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SAP and IBM have announced an expansion of their ongoing partnership, one that will see the two tech powerhouses deliver new, intelligent industry solutions around enabling end-to-end processes, in order to help companies modernize their systems and workflows.

More than 400 businesses have already looked to IBM’s and SAP’s digital transformation partnership to modernize enterprise systems and business processes, and the duo expect more to come during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Organizations’ short- and long-term futures are being defined by their ability to proactively respond to today’s challenging, unprecedented market conditions,” said Adaire Fox-Martin, member of the executive board of SAP SE. “Companies gain competitive advantage by unlocking data up and down their value chain, uncovering new revenue opportunities and creating exceptional experiences for their customers and employees, while also demanding faster time to value.

“SAP’s partnership with IBM brings together the power of world-leading intelligent applications and technology expertise to realize value more quickly, which in turn fuels the transformations that will support businesses today and into the future. This partnership will serve our customers in the marketplace and on their balance sheets.”

Next, IBM and SAP will look to offer jointly defined cloud-based solutions for intelligent, end-to-end industry workflows; hybrid cloud solutions via SAP’s Cloud Platform; technology and services leveraging the SAP Customer Experience portfolio and Experience Management solutions from SAP (Qualtrics); and a new IBM Accelerated Move Center, a next-gen migration factory designed to further automate and accelerate intelligent enterprises with their work on SAP S/4HANA.

“To compete in a highly disruptive and rapidly evolving world, companies require the ability to rewire their organizations to create efficient, automated business processes – applying advanced technologies to transform static, siloed processes into agile, intelligent workflows,” said Mark Foster, SVP of IBM Services. “The new solutions unveiled today are another milestone in IBM’s 48-year partnership with SAP as we help fast-track our clients’ journey to becoming cognitive enterprises. Our collaboration with SAP is designed to help clients increase the speed of how decisions are made and create more meaningful experiences for their customers and employees.”