What Is the New Finance Data Model in SAP S/4HANA?
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What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q1 2025
Join Susen Poppe and our team of SAP HANA Cloud experts as they explore the latest enhancements released in SAP HANA Cloud for Q1 2025. Gain valuable insights and discover new features. Use the timestamps below to easily navigate through the video.
00:00 Introduction
02:00 General update
06:23 Knowledge Graph Engine
27:00 Machine Learning and NLP Updates, Gen AI toolkit.
40:27 Database Modeling
50:10 Gen AI Virtual Assistant
58:26 Further contents
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Celebrating the Next Era of Travel and Expense at SAP Concur Fusion
At SAP Concur Fusion 2025, SAP showcased AI-driven innovations and a strategic partnership, enhancing travel and expense management with improved visibility, automation, compliance, and spend insights while driving efficiencies and enriching employee experiences.
As our world demands organizational adaptability at warp speed, business travel also is transforming in a fast-paced and complex environment. At our annual flagship event for SAP Concur users and experts, we delved into the power of AI, sharing insights and experiences. Whether customers and partners attended in person in Seattle, Washington, or virtually, they all gained new perspectives on how to navigate the complexities of tomorrow’s business landscape with confidence.
Global participation and experts on-site
Customers and partners joined SAP Concur Fusion from all over the world, representing 75 countries. At the Seattle Convention Center, attendees could explore the new Fusion Pavilion in the exhibition hall and talk to SAP Concur experts and 43 exhibiting partners. We offered over 180 unique learning opportunities including Ask the Expert and breakout sessions, micro forums, and product trainings to explore how SAP Concur solutions can deliver innovation in travel and expense while unlocking efficiencies.
Debut: Integrating Joule with SAP Concur to enhance user experience
During the event’s day one keynote, we announced new generative AI innovations and an expanded partnership with American Express.
SAP is embedding its generative AI copilot Joule into SAP Concur solutions, bringing the portfolio one step closer toward a fully automated travel and expense management process.
In the Concur Expense solution, Joule will help answer employees’ questions and work to ensure that expense reports are ready for submission with minimal effort. For example, Joule can assemble a timeline view of expenses, review for mistakes or missing expenses, and make recommendations for how best to complete the expense report. General availability is expected in the second quarter of 2025.
In the Concur Travel solution, Joule will be embedded to help plan locations for off-site meetings, providing meeting location recommendations and high-level flight and hotel cost estimates based on meeting attendees’ origination points. Once the meeting site and hotel options are selected, Joule will create an e-mail template to send to team members with a link to book directly in Concur Travel. Joule with Concur Travel is now in the SAP Early Adopter Care program with general availability expected later this year.
Automating expense management in Concur Expense
On stage, we also announced an expanded partnership with American Express to help simplify expense management for shared customers. SAP Concur and American Express are launching a real-time authorization data capability whereby American Express Corporate Card purchases automatically generate and categorize expenses in Concur Expense at the time of spend. This feature will first be available for meal expenses. It also will include mobile notifications that send the employee expense policy reminders in the moment.
We also are working to expand access to our integration with Mastercard, which automates expense entry at the time of purchase, so more Mastercard customers can benefit from a simpler and more efficient experience.
Additionally, American Express Global Business Travel has integrated its hotel marketplace, featuring over 2 million properties across 180 countries with competitive rates, into the new Concur Travel solution, providing customers with access to comprehensive hotel content, including negotiated programs and preferred partner rates.
Announcing SAP Concur Innovation Award winners
On day two of the event, we celebrated the remarkable achievements of our SAP Concur Innovation Award winners. These companies have leveraged SAP Concur solutions to revolutionize their travel and expense processes, enhancing efficiency and visibility. The 2025 winners include L’Oréal Groupe, which streamlined user provisioning between HR and expense systems, and Weatherford, which automated its global travel and expense program, significantly improving data integrity and compliance.
UST, Coca-Cola, E.ON, and Mayekawa also have demonstrated exceptional innovation. UST consolidated its T&E processes; Coca-Cola unified its travel booking and expense systems; E.ON automated data collection for GDPR compliance; and Mayekawa reduced its finance team’s workload by more than 12,000 hours. These successes highlight the transformative power of SAP Concur solutions in driving business efficiency and growth. We are very proud to recognize these exceptional organizations as 2025 SAP Concur Innovation Award winners.
Move to future T&E: Spotlight on generative AI
SAP Concur is creating a world where travel and expenses practically manage themselves. At SAP Concur Fusion, we shared with customers and partners how we continue to deliver on that journey—with touchless, intuitive experiences enabled by industry-leading SAP Business AI and close partnerships with top payment providers. The Concur Travel and Concur Expense solutions are part of SAP Business Suite, SAP’s comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions that combines our core cloud ERP and line-of-business applications, fueled by unmatched business data and actionable AI.
