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H2 2025

SAP Innovation Guide

Explore our H2 2025 product announcements. In this guide you’ll find information about our newest product innovations, including features that are generally available, along with capabilities planned in our roadmap.

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Business Applications

New solutions and enhancements to line-of-business applications bring the power of AI to business users and improve operational efficiency.

Finance

Finance professionals gain new Joule Agents to support compliance and more resilient decision-making, freeing them to focus on strategic growth. Read the executive finance blog for more details.

New Joule Agents Automate Core Finance Functions

SAP is introducing two new Joule Agents that will help automate specific, time-consuming tasks within finance departments. They will allow professionals to focus on strategic analysis by facilitating faster, more informed decisions, increasing financial resilience, and allowing employees to focus on more strategic work.

These Joule Agents will help improve user experience, enhance compliance, and move toward automating routine finance processes. Building on the Joule Agents for finance released at the SAP Sapphire event in 2025 (including the Accounting Accruals Agent), these latest announcements show SAP's commitment to delivering AI innovation to the office of the CFO.

Spend Management

New AI capabilities and Joule Agents support procurement and spend management to drive savings, compliance, and efficiency. Read the executive spend management blog for more details.

New AI Capabilities Added to SAP Ariba Solutions for Source- to-Pay

SAP is rolling out the next generation of its SAP Ariba solutions for source-to-pay. New capabilities will help procurement professionals improve cost savings, ensure compliance, and build supply chain resilience by automating and supporting key processes such as buying, sourcing, supplier management, contracts, and invoicing. SAP Ariba solutions are now built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), making it easier to integrate them with SAP Business Suite, the SAP ERP application, and third-party ERP systems using open APIs.

The upcoming release introduces several key capabilities:

These updates will be generally available in February 2026, with incremental updates throughout the year.

New Skills-Based Hiring Feature for SAP Fieldglass

SAP announced new AI enhancements to the SAP Fieldglass portfolio that make it easier to match potential contractors with available positions by automatically analyzing role descriptions to determine the skills required for each position. SAP estimates this can reduce time to source potential candidates by up to 50 percent, allowing teams to focus on strategic tasks, including skills-based hiring, and reducing unconscious bias. The new capability works in conjunction with existing AI features in the portfolio — including resume analysis and job description creation — to provide a faster, more cohesive and efficient hiring process.

This feature is generally available now.

New Joule Agent and Generative AI Capabilities Simplify Key Procurement Processes in SAP Ariba

SAP continues to infuse agentic and generative AI capabilities across its source-to-pay solutions, helping customers optimize productivity and decision-making at scale — an approach aligned with market trends. A recent Economist Impact study, sponsored by SAP, found that procurement professionals are embracing AI, with 89 percent of respondents expressing confidence in their ability to leverage AI for efficiency and productivity gains.

SAP introduced a new Joule Agent for bid analysis that can automatically compare supplier bid data, including total cost — factoring in unit prices, shipping, and payment terms. This tool will highlight trade-offs and insights often missed during manual processes, giving procurement teams immediate access to critical information.

General availability for the Bid Analysis Agent is planned for release in Q1 2026.

SAP also added three AI features to its SAP Ariba Procurement portfolio:

SAP Concur Launches Next Wave of AI Innovation for Travel and Expense

SAP announced new AI capabilities that will make it faster and easier for SAP Concur solution users to book budget- and policy-compliant business trips and submit accurate, complete expense reports. These advancements will streamline time-intensive processes, minimize manual effort, and enhance financial safeguards against expense fraud.

The Receipt Analysis Agent, a newly embedded Joule Agent in ExpenseIt (an AI-enabled solution in Concur Expense that creates expense entries from pictures of receipts) will go beyond basic receipt scanning by identifying and automatically completing missing information. This agent will transform expense workflows by leveraging multiple tools — including maps, vendor databases, web searches, and trip itineraries from the Concur Travel solution — to fill critical gaps in expense entries, determine appropriate expense types, and verify vendor details, even for previously unknown vendors. Most importantly, the Receipt Analysis Agent will deliver accurate results immediately without requiring iterative learning.

General availability for these features is expected for Q4 2025.

SAP Concur is also introducing new capabilities that will help identify potentially fraudulent receipts created by generative AI and streamline budget estimation for business trips:

SAP Concur and Uber for Business Simplify Ride and Meal Expense Reporting

Integration for Uber for Business and Concur Expense has been updated to further automate how ride and meal expenses are processed. The system now automatically sends ride and meal receipts to Concur Expense, extracts relevant details, and improves expense matching. New features include automatic itemization of taxes and fees, auto-inclusion of tips in original receipts, and auto-routing to the correct expense categories, such as rides and meals. The result is cleaner data, fewer manual corrections, and faster reimbursements, benefiting both travel managers and travelers. This update also provides better visibility for executives and business users, helping them manage travel spend while staying compliant.

This update is generally available.

SAP Concur and Amex GBT Announce Strategic Alliance for New Era of Business Travel and Expense

SAP Concur is announcing a strategic alliance with American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) and launching Complete by SAP Concur and Amex GBT. This co-developed solution will combine booking, servicing, payments and expensing into one experience with AI at its core. Complete will benefit from each entity’s technology and business travel expertise. Complete customers will also have access to Amex GBT’s unmatched marketplace, software and services via Complete, offering greater incentives and cost savings.

Later this month, it’s expected that mutual customers will have access to Complete with additional features to follow in the coming months. Future co-innovations will continue to roll out in core areas including content availability and display, travel manager capabilities, utilizing AI to create a new booking experience, manage travel disruptions and provide program insights.

Supply Chain Management

New intelligent orchestration and Joule Agents will empower supply chains to predict, prevent, and respond to disruptions, connecting global networks with real-time insights and embedded AI. Read the executive supply chain management blog for more details.

SAP Announced Supply Chain Orchestration to Predict and Prevent Disruptions

SAP introduces SAP Supply Chain Orchestration, a new solution designed to empower customers with one synchronized supply chain system that will help enhance risk detection, deliver actionable insights, and enable coordinated responses across supply chains. An intelligent impact analysis capability will help manage upstream supply chain risks and disruptions, and both external and internal supply chain signals will be contextualized into prioritized actions. The solution will also provide multi-tier supply chain insights that extend beyond traditional boundaries.

Built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP Supply Chain Orchestration can leverage data from SAP Business Network and the SAP Business Data Cloud solution — expanding insights across every tier of the supply chain.

A significant part of this new offering, SAP Business Network will help identify potential exposures in supply chains, contextualize risks, and provide notifications about which suppliers, materials, or orders could be affected. AI-native decisioning will trigger appropriate actions across all supply chain domains — such as planning, logistics, procurement, and manufacturing — to resolve or mitigate identified disruptions. A post-event analysis will help improve risk and compliance management intelligence for future disruptions.

By centrally managing the moving parts of a supply chain across people, processes, systems, and partners, organizations can help ensure that goods, information, and finances flow smoothly from suppliers to customers, while also increasing visibility, driving efficiency and compliance, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

General availability is planned for the first half of 2026.

