See how Databricks and SAP Business Data Cloud empower data scientists. Use SQL, Python notebooks, and MLflow to train, track, and apply machine learning directly on trusted business data.
🎧 Full episode → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11D4_p3d0Ww
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SAP isn’t just shaping global business; it’s helping real people and teams turn fresh ideas into solutions that matter. With ERP-centric, cloud-based, and AI-enabled tools, organizations can navigate fast-changing times, spot opportunities, and avoid risks with confidence. The most meaningful innovations go beyond one person’s success. They ripple outward, inspiring others and making a real difference in communities and industries around the world.
This brings us to the 2026 SAP Innovation Awards, the yearly celebration that honors customers using SAP technologies to innovate with purpose and achieve meaningful outcomes. The awards recognize industry innovators and honor the individuals and teams who make transformations happen, amplifying their stories to a global audience.
Submissions for the 2026 SAP Innovation Awards are now open. Organizations utilizing SAP technologies to tackle real-world challenges are encouraged to submit their innovation stories today, demonstrating how these innovations help solve economic, environmental, and social challenges.
In the past, the SAP Innovation Awards have been described as a tribute to “bold innovators in challenging times.” This is even more true today, given changing global landscapes and the increasing necessity to telegraph—and circumvent—obstacles in advance, combined with the acceleration of AI and other groundbreaking technologies.
The 2026 SAP Innovation Awards have 16 total categories for innovators, with participants encouraged to select one of the following 11 to best describe their submitted transformation:
It should be noted that, in 2026, the SAP Innovation Awards will no longer recognize the Partner Paragon category. Details surrounding partner recognition can be found here on the SAP Partner Portal site with more updates expected shortly.
There are five remaining categories, and candidates are automatically entered based on their industry. The “Industry Leader” grouping is focused on customers that are reinventing business or industry models, streamlining operations, engaging customers or serving constituents in new ways, collaborating across ecosystems, and creating meaningful societal or environmental impact. This category is divided into the following areas:
Transformative change has become a regular, rather than a sporadic, occurrence. And it is the people on the ground who are not only generating this reframing but using the vast assortment of available tools to make these innovations accessible.
In the tradition of SAP, the 2026 SAP Innovation Awards will highlight those positively shaping business, culture, and the planet. This is your chance to showcase yourself as you help your organization and the world move forward.
I truly hope you will submit your innovative solution to the 2026 awards for the world to see and celebrate.
Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer at SAP.
The SAP Global LoB Partner Excellence Awards are an SAP partner recognition program focusing on valuable contributions towards achieving SAP’s cloud growth ambitions through the following lines of business: HCM, SAP Customer Experience, Spend Management, and Supply Chain Management.
Complementing the SAP Pinnacle Awards, SAP’s premier global partner recognition program, the SAP Global LoB Partner Excellence Awards allow more granular recognition for achievements within the specific lines of business.
The four lines of business reward partners in the following five categories: Indirect Sales and Customer Success, Partner Solution Success, Delivery Quality, Sales Success – Large Enterprise, and SAP Business AI – Customer Adoption. For each category, partners are selected based on data and key performance indicators, ensuring all eligible partners are considered for this prestigious recognition.
Here are the SAP Global LoB Partner Excellence Awards 2025 winners and finalists:
SAP Global HCM Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Indirect Sales and Customer Success
SAP Global HCM Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Partner Solution Success
SAP Global HCM Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Delivery Quality
SAP Global HCM Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Sales Success – Large Enterprise
SAP Global HCM Partner Excellence Award 2025 for SAP Business AI – Customer Adoption
SAP Global SAP Customer Experience Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Indirect Sales and Customer Success
SAP Global SAP Customer Experience Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Partner Solution Success
SAP Global SAP Customer Experience Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Delivery Quality
SAP Global SAP Customer Experience Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Sales Success – Large Enterprise
SAP Global SAP Customer Experience Partner Excellence Award 2025 for SAP Business AI – Customer Adoption
SAP Global Spend Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Indirect Sales and Customer Success
SAP Global Spend Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Partner Solution Success
SAP Global Spend Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Delivery Quality
SAP Global Spend Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Sales Success – Large Enterprise
SAP Global Spend Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for SAP Business AI – Customer Adoption
SAP Global Supply Chain Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Indirect Sales and Customer Success
SAP Global Supply Chain Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Partner Solution Success
SAP Global Supply Chain Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Delivery Quality
SAP Global Supply Chain Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for Sales Success – Large Enterprise
SAP Global Supply Chain Management Partner Excellence Award 2025 for SAP Business AI – Customer Adoption
Custom code slows you down. Clean Core compliance keeps your system flexible, future-ready, and efficient.
See the full Clean Core episode: https://sap.to/6057AzrJL
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With the help of subaccounts in SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), you can structure your global account according to your needs and the organization of your projects.
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) will release its full results for the second quarter of 2025 on Tuesday, July 22.
SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam will host a virtual analyst conference to present second quarter financial figures, as well as an outlook on the current financial year.
Media representatives may listen in on the virtual analyst conference via Webcast at 11:00 p.m. CEST/ 5:00 p.m. ET.
Join Katlin Lehmann, CIO of Mercedes-Benz Group, as she shares the company’s bold digital transformation journey with SAP.
Discover how Mercedes-Benz is migrating thousands of applications to the cloud with RISE with SAP, leveraging AI across the enterprise, and embracing innovation at scale. Learn about the challenges, strategies, and real-world AI use cases driving Mercedes-Benz into the future.