Chris Juneau is SVP and head of SAP Concur Product Marketing.
Using the SAP LeanIX Application
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Unboxing SAP Business Data Cloud 👀📦
So what’s inside? A fully managed SaaS solution that unifies SAP and non-SAP data, giving you context to make better decisions. And for developers, we think you’ll really like it.
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The Agentic Evolution: From Chatbots to Multi-Agent Systems
When Joseph Weizenbaum created the world’s first chatbot in 1966, user reactions alarmed the MIT professor.
People were confiding their deepest thoughts to the chatbot and experts predicted that within a few years, conversations with chatbots would be indistinguishable from those with humans. It certainly took more than just a few years, but here we are at the edge of another stage of AI evolution.
Evolution of AI agents
Artificial intelligence has evolved significantly since 1966, advancing from basic rule-based systems to highly autonomous decision-making systems.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, rule-based chatbots relied on predefined keyword responses but lacked the ability to adapt to complex queries. By the 2010s, intelligent virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri enhanced user interactions and introduced AI into everyday life through smart home integrations. In the 2020s, task-specific AI agents began to emerge, each tailored to perform specialized tasks. For instance, AI-driven personal finance assistants can analyze spending patterns and suggest savings plans, while AI-powered content moderation tools scan social media platforms to identify harmful content.
Looking ahead, autonomous AI systems are rapidly advancing. Multi-agent systems, composed of multiple independent agents, can collaborate to achieve a complex workflow beyond the ability of an individual agent. Tasks are coordinated between agents, as opposed to individual agents that often require human coordination and intervention between tasks. For example, in manufacturing, AI agents can independently optimize production lines, while in healthcare, AI systems are assisting in surgery by making real-time adjustments during procedures. Autonomous systems are also being deployed in logistics to manage inventory and optimize warehouse operations without human intervention.
Expanding capabilities of agents
Today, AI agents are like super-efficient digital teammates — smart systems equipped to perform tasks autonomously, learning from experience and adapting along the way.
Today’s agents have core capabilities like these:
- Planning: Agents go beyond executing single actions; they orchestrate processes, breaking down complex problems and mapping out efficient, step-by-step approaches.
- Reflection: Unlike traditional software, agents reflect their actions in real time and learn from mistakes. They self-correct and iteratively reason through the problem until they find the best solution. This capability allows them to handle more irregular, complex challenges, makes them more effective over time.
- Tool Usage: AI agents can use external tools — like calculators, APIs, databases, and even other AI models — to expand their capabilities, broadening the scope of tasks they can accomplish.
- Collaboration and Multi-Agent Interactions: Agents aren’t limited to working solo. They thrive in cooperative ecosystems, coordinating with other specialized agents and humans, leveraging their unique expertise to achieve a shared goal.
Why is AI agent innovation accelerating at this moment?
The answer lies in the remarkable advancements in foundation models. These models allow AI to handle complex data and produce outputs like code, text, or media that are tailored to specific tasks. They enable systems to think through problems deeply and autonomously, mirroring human cognitive processes.
For instance, the latest reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3 are game changers. They do not just perform tasks; they use real-time computing power to “think” and generate human-like outcomes. And the progress is mind-blowing: o3 scored over 80 percent on a human-like reasoning test while its predecessor, GPT-4o, scored only two percent on the same test just one year earlier.
With such rapid advances, AI agents are getting better at automating and enhancing business decisions, truly pushing the limits of what autonomous systems can achieve.
What makes SAP unique in this space?
SAP Business Suite offers a unique advantage in the era of agentic AI. It is not just a collection of solutions; it’s a powerhouse for transformation that boosts continuous innovation. Here’s the simple breakdown:
- Applications: With SAP Business Suite, cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to deliver exceptional business value — all powered by SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). In this way, SAP’s business applications and technology platform aren’t siloed tools; they integrate processes end-to-end. This integration ensures that every action taken within these applications is based on trusted, business-critical data at its source.
- Data: All the data, whether from SAP or other systems, is collected and unified in SAP Business Data Cloud. This makes it a single, trustworthy source that breaks down data-silos and fuels advanced AI-driven insights. Because AI is only as good as the data you feed into it.
- AI: Joule helps employees coordinate intelligent agents to work together, breaking down barriers between functions and enabling real-time, company-wide improvements. Unlike others who might use AI in limited areas, SAP integrates AI throughout your entire organization, enhancing efficiency and resilience on a large scale.
