TECHNOLOGY
Transforming Organizations with SAP’s AI Copilot Joule and Cloud Innovation
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In this ever changing business landscape, organizations grapple with data overload, intricate decision-making, and the need for context-rich insights.
Efficiency and productivity are at a premium, while compliance and unbiased decision-making are non-negotiable. Meeting these challenges head-on is essential for success in the modern business world.
Imagine having your very own subject matter expert on demand, ready to answer your questions and provide intelligent insights from HR to finance, supply chain, procurement, and customer experience. You can.
SAP unveiled Joule, a groundbreaking natural-language, generative AI copilot set to revolutionize the way businesses operate. Here are a few key highlights about Joule:
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Joule will be seamlessly integrated into SAP’s cloud enterprise solutions, providing proactive, contextualized insights from SAP and third-party sources. It’s designed to simplify complex data, enabling faster decision-making while ensuring security and compliance.
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Embedded into SAP applications across various domains, Joule understands your business processes from finance, to supply chain, to HR to customer relationship management – and bridges the gap between business and technology that oftentimes hinders businesses from moving forward. For example, an account receivable manager can now leverage Joule to resolve invoice disputes and reduce DSO.
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With nearly 300 million enterprise users worldwide relying on SAP’s cloud solutions, Joule is poised to redefine how businesses and their people work and enable them to make informative decisions faster.
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Joule is set to launch later this year with SAP SuccessFactors solutions and the SAP Start site, followed by SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP, public edition early next year. Stay tuned for further updates at upcoming SAP events!
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You need to be on Cloud ERP to take advantage of Joule. As Christian Klein, SAP CEO states, “Joule draws on SAP’s unique position at the nexus of business and technology and builds on our relevant, reliable, responsible approach to #BusinessAI.”
As a financial analyst early in my career, I know the remarkable value of timely insight. That’s why I am excited about the transformative impact behind relevant, reliable, and responsible business AI.
Some ask why they need to be on Cloud ERP to take the advantage of AI. Let’s unpack this a little bit.
What is the importance of the intersection of Cloud, AI, Supply Chain, and ERP in modern business?
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Integration of these technologies streamlines operations and resource allocation, fostering efficiency and agility in response to changing market demands.
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AI-driven data analysis enables better decision-making, cost reduction, and improved performance by extracting insights from supply chain and ERP data.
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Real-time monitoring of supply chain elements enhances inventory tracking, production, and logistics, preventing disruptions and enabling quick adjustments.
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AI and machine learning predict demand and optimize resource planning, improving inventory management and efficiency.
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The successful integration of these technologies provides a competitive edge by reducing costs, enhancing customer experiences, and enabling sustainable practices.
The intersection of Cloud, AI, Supply Chain and ERP technologies is pivotal for organizations seeking to optimize their operations, remain competitive, and adapt to the evolving business landscape.
I’m thrilled to learn some updates from SAP that are set to transform the world of business and innovation. Eric van Rossum recently brought to light these game-changing developments:
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP, Private Edition 2023. The future is here with the 2023 release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. SAP takes a giant leap toward the cloud, making migration easier for our customers. This new release boasts cutting-edge features, making it collaborative, intelligent, networked, and sustainable. Now, you can harness the full power of SAP in a streamlined cloud platform.
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Premium Plus package for Rise with SAP. SAP has raised the bar by launching the premium plus package for RISE with SAP. This premium offering combines AI technology with sustainability and advanced finance solutions, paving the way for faster innovation, informed decision-making, and unlocking the true potential of enterprise data. Dive deep into sustainability insights, harness AI with AI copilot Joule, and supercharge your finance operations.
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Conversion and Modernization Program for RISE with SAP is designed to meet where customers are. The program includes a comprehensive adoption framework and a brand-new customer evolution kit, offering personalized and actionable transformation plans.
Mahindra Group, a RISE with SAP customer, shares their experience: “Agility is critical, and moving to the cloud improved time to market, enhancing both the customer and employee experience. RISE with SAP allows us to innovate faster and stay competitive.”
