SK AX teams up with SAP to speed up corporations' artificial intelligence (AI) transformation.
SK AX said on the 26th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation on the SAP Autonomous Suite and Business AI at SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
At the signing ceremony were Kim Wan-jong, president of SK AX, Son Geon-il, chief customer officer (CCO) of SK AX, and Shin Eun-young, head of SAP Korea, among executives from both companies. Kim Wan-jong, president of SK AX, also met with Christian Klein, chief executive officer (CEO) of SAP, to discuss specific cooperation plans.
Kim Wan-jong, president of SK AX, said, "SK AX is leading AX innovation by fundamentally redesigning business processes and integrating AX to enhance the competitiveness of corporations' customers, based on differentiated AX technology that spans legacy systems, data, and the cloud," and added, "Based on this strategic cooperation with SAP, SK AX and SK Group will first create leading AI-native enterprise success stories and then expand them to domestic and global markets."
The core of this cooperation is to combine SAP's enterprise AI technology with SK AX's accumulated capabilities in industry-specific AI transformation (AX) design and operations. The two companies plan to apply agentic AI across overall corporate operations, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), to boost work productivity and decision-making speed.
SK AX plans to work with SAP across a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, and energy, by leveraging the SAP Autonomous Suite, which provides an autonomous operating environment for AI agents, the enterprise AI product family SAP Business AI, and AXgenticWire ERP Suite.
AXgenticWire ERP Suite is an integrated service that supports everything from corporations' ERP strategy development to build and migration, and operational innovation. It consists of my Finance, which supports automation of finance tasks and anomaly detection; EAR (ERP AI Rewire) Ops, which supports ERP operations; and EAR Studio, which designs, develops, and tests ERP systems using AI.
AXgenticWire ERP Suite is registered on SAP's open platform, AI Agent Hub, and is set to be supplied to corporate customers worldwide. Through this, SK AX expects to shorten ERP build and migration timelines and improve operational quality. In addition, SK AX will join the EAC program, which applies SAP products to work environments before official release and enhances product completeness through feedback.
An SK AX official said, "The two companies will build a joint cooperation framework that spans from technology validation to AI agent development, customer application, and commercialization to create a leading example of an AI-native enterprise at the world's highest level," and added, "SK AX plans to present the results of the two companies' cooperation to customers worldwide at various global events and business sites."