Universal Allocation in SAP S/4HANA: A Smarter, Unified Approach to Cost Allocation
Cost allocations have always been one of the most critical—yet often one of the most fragmented—processes within SAP Controlling (CO).
SAP Business AI: Release Highlights Q3 2025
Recently, at SAP Connect, we highlighted an incredible array of new Joule Agents embedded in key business processes and across every line of business.
The International Trade Classification Agent and Cash Management Agent optimize finance, while the Bid Analysis Agent and Receipt Analysis Agent clarify spending. The Production Planning and Operations Agent, Change Record Management Agent, and Supplier Onboarding Agent handle supply chain logistics. In human resources, the HR Service Agent, People Intelligence Agent, and Career and Talent Development Agent level up your workforce, while customer-facing teams get support from the Digital Service Agent. Finally, the Utilities Customer Self-Service Agent cut service costs, while the Process Content Recommender Agent and Workspace Administration Agent accelerate business-wide transformation and onboarding.
With the growing number of Joule Agents, we want to make it as easy as possible for our customers to engage with AI. That is why we’re introducing Joule Assistants as a grouping concept. This means that the agents are role-aware depending on the user logged onto the system, whereas the assistants will be more abstract, coarse-grained group around a semantically closely aligned set of agents. While Joule manages the tasks, the assistants will initiate sub threads for more targeted conversations when mentioned. If the user becomes lost in the details or does not receive the expected response from the selected assistant, Joule can step in.
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In Q3, SAP received its ISO 42001 certification for AI governance, which means customers get responsible AI systems, such as Joule, SAP AI Core, and more, that can be confidently integrated into their operations. This certification assures that our AI solutions meet the highest industry standards for ethics, security, and compliance, including adherence to regulations like the EU AI Act.
SAP Business AI is fully on track to have more than 400 AI features, including Joule Agents, by the end of 2025 that will deliver unparalleled business value to customers. These features are being built with AI Foundation on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and will add to the over 300 existing AI scenarios and 1,900 Joule skills.
Here are some of the highlights from Q3 2025:
- SAP Business AI for supply chain is ensuring the entire supply chain runs smoothly while boosting productivity. The new Shop Floor Supervisor Agent proactively manages factory floor disruptions by analyzing issues and recommending actions. AI-assisted mobile execution in SAP Service and Asset Manager lets customers in the field use voice commands for hands-free job documentation. SAP Integrated Business Planning provides clear summaries for complex statistical results and safety stock calculations, to name a few. There is much more to check out about SAP Business AI for supply chain below.
- SAP Business AI for finance has always been packed, and this quarter is no exception. We are boosting productivity and simplifying complex tasks through embedded AI. Joule has new capabilities that let customers interactively verify supplier invoices or perform mass updates using natural language. Generative AI explains more core financial processes, including complex costing variants. SAP Document AI automation alleviates more tedious tasks, such as extracting and matching data from incoming quality certificates. There is so much more, so dive into everything SAP Business AI for finance below.
- The latest innovations don’t slow down for industries, spend, and procurement. The Booking Agent in Concur Travel is a new personal assistant that simplifies our customers’ trip planning with personalized flight and hotel recommendations. Procurement customers can automate statements of work (SOWs) creation with a new document extraction feature in SAP Fieldglass that pulls data directly from existing files. Finally, the Utilities Customer Self-Service Agent offers a new 24/7 self-service that feels personal and effective across any channel for utility customers. Check out industries, spend, and procurement in detail below.
- SAP Business AI for customer experience welcomes new agents that will free up more of employees’ time and boost customer service. The Digital Service Agent supercharges customer support with instant answers to common inquiries, freeing human agents to focus on more complex, high-value interactions. The Catalog Optimization Agent continuously scans product descriptions and translations to identify inconsistencies or gaps in global product catalogs. Get all the details for customer experience below.
