One-of-a-kind partnership
As a strategic technology company with decades of SAP consulting expertise, IBM partners with SAP to add client value throughout the AI journey: jointly defining journey maps, co-innovating solutions and delivering on RISE-enabled transformation journeys. Moreover, SAP and IBM are partnering in helping clients build AI-powered workflows with collaborative agents.
Our Value Generation Partnership initiative includes new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions that can help clients unlock business value. IBM and SAP’s shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes.
Advancing Multi-Agent AI Interoperability with SAP: IBM and SAP have expanded their collaboration through the Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability standard to perform complex multi-agent services for clients. IBM Consulting Advantage agents can now manage SAP’s Joule agents, which work directly with IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate agents.
- Procurement Transformation Sales Excellence: Enterprise – Global
- Customer Transformation: Large Enterprise – Global
- Consulting Partner of the Year – IBM UKI
- SAP Partner Award for RISE with SAP Methodology: IBM EMEA
- SAP BTP Extensibility w/ SAP Build & Clean Core – Global
- SAP Great Team – Consumer Industries – Partner of the Year: IBM UKI
IBM Consulting® has implemented more than 300+ SAP S/4HANA projects in the past 5 years.
Over 18,000 unique certified SAP consultants help you successfully migrate legacy ERP applications to the cloud, redesign processes to use data, AI and automation and transform finance into a competitive advantage within your business.
IBM is the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and end-to-end managed services platform “ManagePlus” to support the build and management on SAP and non-SAP workloads.
Learn more about SAP-managed services for applications and ERP
In our 50+-year partnership, over 10,000 customers run SAP landscapes on IBM Power servers and have trusted IBM to deliver and run their SAP systems with an extensive portfolio of solutions tailored to SAP across IBM Consulting and technology. IBM Consulting builds over 1,000 bespoke solutions for SAP each year.
Red Hat is the only complete and open infrastructure for all SAP workloads, and the ideal foundation for the hybrid cloud. The portfolio offerings from Red Hat and IBM focus on AI, IT optimization, integration, hybrid cloud infrastructure, cloud-native app development, and automation—all of which are critical for today’s and future SAP environments. With Red Hat for SAP you can run, simplify, and expand your SAP systems and workloads across hybrid or multicloud environments.
Confluent Data Streaming Platform—with unified Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®—integrates bi-directionally with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), delivering real-time access to 100s of pre-built data sources to fuel AI-powered digital experiences and business intelligence with comprehensive data products.
Accelerating outcomes
- Consulting
- Gen AI – watsonx
- Agentic AI – A2A Interoperability
- IBM Cloud
- RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server
- IBM Power servers
Consulting
IBM helps clients accelerate SAP cloud ERP deployment, simplify operations and drive continuous innovation across your organization.
Gen AI – watsonx
IBM watsonx technology is embedded in SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP solution portfolio.
Advancing Multi-Agent AI Interoperability with SAP
IBM and SAP have expanded their collaboration through the Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability standard to perform complex multi-agent services for clients. IBM Consulting Advantage agents can now manage SAP’s Joule agents, which work directly with IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate agents.
IBM Cloud
Accelerate, derisk and transform business operations by modernizing SAP ERP on the only Cloud that offers SAP-certified Power and Intel x86 instances.
RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server
Faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP
For over half a century, enterprises have used IBM's infrastructure to host their mission-critical SAP systems for round-the-clock operations and safeguarding sensitive business data. As the next step to help accelerate their move to Cloud ERP, IBM and SAP have launched new hyperscaler option for SAP Cloud ERP Private, using the RISE with SAP methodology.
IBM Power servers
IBM Power servers are purpose built for data-intensive applications such as SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA that require large amounts of in-memory computing but still let you maintain the high availability and flexibility required for your hybrid cloud.
IBM Innovation Center for SAP® Solutions
Discover the exciting new facilities and develop strategies to advance your business with help from our global experts who leverage leading technologies and services from IBM.
Find out what exciting events are in store for you, and how they can help your digital journey. Hear from industry leaders and get expert guidance to drive your organization into the next era of SAP implementation.
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