See how SAP’s open, agentic stack lets you build practical AI agents – using your favorite tools with governance on SAP BTP.
In this SAP TechEd demo, we show how SAP’s developer experience opens up to the broader agent ecosystem so you can build with the tools and frameworks you prefer, without leaving the SAP BTP trust boundary. The session builds an agent that quality-tests a tutorial automatically, combining model intelligence with real tools like a browser and terminal. This reflects SAP’s newly announced agentic capabilities for developers: open interoperability, enterprise guardrails, and faster delivery from idea to impact.
We define the agent’s “brain” with the SAP Cloud SDK for AI (via Generative AI Hub), select a foundation model, and keep prompts in the Prompt Registry for reuse and governance. Tools are attached through Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers—including a Playwright MCP server for browser automation and SAP-specific MCP servers that give agents authoritative access to UI5/CAP knowledge and actions.
Running live, the agent streams its plan, chooses the right tool (navigate, click, fill), validates state, and loops until the workflow is complete—then returns structured feedback. This agentic pattern aligns with SAP’s TechEd updates: Joule Studio to build/extend agents and skills, A2A + MCP interoperability, and centralized monitoring, so teams move fast while staying compliant.
Speaker: Nora von Thenen, Developer Advocate, SAP
00:02 – Ecosystem open: compatible with many AI agent frameworks
00:19 – Build the agent: tools (browser, terminal, grounding)
01:36 – Implement: SDK, model selection & Prompt Registry
02:19 – Run live: stream plan, choose tools, loop to complete steps
04:54 – Results: agent feedback (grounding module clarity)
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Explore the latest advancements in SAP Analytics Cloud with our Q4 2025 release highlights with Orla Cullen, Product Marketing Manager – Data & Analytics.
This short expert overview video showcases the most impactful product enhancements empowering finance, planning, and analytics professionals to make data-driven decisions with greater speed, precision, and control.
From AI-powered forecasting to enhanced security and visualization tools, these updates continue SAP’s commitment to unifying analytics and planning in the cloud. Whether you’re managing budgets, building dashboards, or optimizing enterprise performance, these new features help you stay agile and future-ready.
Here’s what’s new this quarter:
– AI-Powered Forecast Enhancements – improved predictive accuracy, scenario generation, and explainability to support better business outcomes.
– Unified Data Modeling – seamless cross-model linking and advanced semantic capabilities for consistent, connected analysis.
– Planning Workflow Automation – streamlined task orchestration, new collaboration tools, and version management for faster close cycles.
– Enhanced Visualization Experience – new chart types, layout flexibility, and improved story formatting for compelling dashboards.
– Administration & Security Updates – stronger audit logging, refined access control, and simplified role management for trusted insights.
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00:00 – Intro
00:48 – Horizon Theme
02:13 – My Metrics for KPI Monitoring (𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵)
05:19 – Seamless Planning – Live Version
07:28 – Scheduling & Process Management: Factory Calendar
09:28 – SAP Analytics Cloud Performance Content: Model and audit table sizes
10:52 – Outro
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) will release its full results for the third quarter of 2025 on Wednesday, October 22.
SAP CEO Christian Klein as well as CFO Dominik Asam will host a virtual analyst conference to present third quarter financial figures, as well as an outlook on the current financial year.
i-Health is named a winner at the SAP Innovation Awards for enhancing efficiency and accuracy in product labeling through SAP’s public cloud technology.
To find out more about the SAP Innovation Awards and how to submit your own innovative ideas, visit: https://sap.to/6058fGA1Y
This latest course will enable attendees to facilitate a new Joule Agent Discovery Workshop, guide workshop participants to identify appropriate use cases, and tailor the workshop format to the needs of different audiences.
But what are SAP solutions for agentic AI? What do they stand for?
Joule Agents are AI systems that autonomously plan and execute multi-step workflows, collaborating to connect departments, speed up decisions, and streamline processes.
Discovering high-value opportunities for agentic AI
In the format of an SAP Expert Lecture, this course introduces participants to the Joule Agent Discovery Workshop, a structured and collaborative method to identify high-value agentic use cases in an organization. Attendees will learn how to inspire and guide participants, prioritize ideas, and describe the selected opportunities in detail. The course also covers how to adapt the workshop to different timeframes, team sizes, and virtual settings. By the end, attendees will be able to guide participants in identifying where AI agents can make the biggest impact and lay the groundwork for their agentic journey.
In detail, learners will be able to:
Understand the purpose and structure of the Joule Agent Discovery Workshop and how it can be used to identify high-value agentic use cases
Facilitate the workshop exercises, guiding participants from idea generation to prioritization and a detailed description of agentic use cases
Adapt the workshop format to different team sizes, virtual environments, and timeframes to fit organizational needs
There are no prerequisites for this course, but experience with SAP Design Thinking and workshop facilitation will be helpful. It is a good learning opportunity for a variety of roles such as support consultant, business user, and SAP rookie.
