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Kelly says: “The acquisition of Applications Software Technology will boost IBM’s public sector and Oracle Cloud Application skills to help clients confidently navigate their business transformations.” AST currently operates as a portfolio company of funds managed by Recognize Partners LP, a technology services investment firm – and upon completion of the acquisition, the company’s consulting teams will join IBM Consulting.

As a new SAP hyperscaler offering, RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server can help reduce risk and improve SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration time from IBM Power Systems on-premises to cloud within 90 days, according to the companies. Together, IBM and SAP aim to help organizations more seamlessly transition and modernize their on-premises ERP environments to the cloud and support AI-powered business processes, the companies said.

In this video we demonstrate how to add a SAML provider to Keycloak, particularly when using it with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration so that you can log into CP4I using your Okta users.You can however add the SAML provider to any other Keycloak by substituting the CP4I client and roles in KeyCloak for your own client and roles.

For IBM itself, those outcomes are far from theoretical: When IBM migrated its SAP ERP from Power on-prem to the Power Virtual Server, the company realized a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and related operations. The press release from the two iconic enterprise-tech companies says that RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server is “the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation, and delivers “faster, less disruptive transitions to the cloud.”

In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss how IBM and SAP are teaming up to help 10,000 on-prem SAP ERP customers migrate to the cloud using IBM Power Virtual Server, unlocking significant financial opportunities and simplifying the transition process. IBM said that this sort of puts it in the hyperscaler game because this Power Virtual Server had to meet the code base required by SAP for ERP in the cloud.

This collaboration introduces RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server as a tailored solution for businesses aiming to modernize their ERP systems. SAP and IBM continue their collaboration to provide advanced enterprise solutions, helping businesses transition from on-premises ERP systems to the cloud with improved efficiency.

New offering has been designed to accelerate the movement of SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to Cloud.

Technology companies IBM and SAP SE unveiled plans to release RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, a service designed to streamline the shift of IBM Power customers’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud. Using IBM Power Virtual Server, the cloud-based version of IBM’s Power platform, customers can move their SAP ERP systems to the cloud faster.

“I think it is saying something in terms of both IBM and Oracle getting more market share and being more active in cloud services alongside the big three,” he said. Research published last year by what was then the Cloud Industry Forum and is now the Tech Industry Forum, revealed a stronger than expected showing for smaller cloud providers – particularly in organisations employing fewer than 1000 people.

Application and big data integration are critical to every business. From accessing data source systems to sharing information through APIs, discovering what is happening in your business to responding quickly through data streaming platforms or events, we see improvement across use cases. Today, IBM has announced the availability of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 16.1.1. This modification release enhances the previous IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 16.1.0 version. It will be of interest to customers choosing to deploy Continuous Delivery updates rather than a Long-Term Support model.