This week at SAP Sapphire Orlando, we announced SAP Business AI Platform, infusing AI with the process knowledge, data, and governance organizations depend on.

SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is the data foundation of that platform, the business data fabric that anchors universal business context, serving as the trusted knowledge core for every enterprise application and agent. 

The future of agentic organizations will be driven by AI with the deepest organizational knowledge. That future doesn’t start with AI models; it starts with whether your data foundation can give agents the business context they need to act autonomously. 

Today, we are introducing innovations that move organizations closer to becoming an autonomous enterprise.

Turn all your data into business outcomes 

A business data fabric architecture ensures every agent, application, and decision draws from the same trusted business context. And today, we are introducing new business data fabric capabilities that bring multi-model, unified master data, and embedded governance to your agentic foundation. 

• SAP HANA Cloud natively available in SAP Business Data Cloud: SAP HANA Cloud is now a core component of SAP Business Data Cloud. As the AI database for SAP BDC, SAP HANA Cloud provides a unified in-memory engine for agents to reason across transactional, analytical, and multi-model workloads such as spatial, graph, and vector. In practice, this means agents can navigate relationships across customers and suppliers, analyze geographic dependencies, or perform semantic search in real time. And because every workload runs on a single in-memory engine with native workload management, inference time drops dramatically, lowering TCO and improving the predictability of AI costs. With SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Databricks, and SAP Snowflake, SAP Business Data Cloud delivers intelligent compute for every data and AI workload.
• Reltio in SAP Business Data Cloud: With the completed acquisition of Reltio, SAP is bringing multi-domain master data management capabilities directly into SAP Business Data Cloud, helping customers unify, cleanse, and harmonize data across SAP and third-party sources. Reltio’s AI-based entity resolution identifies and merges related records into a single, consistent view of business entities. Low-latency delivery and Model Context Protocol support enable real-time, multi-agent workflows across your data landscape: a procurement agent, for example, can assess supplier risk and trigger action almost instantly using trusted, real-time data. Together, this becomes a golden record system of context that Joule Agents use to deliver faster time-to-value for business AI.
• SAP Master Data Governance natively available in SAP Business Data Cloud: Unified master data is only as valuable as the governance applied to it. To ensure data is AI-ready, governance must shift from regulator to value accelerator. SAP Master Data Governance is now a core component of SAP Business Data Cloud, governing master data and policies across your business data fabric. This results in embedded AI governance that accelerates agent deployment, ensuring every agent operates on data products that are verified and aligned to your business policies. 
• SAP AI Core integration with SAP Business Data Cloud: SAP is introducing deeper integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP AI Core, enabling AI models to be grounded directly in trusted business data, semantics, and governance. Batch inference can now be embedded into business-ready data products, continuously enriching the data that powers Joule with predictions, classification, and AI outputs.  

“This is where SAP Business Data Cloud fits into the vision: not as a centralized system, but as an enabler of cultural change through its unique capabilities. These capabilities allow teams to preserve mission-critical business context across financial and non-financial data.”

Jannie Affeld, VP Finance Systems and ERP, Google 

Transform outcomes with Joule Agents 

SAP is bringing agentic AI directly into the business data fabric through Joule Agents, introducing new capabilities that streamline data management, analytics, and planning through a conversational experience: 

• Data product search and creation: Joule Agents simplify how users discover and create data products. With natural language prompts, users can identify relevant SAP and third-party data sources, perform joins and transformations automatically, and apply business context and governance policies.  
• Automated planning and analytical modeling: Joule Agents enable data modelers and planning teams to generate analytical and planning models using AI. By defining dimensions, granularity, and data sources, users can automatically create models aligned with best practices. Teams can also initiate planning cycles, manage versions, and apply calculations without deep technical expertise. 
• Easily surface business insights: Business users can ask complex analytical questions in natural language and receive context-aware insights across lines of business. Powered by governed data products in SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Knowledge Graph, Joule understands relationships, processes, and business logic to deliver more accurate and complete answers without requiring manual exploration.
• SAP Analytics Cloud story generation: Joule accelerates SAP Analytics Cloud story creation by transforming data models, queries, and business context into dashboards and visualizations automatically. Users can continue the conversation, drilling into KPIs, identifying drivers, and exploring trends in a single workflow. 

