SAP Business AI for finance

Grow revenue, manage risk, optimize working capital, and ensure compliance with AI. 
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Revolutionize finance with embedded AI

Optimize your financial processes with powerful AI capabilities that improve accuracy, decision-making, and compliance management.

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Embed AI across your finance processes:

  • Make the best decisions with real-time data and predictive analytics supported by generative AI.

  • Shorten reporting cycles and increase productivity with automated, AI-driven processes.

  • Protect business value with streamlined regulatory and sustainability standards.

  • Gain transparency on cash position and cash forecast, manage cost-effective payments, and mitigate financial risks.

Increase revenue growth

SAP Business AI uses advanced analytics and predictive insights to help identify new revenue opportunities, optimize pricing, and enhance customer acquisition.

Boost financial resilience

Increase financial stability and efficiency and drive sustainable profitability using automated processes, optimized operational costs, and real-time insights.

Improve operating cash flow

Streamline cash flow management, optimize working capital, and provide accurate forecasting.

WEBCAST
Drive growth and resilience with AI-powered finance

See how AI and analytics in ERP help you grow revenue, manage risk, and optimize working capital—while ensuring compliance and sustainability.

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AI that fits into your flow of work

Simplify work and accelerate results with AI-enabled scenarios that connect end-to-end finance processes.

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USE CASE

Turn cost center data into instant insights

Cut reporting time by 50% with AI-driven summaries, KPIs, and recommendations that speed financial decisions and lower costs.*

USE CASE

Lower the barrier to analytics using natural language

Ask questions and get answers—analytics made intuitive with natural language.

USE CASE

Reduce time spent summarizing financial data by up to 50%*

Improve budget control per project with visibility into actuals, plans and budget control data.

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

Joule Agents

Discover ready-to-use Joule Agents for finance that automatically plan and execute multi-step workflows connecting departments, speeding up decisions, and streamlining processes.

Dispute Resolution Agent 

Reduce dispute handling costs by up to 30% and close cases quickly and accurately with an Agent that works across functions to analyze, validate, and resolve disputes.

Expense Report Validation Agent 

Reduce expense reporting time by up to 30% and up employee productivity with an Agent that guides accurate reporting and proactively resolves non-compliant entries.

Meeting Location Planner Agent 

Reduce time to plan offsite meetings by up to 60% and simplify bookings with an Agent that summarizes costs and automates date, venue, and hotel selection.

View all Joule Agent use cases for finance

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Integrating AI into financial operations

Learn how SK C&C built a scalable foundation for innovation and growth while reducing total cost of ownership.

Supporting growth through automation

See how Sony Pictures Networks India drove enterprise automation to streamline finance and support future-ready operations.

Automating invoice processing with AI

See how Western Sugar Cooperative cut invoice processing time by 25% and now processes 40,000 supplier invoices without human intervention.

Automating invoice processing with AI

Learn how De Agostini automates 91% of vendor invoices, saving 500 hours each month.

VALUE CALCULATOR
Calculate your savings from SAP Business AI

Learn how SAP Business AI can deliver measurable value for your business.

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Packages

Discover how Joule can help address your finance needs by driving bottom-line impact that improves operating cashflow, increases revenue growth, and optimizes net profit margin.

Joule Base

Baseline AI capabilities, included in all cloud subscriptions:

  • Provides free access to core AI functions.

  • Supports tasks like finding information and navigating to task-relevant locations.

  • Embedded in standard cloud licenses with solution-specific foundational AI capabilities.

Joule Premium

Advanced AI capabilities tailored to your business needs. Includes everything in Joule Base plus:

  • Powerful organization-wide or user-specific access to high-value AI services.

  • Relevant Joule Agent capabilities and premium Joule capabilities, such as analytical insights and task automations.

  • Price based on usage through AI units, billed monthly.

Resources

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ANALYST REPORT

AI-Powered Business Suite for Finance

Discover how an integrated suite of financial solutions can help organizations leverage data and AI across different financial operations to contribute to growth objectives.

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ARTICLE

Five ways that AI is changing finance

AI tools are ready to exceed human capabilities in five key financial disciplines, according to research commissioned by SAP Insights. Take a closer look at the biggest changes these disciplines face, and learn about unique traits and common strengths and weaknesses of AI.

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ANALYST REPORT

Modernizing finance with AI

Learn how AI in ERP systems can enhance your organization’s ability to improve overall performance. IDC conducted an expansive survey of a finance audience across organizations worldwide to assess their approaches to and uses of AI.

Frequently asked questions

AI enhances ERP systems by automating routine processes, providing predictive insights, and optimizing decision-making. Intelligent automation of supply chain management, financial forecasting, and human resource operations reduces manual effort and improves accuracy. AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants further streamline workflows, offering real-time recommendations and anomaly detection to enhance efficiency and compliance.

AI transforms financial management by enabling real-time data analysis, fraud detection, and risk assessment. Machine learning algorithms enhance financial forecasting, helping businesses optimize cash flow and investment strategies. AI-driven automation accelerates invoice processing, expense management, and compliance monitoring to reduce errors and ensure regulatory adherence. Intelligent insights also support strategic decision-making by identifying trends and anomalies in financial data.

Modern ERP solutions, like SAP S/4HANA, integrate AI functionalities to enhance automation, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making. AI-powered ERP systems improve demand forecasting, automate complex workflows, and provide advanced data insights. These capabilities enable businesses to operate more efficiently, reduce costs, and improve overall agility by leveraging real-time, data-driven intelligence.

AI complements ERP rather than replacing it. While AI enhances ERP systems by automating processes and providing predictive insights, ERP remains essential as the backbone for managing core business functions. AI-powered features optimize ERP capabilities, improving decision-making and operational efficiency. However, AI alone lacks the structured data management and comprehensive integration that ERP provides, making these tools most effective when combined.

*Numbers assumed for consumer products company with €1 billion in revenue and 2,000 employees. Annual benefits result from one or more value drivers. Source: SAP Value Management.

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