Built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP Distributed Energy Resources (SAP DER) can provide a trusted data backbone that helps unify technical assets with commercial agreements, transforming millions of prosumer devices into coordinated services.

From energy sharing and dynamic pricing to cloud-native and interoperable flexibility markets, the solution can connect meters, markets, and customers to enable business models such as energy communities, virtual power plants, and demand response. Combined with a curated ecosystem of specialist technology partners, SAP empowers utilities to own their energy transition. 

The energy transition runs on data, but data is getting harder to manage 

The energy transition is reshaping the power landscape. Utilities are evolving from centralized generation toward systems powered by millions of distributed energy resources: solar panels, EV chargers, heat pumps, and batteries owned by consumers and prosumers alike. The number of connected assets is growing rapidly, generating vast amounts of operational, commercial, and customer data. Managing this data reliably and consistently is one of the defining challenges of the next energy decade. 

At the same time, digital energy platforms and new market entrants are intermediating the customer relationship, offering integrated propositions that bundle connectivity, flexibility, and billing into a single stack. Utilities that do not act risk being reduced to commodity providers.

To unlock the value of distributed energy resources, utilities need more than connectivity. They need data orchestration: a trusted, intelligent foundation that harmonizes information across every process, partner, and device and ensures they own rather than rent their energy transition capabilities. 

From distributed assets to orchestrated intelligence 

The SAP Distributed Energy Resources solution is designed to meet exactly this challenge. Built on SAP BTP, it enables utilities to manage distributed energy resources-related data at scale across production, consumption, and storage while helping to ensure reliability, performance, and consistency. 

Rather than acting as an operational control system, SAP DER focuses on data orchestration and integration. It helps ensure that distributed energy resources data can flow seamlessly between operational, commercial, and analytical systems, providing a single source of truth that can connect the physical and digital worlds of energy. 

“The complexity our customers face with prosumer data is exponential. They need reliability, performance, and consistency across all their data sources, and that’s exactly where SAP Distributed Energy Resources comes in.” 

Kim Maren Ekrutt, Global Industry Business Unit Utilities Co‑Head, SAP 

Two pillars of the SAP DER solution 

1. Complex installation and prosumer data orchestration: technical and commercial foundation

Manage the full spectrum of prosumer-related data, covering both complex technical installation details, such as meters, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and heat pumps, and the commercial information required to operate distributed energy resources at scale. This includes customer and prosumer master data, product structures, tariffs, contracts, grid connection agreements, feed-in contracts, and all commercial relationships linked to each installation. 

By bringing together technical asset data with commercial attributes and agreement information, the solution can provide a unified and reliable model of every installation. This is essential because distributed energy resources cannot be managed with technical information alone. Commercial products, grid contracts, flexible tariffs, and incentive agreements determine how energy flows are measured, settled, billed, shared, or monetized. 

This pillar becomes the foundation for energy communities, virtual power plant participation, flexibility programs, dynamic pricing, capacity and congestion management, and any business model involving prosumers and distributed energy assets. 

2. Energy management and sharing 

Track and analyze how energy is consumed, produced, stored, and shared, enabling new energy community and peer-to-peer business models. With high-resolution energy data and intelligent allocation algorithms, utilities can offer transparent, fair, and regulation-compliant energy sharing services to residential and commercial participants alike. 

Connecting data, processes, and people 

Utilities already rely on SAP for mission-critical processes such as meter to cash, asset management, and customer experience. SAP DER can extend this foundation, linking every asset, agreement, and customer interaction within one coherent data model. This integrated approach helps turn technical data into business value, powering use cases such as smart tariffs, dynamic pricing, and energy sharing. For utilities, this means a single enterprise backbone that can connect the traditional meter-to-cash world with the emerging flexibility and distributed energy resources economy. 

A partner ecosystem for the energy flexibility market 

No single vendor can address the full breadth of the distributed energy landscape. SAP has assembled a curated ecosystem of specialist technology partners, each bringing deep domain expertise that complements SAP’s enterprise data platform. Data stays with the utility, business logic remains under their control, and the customer relationship belongs to them. 

SAP’s technology partners extend the platform across six critical domains: 

• Flexibility management and virtual power plants: Orchestrate and monetize prosumer assets, including EVs, batteries, heat pumps, and solar inverters, for flexibility markets and smart charging services. 
• Energy communities and energy sharing: Design and operate energy communities with transparent allocation, dynamic local pricing, and full regulatory compliance. 
• Grid congestion and capacity management: Forecast, detect, and resolve grid congestion at the low-voltage-network-level while unlocking flexibility revenues. 
• Energy portfolio management and trading: Access wholesale and flexibility markets with real-time pricing, dynamic quotations, and risk management. 
• Customer insights and energy disaggregation: Deliver behind-the-meter visibility through non-intrusive load monitoring and appliance-level analytics. 
• Demand response and load management: Design and execute demand response programs, combining customer incentives, dynamic pricing, and automated device control. 