00:12 – Welcome: Mercedes-Benz CIO On Stage
01:15 – IT Landscape Assessment
01:37 – LeanIX & Migration Planning
02:18 – RISE with SAP Benefits
02:49 – AI Across the Enterprise
04:09 – AI for Quality & Operations
Watch the full SAP Sapphire Global Keynote: https://sap.to/6059NLqMx
Watch all SAP Sapphire replays on demand: https://sap.to/6050NLqMI
#SAPSapphire #BusinessAI #Joule
Discover how Cirque du Soleil is streamlining its internal operations on the international stage with SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network:
https://sap.to/60593acW7 and https://www.sap.com/about/customer-stories/cirque-du-soleil.html
#cirquedusoleil #sapariba #procurement
Cirque du Soleil®: Growing the business with high-flying operations
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🔊Discover the key to organizational success – seamless integration!
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In the Integration Track, we dive into the critical role of SAP Integration Suite. Developers, join us to accelerate innovation with iPaas on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
#sapteched #sapbtp #integration
For organizations to run successfully, it’s critical to integrate business processes across SAP and third-party applications. With SAP Integration Suite, developers can accelerate innovation with an integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaas) on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to smoothly integrate on-premise and cloud-based processes, applications, events, and data. Learn how SAP Integration Suite connects and automates business processes to harmonize experiences across diverse landscapes.
The TUI Group is a leading global tourism company headquartered in Germany, offering integrated travel services like hotels, cruise ships, and travel agencies to its 20 million customers. At SAP Sapphire in Orlando, Laura Dean, digital adoption and training lead at TUI, shared the company’s success in streamlining its HR processes in SAP SuccessFactors solutions with WalkMe.
TUI implemented SAP SuccessFactors eight years ago, and now the company’s over 41,000 employees use various SAP SuccessFactors solutions for performance management, talent management, learning, HR data management, and more. “With so many capabilities and so many employees, as you can imagine, it’s a steep learning curve for our employees,” Dean said. This is where TUI turned to WalkMe to help standardize and automate its HR processes for an improved employee experience and increased efficiency.
TUI faced three main challenges when it came to HR processes, Dean explained: employees struggled to learn new systems, legacy training approaches were expensive and difficult to maintain, and time-consuming HR tasks were impacting overall business operations. “We needed something that was going to bring us into the future but that could support the organization as well,” Dean said. The solution also needed to be available 24/7 and in multiple languages to effectively support TUI’s global employee base, which includes flight attendants, pilots, travel agents, and other seasonal roles.
TUI implemented WalkMe to help employees navigate the company’s HR processes more easily and efficiently as well as aid HR staff members. With WalkMe analytics, TUI can identify where users have challenges in existing processes and then build WalkMe solutions to create personalized and automated experiences to help mitigate those challenges. For employees, this can mean the software feels easier to use; for HR staff and the business, it can lead to fewer employee and manager errors and faster time-to-value for SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Dean described how WalkMe automation helped simplify TUI’s onboarding processes for new employees by automatically assigning e-mail addresses in the SAP SuccessFactors system during the hiring process to reduce login issues on an employee’s first day. This not only improved the new hire experience, it also saved HR teams time and proactively addressed any errors.
TUI also simplified the time-off request process for HR staff and employees.
“We set up a process whereby if somebody is booking sick leave and they have annual leave at the same time, WalkMe will intercept them. It will say ‘You’ve actually got holiday at the same time so we need you to cancel that holiday and put it through as sick time,’” Dean said. “What that means then for us is that we’ve got less questions going to HR, less tickets being raised, and more people following the actual process for their region.”
WalkMe analytics can offer visibility into what software is being used and how. With this insight, companies can identify opportunities for improved efficiency and deploy in-app guidance and automations to address specific points in processes. “One of the real benefits of WalkMe is how the data that is available helps us make decisions around how we support employees and how we build digital adoption solutions for our employees,” Dean said. “We’ve focused a lot on the data that’s within the annual employee process and how our users are actually using their system currently.”
Analyzing aggregated annual employee form process data collected by WalkMe over 90 days, Dean saw that HR completed the process with no errors 70% of the time, completed the process with some errors 5% of the time, and did not complete the process 23% of the time. Even more, Dean could see where the errors were occurring and where users who didn’t complete the form were getting stuck. Based on this data, Dean used WalkMe to highlight the most-missed fields on the form, reminding users to complete them before moving on. “If 5% of the time they don’t know that information, I need to do something when they get here to say, ‘Please make sure you have this information before you carry on.’ So, I’m telling them in advance they need to have that, which I can do with WalkMe,” she said.
When asked how easy the analytics dashboards are to build, Dean explained that WalkMe gathers all the forms automatically so there’s no need to build anything additional. With WalkMe flow analytics, you set up the process step-by-step and then the report collects data over time. “It’s super quick and easy. With UI intelligence you get an out-of-the-box set of insights that shows usage of forms in the system. It shows me where people stop and start processing and points of friction,” she said.
TUI’s brand purpose to “create the moments that make life richer” not only applies to its customers, but extends to its employee base as well. With the help of WalkMe and SAP SuccessFactors solutions, TUI has certainly succeeded in enriching and empowering HR and end users.
“What we’ve been able to see is 80% higher employee self-efficiency,” Dean said. “So the good news is they don’t need to contact their local support team because actually what they can do is go into our WalkMe menu and search for any of the content, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, across six different languages.” TUI has also experienced 70% less time spent on training, a 40% increase in task completion, and 50% fewer support calls with the help of WalkMe.
For Dean herself, WalkMe has enhanced her role as a trainer: “It actually supports me to do that change management piece within my organization. It supports me to educate and enable our end users without me having to be available and fly all around the world.”
Discover how WalkMe for SAP SuccessFactors HCM can help drive adoption and streamline HR processes.
Gillian Hixson is an integrated communications specialist at SAP.