The creative mind behind SAP AppHaus methods and this learning journey
For many years now, Karen Detken, an expert user experience designer at the SAP AppHaus, has worked in customer co-innovation projects and has gotten firsthand experiences and feedback when developing and hosting a variety of workshop formats with different methods and tools. Early on, the team decided to share these best practices and their tools and templates in the openly accessible innovation toolkit.
Karen Detken, Expert User Experience Designer at SAP AppHaus
When the topic of artificial intelligence arose and SAP solutions started to include generative AI and large language models (LLMs) in their solutions, such as SAP Business AI, followed by the latest step up with agentic AI, such as Joule Agents, the SAP AppHaus team worked with customers on exploring appropriate business use cases to benefit from this very latest in technology. Based on these first experiences, the team started sharing helpful methods, as a co-innovation frontrunner, so that other teams, partners, and customers could drive their own exploration projects involving latest technologies.
For Detken, it is not only about enabling in and applying those technologies: “New technologies are developing very fast and are becoming widely accessible,” she said. “What is important is that we have a very clear picture of why we want to use the technologies. Because technology only has a value when you find the right purpose to use it. Customers and users need to be clear about the outcomes they want to have with that technology. This is the first thing you need to answer before using it. With the methods we provide, we intend to help people first understand what this technology can do for them, for the business, for the people.”
This awareness and very conscious use of technology also includes the consideration of responsible and ethical guidelines that every new solution needs to follow (see SAP’s principles laid out in the SAP AI Ethics Handbook).
Bringing innovation and technology into the hands of people
The SAP AppHaus team gets feedback from many different customer and partner teams. For the team of experienced co-innovation coaches, it is fulfilling to see workshop participants, along with attendees of enablement sessions, understand the new technology better. From this deeper understanding they help participants — along their human-centered approach — start generating ideas related to their business needs. They help them, as Detken puts it, “think of different ways how they can use AI to solve real problems.”
The latest SAP Learning Journey for agentic AI is a compilation of helpful exercises to help customers and partners explore and approach this field of technology while discovering meaningful business use cases. In parallel and probably not that obvious at first sight, this new course testifies the openness of the team for novel applications such as using an avatar as speaker. It was built based on video recordings with Detken.
When asked about her view on agentic AI in contrast to generative AI, Detken describes it as follows: “Generative AI uses an LLM as a kind of intelligent system or ‘brain.’ The same LLMs are used by an AI agent. The difference is that the agent can not only ‘think’ and use these large language models to generate content or analyze data and make decisions, but it also uses ‘tools’ or other applications to act upon these decisions or make changes autonomously. To put it as an example: with Gen AI, we only had the brain and now it’s the next step, we have the brain and the hands. Maybe in the future, we will have the entire body as well, which would probably be the robots.”
What are AI agents?
AI agents are artificial intelligence-based applications that make decisions and perform tasks independently with minimal human oversight. Backed by advanced models, agents can decide a course of action and employ multiple software tools to execute. Their ability to reason, plan, and act lets agents tackle a wide range of situations otherwise impractical or impossible to automate with preconfigured rules and logic.
Imke Vierjahn is the communications lead for SAP AppHaus.
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How the RISE with SAP Validated Partner recognition enables partners to unlock the power of SAP Business Suite
Businesses today rightly expect faster value realization, streamlined implementations, and solutions that are flexible, scalable, and embedded with intelligent technologies, such as AI.
SAP partners help you get the most from your software while enabling a smooth deployment
With the launch earlier this year of SAP Business Suite, a unified system integrating applications, data, and AI to seamlessly connect and optimize every business function, customers can benefit from a continuous cycle of value and unlock innovation faster and easier than ever before.
By embarking on the RISE with SAP journey, existing SAP ERP customers can modernize with a cloud ERP landscape and realize the full potential of SAP Business Suite. To ensure businesses have the foundation needed to fully leverage the suite’s capabilities, a successful implementation is crucial.
Our RISE with SAP project delivery is undergoing a profound shift, empowering our service partner ecosystem to meet these heightened expectations with innovative methodologies, comprehensive tools, and validation programs.
The new paradigm: customer priorities in SAP projects
Today’s organizations grapple with complex legacy processes, siloed data, and highly customized systems. They seek:
Speed to value: Building a resilient digital backbone that delivers measurable benefits within weeks or months
Industry-standard solutions: Minimizing costly customizations to enable faster deployment, simplified upgrades, and easier maintenance
Reusable intellectual property: Configurations over modifications ensure portability and scalability
Operational modernization: Leveraging automation and standardized processes to reduce redundancies and risks and improve data access
Embedded AI and automation: Accelerating decision cycles, reducing manual efforts, and enhancing accuracy
SAP’s response: enabling partners to drive customer success
SAP recognizes that delivering on these expectations requires a strategic partnership approach, combining the future-proof cloud and AI innovations with disciplined governance, clear ownership and accountability, and best practices. Our approach centers on the RISE with SAP Methodology, complemented by an integrated toolchain and a dedicated focus on partner capability enhancement.