SAP is in a unique position to turn AI agent technology into business value given the breadth of applications and data we offer, allowing automation of tasks along all key business processes. Our domain knowledge is grounded in real-world business data and our process know-how is maintained in SAP Signavio and SAP Knowledge Graph. Bringing it all together, our unified entry point with our AI co-pilot Joule enables us to use AI agents to automate processes and augment decision-making.
Joule agents are collaboration experts
Thanks to our fully integrated approach, we are designing a system of collaborative Joule agents that work within and across the suite to support every business function, solving complex challenges and driving cross-enterprise productivity. Businesses don’t need hundreds of AI agents, just the right ones with the right skills, grounded in the right data, with the right guidance from SAP’s end-to-end business processes.
Joule agents are available in all parts of the business, delivered out of the box with Joule and SAP’s suite of applications. This enables the transformation of entire business processes — end to end.
Agentic AI represents a transformative leap in business technology. By bringing together structured data management, seamless system integration, and advanced task automation, AI agents empower teams to operate with efficiency, accuracy, and agility.
SAP is taking the necessary steps for the next era of enterprise management by embedding systems of AI agents into SAP applications, fueled by context-rich business data, helping customers to realize the full potential of SAP Business AI.
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Mastering the Art of Strategic Planning with SAP Ariba Category Management
In our journey towards the triple crown of strategic procurement, we’ve explored how SAP Spend Control Tower can provide crucial insights into your procurement landscape. Now, let’s delve into the second phase: planning.
How do we incorporate your business objectives, your organization’s knowledge and skill sets, and transform those valuable insights into a robust strategy that drives real business value? Enter SAP Ariba Category Management, a powerful solution that can elevate procurement planning from a mundane task to a strategic imperative.
The evolution of procurement planning
Gone are the days when procurement planning meant endless spreadsheets and protracted meetings. In today’s dynamic business environment, we need a more agile, intelligent, and collaborative approach. SAP Ariba Category Management can offer just that—a sophisticated solution that can harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and human expertise to help craft procurement strategies that align with your organization’s objectives.
SAP Ariba Category Management: Your strategic planning ally
Think of SAP Ariba Category Management as a highly intelligent assistant, versed in procurement best practices, capable of processing vast amounts of data, and available 24/7. Here’s how it can transform the planning process:
1. Digitalize and streamline strategy development
SAP Ariba Category Management can provide a centralized platform for collaborative strategy development. It’s akin to a virtual command center where your entire team can ideate, plan, and execute strategies seamlessly.
The solution can guide users through the process, offering frameworks and recommendations based on industry best practices. It’s like having a procurement expert at your side, helping you navigate complexities and uncover hidden opportunities.
2. AI-powered analysis for enhanced decision-making
The solution can leverage AI to generate sophisticated analyses like Kraljic matrices and Porter’s Five Forces with remarkable speed and accuracy. However, it’s crucial to understand that this technology doesn’t aim to replace human expertise—rather, it enhances it.
Procurement professionals can refine these AI-generated analyses with their own insights and experience, creating a powerful synergy between machine intelligence and human wisdom.
3. Seamless collaboration for category managers
SAP Ariba Category Management can transform the often-challenging task of aligning multiple category managers into a streamlined, collaborative process. The solution can enable real-time cooperation, allowing team members to share insights, discuss strategies, and align on objectives efficiently.
Real-world impact: From insights to action
Let’s illustrate how this works in practice. After analyzing your spend data in SAP Spend Control Tower, you’ve identified that IT hardware costs are escalating. You initiate a new strategy project in SAP Ariba Category Management.
The system automatically imports relevant data and generates a Kraljic matrix for your IT hardware category. You observe that most of your spend falls in the “Strategic” quadrant—high value, high risk. The AI suggests considering a multi-sourcing strategy to mitigate risk.
You share this insight with your global team through the platform. Your APAC colleague identifies a promising new supplier, while your European counterpart shares successful experiments with leasing options to reduce upfront costs.
Collaboratively, you develop a comprehensive strategy that includes:
- Diversifying the supplier base to reduce risk
- Exploring leasing options for non-critical hardware
- Negotiating volume discounts with top suppliers
- Implementing a standardization program to reduce variability
This entire process, which might have taken weeks traditionally, is now completed in hours. Moreover, the system maintains a clear audit trail, facilitating easy tracking of strategy execution.
The human touch in a digital world
While SAP Ariba Category Management can bring powerful digital capabilities to procurement planning, it’s essential to remember that it’s designed to augment, not replace, human expertise. The solution helps free procurement professionals from routine tasks, allowing them to focus on high-value activities like relationship building, strategic negotiations, and driving innovation.
