An extended strategic collaboration between SAP SE and Amazon Web Services aims to transform current cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) services. By leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI), the alliance aims to enable businesses and create new opportunities and efficiencies.
“AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio, and today, thousands of enterprise companies run SAP solutions on AWS to get the most out of their mission-critical applications,” said Matt Garman, incoming CEO at AWS. “Now, AWS and SAP are making it faster and easier for companies to apply generative AI to their core business data to become more efficient, responsive, and sustainable.”
“Partnerships like this collaboration with AWS are critical as we embed generative AI solutions across our ERP applications so that customers can drive innovation at an accelerated pace,” said Christian Klein, Chief Executive Officer of SAP SE. “In addition to delivering modern cloud ERP to our joint customers, we are excited to support Amazon on their own transformation journey as they adopt RISE with SAP for pioneering areas such as Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite initiative intended to increase global broadband access.”
Integrating Amazon Bedrock’s generative AI models into SAP AI Core infrastructure empowers customers to access high-performing models for customized applications. This integration accelerates generative AI adoption within SAP solutions, offering enhanced functionalities for key business processes across various sectors.
SAP’s utilization of AWS chips like Graviton3 for SAP HANA Cloud yields significant performance gains and energy efficiency. SAP plans to use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips, purpose-built for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, for training and deploying future SAP Business AI offerings.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper Selects RISE with SAP
RISE with SAP on AWS continues to evolve with the introduction of next-gen Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances, catering to expanding SAP HANA database requirements. This enhancement ensures optimal performance for memory-intensive applications like SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Amazon companies like Twitch, Zappos.com, and Zoox Inc. already use SAP software on AWS to support their operations. And now, in order to support its intricate manufacturing and supply chain processes and to maximize the performance and value of its mission-critical SAP software, Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite broadband network, is using RISE with SAP. Utilizing the most recent SAP features integrated into RISE with SAP, running SAP solutions on AWS enables Kuiper to expedite business decisions, create significant transformations, and improve overall efficiency and productivity.
RISE with SAP allows the Project Kuiper team to leverage the most reliable and scalable infrastructure to run a modern, cloud ERP as a managed service, so they can focus on innovation instead of IT management.
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