Customers Can Harness Their Business
Data in Cloud Solutions from SAP Using Customized LLMs
Deployed with NVIDIA AI Foundry Services and New NVIDIA NIM
Microservices
WALLDORF, Germany and SANTA
CLARA, Calif., March 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP
SE (NYSE: SAP) and
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced a
partnership expansion focused on accelerating enterprise customers'
ability to harness the transformative power of data and generative
AI across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and
applications.
The companies are collaborating to build and deliver SAP
Business AI, including scalable, business-specific generative AI
capabilities inside the Joule® copilot from SAP and across SAP's
portfolio of cloud solutions and applications – all of which are
underpinned by the SAP generative AI hub. The generative AI hub
facilitates relevant, reliable and responsible business AI and
provides instant access to a broad range of large language models
(LLMs).
As part of SAP's ongoing initiative to build generative AI
directly into the applications that power the world's businesses,
the partnership aims to help customers adopt generative AI
capabilities at scale across their organizations. SAP will
use NVIDIA's generative AI foundry service
to fine-tune LLMs for domain-specific scenarios and deploy
applications with new NVIDIA NIM™
microservices. SAP and NVIDIA plan to make the new integrated
capabilities available by the end of 2024.
"Enterprise customers want to leverage state-of-the-art
technology that delivers real business value," said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive
Board of SAP SE. "Strategic technology partnerships, like the one
between SAP and NVIDIA, are at the core of our strategy to invest
in technology that maximizes the potential and opportunity of AI
for business. NVIDIA's expertise in delivering AI capabilities at
scale will help SAP accelerate the pace of transformation and
better serve our customers in the cloud."
"SAP is sitting on a gold mine of enterprise data that can
be transformed into custom generative AI agents to help customers
automate their businesses," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of
NVIDIA. "Together, NVIDIA and SAP will bring custom generative AI
to the thousands of enterprises around the world that rely on SAP
to power their operations."
Harnessing Business Data and Generative AI to Advance
Customer Insights
SAP and NVIDIA plan to collaborate to integrate generative
AI into cloud solutions from SAP, which include the latest release
of the SAP Datasphere® solution, SAP Business Technology Platform®
(SAP BTP) and RISE with SAP®.
SAP plans to build additional generative AI capabilities
within SAP BTP using NVIDIA's generative AI foundry service,
featuring NVIDIA DGX™
Cloud AI supercomputing, NVIDIA AI
Enterprise software and NVIDIA AI Foundation models.
These new capabilities are designed to be the basis of SAP's
development and deployment of generative AI for customers and is
expected to be accessible in the generative AI hub in SAP AI
Core® and SAP Datasphere.
Additional generative AI initiatives include:
- New capabilities for the Joule
copilot: Joule can leverage
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
capabilities built by NVIDIA and SAP, which can be deployed on
leading hyperscalers or SAP's own cloud environments. As a
natural-language, generative AI copilot, Joule helps customers
unlock the potential in their business by automating time-consuming
tasks and quickly analyzing business-critical data to deliver more
intelligent, personalized experiences.
- Innovative use cases leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP
SuccessFactors® and SAP Signavio®: SAP and NVIDIA
are exploring more than 20 generative AI use cases where the
companies can combine assets to simplify and enhance digital
transformation. Among these are generative AI features that can
automate enterprise resource planning with intelligent invoice
matching in SAP S/4HANA Cloud; improve human resources use cases
leveraging SAP SuccessFactors; and accelerate new generative AI
insights from SAP Signavio to better process business
recommendations and optimize SAP's customer support
processes.
- Unifying AI data sources with SAP
Datasphere: Built on SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere
enables integration and a unified view of semantically rich SAP
data with third-party data across the enterprise landscape to help
customers adapt faster to market changes and make more efficient
and better informed decisions. With SAP Datasphere, customers can
confidently access a high-quality data fabric using AI and machine
learning (ML) models. To accelerate SAP's federated machine
learning (FedML) capabilities for SAP Datasphere, NVIDIA and SAP
are facilitating easier access to data for data scientists and
enhancing ML workload performance with the support of NVIDIA
accelerated computing platforms and NVIDIA AI Enterprise data
science software such as NVIDIA
RAPIDS™.
- Using LLMs for the ABAP programming language:
To aid developers in creating domain-specific language code, SAP
plans to use NVIDIA AI foundry services to assist in fine-tuning
LLMs. This will build on SAP's use of generative AI models to
assist developers who use ABAP through the company's ABAP Cloud
model and SAP Cloud Application Programming model.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise Powers Production-Grade
Generative AI Across Cloud Solutions from SAP
Once models are ready for deployment in cloud solutions
from SAP, SAP plans to use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including
NVIDIA NIM inference microservices and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever™
microservices.
NVIDIA NIM can be used to accelerate and maximize
inference performance across the accelerated infrastructure from
SAP. Using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices, SAP plans to add
RAG capabilities that enable generative AI applications to more
securely access data running on SAP software to improve accuracy
and insights. Customers can plan to use RAG on both SAP and
third-party data.
To learn more about the SAP and NVIDIA partnership,
watch the replay of Huang's GTC keynote
address.
Visit the SAP News
Center. Follow SAP at
@SAPNews.
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing.
The company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of
the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era
of modern AI and is fueling industrial digitalization across
markets. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing infrastructure
company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping
industry. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
About SAP
SAP's strategy is to help every business run as an
intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in
enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and
in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of
total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things
(IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers'
businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and
organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that
helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology
for companies so they can consume our software the way they want –
without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and
services enables business and public customers across 26 industries
globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a
difference. With a global network of customers, partners,
employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and
improve people's lives. For more information,
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NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and NVIDIA AI Foundation models,
NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms, NVIDIA AI Enterprise data
science software such as NVIDIA RAPIDS, RAPIDS cuDF and cuML,
NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices; NVIDIA's partnership with SAP,
the benefits and impact of such partnership, and the features and
availability of its services and offerings; SAP sitting on a gold
mine of enterprise data that can be transformed into custom
generative AI agents to help customers automate their businesses;
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