Extend context across your open data ecosystem

Last year, we introduced SAP BDC Connect, a capability to share data and metadata with zero copies, preserving meaning across every cloud and platform. We are excited to announce SAP BDC Connect for Amazon Athena, continuing our promise of openness and choice.

This enables SAP data products to be discovered and consumed directly within AWS without replication or loss of context. As a result, teams can build analytics, applications, and AI agents faster while ensuring they operate on trusted, governed business data.

Together with existing partners across Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, SAP Business Data Cloud delivers a connected, open data ecosystem so organizations can extend business context across their entire landscape with zero copies. 

General availability is planned for H2 2026.

“Compute can happen anywhere, data can stay at the source when needed, but business context is managed once, centrally, in SAP Business Data Cloud.”

Malin Persson, CIO at Ericsson

Get started today 

Build your trusted foundation for agentic AI with SAP Business Data Cloud.  

• Build your business case and save up to 67% on your TCO with a business data fabric 
• Learn how your industry peers are bridging the gap between data strategies and agentic AI 
• Explore the SAP Business Data Cloud Demo Hub

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of SAP Data & Analytics.

New month, new capabilities. Get a quick tour of the April 2026 feature highlights across SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud, with practical takeaways you can use right away.

In this update, Klaus-Peter Sauer covers what shipped in April, focusing on improvements that help teams keep data products current, monitor pipelines with more confidence, tune Spark compute, strengthen secure connectivity, and simplify day-to-day modeling and monitoring.

You will see what is new in:
✅ Update action for installed data products (SAP Business Data Cloud): Update installed data products in your SAP Datasphere space when a new minor version is available.
✅ BDC cockpit data product monitoring: Better visibility into SAP-managed data product pipelines, including where data stands and where it breaks.
✅ Local table partitioning: Partition existing SAP-managed local tables in SAP HANA Cloud spaces, even when they already contain data.
✅ Spark configuration (file spaces): Adjust compute per task activity and create custom configurations per file space.
✅ Cloud Connector support for Google BigQuery: Configure private connectivity so traffic runs through secure tunnels, supporting targets without public endpoints.
✅ Task chain deletion types: New support for delete all records and delete filtered records for local tables and local tables on files.
✅ Semantic onboarding of SAP HANA Cloud calculation views: Import calc views as remote tables while preserving semantic information.
✅ Analytic model clarity: Toggle inherited elements in the properties panel to separate inherited vs. local elements.
✅ Improved monitoring tool navigation: A cleaner monitoring menu that groups key activities in one place.

Chapters:
00:29 – Update Action for Installed Data Products
00:59 – BDC Cockpit Data Product Monitoring
01:46 – Local Table Partitioning
02:11 – Spark Configuration
03:02 – Cloud Connector Support for Google BigQuery
03:32 – Task Chains Deletion Types
04:02 – Semantic Onboarding of HANA Cloud Calc Views
04:56 – Analytic Model: Inherited vs. Local Properties
05:25 – Improved Monitoring Tool Navigation
06:02 – Summary and Outro

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Check out our product roadmap for SAP Datasphere: https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?PRODUCT=73555000100800002141

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When your business outgrows its processes, the instinct is to patch the gaps. But temporary fixes become business as usual – and suddenly you’re reacting to growth instead of ready for it.

SAP GROW is a complete AI-embedded cloud ERP that connects finance, operations, supply chain, and HR in one place. Industry-specific processes built in from day one. Go live in weeks, not years. Start with what matters, expand when you’re ready. No disruption, no starting over.

00:00 The challenge of scaling
00:34 What is SAP GROW?
00:50 AI built in from day one
01:04 Faster decisions, smarter teams
01:14 Go live in weeks, not years

Bring it with SAP GROW. https://sap.to/6052BB10NG

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Winning today isn’t just about talent, it’s about how you use your data.

