DataRobot to Launch New AI Application Suites for SAP

AI provider DataRobot recently announced the launch of AI application suites for finance and supply chain operations with SAP.

AI partnership accelerates integration

The AI application suites are built to seamlessly integrate AI into customer environments and business processes. They enable teams to implement AI rapidly, securely utilize business data, and accelerate the delivery of AI solutions where and how business users need to work.

“We are excited to expand our partnership with SAP as an AI partner. Together, we are addressing the two biggest challenges we hear from AI teams: how to build the most meaningful AI use case for specific business roles, and how to quickly integrate these AI solutions into business processes,” said Venky Veeraraghavan, Chief Product Officer at DataRobot. “With our new AI application suites for SAP, we have all the business logic, AI logic, observability, governance and deployment blueprints built in, freeing up AI teams to focus on fine-tuning and customizing applications to meet their business needs.”

The DataRobot AI application suites take advantage of the SAP business context. They are fully customizable, pre-built, and pre-configured for SAP solutions, allowing AI to deliver tailored line-of-business AI solutions without additional infrastructure or manually intensive CI/CD pipelines.

The suites also utilize business data across the SAP solution landscape, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), and SAP Ariba solutions, ensuring that organizations gain AI-driven insights within existing workflows.

“Our expanded partnership with DataRobot will bring AI-powered insight apps to SAP customers across industries and lines of business– enabling them to rapidly adopt AI, enhance decision-making, optimize operations, and drive business transformation at scale,” said Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics. “Together, we are empowering organizations across industries to accelerate AI adoption and achieve real business impact with enterprise-grade AI solutions.”

The Finance AI Application Suite

This app suite allows finance teams to leverage data from the SAP S/4HANA (Finance and Treasury) and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions and apply advanced AI logic for delivering real-time financial insights that improve forecasting and profitability, and reduce risk.

The AI apps available in this suite include:

• Cash flow management
• Revenue forecasting
• Fraud and anomaly detection
• Budget and cost variance analysis

“We used to run forecasting once a year with minor monthly changes,” said Ray Fager, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at King’s Hawaiian. “Now, we are constantly re-forecasting and all those decisions come right out of DataRobot, with 96 percent accuracy. That feeds our production plan, our finance team, and everything else.”

King’s Hawaiian is among the customers utilizing DataRobots AI apps to optimize cash flow forecasting and demand planning.

The Supply Chain and Operations AI App Suite

The DataRobot Supply Chain and Operations AI Application Suite for SAP leverages data from SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, and SAP S/4HANA for enhancing demand planning, lead time estimation, workforce planning, and inventory management. The capability will help companies reduce stockouts, optimize logistics, and align production with demand for cost savings and operational efficiency.

The AI apps available in this suite include:

• Demand planning
• Lead time estimation and late shipments
• Workforce planning
• Inventory management

SAP Business Data Cloud solution

SAP recently launched the SAP Business Data Cloud solution, a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs SAP data and analytics. Along with this launch, it was announced that DataRobot would be one of the first partners to deliver insight applications on SAP Business Data Cloud.

These AI applications delivered by DataRobot will be available as insight applications on SAP Business Data Cloud, leveraging its core services, data products, AI-driven insights, and real-time analytics to enhance decision-making for all SAP customers.

DataRobot AI Applications, data integrations, business logic, and models are foundational tools for line-of-business and industry insight apps built with DataRobot.

To meet the rising demand for data in building and deploying AI solutions, SAP also recently collaborated with Databricks to launch SAP Databricks. Read more about how SAP Databricks will enable data warehousing, data engineering, and AI.