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New Research Finds That Nearly Half of Executives Trust AI Over Themselves
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Generative AI is increasingly influencing decision-making at the highest levels of business. SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced new research that reveals 44 percent of C-suite executives would override a decision they had already planned to make based on AI insights. Another 38 percent would trust AI to make business decisions on their behalf.
The “AI Has a Seat in the C-Suite” survey, conducted by Wakefield Research and sponsored by SAP, polled 300 C-Level executives at companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenue in the United States. Additional findings included:
- 74 percent of executives place more confidence in AI for advice over their family and friends.
- 55 percent of executives work at firms where AI-driven insights have replaced or frequently bypass traditional decision-making. This is especially true for companies with $5 billion or more in revenue.
- 48 percent of executives use generative AI tools daily; 15 percent use AI multiple times per day.
“Most executive decisions are based on a combination of the data, how they feel and discussions they’ve had with people they trust,” said Jared Coyle, chief AI officer for SAP North America. “What this data tells us is that AI is part of that trusted inner circle.”
For a majority of the executives surveyed (52 percent), AI is trusted most to analyze data and make recommendations for decision-making. Executives also have confidence in AI to spot risks or issues they hadn’t previously considered (48 percent) and to offer alternate plans (47 percent). They’re also using AI in a multitude of other ways, including: enhancing product development (40 percent); supporting budget planning (40 percent); and performing market research (40 percent).
And the benefits of AI extend beyond the office: 39 percent of executives feel they experience a better work-life balance because of AI; 38 percent report improved mental well-being; and another 31 percent claim to experience reduced stress.
Coyle noted that many businesses still struggle with building a foundation of reliable data critical for this kind of trust because of misalignment between IT and business functions, integration challenges across systems or even concerns with the quality of the data itself.
“The only way to ensure reliable business data for AI is to have one common semantical data layer for your business,” he said.
To that end, Coyle points to the SAP Business Data Cloud solution, the company’s latest fully managed SaaS data management solution that unifies all SAP and third-party data throughout an organization. By connecting data from every part of the business and harmonizing it more easily and quickly than ever before, SAP Business Data Cloud can help customers make more impactful decisions faster and fuel reliable AI.
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SAP Signavio Launches AI-Assisted Process Modeler, Text to Process Capability
AI and SAP Signavio solutions: The evolution to an agile, sustainable, and resilient enterprise requires transformation
As a cornerstone of our Business Transformation Management portfolio, SAP Signavio solutions help empower companies to view transformation not as an isolated project, but as an ongoing capability. With SAP Signavio solutions, companies can constantly analyze, improve, and monitor their processes, therefore establishing continuous loops of value realization.
By harnessing the power of generative AI, the SAP Signavio portfolio is poised to help organizations drive efficiency, enhance the user experience, and reduce barriers to entry for expert disciplines such as process mining and modeling. At the same time, new generative AI and copilot capabilities enable organizations to further accelerate the time to accrue value while working to the best of their potential.
Through this intuitive and user-friendly approach, users across an organization can receive rapid insights and recommendations that can accelerate and inform decisions, with questions asked in natural language serving as a starting point.
Text to process
What if, when building your process models, you didn’t have to start from scratch? On March 3, 2025—following the integration to SAP’s co-pilot Joule; the release of the SAP Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process analyzer capability; the release of text to insights and text to widget features, which are available via a beta program; and the introduction of the SAP Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process recommender and performance indicators recommender—SAP Signavio released the process modeler, text to process capability.
The SAP Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process modeler, text to process capability can quickly transform textual descriptions into Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) diagrams—the standard language of process modeling. In other words, this new capability can simplify and expedite process modeling, helping customers accelerate the initial creation of process diagrams and potentially redefine the way companies document their processes.
Reduced process modeling time
Process modeling for an enterprise can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars annually when factoring in the time it takes to collect inputs, then create or update hundreds of process models.
By leveraging the SAP Signavio solutions, AI-assisted process modeler, text to process capability, the time taken in building models can be reduced significantly, helping to accelerate the initial phase of creation and allow users more time to fine-tune and perfect their models.
Support for non-technical users
By simply describing processes in plain language, non-technical users can also contribute to process modeling and improvement, as the process modeler, text to process capability can then translate these descriptions into technical process models.
This means organizations can quickly tailor and implement processes through text prompting, making process modeling ever more accessible and inclusive.
Enhanced collaboration
The AI-assisted capability can enhance collaboration by simplifying complex process descriptions and turning them into visual models. This helps improve cross-team collaboration by helping ensure a common understanding of what elements constitute a specific process model, reducing uncertainty and potential miscommunication.
The simplification of process descriptions and development of visual models also helps make model editing more flexible and responsive, which in turn helps ensure the continuous improvement of models, supported by the ability to save and refine them in SAP Signavio Process Manager.