SAP Reimagines Supply Chain Planning with Advanced AI and Unified Scenario Simulations

SAP is rolling out a comprehensive set of new AI-driven capabilities in the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) solution that will enhance planning, decision-making, and the ability to act quickly across supply chains.

The new capabilities include:

This significant evolution of SAP IBP adds intelligent automation, streamlined planning and decision-making processes, a harmonized data model, and a unified, intuitive interface designed for modern planners. Intelligent automation of job scheduling and inventory optimization frees planners to focus on strategic decisions. The integrated solution also improves collaboration across business networks, connecting partners, suppliers, and customers in real time.

AI capabilities are currently in beta mode and planned for general availability in Q2 2026. All other enhancements are now generally available.

New Joule Agents Automate Key Supply Chain Management Tasks and Accelerate Decision-Making

SAP introduces three new Joule Agents for supply chain management, designed to automate critical, time-consuming tasks and empower teams to focus on strategic decision-making. These agents will embed AI-native automation into production planning, change management, and supplier onboarding workflows, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and boosting operational efficiency.

New SAP Logistics Management Solution Helps Regional Warehouses Automate and Connect to Global Distribution Networks

SAP Logistics Management is a new cloud-native solution designed to complement operations of large distribution centers with capabilities to support smaller, local and regional warehouses. This will help companies establish multi-tier distribution networks to strengthen resilience and increase delivery speed.

Now companies can use a single platform to manage inventory, shipments, and freight collaboration with carriers. The solution will help logistics teams replace fragmented processes with coordinated execution and proactive shipment management through the integration of warehouse and transportation management, with built-in carrier collaboration capabilities from SAP Business Network for Logistics.

Unlike stand-alone logistics tools, SAP Logistics Management will connect directly to SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions, extending ERP capabilities to satellite operations without costly customizations. The solution will also use the Joule copilot to guide operational decisions and trigger actions.

By replacing manual tools with intelligent automation and providing real-time visibility, the solution is expected to enhance delivery performance and operational efficiency.

General availability is planned for Q1 2026.

SAP Business Network Supercharged with Embedded AI, Suite Integration, and Supplier Discovery

SAP announced significant innovations that enhance SAP Business Network with intelligence, reach, and usability. These updates deliver embedded AI, smooth integration with SAP Business Suite, and ERP-native supplier discovery.

SAP Business Network Now Available on SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP Business Network now runs on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), giving customers a technical foundation that enables faster speeds, easier integration, collaboration at scale, and continuous innovation. This will enhance customers’ existing investment in SAP Business Network, adding value without disruption.

Operating on SAP BTP provides the following functional benefits:

SAP Business Network on SAP BTP is generally available now, with the exception of Joule integration, which will be generally available in January 2026.

Network Centricity for Supply Chain Management

SAP is also providing deeper network collaboration that supports end-to-end value streams across SAP Business Network and SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions, and the SAP Transportation Management application. This will synchronize fragmented workflows across services, procurement, logistics, and asset maintenance — enabling faster dispute resolution, emissions tracking, and AI-assisted navigation within the system.

These enhancements will benefit a variety of business users. Procurement teams can manage services across categories with fewer manual steps. Logistics teams can resolve freight disputes more efficiently, and sustainability leaders can generate audit-ready Scope 3 emissions reports. Maintenance technicians can use natural language capabilities in Joule to locate equipment and work orders quickly.

Joule is now available in SAP Business Network for Logistics and SAP Business Network for Asset Management, introducing embedded emissions tracking and dispute resolution directly into the network experience.

General availability for these enhancements and features is planned for end of 2025.

Searchable Supplier Profiles in SAP Cloud ERP

Users of SAP Cloud ERP solutions will be able to search SAP Business Network for Suppliers by company name, goods, or services — directly from their ERP interface. This will eliminate the need to switch systems or manually onboard suppliers, allowing procurement professionals to discover and engage new vendors faster.

Suppliers with active accounts will benefit from increased visibility, while buyers can enjoy a streamlined experience with no activation costs. The capability will prioritize verified profiles in search results and integrate the purchasing process within ERP workflows.

General availability is planned for Q4 2025.

Intelligent Services Help Modernize and Optimize Supply Chain Operations

SAP announced new support to help customers modernize and optimize their supply chains with intelligent, cloud-based services that combine master data management and inventory optimization enabled by AI. These applications — delivered as consulting solutions on SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) — enable technical users, supply chain teams, and production planners to improve planning accuracy, reduce costs, and accelerate clean core adoption across SAP and third-party systems.

New Consulting Solutions for SAP Cloud ERP Private

The new consulting solutions provide built-in use cases for supply chain management customers using SAP Cloud ERP Private and leveraging SAP BTP. These solutions help reduce implementation effort and enable faster time to value. With a multi-system view of material requirements planning (MRP) — covering master and transactional data, actual stock, and global safety stock visibility — these services give supply chain leaders insights to act with confidence.

Updates to the MRP monitor tool in the form of AI-generated alerts and rule-based automation proactively identify and resolve data issues, improving master data quality and streamlining operations.

Customers have been shown to benefit from inventory reduction at the same service level. Other benefits include reduced scrap, increased forecast accuracy, and a lower total cost of ownership.

These consulting solutions are generally available now.

Human Capital Management

Innovations in human capital management help HR professionals attract, develop, and retain top talent including new Joule Agents, a workforce knowledge network, and data-driven insights. Read the executive human capital management blog for more details.

New Joule Agents in SAP SuccessFactors Help Boost Productivity for Human Resources Processes

SAP introduces four new Joule Agents to SAP SuccessFactors solutions designed to make core HR processes more efficient and personalized:

Building on the launch of the first Joule Agent in SAP SuccessFactors (the Performance and Goals Agent, generally available in November 2025), these new agents advance SAP’s vision for agentic AI by enhancing productivity, agility, and decision-making across organizations.

General availability is expected in May 2026.

Joule Leverages New Workforce Knowledge Network for Industry Expertise and Best Practices

SAP announced a first-of-its-kind workforce knowledge network, an ecosystem of external content providers that will integrate broader business data context, the latest HR research, and relevant HR best practices into Joule.

Content from leading human capital management (HCM) industry experts from G-P (Globalization Partners) and The Josh Bersin Company will flow directly into Joule. With these integrations, Joule can ingest third-party content and interact with various agents, providing employees with guidance grounded in real-world insights and trusted research. For example, HR leaders can access G-P Gia, an HR agent developed by G-P, directly within Joule, providing access to expert global employment guidance.  Additionally, HR professionals can ask Joule for information about topics like “best practices for hiring engineers in a high-cost location.” Joule can deliver insights backed by extensive research provided by Galileo, an HR-specific AI agent developed by The Josh Bersin Company.

The workforce knowledge network will help reduce information gaps for executives, managers, and employees by offering them resources on a variety of topics related to their work, helping to inform their daily tasks and decisions.

General availability is planned for the first half of 2026.