- With SAP Business AI for IT and developers, customers can build, automate, and analyze faster and more simply than ever. Joule Studio agent builder is at the top of the ticket, as users can now create custom AI agents to automate complex, end-to-end business processes. SAP Analytics Cloud is seeing exciting enhancements, with customers able to generate complex formulas and chart summaries from natural language. SAP Joule for Developers also further accelerates ABAP code generation and testing. There’s so much more, so read on below.
- SAP Business AI for business transformation management and SAP Signavio are taking business value to new heights by transforming how business leaders understand customer experience. Customers can now automatically analyze sentiment from unstructured customer feedback and link it to events in their operational processes. My Process Overview in SAP Signavio offers a highly personalized and role-specific experience for understanding processes. Learn more about AI and business transformation management below.
- In Q3 SAP Business AI for sustainability is all about simplifying what was once complex: environmental compliance and reporting. AI-powered permit management in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud extracts requirements directly from PDF documents to make manual effort and the risk of costly fines a thing of the past. SAP Green Ledger uses AI to make sophisticated carbon analysis accessible to all business users through natural language queries. Business users can now effortlessly explore carbon emissions data and its financial impact in natural language. Get more information about AI and sustainability below.
Joule
SAP Joule for Consultants
Product enhancements
General availability
Consultants leading complex innovation and transformation projects require swift and reliable information to ensure success. SAP Joule for Consultants assists them by providing instant clarity on ABAP code purpose, business logic, and structure, drawing from a model trained on SAP’s exclusive code and vast documentation. SAP Joule for Consultants translates to an up to 14% acceleration in project execution, a 50% reduction in design rework, and an estimated 1.5 hours saved per consultant per day through faster knowledge access and improved code interpretation.
Read more about this release in our Q2 2025 highlights.
In Q3 2025, SAP Joule for Consultants has gotten some key enhancements. Consultants can now leverage a new Prompt Guide for quick-start tips and a filterable Prompt Library to browse pre-formulated questions by role or area. The tool’s knowledge base is continually refreshed with the latest SAP Learning journeys and courses, Activate Roadmap content, and now integrates SAP-exclusive, gated-content Knowledge Base Articles (KBA) and SAP Notes. Once Joule provides an answer, the new “Copy Answer to Clipboard” function allows consultants to quickly share the entire response and specific code snippets for seamless integration into other applications.
Get started with SAP Joule for Consultants and deep dive into the latest updates. We also have learning resources to help you get started here.
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SAP Business AI for supply chain
SAP Service and Asset Manager
AI-assisted mobile execution
General availability
Field technicians can now document job details more efficiently using AI-assisted voice commands within the SAP Service and Asset Manager mobile app. This mobile execution feature lets them capture work updates through natural language, which the system instantly converts into structured data, streamlining the job completion process.
By guiding the user and enabling a hands-free experience, this capability delivers a 50%* increase in technician productivity and a 75%* reduction in costs from job completion errors, fundamentally improving data quality and the mobile user experience.
Get started here.
Shop Floor Supervisor Agent
Beta release
Production supervisors can use the Shop Floor Supervisor Agent to proactively manage and resolve potential factory floor disruptions. The agent helps them quickly understand the severity of an issue, resequencing production orders and reallocating resources to maintain a seamless workflow.
This proactive approach boosts supervisor productivity in handling disruptions by 50%* and reduces unplanned downtime by two percent*, ensuring greater operational efficiency.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, product compliance
AI-assisted compliance information processing
Beta release
Master data specialists in product compliance can leverage an AI-assisted feature in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition to automatically process supplier compliance disclosures. The tool extracts key information, such as regulations and status data, and maps it directly to the corresponding compliance requirements within the system.
This automation improves the accuracy of compliance data, reduces the risk of errors that could lead to fines, and allows specialists to focus on strategic priorities instead of manual data entry.
This can reduce organizations’ costs of processing disclosures by up to 90% and environmental management penalties and fines by 67%.
Get started here.