AI for the world of process
The process modeler, text to process capability is the latest example of how SAP Business AI in SAP Signavio solutions is designed for the process world, helping everyday business users as well as process modelers and experts contribute to process analysis and improvement simply by using everyday language to interact with SAP Signavio solutions.
To discover how you can drive faster time to value and transform your business more effectively with generative AI as part of the SAP Signavio portfolio, join our on-demand webcast and find out more about the new generation of AI-enabled business transformation management solutions.
Lucas de Boer is global marketing program lead for SAP Signavio.
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SAP Announces Winners of Regional Partner Excellence Awards
SAP Regional Partner Excellence Awards locally recognize partner success in sales, innovation, technology, services, and solution areas within each region.
As part of SAP’s portfolio of prestigious partner recognition programs, in-region winners are announced at local kick-off events at the beginning of each year. Recognized for the value they deliver, these partners transform customer businesses for future success by harnessing cloud technology. To inspire continued innovation and to serve as a testament of their top performance, SAP proudly recognizes these partners in front of their peers for their exceptional customer impact.
Recipients of these prestigious awards are selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base. Regional representatives designate a steering committee to review, vet, and rank achievements using system-generated data on key metrics aligned with SAP’s communicated business strategies.
Congratulations to the 2025 winners for this esteemed recognition!
SAP Regional Awards for Partner Excellence in 2025
Recipients by Region
Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE)
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Cloud Performance: All for One Group SE
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for GROW with SAP: Cpro Industry Projects & Solutions GmbH
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Store: SYNCPILOT S.P.S.A. GmbH
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions: Open Text Software GmbH
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Advisor and Integrator: Accenture ASG
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Cloud Delivery: NTT DATA Business Solutions AG
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Cloud Competence: KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
- SAP MEE Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Customer Value: NTT DATA Business Solutions AG
Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Intelligent Spend and Business Network: ADP Consultores
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Customer Experience: NTT DATA Business Solutions (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions: DBR Consultoria e Tecnologia Ltda. (Delaware Consulting) (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Business Technology Platform: SEIDOR (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: SEIDOR (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Digital Supply Chain: Exed Consulting (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud: MIGNOW (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions: msg global solutions
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Store, SAP Endorsed Apps: DataXtream
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Delivery Quality: Numen IT Solucoes em Tecnologia Ltda. (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Customer Loyalty: MQA Business Consultants S.A.
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Global Strategic Services Partners: IBM de Chile S.A.C.
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Digital Demand Generation: Cast group (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Business One: Ramo (Brazil)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Top Performance: BCI Consulting SRL (North)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Partner-Driven Business: Infocenter (South)
- SAP LAC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Innovation: Numen IT Solucoes em Tecnologia Ltda. (Brazil)
North America
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Total Indirect Contribution: NTT DATA Business Solutions
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Business, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Syntax
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Net-New Customer Acquisition: NTT DATA Business Solutions
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Marketing: Answerthink
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Customer Success Stories: Syntax
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Service Growth with Indirect Customers: Syntax
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Post-Sales: NTT DATA Business Solutions
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Emerging Indirect Partner: The Silicon Partners Inc.
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Line-of-Business Performance: Analysis Prime
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions, Revenue: OpenText
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions, Growth: Smart Energy Water
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Store, Revenue: Icertis
- SAP North America Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Store, Growth: Thomson Reuters
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for RISE with SAP, Overall Contribution: Accenture
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for RISE with SAP, High-Growth Contribution: IBM
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Indirect Business: Deloitte
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Deloitte
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Certification: EY
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Special Recognition: KPMG
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Business AI: Accenture
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Line of Business: Accenture
- SAP EMEA Award for Service Partner Excellence 2025 for Cloud Adoption: Capgemini
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Cloud Delivery Excellence: Inetum
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Overall Cloud Achievement: SEIDOR
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Overall Cloud Achievement, New Partner: KaarTech
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Corporate Social Responsibility: NTT DATA Business Solutions
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions, Achievement: Implico
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions, Growth: Tricentis
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions, Highest Bookings: OpenText
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Store, Validated and Spotlight Performance: Phenom
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions: Inetum
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Digital Supply Chain: Delaware
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Customer Experience: KPS
- SAP EMEA Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Intelligent Spend and Business Network: NTT DATA Business Solutions
Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) and Greater China (GC)
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Overall Value-Added Reseller: SGN Software Private Limited
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Global Strategic Services Partner: Accenture
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Multi-Cloud Champion: PwC
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Regional Strategic Services Partner: FPT
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Hyperscaler: Amazon Web Services
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Midmarket: NTT DATA
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for New Cloud Partner: KPMG Assurance and Consulting Services
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Partner-Led Business: NTT DATA
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for RISE with SAP: Accenture
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for GROW with SAP: NTT DATA
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions: Deloitte
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Intelligent Spend and Business Network: Accenture
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Customer Experience: NTT DATA
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for SAP Business Technology Platform: Deloitte
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Managed Service Provider: Accenture
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Innovation: Docusign
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Business AI, Global Strategic Services Partner: PwC
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Business AI: JSOL Corporation
- SAP APJ Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Solution Extensions: OpenText
- SAP GC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Best Cloud Partner, Mainland China: Hand Enterprise Solutions Company Ltd.
