Powering the AI Future with Dell’s AI Factory

⇨ SAP is a leader in integrating Business AI into its enterprise tech portfolio, emphasizing the importance of data integrity and quality for effective AI deployment.

⇨ Dell Technologies' AI Factory, in collaboration with Nvidia, addresses common challenges in AI implementation by offering scalable solutions and minimizing latency, enhancing data security, and reducing setup times.

⇨ Dell APEX and its Data Lakehouse provide flexible, sustainable, and centralized infrastructure that streamlines the GenAI journey for SAP customers, bridging skill gaps and ensuring accurate data management.

SAP has always been ahead of the curve in enterprise tech and is also a key data source and platform for AI and Edge technologies with business data context intact. SAP has infused Business AI across its portfolio for customers to run their business-critical functions and SAP BTP provides the AI foundation that infuses reliable, secure, and scalable generative AI across business applications.

However, while businesses have never had more opportunity to embrace AI transformation, the road is not without its speed bumps. Even if a company wishes to adopt AI for their SAP systems, complexities such as data integrity and sovereignty and ensuring that one’s infrastructure is AI-ready come into play. Data is the backbone of AI’s capabilities, and organizations rely heavily on datasets to train and deploy AI systems. AI models require clean, structured, and accurate data to deliver reliable results. However, one of the most critical challenges in AI integration within an enterprise is data quality that is generated from siloed data sources, inconsistent or outdated data formats. Effective AI integration depends on addressing the critical data challenges like data quality and lineage, privacy, scalability, integration, and bias. Managing such challenges is essential for enterprises to realize the full benefits of AI and is key to an organization trusting its AI/ML results.

Dell’s AI Factory

Dell Technologies recently introduced Dell AI Factory, in partnership with Nvidia, designed to address the challenges businesses face when deploying AI across their operations. Built for an open partner ecosystem, Dell’s AI Factory enables organizations to run AI workloads at scale, supporting a wide range of tech stacks, from traditional infrastructure like servers, networking, and storage.

The Dell AI Factory enables organizations to accelerate AI innovation by offering a comprehensive portfolio of products, solutions, and services tailored for AI workloads. It runs across diverse environments, including cloud, data centers, workstations, and edge locations, to deliver scalable and repeatable outcomes. By positioning AI close to where data resides, the Dell AI Factory minimizes latency, reduces costs, and enhances data security. The solution integrates Dell’s AI infrastructure with NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software platform, offering customers flexible, pre-validated, full-stack solutions or tailored components to build AI systems that fit their specific needs. Dell’s collaboration with NVIDIA has produced the industry’s first end-to-end enterprise AI solution, reducing setup time by 86% and driving innovation across the entire tech landscape.

Extending AI Capabilities for SAP

Dell’s expansive AI portfolio covers everything from edge devices to data centers and cloud environments. For example, Dell APEX streamlines the GenAI journey from pilot to production with its extensive AI and multi-cloud expertise, offering flexibility through a broad portfolio and strategic partnerships for tailored solutions. It enables the placement of GenAI applications and data in a multi-cloud ecosystem designed for maximum value especially for SAP customers.

Dell APEX also helps conserve resources with right-sized solutions and sustainable pay-per-use subscriptions, while bridging skill gaps through a variety of services, validated designs, and as-a-Service offerings to accelerate GenAI outcomes. Dell Validated Designs and APEX also provide a secure, centralized infrastructure, preventing the challenges associated with unregulated “Shadow AI” deployments, such as unaccounted costs and security vulnerabilities.

Additionally, Dell’s Data Lakehouse for AI offers a complete solution for accessing, querying, and processing all SAP data, no matter where it is stored, using a single query engine powered by Starburst. With full deployment support, orchestration software, and AI-optimized infrastructure, this solution simplifies data operations, reducing the need to move data and making it easier to unlock the power of AI.

Conclusion

Dell streamlines the implementation of AI-driven solutions by reducing both the cost and complexity involved, while aligning cloud strategies to enhance digital investments. Dell is helping organizations quickly stand-up AI environments for a wide range of use cases and importantly, creates a testing environment for organizations to ensure the models are performing correctly and from accurate, up-to-date data.

SAP’s advanced AI and Dell Technologies’ strong AI infrastructure make a powerful team, helping to shape the future of intelligent businesses. Together, they are transforming how AI can improve business processes and support better decision-making.