In addition, SAP is extending its gratitude to on-premise SAP S/4HANA customers with customer-centric conversion support plans to accelerate their move to a modern cloud ERP. Geoff Scott, CEO of Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), emphasizes that companies who digitally transform fastest have the highest odds of long-term success.
SAP is also developing a new service to support RISE with SAP customers in their upgrade to a current release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The SAP | RISE with SAP Workshop aims to reduce technical hurdles and streamline business processes, optimizing systems for a cloud-powered future.
The message is clear: the time to move to the cloud is now, and SAP is your trusted partner for this incredible journey.
TECHNOLOGY
Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3
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AWS re:Invent, which has been taking place from November 27 and runs to December 1, has had its usual plethora of announcements: a total of 21 at time of print.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has been on the AI side for AWS’ announcements, including a major partnership inked with NVIDIA across infrastructure, software, and services.
Yet there has been plenty more announced at the Las Vegas jamboree besides. Here, CloudTech rounds up the best of the rest:
Next-generation chips
This was the other major AI-focused announcement at re:Invent: the launch of two new chips, AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2, for training and running AI and machine learning (ML) models, among other customer workloads. Graviton4 shapes up against its predecessor with 30% better compute performance, 50% more cores and 75% more memory bandwidth, while Trainium2 delivers up to four times faster training than before and will be able to be deployed in EC2 UltraClusters of up to 100,000 chips.
The EC2 UltraClusters are designed to ‘deliver the highest performance, most energy efficient AI model training infrastructure in the cloud’, as AWS puts it. With it, customers will be able to train large language models in ‘a fraction of the time’, as well as double energy efficiency.
As ever, AWS offers customers who are already utilising these tools. Databricks, Epic and SAP are among the companies cited as using the new AWS-designed chips.
Zero-ETL integrations
AWS announced new Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for MySQL integrations with Amazon Redshift, AWS’ cloud data warehouse. The zero-ETL integrations – eliminating the need to build ETL (extract, transform, load) data pipelines – make it easier to connect and analyse transactional data across various relational and non-relational databases in Amazon Redshift.
A simple example of how zero-ETL functions can be seen is in a hypothetical company which stores transactional data – time of transaction, items bought, where the transaction occurred – in a relational database, but use another analytics tool to analyse data in a non-relational database. To connect it all up, companies would previously have to construct ETL data pipelines which are a time and money sink.
The latest integrations “build on AWS’s zero-ETL foundation… so customers can quickly and easily connect all of their data, no matter where it lives,” the company said.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a new storage class purpose-built for customers’ most frequently-accessed data. Data access speed is up to 10 times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than standard S3. Companies can also opt to collocate their Amazon S3 Express One Zone data in the same availability zone as their compute resources.
Companies and partners who are using Amazon S3 Express One Zone include ChaosSearch, Cloudera, and Pinterest.
Amazon Q
A new product, and an interesting pivot, again with generative AI at its core. Amazon Q was announced as a ‘new type of generative AI-powered assistant’ which can be tailored to a customer’s business. “Customers can get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, generate content, and take actions – all informed by a customer’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems,” AWS added. The service also can assist companies building on AWS, as well as companies using AWS applications for business intelligence, contact centres, and supply chain management.
Customers cited as early adopters include Accenture, BMW and Wunderkind.
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TECHNOLOGY
HCLTech and Cisco create collaborative hybrid workplaces
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Digital comms specialist Cisco and global tech firm HCLTech have teamed up to launch Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS).
Available on a subscription model, this solution modernises legacy meeting rooms and enables users to join meetings from any meeting solution provider using Webex devices.
The MRaaS solution helps enterprises simplify the design, implementation and maintenance of integrated meeting rooms, enabling seamless collaboration for their globally distributed hybrid workforces.
Rakshit Ghura, senior VP and Global head of digital workplace services, HCLTech, said: “MRaaS combines our consulting and managed services expertise with Cisco’s proficiency in Webex devices to change the way employees conceptualise, organise and interact in a collaborative environment for a modern hybrid work model.
