SAP and Google Cloud announce expanded partnership

SAP and Google Cloud have announced an expanded partnership to help enterprises harness the power of data and generative AI.

The companies said they will combine their integrated open data cloud using the SAP Datasphere solution with Vertex AI to launch new generative AI-powered industry solutions, starting with automotive, and introduce new capabilities to help customers improve sustainability performance.

“The new solutions build on a long-term, strategic partnership between SAP and Google Cloud to help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformations and optimise value from business-critical data.” SAP said. Google Cloud is a strategic partner for the RISE with SAP solution and to-date counts many leading enterprise companies as joint customers. By integrating generative AI into SAP software and Google Cloud’s open data cloud, customers can deploy powerful new solutions that use information from SAP Datasphere and from virtually any other data source to significantly improve business insights, analysis, and decision-making.

“Our partnership with Google Cloud is quickly evolving to incorporate generative AI. For this purpose, we utilise our expansive joint data cloud to transform business decision-making and improve productivity, leveraging the potential of SAP Datasphere built on SAP Business Technology Platform,” said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “With SAP Business AI offerings, we build systems of intelligence with three core principles: they are relevant, reliable and responsible. Customers will not only benefit from AI already embedded across our business solutions, but also from a unified, open data foundation and additional AI capabilities from Google Cloud.”

“Google Cloud and SAP will provide joint customers with generative AI capabilities that have a tangible impact on day-to-day work and create real-world value for their businesses,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Ecosystem & Channels, Google Cloud. “Through our open data and AI partnership with SAP, we will apply generative AI to enable customers to get significantly more value from information stored on SAP systems and third-party data sets, helping companies operate more safely and enterprises run more sustainably.”

As part of this expanded partnership, which includes a new and growing portfolio of generative AI solutions, SAP and Google Cloud aim to create responsible AI experiences by delivering generative AI solutions for business with the highest levels of concern for security, privacy, compliance and ethics. For years, customers have trusted SAP and Google Cloud to build and run powerful and trustworthy solutions, including AI that touches their most vital data and systems. To learn more about the partnership between SAP and Google Cloud, attend one of the many customer sessions at Google Next.

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