and advanced network capabilities, paving the way for transformation across industries, including logistics and customer engagement, by enhancing enterprise intelligence and fostering stronger cross-industry connections. For more about Vonage, visit About Vonage Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation, providing a comprehensive set of engagement solutions to deliver richer, more personal and meaningful communications across the entire customer and employee experience. Vonage's Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solutions enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere. Vonage's Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering is fully programmable and allows developers to embed video, voice, chat, messaging, AI and verification into existing products, workflows and systems using communications APIs. Leveraging the power of the network, Vonage's CPaaS is expanding to incorporate new network capabilities exposed as APIs to help developers worldwide pioneer new, advanced applications that help enterprises reimagine their business, transform their operations and improve customer experiences. Vonage is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), and a business area within the Ericsson Group called Business Area Global Communications Platform. To follow Vonage on LinkedIn, visit To become a fan on Facebook, go to To subscribe on YouTube, visit SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Vonage Media RelationsMobile: +44 (0)207 785 8888Email: Sign in to access your portfolio
