Sapphire 2026 - A look at the major developments
Sapphire 2026 - A look at the major developments
As has been widely anticipated, SAP made a raft of major announcements at Sapphire 2026 in Orlando last night (AEST), re-focusing its strategy, with everything pointing to AI, the Autonomous Enterprise and even fundamentally how work is executed. Here are the main revelations:
#1 The Autonomous Enterprise: SAP sees AI as doing more than just surfacing insights and actually helping to execute. Processes across finance, supply chain, and every part of the enterprise are co-ordinated, while keeping people in control of critical decisions. Decisions are grounded in real-time intelligence, workflows are automated end-to-end, and fully governed AI proactively improves every function. Making this a reality for companies is critical because AI is now essential to how all work gets done. It is increasingly involved in decisions that carry financial, operational, and regulatory consequences.
#2 Joule Work: brings together AI assistants that help guide decisions and agents that can take action on behalf of users in a single workspace, designed to simplify how people engage with SAP day to day. Instead of switching between applications and navigating across systems, users can express what they’re trying to accomplish and let the system coordinate the next steps—surfacing relevant information, triggering workflows, and handling routine tasks behind the scenes.
#3 SAP Autonomous Suite: the operational core of the modern enterprise. Lines of business like finance, supply chain, procurement, HR, and customer experience, assistants and agents work together to carry processes forward—coordinating steps that would otherwise require manual effort and constant handoffs between teams or systems. This is the shift from “automation” to “execution”.
#4 Industry AI: many of the most critical processes are shaped by industry-specific realities. From regulatory requirements to domain-specific data and workflows, industries operate with layers of complexity that generic systems struggle to capture. Industry AI solutions are designed around how specific industries function, bringing together applications, data, and AI capabilities in ways that reflect real operational conditions.
#5 SAP Business AI Platform: A consistent foundation of the Autonomous Enterprise. SAP Business AI Platform brings together the capabilities needed to build, connect, and manage AI across the enterprise—linking business data, applications, and AI services in a single environment. It’s making sure AI works consistently, across systems, with the right data, and with the right safeguards in place.
Make sure you register for the SAUG National Summit where these developments will be discussed in detail and where our experts will show you how to use them in specific deep dive sessions.
We will also look more closely at the specific developments over the near future so check into the SAUG website regularly.
For a complete view of everything unveiled at SAP Sapphire, check out the SAP Sapphire Innovation News Guide.
