This isn’t the first time IBM and SAP have forged common ground in the enterprise technology stack. The partnership between the mainframe giant and ERP behemoth dates back 52 years to the pre-cloud days of massive on-prem IT estates.
The alliance expansion dovetails with both companies’ focus on cloud.
SAP is engaged in an ongoing effort to shepherd customers from on-prem ERP systems to cloud-based SaaS solutions through the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP incentive programs. The company is also banking on AI enhancements to drive cloud growth, CEO Christian Klein said during an April earnings call.