Think of it as your procurement superpower. It can give you the insights to make better decisions, faster.
Looking ahead: The future of procurement planning
As we wrap up, we want you to imagine the possibilities. With solutions like SAP Ariba Category Management, we’re not just improving our planning process—we’re reinventing it. We’re moving from reactive to proactive, from guesswork to data-driven decisions, from siloed thinking to collaborative strategy.
This evolution positions procurement not just as a support function, but as a true strategic partner to the business. It enables procurement teams to respond swiftly to market changes, align more closely with organizational goals, and drive sustainable value creation.
In our next article, we’ll explore how to execute these well-crafted plans using SAP Ariba Sourcing. After all, in procurement, as in any strategic endeavor, effective execution is the key to turning plans into tangible results. Stay tuned as we complete our journey towards the triple crown of strategic procurement.
Sudy Bharadwaj is global vice president of Strategic Engagements for SAP Finance and Spend.
Cindy McKendry is director of Corporate Communications for Intelligent Spend and Supply Chain at SAP.
Top image courtesy of SAP employee Karsten Hohage.
SAP Releases Integrated Report 2024 and Files Annual Report 2024 on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has filed the SAP Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2024, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and it is accessible online here. SAP also announced that the SAP Integrated Report 2024 is now available and accessible online at www.sapintegratedreport.com.
This year’s sustainability information in the report is prepared in line with the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), further detailed in the in European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), for the first time.
You can access PDF versions of the SAP Integrated Report 2024 and the SAP Annual Report 2024 on Form 20-F at our Investor Relations website: sap.com/investor. A hard copy of the audited consolidated financial statements can also be requested free of charge by sending an email to investor@sap.com or via phone +49 6227 7-67336.
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What’s New in SAP Analytics Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q1 2025
Check out the latest feature highlights for the quarterly release cycle of SAP Analytics Cloud in Q1 2025 with Orla Cullen, Product Marketing Manager – Data & Analytics.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:26 Administration & Service Management
00:00:31 Ability to distinguish visually between tenants
00:01:50 AI for Planning & Analytics
00:01:55 Just Ask: Get result answer in different currencies
00:04:02 Data Analyzer
00:04:07 Data Analyzer enhancements
00:09:20 Data Integration
00:09:25 Cloning an existing load job
00:10:33 Support for using the message server for SAP Business Warehouse in import connections
00:11:17 Enterprise Planning
00:11:22 ‘Seamless planning’ integration with SAP Datasphere
00:14:37 Compass – Risk Analysis with Monte Carlo Simulation
00:19:12 Data Actions – automated generation of planning area
00:22:27 Data Actions – ability to activate and deactivate steps
00:23:22 Validation rules – ability to activate and deactivate rules
00:24:37 Job Monitor – Multi-Action support
00:28:06 Plan Entry – onAfterDataEntryProcess() table event
00:32:15 Planning Process Management – template viewer
00:34:54 Microsoft Office Add-in
00:34:59 Microsoft Office Add-in (Excel)
00:37:38 Story Design Enhancements
00:43:11 Story Extensibility enhancements
01:01:29 Video Data Stories
01:04:54 Outro
For more on SAP Analytics Cloud: https://sap.to/6051qCsMT
SAP Proposes Dividend of €2.35 per Share
WALLDORF, Germany — The Supervisory Board and Executive Board of SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) recommend that shareholders approve a dividend of €2.35 per share for fiscal year 2024. This is an increase of €0.15, or 6.8% compared to the dividend paid for fiscal year 2023 (€2.20).
If approved by shareholders and assuming the same level of treasury shares at the time of SAP SE’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on May 13, 2025, and as at December 31, 2024, the total amount distributed in dividends would be approximately €2.741 billion (2023: €2.565 billion), representing a pay-out ratio of 51.9% (2023: 43.0%).
SAP believes that its shareholders should benefit appropriately from the profit the Company made in 2024. The Company’s dividend policy is to pay a dividend totaling at least 40% of non-IFRS profit after tax from continuing operations.
The following dates are relevant for the dividend payment:
Record date for dividend payment: May 13, 2025
Ex-dividend date: May 14, 2025
Payment date: May 16, 2025
Note to holders of SAP ADRs (American Depositary Receipts):
One SAP ADR represents one SAP SE share. The final dividend amount per ADR is dependent upon the euro/US dollar exchange rate. Since SAP SE pays cash dividends on the ordinary shares in euro, the exchange rate fluctuations will affect the US dollar amounts received by holders of ADRs. The final dividend payment by SAP SE to the depositary bank is scheduled for May 16, 2025. The depositary bank will then convert the dividend payment from euro into US dollars as promptly as practicable.
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