“The common vision of our partnership is to elevate the collaboration experience at work and drive productivity through modern meeting rooms.”
Alexandra Zagury, VP of partner managed and as-a-Service Sales at Cisco, said: “Our partnership with HCLTech helps our clients transform their offices through cost-effective managed services that support the ongoing evolution of workspaces.
“As we reimagine the modern office, we are making it easier to support collaboration and productivity among workers, whether they are in the office or elsewhere.”
Cisco’s Webex collaboration devices harness the power of artificial intelligence to offer intuitive, seamless collaboration experiences, enabling meeting rooms with smart features such as meeting zones, intelligent people framing, optimised attendee audio and background noise removal, among others.
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TECHNOLOGY
Canonical releases low-touch private cloud MicroCloud
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Canonical has announced the general availability of MicroCloud, a low-touch, open source cloud solution. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s growing cloud infrastructure portfolio.
It is purpose-built for scalable clusters and edge deployments for all types of enterprises. It is designed with simplicity, security and automation in mind, minimising the time and effort to both deploy and maintain it. Conveniently, enterprise support for MicroCloud is offered as part of Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro subscription, with several support tiers available, and priced per node.
MicroClouds are optimised for repeatable and reliable remote deployments. A single command initiates the orchestration and clustering of various components with minimal involvement by the user, resulting in a fully functional cloud within minutes. This simplified deployment process significantly reduces the barrier to entry, putting a production-grade cloud at everyone’s fingertips.
Juan Manuel Ventura, head of architectures & technologies at Spindox, said: “Cloud computing is not only about technology, it’s the beating heart of any modern industrial transformation, driving agility and innovation. Our mission is to provide our customers with the most effective ways to innovate and bring value; having a complexity-free cloud infrastructure is one important piece of that puzzle. With MicroCloud, the focus shifts away from struggling with cloud operations to solving real business challenges” says
In addition to seamless deployment, MicroCloud prioritises security and ease of maintenance. All MicroCloud components are built with strict confinement for increased security, with over-the-air transactional updates that preserve data and roll back on errors automatically. Upgrades to newer versions are handled automatically and without downtime, with the mechanisms to hold or schedule them as needed.
With this approach, MicroCloud caters to both on-premise clouds but also edge deployments at remote locations, allowing organisations to use the same infrastructure primitives and services wherever they are needed. It is suitable for business-in-branch office locations or industrial use inside a factory, as well as distributed locations where the focus is on replicability and unattended operations.
Cedric Gegout, VP of product at Canonical, said: “As data becomes more distributed, the infrastructure has to follow. Cloud computing is now distributed, spanning across data centres, far and near edge computing appliances. MicroCloud is our answer to that.
“By packaging known infrastructure primitives in a portable and unattended way, we are delivering a simpler, more prescriptive cloud experience that makes zero-ops a reality for many Industries.“
MicroCloud’s lightweight architecture makes it usable on both commodity and high-end hardware, with several ways to further reduce its footprint depending on your workload needs. In addition to the standard Ubuntu Server or Desktop, MicroClouds can be run on Ubuntu Core – a lightweight OS optimised for the edge. With Ubuntu Core, MicroClouds are a perfect solution for far-edge locations with limited computing capabilities. Users can choose to run their workloads using Kubernetes or via system containers. System containers based on LXD behave similarly to traditional VMs but consume fewer resources while providing bare-metal performance.
Coupled with Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro + Support subscription, MicroCloud users can benefit from an enterprise-grade open source cloud solution that is fully supported and with better economics. An Ubuntu Pro subscription offers security maintenance for the broadest collection of open-source software available from a single vendor today. It covers over 30k packages with a consistent security maintenance commitment, and additional features such as kernel livepatch, systems management at scale, certified compliance and hardening profiles enabling easy adoption for enterprises. With per-node pricing and no hidden fees, customers can rest assured that their environment is secure and supported without the expensive price tag typically associated with cloud solutions.
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