Integrating Time Tracking Data from SAP SuccessFactors into Joule Helps Employees Better Understand Their Pay

SAP announced enhancements to its “explain pay” feature in Joule by integrating data from the SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking solution. This update will allow employees to get instant, easy-to-understand answers to questions surrounding pay changes. With the integration of time tracking data, Joule can provide more accurate, context-specific pay explanations to employees by connecting pay changes to time entries like hours worked, absences, or overtime.

Additionally, the explain pay feature will provide expanded geographic support to employees in Germany and Mexico in the H2 2025 release in November, with future expansions to Brazil and the Netherlands to follow.

This enhancement will improve the employee experience, making it easier, faster, and more transparent for workers to understand their pay while also fostering organizational trust. SAP estimates that this update can potentially reduce payroll-related help desk tickets by up to 50 percent, which significantly lessens administrative burden and frees up time for more strategic tasks.

General availability is planned for Q2 2026.

New People Intelligence Capabilities in SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP announced multiple new capabilities for People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud that will help organizations break down data silos, harmonizing their HR and business data.

New prebuilt insights are now available for recruiting, learning, succession, career-development planning, and performance and goals management. These updates equip HR and business leaders with AI-driven, actionable insights in People Intelligence to address critical workforce questions across the employee lifecycle. For example, they help determine whether successors have been identified for key positions, track the progress of employee development goals, ensure goals are aligned with business strategy, and assess if high performers are being adequately rewarded.

All prebuilt insights are generally available.

SAP plans to add more capabilities to People Intelligence that will provide insights on use cases including rewards and recognition, benefits, time management, and onboarding. These additional enhancements are expected to be generally available by May 2026.

Initial capabilities announced at SAP Sapphire in 2025 for the People Intelligence application in SAP Business Data Cloud are now generally available.

New Workforce Management Capabilities Help Optimize Shift Scheduling and Simplify Global Compliance

SAP introduces two enhancements designed to modernize shift scheduling and time-off processes, empowering organizations to streamline operations and minimize compliance challenges.

With localization support in more than 100 countries, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central provides a strong foundation for global HR. These updates build on that reach, helping customers manage schedules and absences efficiently while supporting compliance across diverse regions.

CRM and Customer Experience

Newly unified engagement platforms and Joule Agents benefit customers and businesses with personalized, connected experiences — building loyalty and accelerating sales through actionable insights and automation. Read the executive customer experience blog for more details.

SAP Engagement Cloud Unifies Personalized, AI-Driven Engagement Across the Enterprise

SAP announced SAP Engagement Cloud, a solution offering a unified system of engagement designed to help organizations use data for AI-driven segments, triggers, and campaigns that can improve customer loyalty, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and accelerate business outcomes. Working with SAP Business Data Cloud, it will enable companies to orchestrate secure, real-time engagement across every channel and stage of the lifecycle to deliver consistent, personalized experiences at enterprise scale.

With SAP Engagement Cloud, organizations can transform enterprise data into actionable insights that marketing, commerce, sales, and service teams can use immediately to improve their customer engagement approach. With the Joule copilot and embedded AI, businesses can accelerate campaign execution, automate decisions, and scale personalization to a large customer base — ensuring interactions are consistent, connected, and meaningful. AI-driven insights can show what messages and channels drive the most engagement, enabling the team to apply these learnings across the business.

By uniting customer data with operational data, the solution will help ensure every engagement is rooted in the same information that drives finance, logistics, and supply chain — making interactions more accurate, contextual, and connected to core business processes.

SAP Engagement Cloud includes API-first architecture, allowing partners, IT teams, and software vendors to more easily extend capabilities and integrate with existing systems. This will help organizations innovate faster, streamline workflows, and maximize the value from their existing technology investments. The new system also features enterprise-grade data security and global compliance that will provide a trusted foundation.

By replacing disconnected systems and outdated engagement models that can erode trust and limit growth, SAP Engagement Cloud turns engagement into a strategic advantage — uniting data with AI to deliver smarter, connected experiences across the SAP ecosystem.

The solution will be generally available in February 2026.

SAP introduces SAP Customer Loyalty Management, a solution that will help organizations drive customer loyalty, resulting in long-term relationship development that leads to business growth. The solution will capture customer data and loyalty engagement in a cloud-based wallet that acts as a “loyalty profile” for analysis. These profiles will help loyalty program architects understand individual customer motivations and enhance segmentation and targeted marketing processes.

Additionally, the solution will support multiple loyalty models — including points-based programs, segmented offers, personalized rewards, and engagement incentives — through a unified interface. This flexibility will enable teams to manage partner-coalition programs and tailor rewards for specific customer segments. With a singular loyalty system, organizations can design promotions more efficiently, driving more personalized and competitive offers, resulting in deeper, long-lasting customer engagement.

Integration with SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions and SAP Business Suite will provide visibility into loyalty-related financial metrics, helping guide future investments in effective loyalty programs.

Marketing teams can track promotion performance, redemption rates, and redemption liabilities. This integration will support the measurement and scaling of loyalty strategies within existing enterprise systems.

General availability is planned for November 2025.

New Joule Agent for SAP Customer Experience to Automate Customer Support

SAP introduces Digital Service Agent, designed to streamline service operations within its customer experience (CX) applications. The agent integrates directly with existing SAP workflows, enabling rapid adoption and immediate impact.

Additionally, the Catalog Optimization Agent is now available in beta, further expanding the SAP Customer Experience portfolio of AI agents with advanced catalog automation capabilities

WalkMe Solution Integration Accelerates Customer Experience Adoption to Maximize SAP ROI

SAP announced that WalkMe solutions are now integrated into SAP Customer Experience (SAP CX) solutions, helping to address the gap between software investment and user adoption. This integration will provide real-time, role-based guidance and automation within the SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, and SAP Commerce Cloud solutions, enabling teams to use their SAP CX solutions more effectively from the start.

WalkMe solutions will overlay SAP Customer Experience interfaces without requiring system changes or IT involvement. Customer experience teams can independently create and update guidance flows using no-code tools, which support faster onboarding, reduce support requests, and improve data accuracy.

In practical terms, users can receive step-by-step guidance tailored to their roles — such as sales reps navigating quoting processes, service agents resolving tickets, or merchandisers launching promotions. These integrated workflows will help users to complete tasks efficiently and accurately.

WalkMe Premium for SAP CX solutions will also offer analytics that help CX leaders identify where users encounter difficulties and where automation can improve outcomes. These insights will support ongoing optimization of user adoption strategies.

The embedded version of this WalkMe solution is available at no cost, offering a limited, trial-like experience within SAP CX solutions to help customers explore core capabilities before upgrading to the full, customizable WalkMe Premium solution. Leaders can benefit from a clearer picture of ROI, reduced transformation risk, and faster achievement of strategic business objectives, helping ensure that the organization’s technology investment is maximized to its fullest potential.

General availability is expected in Q4 2025.