SAP Integrated Business Planning
AI-assisted forecast results analysis
SAP Early Adopter Care release
Demand planners can dramatically accelerate their forecast analysis using a generative AI summary embedded directly within their planning user interface. This intelligent narrative explains complex statistical details, such as why the best-fit algorithm was chosen, and provides clear recommendations for improving future results.
This enhanced visibility, powered by Joule, boosts planner productivity in analyzing forecasting runs by 25%*, enabling faster and more confident adjustments to the supply chain model.
Get started here.
SAP Integrated Business Planning
AI-assisted analysis of inventory optimization results
SAP Early Adopter Care release
Inventory planners can now leverage AI-assisted analysis to better understand the key drivers behind their recommended safety stock values. The feature supports root cause analysis by translating complex calculations – such as demand variability, lead time fluctuations, and service levels – into clear summaries of the factors influencing inventory optimization outputs.
This capability accelerates the speed of analysis and boosts confidence in system recommendations, helping to ensure that inventory outcomes are strategically aligned with crucial business goals for working capital management and customer service. Organizations will enjoy a 25%* improvement in inventory planner productivity.
Get started here.
SAP Business AI for finance
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted processing of incoming quality certificates with SAP Document AI
General availability
Quality technicians can elevate operational efficiency by automating the intake of quality certificate documents. The solution utilizes SAP Document AI to intelligently extract data upon upload, automatically matching it to corresponding system objects to update or generate certificate receipts with minimal manual intervention.
This streamlined workflow accelerates stock release and delivers significant business value, reducing certificate processing time by 70%* and cutting potential revenue loss from associated delays by an equal measure.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted note corrections for project billing
General availability
Billing specialists can enhance the professionalism of their invoices by leveraging the smart notes feature within the manage project billing application. This tool automatically suggests grammatical corrections for notes on time and expenses items, allowing specialists to review and approve changes instead of performing tedious manual edits.
By improving invoice accuracy and speeding up generation, this capability directly reduces the time spent on note corrections by 50%* and helps to shorten customer payment cycles.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted explanation of fixed asset key figures
General availability
Asset accountants can demystify complex financial data with a new AI-powered feature that explains fixed asset calculations in simple, natural language. This tool lets them quickly comprehend asset valuations, ensure compliance, and answer stakeholder questions rapidly and confidently.
This intuitive approach reduces the effort spent analyzing asset values and responding to inquiries by up to 75%*.
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Joule with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Product enhancements
General availability
As part of the new capabilities introduced this quarter in Joule with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition:
The supplier invoice verification capability in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud enables accountants to interact with Joule using natural language to get immediate updates on supplier invoices, such as identifying the current approver or checking a payment status. They can also perform crucial tasks, like releasing an invoice from a payment block or canceling a posted document, without leaving the conversational AI. By providing this direct access to both information and transactional capabilities, the solution drastically reduces time spent on manual searches and boosts the overall productivity of the accounts payable team. The capability reduces the time required to search for invoice details by 60%* and provides a 10%* improvement in overall accounts payable productivity.
Cost accountants working in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition can now use the AI-assisted costing variant explanation for precise, natural language explanations for complex costing variants. This feature helps them quickly understand the logic behind product price calculations, ensuring they can efficiently select the correct parameters for cost estimates.
This intelligent guidance streamlines configuration and troubleshooting, delivering a 66%* reduction in the time needed to set up calculations and significantly increasing efficiency when resolving valuation errors.
Purchasers managing procurement timelines in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud can leverage Joule to execute mass updates of delivery dates. When a supplier communicates a schedule change, purchasers can use natural language to identify all relevant purchase order items and apply the new dates in a consolidated action.
This capability eliminates repetitive manual data entry and ensures downstream planning is based on the most accurate information, resulting in an 80%* increase in purchaser productivity for this task.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted smart solution for situations in My Home
Beta release
Upon logging into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, business users can now leverage a smart homepage that automatically summarizes key updates and tasks requiring their attention. This feature provides a comprehensive overview of significant changes since the user’s last session, allowing them to identify and act on high-priority items immediately.
