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Landmark Collaboration Redefines Enterprise Data Management and Unleashes the Full Potential of Agentic AI

NEW YORK — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced SAP Business Data Cloud, a groundbreaking solution that unifies all SAP and third-party data throughout an organization, providing the trusted data foundation organizations need to make more impactful decisions and foster reliable AI.

The solution harmonizes data from organizations’ most mission-critical applications with data engineering and business analytics capabilities, paving the way for next-level innovation and insights.

This landmark partnership between SAP and Databricks marks a new era in enterprise data management as two leaders in their domains come together to redefine how applications and data platforms work together. The new solution natively embeds Databricks technology for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads.

“SAP Business Data Cloud unleashes the full value of enterprise data for Business AI,” said SAP CEO Christian Klein. “It combines SAP’s unique expertise in mission-critical, end-to-end processes and semantically rich data with Databricks’ world-class data engineering capabilities to create a ground-breaking solution that helps organizations do more with their data than ever before.”

“Every company on the planet wants to get more value out of their data and greater returns on their AI investments,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “By joining forces with SAP, we’re helping organizations bring together all their data — regardless of format or where it lives — to govern, analyze and build domain-specific AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.”

Introducing the data product economy

SAP Business Data Cloud also helps SAP foster the growth of a data product economy. It delivers fully-managed SAP data products across all business processes – from finance, spend and supply chain data in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba, to learning and talent data in SAP SuccessFactors. These data products maintain their original business context and semantics, providing immediate access to high-quality data without costly extraction processes. For example, if a CFO wants to assess the impact of rising inflation on profitability, SAP Business Data Cloud integrates real-time external data such as the consumer price index with financial data products such as general ledger accounts or cost centers to create a comprehensive financial snapshot.

SAP Business Data Cloud will also offer new capabilities called insight apps that use data products and AI models connected to real-time data to deliver advanced analytics and planning across all lines of business, including core enterprise analytics, finance and human resources.

“SAP Business Data Cloud will help us unlock the value of our data and drive innovation across our business,” said Markus Hartmann, Corporate Vice President and Head of Business Technology and regions Europe, APAC and IMEA, at Henkel, a multinational chemical and consumer goods company. “Its semantically rich data products and deep Databricks integration will enhance our existing data products and empower us to model scenarios and leverage AI insights, building a sustainable future for our data ecosystems.”

Delivering on the full promise of AI agents

SAP Business Data Cloud will improve how Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot, accelerates cross-functional workflows and improves business decision-making with AI agents. Powered by the highest-quality enterprise dataset in the industry – and the SAP Knowledge Graph solution, which provides a business-friendly model of data – Joule agents deeply understand end-to-end processes and can collaborate across functions to solve complex business challenges, something no other agent builder technology can do out of the box.

Underscoring today’s announcement and its significance for AI innovation, SAP also unveiled a series of ready-to-use Joule agents across finance, service, sales and more to come across the SAP Business Suite. In finance, for example, agents will work together across a variety of tasks to process claims faster and improve cashflow. Joule sales agents, meanwhile, will accelerate multi-step business processes to resolve disputes and process customer inquiries faster.

SAP today also announced a powerful new agent builder capability, so customers can build and deploy their own AI agents alongside SAP’s library of ready-to-deploy Joule agents. SAP’s decades of business process expertise are built into the guided workflow so users can ground their custom agents in the most relevant data and business context.

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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 visit https://sap.to/6051qCsMT

Check out the Top feature highlights for the quarterly release cycle of SAP Analytics Cloud in Q1 2025 with Orla Cullen, Product Marketing Manager – Data & Analytics.

For more on SAP Analytics Cloud, visit: https://sap.to/6055xNLeR
Read more on the blog: https://sap.to/6056xNLer

00:00 Intro
00:45 Seamless planning – integration with SAP Datasphere
02:25 Compass – probability simulation
05:00 Video Data Stories
06:30 Just ask enhancements
08:04 Job Monitor – Multi-Action support
09:44 Outro

What does it take for businesses and industries to be ready for tomorrow’s challenges, growth opportunities and beyond? Tune in as #SAP’s Gina Vargiu, SAP’s Thomas Saueressig, Siddhi Pal, Anahita Thoms and Chris Leong who attended the World Economic Forum event in Davos share their insights and why people remain the driving force behind innovation and growth. #wef25

Learn more about SAP in Davos: https://sap.to/6052xEeHq

00:00 Siddhi Pal
00:17 Anahita Thoms
00:38 Chris Leong
01:00 Thomas Saueressig
01:19 Gina Vargiu-Breuer
01:37 Siddhi Pal

Markus Oertelt, Cloud ERP Product Success Enablement, unveils the game-changing innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 for Manufacturing, including Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) enhancements, mass editing capabilities for production versions, and a new quality management feature for manual certificate receipt creation. These updates promise to boost customer service, reduce lead times, cut inventory, and streamline manufacturing processes, transforming your business operations.

The key highlights shared in this video are:
00:42 Buffer Level Zone Update
01:35 Mass Edit in Process Production Versions
02:16 Background Mass Edit
02:52 Manual Certificate Receipt Creation in Quality Management

✔️ Find Markus’ blog post further discussing the innovations mentioned above: https://sap.to/6052ahSSj

✔️ Check out the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Community: https://sap.to/6056ahSSg

✔️ Hear more from Markus at https://sap.to/6058ahSSi

#saps4hana #erp

Unleash the future of Finance with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502! Katrin Deissner, Cloud ERP Product Success Enablement, showcases game-changing innovations like the SAP Green Ledger for integrated carbon accounting, Financing with Taulia for streamlined cash flow management, and AI-Assisted Financial Business Insights for Group Financial Statement Review Booklet. Dive in to transform your financial operations!