Revenue Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud Empowers Sales Teams with Actionable Insights

Revenue intelligence is an intelligent application designed to give sales leaders a clear, real-time view of their sales pipeline and customer health. Built on SAP Business Data Cloud and integrated with SAP Business Suite, it will deliver actionable insights and recommendations that go beyond traditional KPIs — helping teams manage risk, uncover growth opportunities, and drive deal closure.

General availability of revenue Intelligence is expected in Q2 2026.

Cloud ERP and Industries

Innovation accelerates with enhancements to SAP Cloud ERP solutions, streamlined data migration tools, and new industry-specific solutions.

SAP Launches Dedicated Cloud ERP Test, Demo, and Development Environment for Partners

SAP introduces the cloud test, demo, and development for SAP Cloud ERP Private, discovery package, a new service that provides partners with a dedicated environment to test, demo, and build extensions for SAP Cloud ERP Private. The offering comes with pre-integrated AI features, such as Joule capabilities, and helps ensure smooth connectivity and simplified integration with SAP Business Technology Platform.

Previously, SAP partners often had to work in shared environments that limited personalization and flexibility. The discovery package now allows them to experiment with new SAP Cloud ERP Private capabilities using the system’s existing configuration or by developing their own content and processes, helping partners more easily tailor or customize solutions to their clients’ specific needs. They can add specific content, users, and configurations at their own pace without the constraints of shared systems.

By providing a highly specialized, preconfigured environment, the discovery package allows SAP partners to gain ready-to-use tools to enhance operational efficiency, demonstrate value more effectively, and foster continuous innovation in their ERP implementations.

The package is generally available now.

Latest Release of SAP Cloud ERP Private Drives Cloud Transformation and Delivers AI at Scale

The 2025 release of SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions has been delivered, helping organizations integrate AI directly into business processes, unify data across the enterprise, and build the foundation for resilience and growth.

Key highlights:

The solution is generally available. For more details about the latest release of SAP Cloud ERP Private, read this blog.

Accenture to Launch AI-Enabled Data Conversion Manager for SAP Cloud ERP

Accenture will introduce Accenture Data Conversion Manager for SAP Cloud ERP, an AI-driven solution that will reinvent the migration process for SAP Cloud ERP and SAP SuccessFactors solutions, the first of several migration accelerators as part of ADVANCE. Leveraging generative AI, Accenture Data Conversion Manager for SAP Cloud ERP can automatically derive data models, propose field mappings, and generate transformation rules to simplify and accelerate data migrations. The solution will help customers reduce manual effort, minimize complexity, and ensure smoother transitions by shifting focus from technical execution to functional business review and approval. With faster, more reliable migrations, organizations can accelerate their move to the cloud, adopt innovations sooner, and achieve greater business value.

General availability is planned for Q4 2025.

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New Joule Agent Enables Self-Service for Utilities Customers

SAP announced a new Utilities Customer Self-Service Agent that enables utility companies to provide human-like customer service while significantly reducing operational costs. The Joule Agent has built-in integration with SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions for utilities to deliver tailored customer experiences with a full understanding of customer context including contracts, tariffs, product details, consumption data, and up-selling opportunities.

Utility companies face market deregulation and the rise of prosumers, customers who both product and consume electricty. The new agent, which is woven into SAP for Utilities solutions, will help ensure a tailored, personalized customer experience and addresses these specific industry challenges. These factors increase the complexity of customer interactions due to a wider variety of rates and products available, often leading to a higher volume of customer inquiries and rising service costs. The agent – available in a wide variety of languages – will help utility companies by providing significantly faster response times, reducing calls to contact centers. Additionally, the agent can maintain customer satisfaction levels on par with human agents while reducing the overall service costs.

General availability is expected in Q4 2025.

New Intelligent Applications in SAP Business Data Cloud for Consumer Products

SAP expands its intelligent applications portfolio with revenue growth management use cases, designed for consumer products industries. The new application will help consumer goods manufacturers plan trade promotions with greater precision, better manage spending, and streamline financial operations within SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private.

Built on SAP Business Data Cloud and integrated with SAP Business Suite, the new application will deliver actionable insights by linking trade planning with logistics and production workflows through SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) and the SAP Analytics Cloud solution.

General availability for the application is expected in Q1 2026.

Streamlining Fulfillment for Products Sold by Length

SAP announced a new product order capability that will improve fulfillment processing for length-based orders, such as cables, wires, ropes, and tubes. Customers can now check if the order requirements can be covered by available supply, giving manufacturers the ability to perform length-based checks during sales order processing. They can assess whether available inventory meets customers’ length requirements or trigger production planning when suitable stock is not available. The functionality will directly integrate sales order processing with production planning and material availability checks.

Traditional systems treat inventory in generic measurement units without considering individual length requirements, which can lead to incorrect stock assignment, inefficiencies, and complexity in the supply chain. The embedded length-based availability checks will help manufacturers avoid these issues and drive accurate delivery promises and optimized production planning, while reducing waste and manual effort across the supply chain.

General availability for this new capability is expected in October 2025.

Business AI

Advancements for simplified AI agent management, cross-platform interoperability, AI robotics, and new Joule agents, along with updates to AI foundation tools, to enhance enterprise operations.

Product Innovation Drives SAP’s Agentic AI Vision Forward

SAP uniquely creates AI solutions that support leaders and practitioners, designed to address their specific business challenges. These are delivered through a unified, intuitive AI experience that helps ensure omnipresent and governed AI, with solutions including Joule and Joule Agents. SAP introduces new solutions and capabilities that can equip customers with intuitive AI support across multiple modalities and channels, including deep research, persona-based AI assistants, robotics, and other innovative new features.

Deep Research Capability in Joule

At the SAP Connect event, SAP advanced its business AI strategy by introducing the deep research capability in Joule, allowing users to go beyond the quick answers they are used to receiving from AI. This will help users at every level of an organization to ask complex questions and receive deep, strategic research, analysis, and reporting in a single, connected experience. The deep research capability is designed to combine internal SAP data, external intelligence, and trusted resources so users can tap into multiple sources — without ever leaving Joule.

Beta testing for deep research is planned to begin in December 2025.

Role-Based AI Assistants in Joule Gain Traction with New Agentic Orchestration

Also at SAP Connect, SAP introduced a new generation of role-based AI assistants, each designed to partner with a person in their specific business role. These AI assistants in Joule tap into the right agents for the job, removing guesswork and helping users gain increased insight and productivity.

Building on this announcement, SAP has advanced the capabilities of Joule with new agentic orchestration. This capability will enable Joule to plan and execute multistep workflows independently. Joule can interpret users’ intents and autonomously orchestrate ad hoc combinations of assistants, Joule Agents, and Joule skills to meet requests. This capability significantly expands the breadth and complexity of business challenges employees can solve with AI assistants.

General availability is planned for H1 2026.

New Joule Agents Introduced Across SAP Business Suite

Supporting AI assistants in Joule is a growing library of specialized Joule Agents designed to help execute specific tasks. The latest Joule Agents are listed below, with links for additional information.

