In fact, clients look to adopt hybrid cloud strategies, moving the workloads and applications that are the backbone of their enterprise operation requires a highly secured and reliable cloud environment.

With the help of the premium supplier option with IBM for RISE with SAP, clients will have the tools to accelerate the migration of their on-premise SAP software workloads to IBM Cloud.

What is more, IBM is also unveiling a new program, BREAKTHROUGH with IBM for RISE with SAP, a portfolio of solutions and consulting services that help accelerate and amplify the journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The solutions and services use intelligent workflows to streamline operations by providing an engagement model that helps plan, execute and support holistic business transformation.

Clients are also offered the flexibility and choice to migrate SAP solution workloads to the public cloud.

The announcement of IBM becoming a premium supplier makes IBM the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and application management services as part of RISE with SAP. IBM’s premium supplier designation is a continuation of SAP’s efforts to provide choice and further support IBM customers that have a preference for their RISE with SAP package to run on IBM Cloud.

Moreover, according to a study by IDC, sponsored by IBM, migration to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Cloud from on-premise data centers can potentially deliver the following benefits.:2

• Return on investment: Migrating to SAP S/4HANA® on IBM Cloud delivered revenue increases for up to 90% of organizations making the transition according to users surveyed.
• Reduced costs: More than 80% of the organizations in the study said they experienced a reduction in operational costs.
• Greater productivity: 9 out of 10 businesses in the study said they improved their productivity after migrating to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Cloud.

John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting, further explained:

“We are thrilled to advance our long-standing partnership through RISE with SAP. Our shared commitment is to meet our clients, especially those in highly regulated industries, where they are in their digital journey, while giving them choices for migrating or modernizing their mission critical workloads with a hybrid cloud approach.”

        John Granger. Credits: IBM

Brian Duffy. Credits: SAP

Brian Duffy, President of Cloud, SAP, also noted:

“BREAKTHROUGH with IBM is an outstanding complement to RISE with SAP as it lays the foundation for our customers to embark on or advance their business transformation journeys. Further, it reaffirms the value customers recognize from RISE with SAP and the impact and innovation opportunity RISE with SAP offers to organizations that move to the cloud. I have every confidence that the combined expertise and experience SAP and IBM offer will accelerate cloud adoption and business growth for customers across the globe.”

IBM and SAP have worked with global clients on many individual projects to modernize their systems and business processes based on an open, hybrid cloud approach- Coca-Cola European Partners, Parle Products, Harmont & Blaine, Puravankara Ltd and Virgin Megastore KSA.

The new software helps engineers to tackle the complexity of product development by using advanced simulation. Simcenter 3D offers thorough support for turbomachinery modelling, a dedicated drop test application for handheld devices, tightly integrated topology optimisation with the NX Design environment, and a new much faster acoustic solution method. Willy Bakkers, vice president of solution domain product management, simulation and test division at Siemens, said:

“This release of Simcenter 3D brings together our combined expertise and experience across a wide range of industry sectors, capabilities and physics. Our customers are finding bold new ways to make use of complex physics simulation to drive innovation across industries. Our job is to make sure they have the best-in-class tools available when they need them.”

Siemens’ Simcenter 3D 2022 release provides enhancements in four key areas:

1. Simcenter 3D’s solution for the turbomachinery industry has been extended with additional thermal multiphysics, rotordynamics and thermal fatigue capabilities to more accurately capture the complex physics happening within these machines.
2. Acoustics auralization capabilities will allow engineers to not only simulate but also listen to the acoustics/sound within the context of the end-user’s experience. Engineers will be able to mix all contributing sounds and listen to the combined acoustics results. In this release, topology optimization is now more tightly integrated with the NX Design environment so that simulations are ‘replayable’ and become easier for designers to create lightweight, yet structurally capable designs.
3. Two core updates will enable customers to break new ground more quickly than ever before. The new high-performance boundary element method with adaptive order solution (BEMAO) used for acoustics simulation is up to 10 times faster compared to the standard boundary element method, while new load case filtering for aerostructures allows engineers to quickly determine the final critical list of load cases from the thousands of load cases experienced in an airframe.
4. Simcenter 3D now connects with Xcelerator Share for Xcelerator as a Service (or XaaS) subscribers. The Xcelerator Share collaborative cloud environment helps users or distributed workgroups seamlessly share files and communicate results to aid ad-hoc collaboration. Еngineers can now launch simulations remotely to any workstation or HPC cluster right from their desktop.

Evaluate sound performance with auralization: New in Simcenter 3D, pressure results as function of time (bottom right) can be played as an audio file. Photo Credits: Siemens

The standard LabVantage SaaS provides a low-cost LabVantage LIMS solution, which can include ELN, LES, and SDMS features, hosted in a multi-tenant cloud environment available through one annual subscription fee. The SaaS option eliminates the upfront capital and start-up costs of a conventional LIMS and provides users all the basics needed to access and operate the LabVantage LIMS through their own web browsers. SaaS is highly scalable and includes regular software updates automatically implemented by LabVantage.

LabVantage Enterprise SaaS adds full configurability and custom interfacing support enabling modifications to accommodate the needs of more complex organizations. It supports interfacing with external software systems and adding features specific to the needs of the customer. Additionally, LabVantage Enterprise SaaS can be modified as the company’s requirements change over time. Unlike standard SaaS, Enterprise SaaS is hosted in a single-tenant cloud environment, providing an additional layer of security and flexibility.

For regulated industries that require a validated system, both the standard LabVantage SaaS and Enterprise SaaS solutions can be maintained by LabVantage in a controlled and compliant way, providing users evidence of installation qualification, testing, and change control. Robert Voelkner, LabVantage Vice President, Sales and Marketing said:

“LabVantage Enterprise SaaS is the latest example of how we listen to our customers and respond with solutions pushing the boundaries of the possible. The standard LabVantage SaaS is a very popular option that works well for many customers; however, we have received many requests to go beyond the restrictions of a standard SaaS solution and offer a more configurable, flexible SaaS LIMS that allows organizations to fully configure and create customized system interfaces able to meet their specific needs.”

Mr Voelker continued,

“We have developed the right balance with LabVantage Enterprise SaaS, keeping much of the simplicity, efficiency, and ease of use of the cloud-based standard SaaS approach, while adding abundant opportunities for the configurability and interfacing that allow customers to get the most value from their LIMS. It is noteworthy too that both our standard and Enterprise SaaS options can be maintained as a validated solution. Thanks to the creativity and innovative efforts of our stellar LabVantage team, we are proud to be the first and only company to offer a full-featured, Enterprise SaaS LIMS system.”

LabVantage Enterprise SaaS includes a managed and monitored computing infrastructure, automatic software upgrades, and enterprise-grade features for the most robust LIMS deployment. Importantly, the LabVantage platform is built on a strong base of application programming interfaces provided as web services that are available as part of the LabVantage Enterprise SaaS, allowing implementation of customer-specific custom system interfaces that do not affect the LabVantage platform code, ensuring compatibility with future software updates and upgrades.

LabVantage helps customers implement the system changes they require, including no-code configuration changes, robust system interfacing, precise reporting, and capabilities for importing data from both simple and advanced instrumentation. LabVantage also works closely with customers to ensure that system changes are compatible with the native configuration and custom system interfacing mechanisms of the LIMS, ensuring supportability into the future.

LabVantage is known for its exceptional customer service and the LabVantage Professional Services team is ready to help users set up and implement LabVantage Enterprise SaaS and maximize its ongoing value.