By bringing actionable insights directly to the entry page, users can boost productivity and significantly reduce the time spent on daily tasks, freeing them to focus on higher-value activities. Employees will see an up to 46%* reduction in time needed to resolve situations.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted smart personalization of My Home for applications
Beta release
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition users can now personalize their homepage by using natural language to find the right applications for their tasks. The AI-powered feature interprets the user’s request and suggests the most relevant app, which can be added directly to the My Home entry page with a single click.
This significantly reduces users’ time searching for tools and helps new users get up to speed more quickly. The personalization costs of My Home are reduced by up to 33%*.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted easy fill
Beta release
With the easy fill feature, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition users can populate business object fields using natural language. This streamlines data entry by allowing users to describe an update in a business-relevant format, which the system then uses to automatically and accurately populate all corresponding fields.
This accelerates the process, improves data accuracy, and ensures all required information is captured, leading to an 80%* increase in speed, enhanced data accuracy, and a significant reduction in business process complexity and user training time.
Get started here.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
AI-assisted payment exception analysis and explanation
Beta release
Accounts payable accountants using SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition can more efficiently analyze and resolve payment exceptions. The feature provides enhanced tools to search payment logs and view a transparent history of changes made to payment proposals.
This enables users to quickly identify the root cause of an issue, leading to a higher rate of on-time payments and improved transparency for both end-users and auditors. Overall, it will increase the average rate of on-time payments by up to 85%*, reduce the time for analyzing payment run logs from up to one hour to just 10 minutes*, and lower the overall cost of SAP support.
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SAP Business AI for spend management
Booking Agent
SAP Early Adopter Care release
Business travelers can streamline their trip planning with the Booking Agent in Concur Travel. The Joule Agent analyzes individual preferences, company policies, and budgets to deliver personalized flight and hotel recommendations through a conversational interface.
This approach reduces the time needed to book a trip by 11% *and improves user engagement by 50%*. It also increases policy compliance and simplifies the overall booking experience.
Get started here.
SAP Business AI for procurement
Joule with SAP Ariba solutions
General availability
Procurement professionals using SAP Ariba solutions, from sourcing experts to casual requisitioners, can now avoid navigational and transactional complexities. Joule integrates with SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Supplier Management, and SAP Ariba Buying, providing intuitive navigation and natural language processing for information access and task completion.
This results in up to 50%* faster informational searches and up to 50%* quicker execution of navigation and transactional tasks, enabling procurement teams to redirect their efforts toward strategic activities and maximize their contribution to organizational goals.
Get started here.
SAP Fieldglass Service Procurement
AI-assisted document information extraction
General availability
With AI-assisted document information extraction, project managers can streamline the extraction of SOWs from existing files. This helps them reclaim time and eradicate errors during critical migrations. SAP Fieldglass Service Procurement extracts essential SOW details from existing PDFs. This advanced capability shifts the focus for project managers from tedious manual data entry to cultivating stronger collaboration among all stakeholders in the SOW life cycle.
The ultimate benefit is a marked 80%* reduction in the time required for SOW creation, a significant decrease in the risk of costly errors, and an overall improvement in collaborative efficiency.
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SAP Business AI for customer experience
Catalog Optimization Agent
Beta release
E-commerce product managers who optimize global product catalogs can use the Catalog Optimization Agent for intelligent automation within SAP Commerce Cloud. This Joule Agent continuously evaluates product descriptions, attributes, and translations to identify and flag inconsistencies or gaps, ensuring accurate and complete information.
This enhancement of merchandising standards improves product discoverability. It drives higher conversion rates, resulting in significant efficiencies, such as a 70% reduction in translation time and a 65% decrease in the time spent adding descriptions per asset.