Business Transformation Management

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Finance

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Spend

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Supply chain

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 Human capital management

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Customer experience

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Cloud ERP and industries

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Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot Now Integrated

Bidirectional integration between Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot has been completed. Originally announced at the SAP Sapphire conference in 2024, this integration helps deliver a unified user experience across enterprise systems. Users can now access Joule capabilities directly from within Microsoft 365 Copilot and bring Microsoft-powered insights into the generative AI environment in Joule. This tight interoperability will help strengthen how organizations work, collaborate, and make decisions within their SAP and Microsoft landscapes.

General availability is planned for late November 2025.

Agentic AI Administration Simplified with New Capabilities and Solutions

At SAP Sapphire in 2025, SAP introduced new capabilities and solutions that help make AI agents easier to deploy and manage at scale, with secure cross-platform interoperability and standardized, governed access to enterprise APIs and tools. IT professionals can more easily inventory, control, and optimize agents against business outcomes. SAP announced updates to these strategic tools, listed below.

Advancing a Streamlined and Integrated AI Experience

SAP is contributing to the Agent2Agent interoperability protocol, which establishes a foundation for AI agents to securely collaborate across platforms. The first implementation of the standard is expected to be released later in Q4 2025.

SAP also announced a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway feature within the API Management capability of SAP Integration Suite. This will help customers connect Joule Agents to data from non-SAP systems through third-party MCP servers. The MCP gateway helps customers simplify integration with third-party tools and enables Joule Agents to work across their entire IT landscape. General availability is planned for Q1 2026.

Learn more about this enhancement to SAP Integration Suite

AI Agent Hub in SAP LeanIX Now Generally Available

The AI agent hub in SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management is now generally available, offering organizations a centralized cockpit to discover, govern, manage, and optimize all AI agents — including SAP, third-party, or custom agents. IT managers can map agents to business capabilities, uncover deployment opportunities across functions, and align each agent to enterprise outcomes.

This centralized hub helps organizations manage the lifecycle of AI agents and MCP servers in the context of their enterprise architecture — whether developed by SAP, built in-house, or sourced from third parties. Streamlining AI agent governance and control across the enterprise, the agent hub helps organizations better realize their AI strategies and align agents with business goals.

These capabilities to discover and manage MCP servers are expected to be available in Q1 2026.

Additionally, integrations with Google Cloud and Microsoft can extend the reach of the AI agent hub in SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management. This will help organizations gain visibility into agents across their entire landscape, enabling them to discover and manage agents across SAP and third-party systems. General availability for these integrations is planned for Q4 2025. The AI agent hub will support agents built with Microsoft and Google’s Gemini models, with more planned.

New Early Adopter Care Program for SAP Joule Action Bar

The SAP Joule action bar, integrated with WalkMe solutions, works side by side with users across applications, anticipating their needs and simplifying complex tasks. An early adopter care program is available now, enabling select customers to build and deploy custom skills. General availability of the SAP Joule action bar is expected in Q1 2026.

Advancing AI Features for Partners and Developers

The SAP Joule for Consultants solution now includes significant enhancements to the knowledge base that underpins its expert-level guidance, helping to further consultants’ ability to accelerate cloud transformations and shorten time-to-value for clients. New capabilities include:

Additionally, the SAP Joule for Developers add-on has been enhanced with ABAP AI-assisted development within SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions and AI-enhanced custom code migration capabilities within the SAP BTP ABAP environment. Read more details about new AI capabilities for developers here and here.

AI Foundation Gets a Boost with New Innovation

SAP announced updates to its AI Foundation with innovations that offer ready-to-use predictive tools for structured data, automated prompt tuning across models, and options for locally hosted AI in Europe. The new capabilities will help speed delivery, improve accuracy, and strengthen compliance — without added complexity.

SAP Launches First Enterprise Relational Foundation Model

SAP has announced its first enterprise relational foundation model (RPT), SAP-RPT-1, accompanied by a no-code testing playground environment.

Unlike other foundation models such as large language models (LLMs), the SAP-RPT-1 AI model is natively designed for relational and structured business data. SAP-RPT-1 comes pretrained, eliminating the need for customers to handle time-consuming and costly model training tasks that are typically required with traditional AI models. It delivers reliable, fact-based predictions by grounding responses in verified enterprise data, providing the accuracy and dependability that critical business operations require.

SAP-RPT-1 tackles analytical and predictive tasks through in-context learning, helping users perform classification and regression on tabular data by providing example records directly within the API call. The model eliminates the need for a training phase and can be consumed as a ready-to-use endpoint and integrated into applications and business processes. The initial release supports common predictive scenarios, including binary and multiclass classification, as well as numerical regression.

SAP is also launching an interactive, web-based testing SAP-RPT playground environment where, at no cost, customers can experience the model performance and the model’s in-context learning capabilities without any coding, utilizing their own data or SAP-provided example datasets.

SAP-RPT-1 will be generally available in Q4 2025 on the generative AI hub in SAP’s AI Foundation, with additional SAP-RPT models rolling out on an ongoing basis.

AI Foundation Expands with Prompt Optimizer Service

First introduced at SAP Sapphire in 2025 and developed in close collaboration with Not Diamond, the prompt optimizer helps automate and accelerate the creation of effective AI prompts across leading models. This frees users to adopt the most appropriate model for their use cases without the manual effort of rewriting prompts.

The capability is now generally available.

SAP Introduces Locally-Hosted AI for the European Market

SAP has launched a version of the SAP AI Core foundation and locally hosted LLMs on its European cloud infrastructure. This service is designed to meet EU data residency requirements, allowing customers with custom AI solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to retain full control over their data. Locally hosted AI in Europe (on the SAP Cloud Infrastructure service) has been available since September 2025.

Partner applications using locally hosted Mistral AI models are already live in Europe. Locally hosted AI is part of SAP’s broader initiative to help organizations adopt new technologies while maintaining control and compliance for their data infrastructure. Data, AI workflows, and AI models will be managed and hosted by SAP or certified partners. This initiative includes sovereign deployments and partnerships, including offerings on AWS European Sovereign Cloud solutions and the OpenAI collaboration for Germany.

SAP Updates ROI Estimator to Help Unlock the Value of Business AI

SAP has updated its estimator for SAP Business AI to forecast return on investments (ROI) for planned generative AI projects. The tool helps customers deliver tangible business outcomes and results and is part of SAP’s strategy to invest in tools that help customers measure progress for business AI.

The estimator works by calculating ROI based on the benefits and costs of specific AI features and Joule Agents that customers plan to use, and explains the assumptions used to make those calculations. Customers can also request a customized quote to assess the potential value for their specific project.

The tool is now generally available.

SAP Expands Physical AI Partnerships for New Robotics Pilots

Embodied AI agents extend the impact of SAP Business AI into physical operations, empowering enterprises to adapt faster to changing operational environments and autonomously execute complex tasks while understanding the broader business context.

SAP announced an expansion of its physical AI ecosystem through partnerships with leading robotics companies and robotics enablement partners. This builds on a previously announced collaboration with NEURA Robotics and NVIDIA to drive the future of physical AI.