RISE with SAP Methodology: framework for agile transformation
The RISE with SAP Methodology provides a comprehensive pathway that emphasizes a clean core architecture, standardized best practices, and collaborative implementation strategies. Included are:
Standardized framework: Building scalable, repeatable project road maps that cater to diverse industry requirements, from streamlined deployments to complex, multinational programs
Integrated toolchain: Enabling seamless collaboration with SAP tools, such as SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, and SAP Build — powered by AI — to ensure data consistency and process automation
Expert guidance: From discovery to deployment, SAP and qualified partners guide projects, focusing on value creation and risk mitigation
The results speak for themselves. Customer outcomes include:
Up to 30 percent reduction in transformation costs
Up to 35 percent faster realization of benefits
Up to 70 percent increase in business agility
Up to 40 percent acceleration in innovation cycles
RISE with SAP Validated Partner recognition: elevating our service partner ecosystem
SAP is committed to ensuring our partners have the necessary skills and certifications to stay aligned with this evolving landscape. To that end, we’ve introduced the RISE with SAP Validated Partner recognition. Launched in 2024, this program recognizes partners that demonstrate excellence in delivering SAP large and complex cloud ERP projects with consistency and quality.
Qualified partners that accept SAP’s invitation must adhere to clear guidelines, including:
Global adoption of RISE with SAP Methodology: Ensuring consistency across all delivery teams and regions
Focus on clean core quality gates: Partner projects must document the respective clean core quality gates in SAP Cloud ALM
Enhanced toolchain utilization: A strong emphasis on automation, collaboration, and project governance through SAP’s integrated platform suite
Professional certifications: Equipping key roles — project managers, developers, architects, consultants — with updated, in-demand skills aligned with SAP’s cloud and AI innovations
Ensuring partner success: tools, training, and innovation
The RISE with SAP Validated Partner recognition is underpinned by a close alignment between qualified partners and SAP teams throughout all engagements, from sales to delivery, ensuring early identification of any potential barriers, to success.
To help customers harness the full potential of AI to drive value, partners must apply tools like Joule to effectively automate and optimize processes for superior outcomes. SAP Joule for Consultants empowers consultants to work smarter, automate routine tasks, and focus on strategic activities. Given its grounding in terabytes of both public and proprietary data, SAP Joule for Consultants can accelerate customer project delivery by up to 14 percent.
Looking ahead
By aligning with SAP’s proven methodologies, leveraging our integrated toolchain, and maintaining high standards of certification and expertise, our RISE with SAP Validated partners are uniquely positioned to deliver solutions that truly meet customer expectations in today’s fast-paced, digitally driven environment.
Together, SAP and its service partners are committed to driving innovation, accelerating time-to-value, and enabling sustainable transformation — ensuring our customers remain competitive in a rapidly changing world.
Karl Fahrbach is chief partner officer at SAP.
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Editor’s note: SAP announced changes to RISE with SAP at SAP Sapphire 2025. While this blog is a good starting point for learning about RISE with SAP, some things may have changed.
RISE with SAP is a package of applications, services, and methodologies that helps companies transition from on-premise applications (such as SAP ERP), platforms, and infrastructure to a pure-cloud model.
Join Dr. Stefan Henkel, CIO of Siemens Healthineers, as he shares the company’s global business transformation journey with RISE with SAP. Discover how the world’s largest medtech company leverages SAP’s integrated toolchain, including LeanIX, WalkMe, Signavio, and Tricentis, to drive process excellence, accelerate innovation, and enable continuous improvement. Learn best practices for digital transformation, the power of proof of concept, and how Siemens Healthineers is preparing for the future with AI and automation.
00:15 – Siemens Healthineers Transformation Overview
00:56 – RISE with SAP Journey
01:25 – Integrated Toolchain Experience
02:40 – Vision for Digital Backbone
04:14 – Innovation & Next Steps
05:16 – Best Practices & Change Management
Watch the full Customer Keynote: https://youtu.be/nF35qFUxuzs
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Join Thomas Hammer, Lead Product Manager, as he shares his top features of SAP HANA Cloud’s Q2 2025 release.
0:00 – Intro
0:34 – GenAI toolkit in SAP Build Code
1:12 – Advanced features for vector data processing with Auto ML
2:40 – Generative AI-assisted table data generation in Database Explorer
3:54 – SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake Relational Engine
5:00 – Enhanced self-service Migration Tool
5:55 – Further Information
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