Across industries and geographies, organizations are operating in an environment defined by uncertainty. Geopolitical volatility, supply chain disruption, regulatory complexity, and accelerating technological change are no longer exceptional circumstances. They are the new baseline.

In this context, innovation is not about experimentation on the sidelines. It is about building the operational foundation required to remain effective, trustworthy, and competitive under pressure.

For many years, enterprise technology focused primarily on optimization, improving efficiency, reducing cost, and increasing speed. These goals still matter, but they are no longer sufficient for business success. Today, leaders must ensure that their organizations can adapt in real time, integrate seamlessly across ecosystems, and maintain control over their most critical data and processes.

This shift, from readiness for known scenarios to resilience in the face of the unknown, is what unites the 19 winners of the 2026 SAP Innovation Awards.

From technology adoption to institutional capability

Earlier this month, we announced the finalists for this year’s awards. Today, it is my privilege to recognize the winners, organizations that have moved decisively from ambition to execution.

What distinguishes these companies, public institutions, and organizations is not the novelty of the technologies they use, but the way they apply them. They treat business processes as strategic assets. They design for interoperability, transparency, and trust. And they understand that digital transformation is ultimately about strengthening institutional capability, not simply deploying software.

Across hundreds of submissions, the winning projects consistently demonstrated three priorities that are increasingly inseparable:

• Operational effectiveness, where strategic intent is translated into measurable outcomes
• Control and sovereignty, ensuring compliance, security, and ownership of data while operating at global scale
• Ecosystem orchestration, connecting partners, suppliers, and stakeholders to reduce fragmentation and increase responsiveness

By leveraging the depth and breadth of the SAP portfolio, from cloud ERP and business AI to industry solutions and SAP Business Technology Platform, these organizations have shown that stability and innovation are no longer mutually exclusive.

The 2026 SAP Innovation Award winners

The following organizations represent the action side of transformation. Each demonstrates how disciplined execution and a clear architectural vision can deliver tangible value for customers, employees, and society.

AI Excellence

Harnessing SAP Business AI to fundamentally improve productivity and decision-making:

• Martur Fompak International

Cloud ERP Champion

Embracing cloud ERP as the backbone for long-term agility and scalability:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
• Vedanta Limited

Customer Experience Innovator

Redefining customer engagement through integrated, cloud-based business processes:

• IBM

Financial Futurist

Modernizing financial operations to increase transparency, resilience, and trust:

• Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Industry Leader

Applying multiple SAP solutions to transform business models, collaborate across ecosystems, and generate societal or environmental impact:

• Nestlé (Consumer Industries)
• Piller Blowers & Compressors GmbH (Discrete Industries)
• Prysmian (Energy and Natural Resources)
• City of Madrid (Public Services)
• Accenture (Service and Financial Services Industries)

People Experience Pioneer

Reimagining the employee experience through data-driven and human-centric transformation:

• Capgemini

Procurement Visionary

Using automation and insight to strengthen spend control and supplier collaboration:

• TASNEE (National Industrialization Company)

Services Superstar

Accelerating business outcomes through the effective use of SAP services:

• Federal Tax Authority, United Arab Emirates

Supply Chain Catalyst

Building resilient, compliant, and transparent supply chains:

• Sasol
• Ericsson

Sustainability Hero

Leveraging data to enable responsible decision-making and support a more sustainable economy:

• ArcelorMittal SA

Technology Pathfinder

Solving complex business challenges with measurable impact using SAP Business Technology Platform:

• Promocean The Netherlands BV
• Land O’Lakes, Inc.

Transformation Impact

Driving enterprise-wide change and strengthening long-term transformation capability:

• KPMG International

Recognition and responsibility

All of our winners have set a clear benchmark for what resilient, future-ready organizations look like in practice.

We look forward to recognizing their achievements at SAP Sapphire, where customers and partners from around the world will come together to share insights, compare experiences, and continue shaping the ecosystems that underpin global business.

Looking ahead

The SAP Innovation Awards are more than just a moment of recognition. They signal that digital sovereignty, operational resilience, and responsible innovation are achievable across industries, sectors, and regions. The organizations recognized this year demonstrate what is possible when technology choices are guided by clear priorities and long-term thinking.

May these examples encourage others to take the next step, moving with confidence from readiness to resilience.

View the full list of 2026 SAP Innovation Award winners.

Thomas Saueressig is Chief Customer Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.

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 first 2026 edition, we highlight new capabilities across data, integration, automation, and Joule experiences on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). You’ll see how these updates can help developers, data users, and ops teams reduce friction, cut ambiguity, and move from insight to action faster, including:

✅ Explore data in SAP HANA Cloud using Data and Discovery Agents, even without deep knowledge of underlying objects
✅ Use a knowledge graph and Joule to translate questions into executable SQL and return results quickly
✅ Expand connectivity with new SAP Integration Suite adapters, including BambooHR and Microsoft Outlook, plus Edge Integration Cell additions
✅ Make automation more predictable with deterministic API error handling in SAP Build Process Automation
✅ Work more naturally in SAP Build Work Zone by asking Joule to create workspaces, invite colleagues, and upload files
✅ Turn repeatable ops tasks into agent-driven execution with SAP Automation Pilot, MCP servers, and a Joule Ops Agent

Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:11 – SAP BTP Innobytes: Q1 2026 kickoff
00:37 – Data and Discovery Agents overview
00:42 – Data products, prediction table, and conversion probability
01:17 – Knowledge graph + ask Joule in natural language
02:03 – Beta availability note
02:16 – New SAP Integration Suite adapters
02:59 – Edge Integration Cell updates: File + OFTP2 adapters
03:35 – Deterministic API error handling in SAP Build Process Automation
05:31 – Joule in SAP Build Work Zone: create, invite, upload
07:35 – Agentic ops with SAP Automation Pilot, MCP servers, and Joule

👉 Register for the SAP HANA Cloud Data & Discovery Agents beta: https://sap.to/6058B6vGye
👉 Explore integration adapters for SAP Integration Suite: https://sap.to/6059B6vGy5
👉 Learn how to work with Joule in SAP Build Work Zone: https://sap.to/6050B6vGyg
👉 Read From Automation to Agentic Ops (MCP servers in SAP Automation Pilot): https://sap.to/6051B6vGy9

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Join Andrea Miranda and SAP HANA Cloud experts for a deep dive into the latest SAP HANA Cloud innovations in Q1 2026. In this release overview, you’ll get a guided look at new capabilities that help teams explore enterprise data faster, streamline administration, improve performance analysis, and build intelligent applications with SAP HANA Cloud.

This Q1 2026 update covers key enhancements across AI and agents, machine learning and NLP, calculation view modeling, and SAP HANA Cloud Central (HCC). Use the chapters below to jump directly to the topics most relevant to your role, whether you’re a database administrator, developer, data engineer, or analytics professional.

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
01:59 – General update
06:45 – SAP HANA Cloud Agent Procedures – BETA
10:25 – Machine Learning NLP services updates
18:21 – Calculation View Modeling Updates
38:44 – SQL Tools for Administration in SAP HANA Cloud Central
43:31 – Introduction of a performance analysis application in HCC
50:28 – Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Update
56:47 – Further contents

👉 Learn more about SAP HANA Cloud: https://sap.to/60574iQZP
👉 Read Thomas Hammer’s blog post to learn more about the innovations here: https://sap.to/6052B6mzhK
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Discover how the Joule Dashboard Analyzer Agent for SAP Signavio solutions turns complex process mining dashboards into clear, actionable insights – instantly interpreting charts in natural language and highlighting the KPIs that matter most.

See how the agent summarizes KPI purpose and performance, pinpoints the metric driving the biggest impact (like rejection rate), and guides analysts to the areas with the greatest opportunity – so teams access insights up to 80% faster and spend less time interpreting dashboards, and more time acting on results.

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

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About SAP:
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://www.sap.com/index.html

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Discover the key features of Joule’s Sourcing Agent. Understand how you can automate sourcing events and make real-time adjustments to match the speed of business.

With Sourcing Agent, you can run smarter sourcing events faster, with less effort. Create events at speed, adapt them in real time, and automate smart updates, helping your business stay agile.

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Can a B2B network create genuine new business opportunities for SMEs?

Zachary Rubio Grundell from Unite, a company specializing in indirect procurement solutions and SAP customer, explains how even small companies can discover and work with new customers in this often-overlooked B2B demand generation channel, and successfully grow their business.

You’ll hear what’s changing in B2B sales, where today’s biggest challenges are, and why it’s becoming a practical growth channel for smaller businesses. Zachary also breaks down the value SAP Business Network can create, from visibility with new buyers to repeatable ways of connecting, collaborating, and scaling.

Chapters:
01:08 – Current challenges in indirect procurement at Unite
03:36 – What motivates Unite about working in indirect procurement
04:38 – The value SAP Business Network creates for Unite
06:03 – How SAP Business Network creates new opportunities
08:52 – How SAP Business Network has helped Unite grow
12:00 – How business can thrive on SAP Business Network

Learn more about SAP Business Network and sign up for a supplier account today 👉 https://sap.to/6055hTqvt

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New design, even more focused on small and medium-sized enterprises: The new website of conesprit.

Our website is now online with a new look!

We are as ERP provider specializing in medium-sized businesses. With the relaunch, we are sharpening our focus precisely on this target group.

Our new website shows ERP software for medium-sized businesses based on SAP Business One and conesprit Apps as it is used in the everyday operations of small and medium-sized enterprises – especially in Production, warehousing, finance and administration.

The focus is on concrete processes and real-world requirements. Instead of abstract ERP diagrams, we provide insights into real-world work situations, such as production planning, inventory transparency, or the end-to-end digitalization of processes.

We also show how ERP cloud solutions for medium-sized businesses in Germany To support companies in working flexibly, transparently and in a future-proof manner.

Watch now:
https://business-one-consulting.com

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In this episode of Trending Chats, we explore the transformative world of Low-Code/No-Code (LCNC) development with Rekha Patadiya, BTP Customer Success Partner at SAP. Rekha explains how LCNC tools, much like Lego blocks, enable both developers and non-technical users to create impactful applications by assembling pre-built, modular components.

Learn how businesses are leveraging the power of “citizen developers” to drive innovation, foster collaboration between IT and business teams, and respond to changing needs with speed and agility. From hackathons and Centres of Excellence to rapid app development, LCNC tools are redefining how organisations approach problem-solving and growth.

Tune in to discover how your organisation can harness the potential of LCNC and accelerate innovation today!

00:04 – Welcome + what Low Code/No Code is
00:24 – Low Code explained with Lego blocks
01:13 – Who citizen developers are (and why it speeds innovation)
02:03 – Why it works best when business + IT collaborate
02:08 – 3 success factors: enable, govern, and collaborate

Getting started with SAP Build Code: https://sap.to/6059Cr8iT
See SAP Build Code in action: https://sap.to/6053Cr8iX

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