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Business Data Cloud

New partnerships and product capabilities enhance the data platform to drive intelligent applications, analytics and AI. Read the executive SAP Business Data Cloud blog for more details.

SAP Advances Its Business Data Fabric with New Snowflake Partnership

SAP announced a new partnership with Snowflake that will bring Snowflake’s fully managed data and AI capabilities to SAP customers. A new offering, SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud will help provide organizations with the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for each data and AI workload — while maintaining governance, interoperability, and business context. With SAP Snowflake, customers can simplify their data landscape and extend their business data fabric using enterprise-grade Snowflake capabilities supported by SAP.

SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud is planned to be generally available in Q1 2026.

SAP Business Data Cloud Connect Expands with Snowflake

SAP recently introduced the SAP Business Data Cloud Connect solution, which enables secure, bi-directional, zero-copy sharing of SAP’s data products into customers’ existing data lakes and platforms.

SAP now expands SAP Business Data Cloud Connect integration with Snowflake. SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake allows customers to publish SAP data products from BDC catalog directly into Snowflake Horizon and vice versa. This preserves the original business semantics, lineage, and governance from SAP Business Data Cloud, providing detailed tracking of data usage, ownership, and compliance.

SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.

SAP Business Data Cloud Enhancements Advance Access to Trusted, Semantically-Rich Data Products

Data products from SAP transform curated and certified data, metadata, and business semantics from SAP and third-party sources into reusable, governed assets. They are a key component of SAP Business Data Cloud and its intelligent applications. SAP introduces product innovation that helps SAP Business Data Cloud customers to create custom data products that can be shared across analytics, AI, and operational use cases.

New Data Product Studio

SAP also introduces the data product studio, a new capability in SAP Business Data Cloud, which will provide developers and data teams with a visual workspace to model, configure, and manage custom data products across SAP and third-party sources. Customers can use it to design data products using metadata from the data catalog, define schemas, lineage, and transformation logic, and manage versioning and governance through a shared domain catalog. With support for SQL-based transformations and full lifecycle management, the data product studio will offer teams a structured environment to enrich and customize data products in a familiar way while maintaining governance and performance.

General availability is planned for H1 2026.

Momentum for Data Products from SAP

SAP also announced additional data products that will be made available through SAP Business Data Cloud, spanning SAP Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, as well as sustainability and customer experience solutions from SAP. General availability is planned for H1 2026.

Additionally, SAP is enabling bidirectional data product sharing between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud, so developers can readily use data across both transactional and analytical workloads. This capability will allow customers to reuse their existing calculation views in SAP HANA Cloud directly in SAP Business Data Cloud, keeping the business logic, KPIs, and governance intact as data models are extended across the customer’s data fabric. General availability is planned for Q1 2026.

New Capabilities Strengthen SAP HANA Cloud as the Multi-Model AI Database for Agents and Intelligent Applications

SAP announced new innovations for SAP HANA Cloud, expanding its multi-model database capabilities to drive the next generation of intelligent applications and AI agents. As the AI database for the enterprise and a key component of SAP’s business data fabric architecture, SAP HANA Cloud helps developers connect and understand a variety of data types — structured, spatial, graph, vector, and more — within a single in-memory engine.

These advancements make it easier to build agentic AI experiences while helping ensure compliance, performance, and cost efficiency.

Expanded Knowledge Graph Capabilities Support Agents Accuracy

The SAP HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine has been enhanced to help customers automatically generate knowledge graphs from SAP HANA Cloud metadata. An automated graph will include tables and columns and can demonstrate data relationships. These knowledge graphs are customizable and composable, so developers can review data lineage, modify the graph structure, execute a semantic search, and use it to ground agents with the business context needed to reason accurately.

General availability is expected in Q1 2026.

New Tabular AI Within SAP HANA Cloud

New tabular AI capabilities are now integrated into SAP HANA Cloud to help customers perform forecasting, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling directly on structured business data. This will help simplify workflows and enable seamless model consumption within existing analytics and operational environments. Tabular AI capabilities from SAP AI Core are now generally available in SAP HANA Cloud.

Model Context Protocol Support for SAP HANA Cloud

SAP also announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for SAP HANA Cloud, making the data within SAP HANA Cloud more accessible for Joule Agents, including custom Joule Agents built using Joule Studio and AI Foundation. MCP provides Joule Agents with direct access to the rich multi-model engines in SAP HANA Cloud, allowing agents to orchestrate autonomously across data ecosystems. Agents built with Joule Studio and AI Foundation gain full data context by navigating relationships across customers and suppliers, understanding geographic dependencies through spatial data, or performing semantic searches through vector embeddings — all within a single in-memory engine.

General availability is planned for Q1 2026.

Expanded Resilience and Security Capabilities

SAP HANA Cloud is now available in SAP Sovereign Cloud and SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) environments, delivering advanced data protection, privacy, and compliance to meet country-specific regulatory and security requirements.

In addition, multi-region disaster recovery for SAP HANA Cloud is generally available now in select North American regions, providing enhanced resilience and business continuity for mission-critical workloads.

SAP Advances Footprint for Intelligent Applications in SAP Business Data Cloud

Following up on the intelligent application announcement made at SAP Sapphire in 2025, SAP is now offering a restricted public preview of Spend Intelligence, Supply Chain Intelligence, and revenue intelligence packages. Finance Intelligence, People Intelligence, and Cloud ERP Intelligence Private packages are generally available now.

In addition, SAP announced a new intelligent application and expanded use cases for existing applications:

SAP Open Data Ecosystem Enhanced with New Connectivity to Partner Solutions

SAP introduced the SAP Business Data Cloud Connect solution that enables secure, streamlined, zero-copy sharing of SAP data products into customers’ existing data lakes and platforms. SAP Business Data Cloud Connect strengthens existing SAP partnerships, offering organizations bidirectional sharing of data products with SAP — and more immediate access to trusted, business-ready data for analytics and AI.

The first partners to adopt SAP Business Data Cloud Connect are Databricks and Google Cloud. This deeper integration between partner solutions and SAP Business Data Cloud helps eliminate the need for complex extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines and data duplication. Customers can more easily bring semantically rich SAP data into these data platforms in real time, fast-tracking customers’ analytics and AI initiatives.

SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Databricks is generally available. SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Google BigQuery is planned to be generally available in H1 2026. SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.

Read more about the Snowflake partnership

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Business Transformation Management

New Joule Agents, embedded AI, and transformation tools to support change management and process optimization.

New Joule Agents for Business Transformation Management

SAP introduces five new Joule Agents, enabling SAP Signavio solutions to automate repetitive and time-consuming activities, and speed up content discovery. Process owners and analysts can leverage agentic AI to drastically reduce information overload and focus on decision-making. New users can enjoy a smoother onboarding process.

The new Joule Agents will facilitate an enhanced user experience, consistent governance across user workspaces, faster adoption of SAP Signavio solutions, and more efficient operations.

General availability for all agents is expected in Q1 2026.

