SAP Sapphire 2026 – The Key Announcements
As ever SAP Sapphire is always awash with a host of announcements, and this year was no different. One of the big focuses this year is how SAP plans to redefine how its AI tools work for customers.
The Launch of the Autonomous Enterprise
SAP used Sapphire to announce the new Autonomous Enterprise. This marks the next stage of SAP’s AI development, with a focus on embedding agentic AI into core business processes to encourage human-AI collaboration across finance, supply chain, procurement, HR and customer experience.
The introduction of AI agents aims to shift AI projects from promise into created value. With this shift, SAP hopes to move customers from AI experimentation to governed, operational AI that can execute business workflows safely and at scale.
If you want to dig deeper into SAP’s vision around its AI journey, check out this article in ERP Today.
Now Introducing SAP Autonomous Suite
SAP also used Sapphire to announce the SAP Autonomous Suite. This puts over 50 Joule Assistants and 200 agentic AI tools at SAP organisations’ fingertips. The suite is designed to automate end-to-end processes across business functions.
In a similar vein, SAP also announced the launch of Joule Work. The new interface offers a fresh experience where users can use natural language to describe a business outcome, and Joule will orchestrate the relevant workflows, data and agents across SAP and non-SAP systems. This shift aims to reduce tool sprawl; allowing SAP users to manage their business processes from a single control panel to significantly simplify their workflows.
To read what Christian Klein, SAP CEO, had to say about the SAP Autonomous Suite, read this article in Forbes.
Christian Klein on the stage at Sapphire Orlando 2026
The Shift to a Business AI Platform
In February 2025, SAP launched its Business Data Cloud. At Sapphire this year, a new raft of additions was announced. These updates and extra services are designed to grow BDC adoption and provide value to SAP organisations.
SAP’s new Business AI Platform will also include SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Business AI to create a single governed environment – all underpinned by the SAP Knowledge Graph, which gives AI agents business context across entities, processes and relationships to transform how SAP organisations are able to operate.
To dig into some of the capabilities of the Business AI Platform, and how it has evolved, take a look at this Computer Weekly article.
New Strategic Partnerships
SAP also used Sapphire as an opportunity to announce a number of new partnerships, including with Anthropic to power SAP AI, AWS for data integration and Palantir and Accenture for complex data migration scenarios.
If you’re interested in seeing the full list of partnerships, check out this article in ERP Today.
For more on Sapphire, listen to UKISUG Chair Conor Riordan’s podcast with Jon Reed from diginomica.
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