An Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with SAP has recently been signed by UST, formerly known as UST Global. The new partnership will allow UST to integrate SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) into Cogniphi AI Vision, which will be marketed under the name UST Sentry Vision AI in the coming months.
UST collaborates with customers from concept to implementation fuelled by technology, people, and purpose. For more than two decades, the leading digital transformation solutions firm has been embedding innovation and agility into various organisations with the help of its employees scattered across global offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions. Last March, the Alisa Viejo-headquartered company added RISE with SAP — the German enterprise software giant’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) signature cloud offering — to its list of transformative solutions.
As a qualified partner to deliver RISE with SAP, UST continues to strengthen its position as a reliable partner that builds disruptive solutions to assist global customers in achieving business transformation, increase agility, and scale growth. UST has co-innovated with SAP to provide a portfolio of cutting-edge technologies, platforms, applications, and accelerators to support the increasing number of organisations embracing RISE with SAP.
This month, UST expanded its partnership with SAP by signing an OEM agreement that will help develop predictive, contextual, and analytical features into retail and manufacturing industries. UST Sentry Vision AI is a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based packaged solution that is readily linked with RISE with SAP and SAP S/4HANA — SAP’s complete, modular cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Commenting on the announcement, Chris Botha, Senior Vice President of SAP Practice at UST, said:
“We are excited to take our partnership with SAP to the next level and we are committed to providing our clients with a transformational offering. UST Sentry Vision AI will enable them to embrace the Industry 4.0 movement and make their factories smarter and transform retail into a touch-free experience.”
Integrating with SAP Business Technology Platform
In order to help eliminate operational waste, manage performance, identify income leakage, and automate intricate business operations, UST Sentry Vision AI uses vision-based artificial intelligence (AI). Furthermore, UST’s AI-based vision platform intends to enable and accelerate the intelligent digital enterprise by integrating with the following SAP technologies:
- SAP BTP – an open platform from the German tech giant that is both on-premise and cloud-native. It is a key component of the software vendor’s “Intelligent Enterprise” initiative. SAP BTP unifies data management, analytics, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and application development technologies to help expedite businesses’ innovation.
- SAP Analytics Cloud – this SaaS cloud product for business intelligence (BI), planning, and predictive analytics is used to unify and secure the cloud transformation of organisations through data-driven business decisions.
According to Cogniphi Technologies Founder and Chief Executive Officer Rohith Raveendranath, the partnership will bolster the Cogniphi AI Vistion platform (promoted as UST Sentry Vision AI) to further harness the power of vision intelligence to help organisations across different industries including healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Cogniphi Technologies is a firm that is part of the UST portfolio. The subsidiary received a significant investment from UST in 2019.
Thrilled to have UST embark on an OEM agreement with SAP, Chris Ritterhern, Center of Excellence for SAP Business Technology Platform, remarked:
“The company’s experience in supply chain and focus on Industry 4.0 – along with its innovative understanding of robotic technology as woven into business processes for SAP technologies – is a great foundation to bring new solutions to our customers.”
