Major Partnership Enhances Cloud ERP Capabilities
Ahead of its Sapphire 2024 conference in Orlando, SAP has announced an expanded strategic collaboration with AWS to enhance modern cloud ERP experiences using SAP GenAI (generative artificial intelligence). This partnership, led by new AWS CEO Matt Garman, aims to provide a significant boost for SAP cloud customers.
Streamlined RISE with SAP on AWS
The collaboration seeks to simplify the adoption of RISE with SAP on AWS, improve the performance and efficiency of SAP workloads in the cloud, and integrate SAP GenAI into essential business applications.
“AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio, and today, thousands of enterprises run SAP solutions on AWS to maximize their mission-critical applications,” said Garman. “Now, AWS and SAP are making it easier for companies to apply generative AI to their core business data to become more efficient, responsive, and sustainable.”
Accelerating Innovation with Generative AI
Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE, highlighted the importance of this partnership: “Partnerships like this with AWS are critical as we embed generative AI solutions across our ERP applications, enabling customers to drive innovation at an accelerated pace. We are excited to support Amazon on their own transformation journey with RISE with SAP for pioneering projects like Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite initiative.”
Integration of Generative AI Models
The SAP AI Core infrastructure’s generative AI hub will provide secure access to a wide range of large language models (LLMs) for SAP business applications. By integrating GenAI models from Amazon Bedrock, SAP customers can leverage high-performing LLMs and foundational models to build customized applications.
This integration will help SAP customers adopt GenAI and modernize key business processes on SAP solutions. These innovations can be used within RISE with SAP and intelligent scenario lifecycle management, either as an integration component or directly on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
SAP and AWS will expand the use of Bedrock capabilities in the generative AI hub to enable further embedded AI functionality in SAP’s cloud solutions, including finance and product lifecycle management.
Leveraging AWS Graviton and Trainium
SAP currently uses AWS Graviton3 chips to support SAP HANA Cloud. The partnership includes collaboration on the next generation of Graviton4 for SAP HANA Cloud and other SAP applications. SAP also plans to use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips for AI and machine learning workloads, enhancing the development process of SAP GenAI.
Enhanced Memory and Flexibility with Amazon EC2
AWS has improved its memory database with Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances, offering up to 32TiB of memory in a single instance. These instances support expanding SAP HANA database requirements and improve the performance of memory-intensive applications like SAP S/4HANA Cloud as part of RISE with SAP.