SAP Expands Capabilities of Business Transformation Management Portfolio

SAP has released enhancements across its Business Transformation Management portfolio including SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and WalkMe solutions. The latest innovations, announced at the SAP Transformation Excellence Summit, are summarized below.

SAP Signavio innovation:

Read more about SAP Signavio news.

WalkMe solution innovation:

Read more about customer experience innovation and WalkMe news.

SAP LeanIX innovations:

Read more about SAP LeanIX news.

Additionally, Business Transformation Management innovations that were announced at SAP Sapphire have been updated with specific general availability below:

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Business Technology Platform

Updates across the platform accelerate integration, infuse application development with AI, and enhance platform security. Read the executive SAP Business Technology Platform blog for more details.

Integration

New AI Capabilities in SAP Integration Suite Accelerate Productivity

SAP announced SAP Integration Suite innovations that help speed up development, ensure reliable end-to-end security with real-time monitoring, and simplify using APIs and agent-driven automation. With new auto-generation, conversational analytics, and intelligent healing of APIs, developers can build, extend, and maintain integrations faster than ever.

New and enhanced SAP Integration Suite capabilities include:

SAP Integration Suite Introduces New Tools to Support Cloud Migration

As integration landscapes evolve, developers face the challenge of moving complex, custom-built connections to modern, cloud-based environments without disruption. SAP’s updated tools for assessment and migration offer a simplified process to help developers accelerate migration.

An updated migration assessment tool will help customers plan their system migration from SAP Process Orchestration software to SAP Integration Suite with greater insight and efficiency. The tool can generate and migrate multiple scenarios simultaneously, analyze multiple business application programming interfaces (BAPIs), and provide modernization content recommendations from SAP Business Accelerator Hub. New AI-driven capabilities will also help developers to auto-generate and auto-migrate complex integrations from SAP Process Orchestration. By automating tasks — such as message transformations, XSLT functions, configurations, and adapter migrations — developers can save time, boost efficiency, and accelerate integration. General availability is expected in Q2 2026.

SAP will also offer migration support for customers transitioning their events from the SAP Event Mesh capability to SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh. This allows applications to communicate asynchronously in real time across distributed landscapes, with support for various protocols. Additionally, SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh will be enhanced with support for end-to-end tracing of SAP Cloud ERP events, significantly enhancing visibility and simplifying troubleshooting. General availability is expected in Q4 2025.

SAP Integration Suite Enhancements Drive Operational Efficiency

Updates to SAP Integration Suite will make it faster and easier for developers to design, deploy, and manage integrations at scale. New capabilities, prebuilt content, and resources enhance productivity and drive operational efficiency.

Innovations include:

Application Development

Joule Studio Adds Capabilities to Support Development of Custom Agents

Originally announced at SAP Sapphire in 2025, the agent builder capability in Joule Studio will allow developers to create and deploy custom AI agents using assistance from Joule. This capability will be generally available in December 2025. Joule Studio will also introduce new support for system-triggered agents, extensibility of SAP-delivered Joule Agents, centralized enterprise-grade agent monitoring, and support for Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. This path helps build agents quickly, reusing SAP semantics, and staying tightly aligned with SAP data. These features will be generally available in H1 2026.

For developers building pro-code agents, SAP Business Technology Platform offers comprehensive support for popular open-source frameworks like Crew.AI and LangGraph. The platform provides end-to-end identity and authorization alongside SAP’s governance and integration capabilities. Additionally, developers can leverage AI Foundation, SAP HANA Cloud, and SAP Integration Suite to access the latest AI models, secure tool execution, policy enforcement, agent memory, and smooth integration with a wide range of applications.

The two complementary paths to create custom agents provide developers and business users with a set of robust tools to develop specialized agents.

Additionally, SAP took one more step towards creating an open eco-system for SAP Build by announcing plans for integration with n8n (an open node-based Workflow Automation Tool) so Joule Studio agents and n8n agents can work together. General availability is planned for H1 2026.

New Joule AI Capabilities in SAP Build for Efficient and Effective Development

Developers can gain new levels of flexibility and control with AI capabilities embedded directly into SAP Build. Now developers can extend SAP Build with their own models, data, and logic while keeping them grounded in enterprise context and security. This enables smarter, more adaptive applications that learn from business processes, automate routine tasks, and deliver real-time insights – within the low-code environment developers already know and love. These latest capabilities include:

SAP is committed to an open application development approach where developers have the flexibility and freedom to use the tools, languages, and frameworks they know best, without sacrificing security or interoperability. These advancements empower developers and partners in the following ways:

SAP Build Enhanced with ABAP AI and SAP Business Data Cloud Integration

SAP will help elevate the developer and partner experience with new enhancements to SAP Build. The latest capabilities can empower teams to innovate faster, streamline workflows, and build smarter, enterprise-ready solutions:

SAP Simplifies SAP Build Licensing and Packaging

SAP has simplified SAP Build licensing and packaging, making it easier for customers, partners, and developers to select the right tools to help them create, extend, and automate business applications. SAP has delivered:

Platform Innovation

Updates across the platform accelerate integration, infuse application development with AI, and enhance platform security.

SAP Business Technology Platform Offers New Security, Data Privacy, and Administrative Capabilities

The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) capabilities provide a unified environment for managing applications, securing data, and scaling solutions more easily across SAP and third-party systems. This cohesive platform helps enterprises centralize their application lifecycle, interoperability, security, and administration. Customers can benefit from increased team productivity, faster error resolution, and more rapid delivery of innovation to their business partners. SAP introduced the following enhancements:

SAP continues to expand the global presence of SAP BTP. By the end of Q4 2025, SAP BTP service offerings are expected to be available across 18 new regions. SAP has now expanded the reach of SAP BTP to the SAP Cloud Infrastructure service, giving customers more options to run SAP BTP.

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Learning

Expansion of practical certification programs and learning journeys to equip millions with AI-ready skills, supporting hands-on experience and career growth in the SAP ecosystem.

SAP Commits to Equip 12 Million People with AI Skills Worldwide by 2030

SAP has committed to equipping 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready digital skills by 2030, responding to industry-wide workforce challenges as artificial intelligence transforms the nature of professional work. Building on its success of training over 4 million people since 2022, SAP is expanding practical certification programs that integrate AI tools and AI-driven accessibility features — including automated video dubbing and machine translation in more than 20 languages — through an enhanced partnership with Coursera.

SAP Certification Advances with New Approach and Offerings

SAP is also transforming its certification approach, moving from traditional multiple-choice formats to hands-on practical assessments where candidates can leverage AI tools, including SAP Joule for Consultants, during certification exams. This approach tests professionals' ability to solve real-world problems in authentic SAP environments rather than rewarding memorization.

At SAP TechEd in 2025, learners can experience new practical certification exams for SAP generative AI and SAP Build developers, with broader rollout planned through 2026. The assessment framework includes role-plays, challenge-based case studies, and practical tasks that mirror actual scenarios professionals encounter in SAP implementations.