- SAP GC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Best Cloud Partner, Taiwan: IBM Consulting Taiwan
- SAP GC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Best Cloud Partner, Hong Kong: IVC Solutions Limited
- SAP GC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Global Strategic Services Provider: Deloitte
- SAP GC Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for GROW with SAP: BosCloud Jiangsu Science and Technology Co. Ltd.
Leticia Ramirez is a regional partner awards manager at SAP.
Compass, Map, and Vehicle: Three Tools for a Smooth Move
Success, even of large-scale IT projects, can depend on much more than technical readiness and the budget to greenlight it. The move from an existing SAP ERP system to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition is one that requires careful preparation and execution. To make this transition as smooth and secure as possible, SAP provides a wide array of tools to support every phase of cloud ERP migration.
Here, three critical tools that can help prepare systems, maintain operations, and execute a migration with precision are highlighted. But remember, this is only a snapshot of the comprehensive portfolio featured in the free guide, “Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.”
The Custom Code Migration app: For preparation with clarity
Before embarking on any journey, it’s essential to know where you’re starting from—and to take stock of your current situation. The SAP Fiori app “Custom Code Migration” can act as a guide, helping IT teams assess their existing systems and custom code objects with precision. It can identify which elements are obsolete, which require adaptation, and which can seamlessly transition across.
Custom code often reflects years of adjustments—useful in their time but not always efficient for modern systems. By shedding unnecessary complexity, this app can ensure your cloud migration starts with a lean, optimized core. It can provide clarity, helping IT leaders make confident decisions about what to carry forward and what to leave behind.
The Custom Code Migration app works hand in hand with the SAP Readiness Check toolset, which can provide a comprehensive system analysis before migration. By combining both, organizations can gain a full picture of their existing landscape, helping to ensure that custom code, system compatibility, and necessary adaptations are all factored into the transition strategy. This upfront preparation helps set the tone for a smoother transition, making the migration process more strategic and less reactive.
Every successful cloud migration needs three things: a compass to set the direction, a map to navigate the landscape, and a vehicle to carry you to your destination. These SAP tools can provide exactly that—guidance, connection, and execution for your SAP S/4HANA Cloud journey.
SAP Integration Suite: For seamless connection
A migration is never purely about the new. It’s about maintaining critical connections as you transform. SAP Integration Suite can enable consistent, reliable integration across legacy systems, cloud platforms, and third-party solutions, ensuring operational continuity throughout any transition.
Etex, a global building materials leader, is just one example of how this suite can make a difference. With operations in 45 countries, the Belgian firm needed to unify its systems during its migration to SAP S/4HANA. SAP Integration Suite delivered prebuilt connectors, low-code tools, and robust APIs that streamlined integrations and created a cohesive digital ecosystem. This not only ensured smooth day-to-day operations but also set the stage for scalable, global growth.
SAP continuously enhances the suite with new features and updates to keep pace with evolving technology. This customer-focused approach helps minimize effort and complexity for businesses transitioning to SAP S/4HANA, helping them benefit from the latest innovations in integration. Moreover, SAP Integration Suite fully supports the clean core strategy, reducing system modifications and complementing SAP’s data migration and conversion tools to enable a more streamlined and efficient transition.
For IT leaders, SAP Integration Suite can offer functionality—and peace of mind, too. By simplifying and securing integrations, it helps support both the immediate migration and the future evolution of business processes.
SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit: For precision execution
Similarly significant when it comes to data migration is precision. SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit helps ensure that critical data is transferred accurately and efficiently, working to minimize risks and downtime during the transition.
The cockpit can provide predefined templates and a structured process for migrating legacy data into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. By reducing the complexity of data transfer, it helps ensure that IT teams can focus on readiness and reliability, knowing their business-critical information is secure.
SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit is one of several tools available for data migration, primarily suited for greenfield implementations. For system conversions or brownfield implementations, the Software Update Manager tool is the key, while SAP Business Transformation Center can support selective data transitions. Choosing the right approach depends on an organization’s migration strategy and business requirements.
Data migration is one of the most crucial steps in the transition journey, bringing together all the preparation and integration efforts. However, successful migration doesn’t end here—data and process validation follow to ensure everything is functioning as expected, paving the way for a strong foundation for future innovation and growth.
A utility belt of tools awaits
As mentioned, SAP’s portfolio doesn’t end there. The final section of “Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition” highlights 15 essential tools designed to help assess, plan, implement, and monitor your migration. From SAP Readiness Check to SAP Data Services and ABAP development tools, these solutions can offer additional support to help ensure every phase of your project is a success.
Explore the full suite of SAP tools and learn how they can simplify your migration.
Uwe Grigoleit is senior vice president and head of SAP Customer Evolution.
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