“Our role is to help utilities master the growing data complexity and turn it into opportunity. With SAP Distributed Energy Resources and our partner ecosystem, we’re connecting data, processes, and partners into one intelligent platform that enables utilities to own their energy transition.” 

Kim Maren Ekrutt, Global VP & Co-Head Industry Business Unit Utilities

About SAP Distributed Energy Resources 

SAP Distributed Energy Resources provides utilities with a public cloud platform to help model, manage, and share distributed energy resources data across operational and commercial domains. Integrated with SAP’s core utilities portfolio and a curated global partner ecosystem, it can enable reliable data exchange, smart energy management, and customer-centric innovation for the distributed energy era. 

Mateu Munar is senior director of Industry Business Unit Utilities at SAP.

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled the next stage of its vision for European digital sovereignty with the launch of EU AI Cloud.

SAP now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe. SAP now offers a truly full-stack sovereign cloud offering, empowering customers to select the right level of sovereignty and deployment for their needs, whether in SAP’s own data centers, on trusted European infrastructure or as a fully managed solution on-site.

EU AI Cloud supports EU data residency and full sovereignty, helping ensure that every organization can meet its unique regulatory and operational requirements.

Cohere: Unlocking Sovereign, Agentic and Multimodal AI Capabilities for European Enterprises

SAP and Cohere are joining forces to deliver frontier agentic AI capabilities with Cohere North, extending existing state-of-the-art multimodal AI capabilities through EU AI Cloud and sovereign offerings. Cohere North will be integrated into SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), enabling customers with data residency constraints across industries to build robust, production-ready AI into their core business processes. Together, SAP and Cohere will help enterprises unlock deeper insights, more accurate decision support and more intelligent automation across complex workflows without compromising on sovereignty, compliance or performance.

A Strong and Growing Ecosystem

EU AI Cloud is powered by a strong and growing ecosystem of leading European and global partners. By integrating advanced AI models and applications from partners such as Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI and others directly into SAP BTP, EU AI Cloud delivers a pathway for building, deploying and scaling AI-powered applications. Customers can consume these partner offerings as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS, and deploy them flexibly across SAP’s own infrastructure or trusted European partners.

This collaborative approach ensures that European enterprises and public sector organizations benefit from the latest AI innovations securely, in full compliance with European standards and with the sovereignty and flexibility they require.

Deployment Choices for Every Security Profile

EU AI Cloud offers flexible deployment through SAP Sovereign Cloud, giving customers full control across infrastructure, platform and software tailored to their regulatory and operational needs. AI models run on SAP’s software abstraction layer (SAP Cloud Infrastructure + SAP BTP) in European data centers, ensuring compliance and independence from U.S. hyperscalers.

• SAP Sovereign Cloud on SAP Cloud Infrastructure (EU): SAP’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), developed with open-source technologies and operated within SAP’s European data center network. All data remains within the EU to ensure compliance with European data protection regulations.
• SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site: SAP-operated infrastructure offering within a customer-owned or customer-selected data center. It provides the highest levels of data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty while maintaining SAP cloud innovation and architecture.
• Selected Hyperscalers per Market: For customers that choose to run SAP commercial SaaS on global cloud providers, with sovereignty features as required.
• Delos Cloud: A secure and sovereign cloud solution in Germany, designed to support the public sector’s transformation and meet country-specific sovereignty requirements.

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WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new collaboration with France’s AI sector, which includes new and expanded partnerships with Bleu, Capgemini and Mistral AI.

The collaboration will combine SAP enterprise application expertise with France’s vibrant AI ecosystem to create secure, scalable, AI-driven sovereign cloud solutions that protect data and intellectual property while advancing Europe’s digital transformation. The announcement took place at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Berlin, where France and Germany emphasized strengthening European innovation and competitiveness.

“Europe’s competitiveness depends on its ability to innovate without compromise by combining technological excellence with full digital sovereignty,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “By joining forces with France’s world-class AI ecosystem, SAP is helping to build a trusted digital foundation for Europe where innovation is open, data is protected and technology truly serves people and progress.”

Bleu and Delos Cloud: Franco-German collaboration supporting European digital sovereignty

In a volatile and dynamic geopolitical climate, Bleu and Delos Cloud have established a robust Franco-German alliance to safeguard Europe’s digital infrastructure. Bleu and Delos Cloud signed a mutual assistance commitment for technical and operational cooperation in extensive crisis and emergency scenarios. This includes technical and operational cooperation to help ensure rapid, coordinated crisis response, even in extreme scenarios, such as military conflict or cyberattacks.