The key highlights shared in this video are:
00:29 SAP Green Ledger
01:09 Financing with SAP Taulia
01:56 Introduction of New Review Booklets
02:13 AI-Assisted Financial Business Insights for Group Financial Statement Review Booklet

✔️ Find Katrin’s blog post further discussing the innovations mentioned above: https://sap.to/6053a2Bwl
✔️ Check out the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Community: https://sap.to/6056a2Bwo
✔️Hear more from Katrin on X at @DeissnerKatrin and at https://sap.to/6057a2BwU

#saps4hana #erp #finance

In August 2024, SAP AppHaus Network partner AGILITA launched the AGIL AI.Sales solution on the SAP Store site, built with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). AGILITA developed this new solution along SAP’s human-centered approach to innovation and the new SAP Business AI workshop format.

As one of the first customers, petZEBA AG implemented the new solution as a sales recording app to support its daily sales operations and capture orders by voice command, find retailers and customers via GPS, process orders automatically, and get real-time CRM updates. Since its implementation, this new intelligent solution saved the petZEBA sales teams significant time and enabled a 55% increase in customer visits.

Pet Food Expert petZEBA Is Shaping the Future

Founded in 2006, petZEBA AG is a family-run company with headquarters in Alberswil, Switzerland. The company sells high-quality food and nutritional supplements for dogs, cats, and horses throughout Switzerland. The company also supports and supplies numerous pet shops, animal shelters, veterinarians, breeders, depots, and end users. In 2017, petZEBA established its first subsidiary, petZEBA International GmbH, in Germany.

With its passion to drive change and lead the way in shaping the future, petZEBA AG showcases its commitment through adopting and unlocking new potential. The introduction of the AGIL AI.Sales app is just another step on its innovation path, helping optimize sales processes.

About the New AGIL AI.Sales App

With the rise of new intelligent solutions powered by AI and generative AI, SAP AppHaus Network partner AGILITA created its first AI solution known as the AGIL AI.Sales app, which aims to make sales processes seamless and intelligent. To make it a fully user-centric product, the AGILITA team developed and created it along the proven SAP AppHaus human-centered approach to innovation, using the SAP Business AI Explore workshop as the guiding process.

Designed to simplify and accelerate sales processes, the AGIL AI.Sales app not only helps save time but it can also maximize revenue by preparing data-driven decisions. The app supports businesses with intelligent customer visit briefings and sales opportunities, utilizing advanced algorithms to make accurate predictions and help optimize the sales process. What’s more, by reducing manual effort, it offers businesses automated sales processes and increased efficiency. Lastly, the app provides centralized data management so that all relevant information is in one place, easily accessible, and clearly presented. Watch this video to learn more.

How AGIL AI.Sales Transformed petZEBA’s Sales Processes

The AGIL AI.Sales solution was successfully implemented for petZEBA AG sales teams to optimize their processes. Sales representatives can now easily record meeting sessions with customers, enter orders by voice command, and track customer orders from the past and estimate them for the future. Additionally, there’s geolocation embedded in the app that helps find customers in the area based on location, availability, and how close or far they are located for easy and sustainable commuting.

Additional benefits included:

• Time savings leading to a 55% increase in customer visits done by sales teams
• Orders captured by voice command and automatically processed
• Support for recording customer meetings and proposing next steps
• Full integration providing real-time customer relationship management updates
• Accurate, timely, and contextually relevant information.

Seamless Integration of AGIL AI.Sales

Building on SAP BTP, the AGIL AI.Sales app seamlessly leverages different SAP AI solutions such as SAP AI Core, generative AI hub, and SAP HANA Cloud vector engine, which provides a powerful synergy that helps enhance performance and functionality. This integrated solution enables the AGIL AI.Sales app to deliver superior performance, enabling users to receive accurate, timely, and contextually relevant information.

Thomas Neuhaus, head of Digital Experience at AGILITA AG, says: “Our AGILITA team is very happy to see the benefits brought about by AGIL AI.Sales in the case of our customer petZEBA. Their sales team uses the app successfully and could already experience measurable improvements and benefits. It helped them simplify and accelerate sales processes. Our team is especially proud of the measured 55% increase in customer visits since its implementation. This was made possible by significant time savings and intelligent sales planning. Thanks a lot to the petZEBA team for the great collaboration! We look forward to seeing them progressing further on their future-oriented journey.”

Priscilla Darfour is a working student at SAP AppHaus Network.

That’s a wrap on #wef25! Collaborating for the Intelligent Age was the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum and it aligns perfectly with SAP’s mission of providing solutions that benefit the world. SAP was present on the promenade, right across from the congress center, hosting multiple panels and roundtables around AI, creating agility and more. This week was all about bringing together business leaders from industries around the globe and push the conversation forward during these critical and fast-moving times.

Tune in as SAP’s Christian Klein, Dominik Asam, Gina Vargiu, Thomas Saueressig and Pekka Ala-Pietilä who attended the World Economic Forum event in Davos share their highlights.

Learn more about SAP in Davos: https://sap.to/6052xEeHq

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