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Digital Service Agent
General availability
Customer service and sales teams can enhance their support capabilities by deploying the Digital Service Agent to respond to inquiries in natural language. This Joule Agent leverages a company’s internal SAP business knowledge to instantly provide accurate answers and resolve common issues. The agent integrates with existing business portals and e-commerce platforms through content-rich APIs and uses machine learning to continuously improve its response quality.
This automation frees human agents to focus on complex, high-value interactions, ultimately decreasing support costs, improving overall customer satisfaction, and boosting conversion rates. Organizations can increase sales staff productivity by 50%*, service staff productivity by 50%* for agent-handled tasks, and overall operational performance.
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SAP Business AI for IT and developers
SAP Datasphere
AI-assisted semantic generation
General availability
Data analysts often spend valuable time manually defining the semantic types for ingested non-SAP data, a necessary but time-consuming preparation task. SAP Datasphere accelerates this process with its AI-assisted semantic generation. The embedded feature automatically recognizes and assigns the correct semantic characteristics to data, allowing analysts to bypass manual preparation and move directly to higher-value modeling work.
This capability reduces the time and costs associated with creating semantics for non-SAP entities by up to 95%* and empowers organizations to derive insights from their data faster.
SAP Analytics Cloud
AI-assisted commenting
General availability
Within SAP Analytics Cloud, a new AI-assisted commenting feature helps users consume and create commentary. For business analysts, the tool can automatically summarize long comment threads, aggregate comments along a data hierarchy for new insights, and translate the results into the user’s preferred language.
Users can get the help of AI to rephrase their input when authoring comments for improved quality and clarity. This capability dramatically reduces the time needed to analyze qualitative feedback, enabling faster and better-informed decision-making. Organizations will enjoy a dramatic increase in efficiency, with an 80%* reduction in the time required to rephrase business comments, an 80%* reduction in time to aggregate and translate descendant comments, and an 80%* reduction in the time it takes to summarize and translate comments by cell or thread.
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SAP Analytics Cloud
AI-assisted data actions
General availability
SAP Analytics Cloud now assists planning professionals by automatically generating advanced formula scripts from natural language descriptions. Users can write a comment explaining the desired logic, and the AI will create the corresponding script. Conversely, the tool can also analyze an existing script and generate business-friendly comments, greatly simplifying documentation and knowledge transfer.
This dual capability equips organizations with a 75%* reduction in the time needed to author scripts and a 75%* reduction in the time required to create fully documented scripts.
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SAP Analytics Cloud
AI-assisted chart summary
General availability
Users can automatically generate a text summary for any chart using the SAP Analytics Cloud add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. The feature creates a three-bullet point summary inserted directly into the presentation as editable text with a single click. The summary can be regenerated on demand to ensure it always reflects the latest data in the source chart.
This feature significantly reduces the time spent writing presentation commentary. It improves chart comprehension for the audience, offering an up to 96%* reduction in time for writing and updating a chart summary.
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SAP Analytics Cloud
AI-assisted calculations
General availability
A new AI feature simplifies working with calculations in SAP Analytics Cloud. Users can now generate complex calculation formulas simply by describing what they need in natural language. Conversely, the tool can also take an existing, complex formula and explain its function in clear, easy-to-understand text.
This dual capability cuts the time required to create and understand calculations by 60%*, making the platform more accessible and efficient for all users.
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SAP Document AI
Embedded edition and workspace
General availability
SAP Document AI, embedded edition, automates the entire document lifecycle within enterprise processes. The solution can automatically retrieve documents from sources like email inboxes, extract key information based on predefined templates, and then seamlessly post the data into target systems like SAP S/4HANA. This end-to-end automation accelerates document handling, improves data accuracy, and reduces the delays and value loss associated with manual processing.
Get started with SAP Document AI, embedded edition.
SAP Document AI workspace is the central administration hub for managing automated document processing. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for administrators to define data extraction schemas, orchestrate intelligent workflows, and integrate various input channels. The workspace also includes real-time monitoring and analytics, offering complete transparency and control over performance. Centralizing these functions streamlines the setup and governance of document AI solutions, accelerating deployment and simplifying the management of large-scale document processing. Both will grant organizations a 70% *reduction in document processing time, an 83% reduction in template maintenance, and a 40%* mitigation of the value lost to manual processing delays.