This partnership includes enabling cross-border capabilities for early detection, analysis, defense and remediation of cyber incidents. By working together, Bleu and Delos Cloud strengthen Europe’s capabilities for resilience and digital sovereignty, supporting both crisis prevention and long-term stability.

Together with SAP, authorities and governments, Bleu and Delos Cloud are ready to make a central contribution to Europe’s digital sovereignty, helping ensure that critical infrastructure remains secure, resilient and under European control. Further details are available here.

Capgemini: Driving Europe’s AI-driven digital and technology sovereignty

SAP and Capgemini are deepening their strategic partnership to strengthen cybersecurity and accelerate sovereign agentic AI-driven enterprise transformation solutions across Europe. Under the Franco-German industry alliance, both companies will sign a cooperation agreement and launch a Sovereign Technology Partnership, providing European organizations access to the spectrum of enterprise data management and migration services, cloud infrastructure and automation platforms, and agentic AI capabilities for European industries – including those in the public sector and regulated industries. By setting a new benchmark for trusted, compliant and resilient digital infrastructure, SAP and Capgemini are helping enable European organizations to innovate securely and independently. Further details are available here.

Mistral AI: Alliance for European sovereign AI

SAP and Mistral AI today announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty in artificial intelligence. The collaboration will provide organizations with the first full sovereign AI stack for Europe:

• Bringing together Mistral AI and SAP products: SAP will provide Mistral AI’s frontier AI, including Le Chat, through the sovereign AI Foundation on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). This joint offering will bring together the strengths of enterprise software and AI to deliver sovereign cloud solutions for Europe on sovereign AI data center. Mistral AI Studio will be integrated into AI Foundation, an SAP solution empowering customers and partners to build and deploy sovereign cloud applications and AI agents securely, compliantly and at scale within their own environments. 
• Co-developing sovereign customer solutions: SAP and Mistral AI will jointly design and develop industry-specific AI applications that leverage SAP’s technology leadership and Mistral AI’s expertise to solve complex engineering and R&D challenges and unlock new business value.

This joint effort is the next step to enabling sovereign AI across the continent on European terms. AI Foundation in SAP Business Technology Platform serves as an integration layer that offers SAP Business AI across virtually any infrastructure. Mistral AI and SAP lay the foundation together with partners and endorsed by governments for scalable and compliant AI solutions in Europe, covering sovereign AI from the hardware to the platform and applications to the user interface.  

A dedicated sovereignty pillar will serve European public services and regulated sectors, starting in Germany — and extendible to a wide variety of industries. By integrating Mistral’s AI capabilities into SAP’s cloud infrastructure for Europe, the partnership enables secure, scalable AI deployments tailored to local requirements.

A unified vision for Europe’s digital sovereignty

These partnerships form a key part of SAP’s broader SAP Sovereign Cloud solutions to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty and unlock the potential of AI. SAP is accelerating its investment in European sovereignty, deploying the SAP Cloud Infrastructure service across local data centers and allocating over €20 billion to sovereign cloud and AI solutions. By combining trusted governance and rigorous compliance with the ability to maintain control over data and assets while deploying some of the best available technologies on European terms, SAP is creating a resilient digital foundation for governments, public institutions and enterprises under European control.

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WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Brose, a global automotive supplier, has successfully migrated its central SAP systems to SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking a major milestone in its digital transformation journey.

In just six months, Brose transitioned its mission-critical systems from internal data centers to the cloud, including complex production processes such as just-in-time and just-in-sequence operations across its global manufacturing plants. The migration was executed without any disruption to customer deliveries, underscoring the robustness of the solutions and the strength of the SAP-Brose partnership.

“This cloud migration makes Brose faster, more flexible, and more resilient—and strengthens our position as an innovative partner for the mobility of the future,” said Stefan Krug, CEO of the Brose Group. “Challenging times in particular show how important digital transformation is. I’m proud of our team’s dedication and the seamless collaboration with SAP.”

The project is considered a reference implementation for the automotive industry and sets a benchmark for future SAP cloud initiatives. Brose’s successful deployment demonstrates how SAP Cloud ERP Private can support high-performance manufacturing environments while enabling scalability and innovation.

“Brose’s rapid and disruption-free migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private exemplifies the power of the cloud to drive agility and resilience in the automotive sector,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “This collaboration showcases what’s possible when industry leaders embrace transformation with speed and precision.”

Looking ahead and reinforcing its role as a pioneer in automotive digitalization, Brose will continue to work closely with SAP and other ecosystem partners to strengthen its foundation of SAP cloud solutions to enable the usage of the latest innovations such as business AI.

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