In addition, SAP has added new offerings to its certification portfolio that will support solution architects for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP BTP system administrators, generative AI developers, and SAP Build developers. SAP also introduced a partner-targeted certification for professionals with proven SAP implementation experience to build or confirm their expertise in RISE with SAP Methodology. Each SAP certification includes comprehensive learning journeys and practical exercises.

Expanding Professional Certificates Through Coursera Partnership

SAP expands its professional certificate offerings through its strategic partnership with Coursera, now serving more than 100,000 learners. Building on the success of the SAP Technology Consultant certificate, SAP is launching a second professional certificate: the SAP Business Analyst Professional certificate. Together, these certificates create accessible entry points into the SAP ecosystem for different career paths and provide hands-on experience with SAP Signavio, SAP Analytics Cloud, and other SAP solutions. Both certifications are available now.

SAP Introduces New SAP Business Data Cloud Learning Journey for Technical Professionals

SAP launches a comprehensive learning journey designed to help organizations navigate the complexities of modern cloud-based data management. The course, Exploring SAP Business Data Cloud, provides technical professionals, consultants, and data scientists with practical guidance on leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud for intelligent data architectures.

This new learning journey provides participants with an overview of the strategic relevance of SAP Business Data Cloud and its key components and features, and offers practical guidance on more common use cases — such as the key role of SAP Business Data Cloud in modernizing data landscapes. Participants are guided through a self-paced learning journey to gain hands-on understanding of the solution's technology and architecture, learning to work with components including SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks, and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions.

SAP Introduces New Data Architect Course

SAP announced a new learning program, Becoming an SAP Data Architect, to teach participants skills to create a data architecture within the context of AI implementation. Using practical frameworks and real-world examples, participants will learn to communicate complex data concepts clearly, identify and prioritize opportunities, and craft compelling business cases. Additionally, they will gain the skills to design target-state architectures that align with SAP’s platform capabilities and business goals. They will also learn how to apply storytelling techniques that will help them drive a data-driven orientation across their organizations.

General availability for the learning program is planned for mid-November 2025.

SAP Learning Expands with Architectural Guidance for Developers and Architects

SAP Learning Hub has expanded with a new SAP Architecture Center website, which provides architects and developers with practical resources for designing, integrating, and optimizing SAP and cloud solutions. The company has released more than 20 new reference architectures, now available on GitHub, which marks advances its commitment to openness. Alongside these resources, SAP runs a practice operational community, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange across its global developer ecosystem.

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Services

New preconfigured solutions and enhanced toolkits with AI to simplify cloud transformation and accelerate product adoption.

New Industry Starter Kits for SAP’s Reference Architecture Support Transformation Journeys

SAP introduced new reference architecture industry starter kits, to be available in SAP LeanIX solutions, helping enterprise architects guide customers through their transformation journeys. These kits will integrate SAP Reference Business Architecture and SAP Reference Solution Architecture directly into the SAP LeanIX workspace, providing a standardized starting point for architecture development.

Each kit includes prebuilt content such as strategy maps, business capability maps, architecture overview diagrams, and solution value flows, all tailored to specific industries. Rather than starting from scratch, users begin with validated architectures and industry-specific templates – helping reduce setup time and improve collaboration among stakeholders. The kits also include AI- and sustainability-related content to support long-term planning.

By embedding SAP reference architectures into SAP LeanIX, the kits help organizations visualize their IT landscape, accelerate AI adoption by modeling AI-first landscapes, and drive consistent, high-impact transformation. For more information on how SAP supports transformation, visit SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

Industry starter kits are currently available for key industries such as automotive, retail, industrial manufacturing, and life sciences, with additional kits planned for wholesale, public sector, and utilities by the end of 2025.

SAP Introduces New SAP Cloud Application Services

SAP launches a new SAP Cloud Application Service for SAP Cloud ERP Private to help improve business process stability and streamline IT operations. By providing managed support for daily ERP processes, the service will help minimize operational risks and foster innovation, allowing internal IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives rather than routine maintenance.

SAP also introduced an SAP Cloud Application Service for SAP Business Data Cloud that will provide support for operational tasks like data integration and improving data availability for decision-making. This service will deliver comprehensive management and technical operations on a day-to-day basis, helping ensure dependable analytics operations.

These new offerings will join the portfolio of SAP Cloud Application Services to help customers manage their IT operations.

Both services are planned to be globally available in Q4 2025.

Enhancements to RISE with SAP Methodology Accelerate Cloud Transformation

SAP announced enhancements to RISE with SAP Methodology, including new features that will simplify cloud ERP implementations and accelerate customers’ journeys to the cloud.

The quality gate framework will be more dynamic in nature and will offer contextual recommendations. It will consider a customer’s current situation and readiness across critical areas such as governance, architecture, business processes, and more, enabling faster decision-making and achievement of transformation milestones.

A new digital workspace will be available in the SAP Cloud ALM tool to provide tailored transition guidance based on a customer’s current landscape. This guidance will leverage AI services to analyze and recommend the most optimal transition path and will offer smart insights powered by an intelligent search across SAP’s knowledge base.

These enhancements will be generally available in Q4 2025 and as part of RISE with SAP Methodology.

Model Company for SAP Business Suite Supports Cloud Transformation

SAP introduced a model company bundle for SAP Business Suite, which provides industry-specific best practices that helps customer with adopt SAP solutions more quickly This will help reduce the need for heavy customization so customers can innovate while keeping their core systems clean and easier to upgrade. The ready-to-use bundle comes preconfigured and is regularly updated to stay current with the latest software features and industry trends. This results in lower costs, faster go-lives, and a solid foundation to leverage SAP Business AI and future innovations without disruption

The bundle is delivered as part of RISE with SAP Methodology through its standardized framework and the onboarding experience to jump-start customer transformation journeys. Model company for SAP Business Suite is offered as part of the SAP Cloud ERP Private package, at no additional cost.

Additionally, SAP announced multiple services to support supply chain management. Read more.

Enhancements to SAP Customer Evolution Kit Help Demonstrate Value of Business AI and Cloud Transformation

SAP has expanded the SAP Customer Evolution kit with new capabilities that support SAP Business AI-focused road map planning. This enhancement, along with the SAP Signavio Process Insights solution, helps customers build more compelling business cases that demonstrate the value of cloud transformation and a transition to SAP Cloud ERP solutions.

The SAP Customer Evolution kit has proven instrumental in helping SAP’s installed base customers embark on their cloud journey. With the latest update, the kit now includes a focused review of SAP Business AI capabilities, tailored to each customer’s transformation goals. The toolset surfaces relevant innovations, maps required architectural and operational changes, and presents AI-driven scenarios that help executives compare on-premises and cloud options with greater clarity and speed.

The updated SAP Customer Evolution kit provides clear visibility into cloud benefits, reduces complexity in decision-making, and minimizes the need for change management. By combining technical readiness, process insights, and now AI-assisted innovation mapping, the SAP Customer Evolution kit offers a comprehensive, strategic framework for cloud transformation. It empowers customers to make informed decisions faster, with confidence in the incremental value and future-readiness of SAP Cloud ERP.

The updated SAP Customer Evolution kit is generally available now.

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