From Seed to Sale: SAP Helps Trulieve Manage Its Growth
America’s biggest integrated cannabis company Trulieve chose SAP S/4HANA to provide it with the scale and flexibility it needs and a highly dynamic market.
Read the article to learn more about Trulieve’s success: https://sap.to/6056AiWNe
00:20 – From Seed to Sale
00:53 – SAP enables Insights
01:10 – Datamanagement
01:40 – What’s next for Trulieve?
Successfully Deliver Engineer-to-Order Projects Through Team Collaboration with SAP | Overview
Discover how SAP Project and Resource Management revolutionizes engineering projects with streamlined collaboration and resource control.
Learn how Oscar, a project manager, leverages SAP’s cloud solution for seamless coordination and project delivery.
Enhance your efficiency and minimize delays using SAP’s digital twin and 3D visualization features.
Learn more about SAP Project and Resource Management: https://sap.to/6054Aj656
0:00 – Introduction to Complex Engineering Projects
0:13 – Leveraging SAP for Project Collaboration
0:38 – Real-Life Example: Oscar’s Project Management
1:19 – Collaborative Tools & Schedule Updates
1:37 – Identifying and Resolving Project Issues
2:10 – Enhancing Project Management with digital twin data
2:37 – Conclusion: The Power of SAP Project and Resource Management
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Be the Difference with UXPowerUP: SAP Academy for Engineering
UXPowerUP is the SAP Academy for Engineering’s signature program for Designers, created in partnership with SAP Design.
This 1.5-month hybrid learning experience brought together 55 participants from 7 countries, combining four weeks of virtual learning with an immersive ten-day in-person capstone at the SAP Academy for Engineering in San Ramon.
The program is focused on upskilling SAP’s designers to be future leaders, empowering them to drive impact across product teams at the intersection of design, business, and the humanities. It nurtures creativity, craft, and leadership while keeping business impact at the core—through curated workshops and sessions by SAP’s design leaders, customer-led UX challenges, and exclusive talks by thought leaders from diverse fields.
The SAP Academy for Engineering is dedicated to empowering SAP’s global workforce to be future-ready, solve real problems, and contribute to a better world using the transformative power of technology, business, and design. The Academy cultivates the Design Leader of the Future — one who combines craft excellence with creative courage, and leads with empathy, innovation, and impact.
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What’s New in SAP Analytics Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q3 2025
Check out the latest feature highlights for SAP Analytics Cloud’s quarterly release cycle in Q3 2025 with Orla Cullen, Product Marketing Manager – Data & Analytics.
00:26 Admin & Service Management
00:31 New Home Screen
05:34 AI for Planning & Analytics
05:38 AI-assisted calculations
07:25 Data Analyzer
07:30 Data Analyzer enhancements
14:46 Data Modeler
14:51 View model data privacy filters from within the modeler
16:34 First, Last, Average exception aggregation including unbooked values
20:02 Weighted average aggregation formula
22:27 Enterprise Planning
22:31 Plan Auditing: data change log threshold alerting
24:38 Plan Entry: control unbooked display based on validation rules
25:58 Plan Entry: input readiness, unbooked display, and disaggregation based on DAC
30:02 Plan Entry: enforce loading to leaf members during data file upload
31:58 AI-assisted advanced formula generation
32:36 AI-assisted comment summary and translation
35:00 Compass: defining drivers based on relative range from baseline
36:07 Data Actions: copy/paste step
36:29 Multi Actions: consumption of filters with “All Member”
37:49 Plan Entry: UI for new-member creation
38:44 Version Management: API to modify version dimension properties
40:17 Version Management: API to undo or redo data changes
41:02 Microsoft Office Add-in
41:07 Microsoft Office Add-in (Excel)
50:05 Microsoft Office Add-in (PowerPoint)
50:05 AI-assisted chart summary
51:44 Story Design
51:49 Blending for a table with support of sort and rank
55:48 New table builder experience
58:20 New client calculations panel
1:00:28 New member selector
1:02:46 Option to turn on and off the Thresholds tooltip
1:04:18 Sort and rank enhancements
1:08:00 Further grouped Story Design Enhancements
1:15:50 Story Extensibility
1:15:55 Story Extensibility enhancements
For more on SAP Analytics Cloud, check out our release highlights page: https://sap.to/6050fWrpk
Transitioning Capable-to-Match Planning from SAP APO to SAP S/4HANA
Several businesses from various industrial sectors have long been running their mid- to long-term strategic planning via the standalone SAP APO solution provided in separate on-premise servers for supply chain management.
