SAP, the German enterprise software company, and IBM, the US-based technology and consulting company, have announced that four global enterprises have selected SAP Cloud ERP Private running on IBM Power Virtual Server to migrate their SAP workloads to cloud infrastructure. The customers are JYSK, GBM, DIFARE Group and Plastilene Group.
An IBM Institute for Business Value study cited by the two companies found that organizations embedding AI into ERP systems achieve up to 27 percent higher ROI than those that do not, framing cloud ERP migration as a precondition for AI adoption at scale.
JYSK, a Danish home furnishing retailer with more than 3,600 stores across 50 countries, is moving its SAP landscape to IBM Power Virtual Server as part of its RISE with SAP journey. DIFARE Group, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company based in Ecuador, expanded its existing use of IBM Power servers into IBM Power Virtual Server to migrate to RISE with SAP faster and at lower cost. Plastilene Group, a flexible film manufacturer based in Colombia, chose IBM's infrastructure to improve total cost of ownership while continuing expansion across the region. GBM, an IT services company operating in Central America and the Caribbean, is using IBM's cloud infrastructure for SAP to improve agility, scalability and access to real-time data for its customers.
Lalit Patil, CTO for RISE with SAP and Head of Cloud Lifecycle Engineering and Operations at SAP SE, described the migration path the platform is designed to support: "As enterprises modernize, the journey to SAP Cloud ERP Private is dedicated to helping on-premises customers of SAP ERP tailor their transformation and bring business applications, data and AI together with SAP Business AI Platform. Some of these customers are now modernizing their cloud ERP landscapes and advancing their cloud ERP digital transformation strategies with SAP solutions on IBM Power Virtual Server."
Hillery Hunter, General Manager for IBM Power and CTO of IBM Infrastructure, described what the partnership aims to deliver for organizations running mission-critical workloads: "Organizations across industries are accelerating their move to SAP Cloud ERP Private and require a trusted cloud platform designed for mission-critical workloads. By combining the security, scalability and resiliency of IBM Power and IBM Cloud with the transformation capabilities of SAP Cloud ERP Private, we are committed to helping clients move forward with confidence on their modernization journeys."
IBM and SAP recently expanded their collaboration through the Agent2Agent interoperability standard, designed to support multi-agent services for enterprise clients. As part of that work, IBM Consulting Advantage can now manage Joule Agents, which work alongside IBM's watsonx Orchestrate agents.
