SAP to embed IBM Watson AI into its solutions

This comes two weeks after SAP announced it will integrate ChatGPT

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On May 2, SAP and IBM announced a partnership in which IBM Watson will be integrated into SAP systems to enable additional AI-driven insights and automation.

Developed between 2004 and 2011, IBM Watson is a natural language question-answering computer system built under IBM's DeepQA.

Here a few key points:

• The collaboration seeks to give SAP clients a better user experience, faster decision-making, and deeper insights to help them improve their business processes.

• IBM Watson capabilities will be utilized to power SAP's digital assistant in SAP Start, which offers a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP.

• The new digital assistant capabilities will be extended across SAP solutions to help answer diverse questions for managers and employees.

• The new digital assistant capabilities will be extended across SAP systems to help managers and staff answer a variety of issues.

• Aside from natively embedding IBM Watson AI capabilities into SAP solutions, the two companies are also working together on generative AI and large language models.