How SAP Joule & WalkMe Automate Supply Chain with Just One Click | SAP Sapphire 2025
See how SAP’s AI assistant, Joule, powered by WalkMe, transforms your workday by being available in every application you use, from ServiceNow to Gmail, LinkedIn, and SAP.
Watch as Joule instantly summarizes urgent supply chain issues, recommends actions, automates RFPs, and notifies you across platforms—all in real time—so you can resolve challenges faster and focus on what matters most.
00:23 – ServiceNow: Urgent Ticket
01:44 – SAP Ariba: Supplier Search
02:16 – Gmail: Price Offer Found
02:46 – RFP: Automated Creation
03:31 – LinkedIn: Supplier Update
04:16 – ServiceNow: Ticket Closure
Watch the full SAP Sapphire Global Keynote: https://sap.to/6058NariE
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Shape the Future of Intelligent Applications with SAP Business Data Cloud
The next era of business will be defined by how well organizations turn intelligence into action at scale.
We’re witnessing the rise of a new wave of intelligent applications reshaping how organizations operate, embedding real-time data and critical operational context with AI models to enable swift and thoughtful decisions. Unlike traditional software that is governed by rigid business rules, these modern applications can learn and adapt to rapidly evolving customer and market demands — detecting changes to optimize processes, anticipate needs, and collaborate with both human and artificial “thinkers” to create competitive advantage for an organization.
Yet, we stand at the cusp of a bolder wave of innovation, one that unfortunately only the discerning few organizations may fully harness. Despite the vast potential of AI and cloud technologies, their true impact hinges on using these innovations with the secure and semantically rich data that is vastly available within an organization.
Transform outcomes with intelligent applications
This year at SAP Sapphire, we unveiled a significant expansion of SAP Business Data Cloud to deliver on the promise of intelligent applications: prebuilt, composable applications that seamlessly integrate trusted data products, AI capabilities, and business simulations to serve the needs of every business leader.
These intelligent applications are not just analytics tools; they transcend traditional analytics by automating and orchestrating work across both analytical and transactional workflows, enabling customers to make decisions and execute actions within SAP Business Data Cloud.
Today, we are introducing new intelligent application capabilities in SAP Business Data Cloud, starting with People Intelligence, an offering grounded in workforce composition, skills, and compensation data products. Built on data from SAP SuccessFactors software, People Intelligence provides HR and business leaders with AI-driven recommendations to optimize talent decisions, drive engagement, and ensure compliance. It features capabilities such as workforce composition insights, compensation insights, and skill insights, all available in the second half of 2025.
Additional intelligent application capabilities in SAP Business Data Cloud that are entering technology preview include:
- Cloud ERP Intelligence: Empowers leaders with transformative insights, business simulations, and AI capabilities to manage uncertainty, drive profitability, and meet sustainability goals. These capabilities include new data products from key business processes such as manufacturing (production execution, resource optimization, etc.), supply chain (inventory, deliveries. etc.), and contract accounting (payments, billing, etc.).