In this customer story, Team Liquid shows what it looks like to compete on trusted, context-rich data, and why that foundation matters before you put an AI layer on top. When data doesn’t match and context gets lost, AI can create more noise than insight. But when your data is connected and trusted, you can get the right information at the right time to make faster decisions and stay ahead.

With SAP Business Data Cloud, Team Liquid connects half a trillion data points while keeping context attached across gameplay, performance, and strategy. That means they can reason across what happened, why it happened, and what’s likely to happen next.

You’ll also hear how they’re applying AI to speed preparation and reduce manual work, including an AI-powered draft tool that helps teams walk into competition with preparation that’s clearer and faster. And with Joule Agents, they can ask highly technical questions in plain language and get answers grounded in the competitive context they need.

Catch the replay of The Fabric of Data & AI and hear more from leaders turning data into real outcomes: https://events.sap.com/fabric-of-data-and-ai/en_us/home.html?source=social-glo-orgsocial-bdcsurge

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Welcome to part two of my series on the unified pricing framework for retail pricing in SAP.

Discover how the Value Case Creation Agent automatically creates data-backed value cases, quantifies process inefficiencies, and turns raw process performance into clear financial opportunity.

Learn how building value cases doesn’t require digging through metrics, analyzing trends, or manual calculations.

Discover Joule Agents: https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents.html

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In this release highlight video, Alina and her digital twin walk through three major innovations designed to help organizations stay compliant, detect issues earlier, and make faster, more informed decisions.

📊 SAP Document and Reporting Compliance: AI-assisted trend analysis and report summary — Instantly compare current VAT figures against past reporting periods with Joule, highlighting anomalies, flagging unusual spikes or deviations, and providing justifications directly inside the return.

🧾 SAP Document and Reporting Compliance: e-verify and automated handling of draft VAT returns from authorities — With this innovation, showcased for Romania, the first supported country, SAP Cloud ERP automatically generates the internal return, retrieves the tax authority’s draft, and compares them side‑by‑side.

📉 SAP Risk & Assurance Management: extended analytical and reporting capabilities — The new Risk and Compliance Cockpit gives compliance managers a single, intuitive view of their organization’s overall compliance health. Charts, trend lines, and grouped issue categories make it easy to spot rising risks, monitor long‑term patterns, and evaluate process performance across periods.

Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome & introduction
00:22 – SAP Document and Reporting Compliance — AI-assisted trend analysis and report summary
01:31 – SAP Document and Reporting Compliance — E-verify and automated handling of draft VAT returns from authorities
02:56 – SAP Risk & Assurance Management — Extended analytical and reporting capabilities
03:41 – Summary & wrap-up

• Read more about the latest Governance, Risk, and Compliance innovations in SAP Cloud ERP 2602: https://sap.to/6050hdugi
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Welcome to SAP BTP Innobytes, your quick-hit series for the latest platform updates that help teams build, integrate, automate, and innovate faster, while keeping governance and security front and center.

In this episode, we walk through standout SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) enhancements across analytics, developer productivity, extensibility, integration at the edge, and key management. You’ll see how these updates can help you:

✅ Track key metrics with personalized analytics
✅ Create richer analytical tables for SAP Fiori
✅ Extend SuccessFactors using guided tooling
✅ Speed up agent building with Joule Studio
✅ Improve edge integration (local OData + HANA support)
✅ Enhance security with key management updates

Chapters
00:00 – Introduction
00:10 – My Metrics in SAP Analytics
01:36 – Analytical Table with RAP and SAP Fiori
02:41 – SAP Build Extensibility Wizard in SAP SuccessFactors
04:22 – Joule Studio Agent Builder
05:35 – Edge Integration Cell: Local OData API Access & SAP HANA Support
07:01 – SAP Key Management Service

Explore SAP BTP: https://sap.to/6052Cfvko

The expansion of global supply chains has permitted organizations to optimize facility locations and enhance international logistics.