New month, new capabilities. Get a quick tour of the May 2026 feature highlights across SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud.

In this update, Klaus-Peter Sauer covers what shipped in May, including two strong releases packed with enhancements for data integration, modeling, transport, runtime analysis, and analytics. You’ll also see how SAP Business Data Cloud continues to expand its open partner ecosystem with SAP Snowflake and BDC Connect for Snowflake.

You will see what is new in:
✅ SAP Snowflake and BDC Connect for Snowflake: SAP Snowflake is now generally available as a solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud, bringing Snowflake AI/ML and advanced engineering capabilities to semantically rich, business-ready SAP data. BDC Connect for Snowflake now supports bidirectional data sharing on AWS with zero copies and preserved business context.
✅ Scheduled delta loads for replication flows: Schedule replication flows that use delta-enabled objects or include them in task chains, so all available delta records are processed and completed cleanly after each run.
✅ Bulk assignment of schedule owners: Assign a schedule owner to multiple task chains at once, reducing repetitive admin work in larger environments.
✅ Lineage graph analysis with runtime metrics: Analyze the full lineage graph of a view, including underlying source objects, to find performance bottlenecks faster.
✅ Transport runtime settings for flows and views: Export runtime settings for transformation flows and view persistency as part of transport packages for more consistent deployment across dev, test, and production.
✅ Variables in analytic models: Customize variables when using one analytic model as the source for another, including renaming variables, changing defaults, and using them in restricted measures or calculations.
✅ SAP Analytics Cloud Q2 2026 highlights: Get a quick pointer to the top five Q2 features, including asymmetric reporting, composite versioning, job monitor enhancements, the decoupled data panel, and recent and favorites in open and save dialogs.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:29 – SAP Snowflake and BDC Connect for Snowflake
01:24 – Run Replication Flows with Delta Load at Scheduled Times
01:55 – Bulk Assignment of Schedule Owner for Task Chains
02:25 – Analyze the Lineage Graph of a View with Runtime Metrics
02:58 – Transport Runtime Settings for Flows and Views
03:54 – Variables in Analytic Models
04:36 – SAP Analytics Cloud Q2 2026 Top 5 Features
05:21 – Summary and Outro

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In the age of AI, business advantage comes from being connected, ready, and able to act when it matters most.

Every customer journey begins with a moment that demands change. Real value is created when that moment becomes momentum. In this SAP Sapphire Madrid 2026 customer keynote, SAP leaders and customers explore how business AI, clean core transformation, SAP Business Data Cloud, Joule, RISE with SAP, and SAP Business Technology Platform help organizations turn complexity into clarity and innovation into measurable outcomes.

Hear from SAP leaders Thomas Saueressig and Manos Raptopoulos as they discuss SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise: a future where people set the direction, AI supports execution, and business processes run with speed, trust, and resilience. Customer leaders from Ericsson, EssilorLuxottica, Fonterra, and ZF Group share real transformation stories across telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, supply chain, and mobility. Together, they show how connected data, trusted AI agents, clean core principles, and responsible governance can help companies modernize operations, accelerate decision-making, and create new capacity for growth.

You’ll also see how SAP is helping customers move to the cloud, adopt SAP Business AI at scale, use Joule Studio to build agents, improve AI adoption with WalkMe, and apply migration and modernization assistants to make transformation more predictable.

Speakers and SAP leaders featured include:
• Tomas Pfiester, Head of Customer Engagement & Adoption & Member of the Extended Board of SAP SE, SAP
• Manos Raptopoulos, Global President Customer Success Europe, APAC, Middle East & Africa and Member of the Extended Board, SAP SE
• Esra KOCATURK NORELL, Vice President, Customer
• Thomas Buck, Chief Information Officer, ZF Group
• Toby Granwal, Chief Information Officer, Fonterra
• Davide Schinetti, Chief Operating Officer, EssilorLuxottica

Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome to the SAP Sapphire Madrid customer keynote
01:00 – Turning disruption into opportunity
02:40 – Delivering value through SAP technology and partners
04:18 – SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise
05:21 – Verified agents, governance, and human oversight
06:38 – SAP Business AI Platform and agent extensibility
08:29 – Partner ecosystem and new AI collaborations
09:59 – Joule Studio and building agents faster
11:36 – Ericsson on AI, connectivity, and business transformation
14:57 – Ericsson’s problem-centric approach to AI
17:33 – Modernization, clean core, and SAP Business Data Cloud
20:11 – Why precision and business context matter for AI
21:25 – Joule Studio, SAP Knowledge Graph, and contextual AI
23:36 – EssilorLuxottica joins the keynote
25:18 – Retail AI use case with wearable technology
26:49 – Joule-powered store operations demo
30:42 – Turning a customer experience use case into reality
32:26 – Moving faster toward the Autonomous Enterprise
34:16 – RISE with SAP, clean core, and AI readiness
36:05 – Migration and modernization assistants demo
40:39 – AI-assisted project management and rollout planning
41:57 – Fonterra on RISE with SAP and clean core transformation
45:24 – Identifying practical AI use cases with SAP
47:12 – Forward-deployed engineering and services procurement
50:19 – Change management, WalkMe, and user adoption
51:38 – Scaling AI adoption across the enterprise
54:44 – ZF Group on RISE, SAP Business Data Cloud, and clean core
58:14 – Industry AI and quality management use cases
01:01:00 – Measuring AI value and ROI
01:02:14 – WalkMe and the future of AI adoption
01:05:43 – From AI moments to business momentum
01:06:48 – Key lessons from customer transformation stories

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See how Deloitte is using SAP Business AI, Joule for Consultants, and AI agents to help teams deliver client outcomes faster.

At SAP Sapphire Madrid 2026, Pavan Srivastava, Global Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte’s SAP practice, Deloitte, shares how AI is changing the way consultants work and how enterprises can move from experimentation to tangible business impact. Pavan joins Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer at SAP, to discuss how Deloitte is building a strong foundation with RISE with SAP and SAP Business Data Cloud, giving business users a unified data fabric to help achieve results with AI.

The conversation also explores Deloitte’s adoption of Joule for Consultants. Thousands of Deloitte consultants globally are using Joule for everyday consulting tasks, with 83% reporting a positive impact on daily work and time savings of up to 30%. For Deloitte, that means consultants can spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time delivering better outcomes for clients.

Deloitte also explains how its industry experience, AI frameworks, and more than 78 industry- and process-specific agents are helping clients accelerate their AI journey. With SAP Business AI Platform, Deloitte is continuing to innovate and support customers as they build agents for the Autonomous Enterprise.

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KPMG and SAP are helping organizations move from AI pilots to integrated, trusted AI agents that deliver measurable business value.

In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 conversation, Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the SAP Extended Board, welcomes Rob Fisher, KPMG Vice Chair & Global Head of Advisory, to discuss how KPMG is living AI transformation, modernizing core systems with GROW and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, and deploying Joule for Consultants across 34 countries.

Rob shares how KPMG is co-innovating with SAP on agentic AI solutions, including agents built on SAP Business AI Platform. He also explains what KPMG is seeing with customers: a shift from AI pilots toward integrated AI agents that support competitiveness, workforce transformation, and new business value.

The discussion highlights why trusted AI orchestration matters for enterprises that run across multiple platforms. For AI to scale, it needs to be embedded where decisions and accountability sit, with trust built in from day one.

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SAP Business AI Platform is opening new ways for enterprises to build, extend, and adopt AI agents at scale.

In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 keynote segment, Christian Klein, SAP’s Chief Executive Officer, announces three updates to help customers and partners accelerate AI adoption: open data exchange between SAP AI agents and third-party agents, free AI development with Joule Studio 2.0, and more than €100 million in ecosystem investment to build agents and drive adoption.

The video also introduces SAP Autonomous Suite, a major evolution of SAP’s application business. Spanning Autonomous Finance, Spend, Supply Chain, HCM, and CX, the suite is designed to help businesses move from systems of execution to systems that can listen, understand, steer, and manage work with people in the loop.

With role-centric Joule Assistants, outcome-based agents, audit-ready traceability, extensibility by design, and open orchestration across SAP and non-SAP agents, SAP is reimagining how enterprises run in the age of AI.

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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.