- Customer Intelligence: Guide sales, service, marketing, and commerce teams with a 360-degree customer view to anticipate needs, improve targeting, and build a comprehensive customer profile.
- Finance Intelligence: Provides CFOs and finance teams with real-time forecasting and planning, connected data across systems, and AI-powered anomaly detection.
- Spend Intelligence: Delivers procurement and operations leaders real-time spend visibility to minimize supplier risk, flag spend outliers, and reduce costs.
Each intelligent application in SAP Business Data Cloud is underpinned by curated, governed data products, sets of structured business data and metadata designed to accelerate use cases and reduce data integration overhead. And with SAP Databricks natively available in SAP Business Data Cloud, users can leverage SAP data products with existing lakehouses with a zero-copy approach.
As part of these technology previews, we are also announcing the delivery of hundreds of new data products throughout 2025 across all SAP Business Suite domains — from inventory optimization and delivery analysis to sustainability and compliance data products. The first wave includes new environmental, health, and safety (EHS) and product compliance datasets, with sustainability footprint data to follow later in the year.
Amplify the value of AI with your most powerful data
In addition, SAP Business Data Cloud is expanding its knowledge graph capabilities. Originally launched within SAP Datasphere, the knowledge graph can now ingest and map metadata across SAP and external sources, and seamlessly consume models published in SAP Knowledge Graph on SAP BTP. This creates a living model of how business data is structured and connected, providing a semantic backbone for AI to operate with higher precision.
Paired with Joule in SAP Business Data Cloud, now generally available, users can engage with complex business data as naturally as they think, without the constraints of traditional technology. Joule unlocks the full richness of enterprise information, empowering people across the organization to navigate, reason, and act with intelligence grounded in real business context.
Open data ecosystem: Expanding intelligence beyond SAP
We are also making SAP Business Data Cloud more accessible to power the next generation of intelligent, multi-cloud applications.
Starting in the second quarter, SAP Business Data Cloud is available on AWS, with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure expected to follow in the second half of 2025. This makes SAP’s data foundation more accessible and deployable within multi-cloud strategies, giving customers the flexibility to run intelligent workloads wherever they operate.
At the same time, SAP is actively collaborating with leading partners to build the next wave of intelligent applications.
- Accenture will release six intelligent applications addressing key challenges in supply chain, talent, finance, and procurement (GA timeline pending).
- Adobe and SAP are co-developing an application that fuses Adobe’s marketing data with SAP’s financial and supply chain data, enabling real-time alignment between demand signals and operational planning, expected in late 2025.
- Palantir and SAP are partnering to facilitate joint customers’ cloud migration journey and modernization programs. Seamless connectivity between Palantir and SAP Business Data Cloud will enable customers to build a harmonized data foundation across their enterprise landscape. SAP Business Data Cloud and Palantir Foundry and AIP will transform data silos into a trusted data foundation that enables human + AI teaming in the real world. Together the companies will responsibly deliver essential outcomes and support customers, including the U.S. government, to quickly adapt to changes and disruptions.
- Thomson Reuters will develop an intelligent application to help customers navigate the fast-moving challenges in the current global trade and tariffs environment, planned for end of 2025.
- Joint Collibra and SAP Business Data Cloud customers can now run up to 10x more active data quality jobs in Collibra Data Quality & Observability when run on SAP BDC data, at no additional cost. This limited time offer helps accelerate decision-making, strengthen compliance, and improve AI readiness, and is available until May 30, 2026.
The scope of partner collaboration also extends to data enrichment use cases. A new partnership with Moody’s will let our joint customers blend SAP’s accounts receivable data with Moody’s risk datasets to enhance cash flow forecasting, prioritize collections, and reduce exposure to bad debt. This solution is scheduled for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2025.
We’re excited to partner with our customers and ecosystem to unlock a new generation of intelligent applications in SAP Business Data Cloud, where trusted data, AI, and business context come together to drive meaningful change. The future of modern business will belong to those who turn intelligence into action.
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Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of Data and Analytics at SAP.