By integrating Amazon Web Service’s Bedrock generative artificial intelligence into its AI Core, SAP SE said Wednesday it aims to improve the performance and efficiency of enterprise workloads running in the cloud and embed genAI into customers’ mission-critical applications.
In addition to enabling access to foundational and large language models through SAP platforms, the enterprise platform vendor said it will also use AWS chips to train and deploy future AI offerings, and Amazon’s next-generation memory to support the extensive SAP database requirements.
WHY IT MATTERS
To modernize key business processes built on SAP, the enterprise applications provider has announced that secure access to a wide range of LLMs can be easily integrated into SAP business applications through its expanded partnership with AWS.
By integrating with base models in Amazon Bedrock, SAP business customers can leverage generative AI-driven insights to streamline manual processes.
The tools can be used in embedded use cases within RISE with SAP and the intelligent scenario lifecycle management functionality as an integration component or directly side by side on the SAP Business Technology Platform, according to the announcement.
Companies like Siemens Healthineers use RISE with SAP and other tools to migrate to the cloud and streamline their data sources to standardize processes and improve their development flexibility.
In October, Siemens Healthineers Chief Information Officer Stefan Henkel said the healthcare technology provider was using SAP to reduce complexity.
“This migration to the cloud is especially important to us as we continue to invest in technology to support our continued growth,” an earlier post said. announcement by SAP.
AWS and SAP plan to expand the Bedrock capabilities in the genAI hub with additional use cases in finance and product lifecycle management.
“Partnerships like this one with AWS are critical as we integrate generative AI solutions into our ERP applications so customers can drive innovation at an accelerated pace,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP.
For large, complex database deployments, RISE with SAP users also benefit from the performance of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i, which offers up to 32TiB of memory in a single instance.
The partners are also working to improve the sustainability of advanced computers. Based on the success of using Graviton3-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, SAP and AWS are collaborating on the next generation of Graviton4.
SAP said it achieved up to 30% better computing power for analytical workloads and an estimated 45% reduction in carbon footprint for its HANA Cloud. The company added that it would also use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips for training and deployment of its future enterprise AI offerings.
THE BIG TREND
For more than six years, developers have been actively working with AI to add capabilities to ERP software and better integrate applications.
Earlier this month, NVIDIA Healthcare announced an integration with AWS for NIM, a suite of 25 cloud-agnostic microservices that leverage fundamental models for drug discovery, medical imaging and genomics.
“Easy access to NIM will enable the thousands of healthcare and life sciences companies already using AWS to deploy generative AI more quickly, without the complexity of model development and packaging for production,” NVIDIA said.
Through a partnership with Johnson & Johnson MedTech, NVIDIA AI technology improves real-time analytics and broadens the application of AI algorithms in surgery.
ON THE RECORD
“AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio, and today thousands of enterprises are running SAP solutions on AWS to get the most out of their business-critical applications,” said Matt Garman, incoming CEO at AWS
“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 game-changing areas,” Klein added.
Andrea Fox is editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
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