SAP and Google Cloud expand partnership in AI-driven solutions

SAP (SAP) and Alphabet’s (GOOG) Google Cloud expanded their partnership to combine their integrated open data cloud using SAP Datasphere 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. Google Cloud is a strategic partner for RISE with SAP and to-date counts many leading enterprise companies as joint customers. The open data cloud integrations between SAP and Google Cloud will begin with the automotive and sustainability spaces. SAP and Google Cloud will launch new solutions that use Google Cloud’s generative AI models via Vertex AI and data from Catena-X, the open data ecosystem supported by SAP for the automotive industry. With this new solution, automotive customers can combine data sets from Catena-X with SAP software data to build and train generative AI models that optimize their work with automobile manufacturers, suppliers, and end-customers. SAP and Google Cloud customers can utilize Vertex AI together with SAP Datasphere to create generative AI solutions that accelerate companies’ sustainability programs.