Get a quick tour of the SAP Sapphire 2026 data and analytics highlights, with practical context on what they mean for enterprise AI.
In this special Sapphire 2026 update, Klaus-Peter Sauer breaks down the major announcements across SAP Business AI Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP HANA Cloud, Reltio, Joule agents, and BDC Connect. The focus: why enterprise AI needs more than better models. It needs trusted business data, process context, and governance built into the foundation.
You will see what is new in:
✅ SAP Business AI Platform: A unified platform to build, integrate, manage, run, and govern enterprise AI agents, apps, and workflows.
✅ SAP Business Data Cloud as the context layer for AI: The business data fabric that helps agents, applications, and decisions draw from trusted, governed business context.
✅ SAP Knowledge Graph: A structured map of business entities, processes, and relationships across the SAP landscape, helping AI agents navigate business context instead of guessing.
✅ SAP HANA Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud: SAP HANA Cloud becomes the AI database for SAP Business Data Cloud, supporting transactional, analytical, and multi-model workloads in one engine.
✅ Reltio in SAP Business Data Cloud: Multi-domain master data management, AI-based entity resolution, and golden records across SAP and non-SAP sources.
✅ SAP Master Data Governance in SAP Business Data Cloud: Governance becomes part of the data flow, helping verify and align data products before agents use them.
✅ Joule Agents in the business data fabric: Create data products, planning models, analytics models, and dashboards through natural language.
✅ SAP Analytics Cloud story generation: Joule can use data models and business context to generate dashboards and visualizations automatically.
✅ BDC Connect for Amazon Athena: Planned bidirectional, zero-copy integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and Amazon Athena, expanding the open data ecosystem.
Chapters:
00:04 – Welcome to the Sapphire 2026 Special Edition
00:25 – Why Enterprise AI Needs Business Context
01:03 – Data and Analytics Announcements at Sapphire
01:11 – SAP Business AI Platform
02:10 – SAP Knowledge Graph
02:30 – Where SAP Business Data Cloud Fits
03:08 – Four Major SAP Business Data Cloud Announcements
03:15 – SAP HANA Cloud as the AI Database for BDC
03:58 – Reltio and Master Data Management
05:05 – Joule Agents in the Business Data Fabric
06:17 – BDC Connect for Amazon Athena
07:12 – What Sapphire 2026 Signals for Enterprise AI
07:46 – Summary and Outro
Learn more about SAP Business Data Cloud: https://sap.to/6051B8GLQX
Learn more about SAP Datasphere: https://sap.to/6053B8GLQZ
Join our SAP Datasphere community to stay up to date: https://sap.to/6054B8GLQw
Check out our product roadmap for SAP Datasphere: https://sap.to/6056B8GLQj
Follow us on social:
LinkedIn: https://sap.to/6058B8GLQe
Instagram: https://sap.to/6059B8GLQ5
Facebook: https://sap.to/6051B8GLQ9
Threads: https://sap.to/6053B8GLQc
About SAP:
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/6055B8GLQl
#SAPBusinessDataCloud #SAPBusinessAI #BusinessData
