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With conesprit’s SAP Business One Mailer, documents can be sent as email attachments.

For each document type, you can define whether the document must first be manually approved or whether it is sent automatically. Sending can also be linked to conditions such as a specific customer group. Additional attachments can optionally be sent with the document.

The email layout is attractively designed but can also be customized to meet individual customer needs. The company logo is visible at the top of the email, while the footer prominently displays the receipt number, amount, and customer/supplier reference.

Also in the Communication with the tax advisor The mailer can be used: In addition to outgoing invoices and credit notes, attachments to incoming invoices and credit notes can also be automatically to DATEV Unternehmen online In SAP Business One, the corresponding document – the supplier invoice or credit note – is stored as an attachment to an incoming invoice or credit note. After posting created the mailer automatically an email and sends the attachment to the previously deposited DATEV email addressThis will provide even more comprehensive and efficient support for digital exchange with the tax office.

The training material for using the Mailer App

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Gartner has once again recognized SAP as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software (FP&A).

We believe this recognition reflects SAP’s continued commitment to innovation, customer success, and delivering extended planning and analysis solutions that empower organizations to thrive in today’s uncertain business environment.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant can help FP&A professionals assess which vendors are best suited for their purposes. The analyst firm defines financial planning software as solutions that enable FP&A transformation and cover planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, performance reporting, and agile insights.

SAP was recognized as a Leader by Gartner for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Unify business planning with SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP continues to build on its market leadership by accelerating its vision for unified business planning. With the introduction of SAP Business Data Cloud earlier in 2025, the company has brought together operational, financial, and strategic planning on a single, trusted data foundation. This benefits financial professionals and other strategic planners by eliminating silos and enabling real-time, AI-driven insights for intelligent planning across the enterprise.

SAP Analytics Cloud in SAP Business Data Cloud provides a powerful tool to customers that drive enterprise planning. Customers benefit from the following capabilities:

• Intelligent planning: Machine learning and generative AI automate forecasting and predictive planning by simulating best, worst, and realistic “what-if” scenarios — and providing smart recommendations. This aligns with SAP’s agentic AI vision, in which agents continuously monitor internal and external data, proactively identifying risks and opportunities for planners.
• Seamless planning: Deep integration with SAP Datasphere enables live access to governed, semantically-rich data without replication. This supports live reporting, collaborative planning and analysis, and data-driven decision-making with one tool for data preparation, modeling, planning, and analytics.
• Extended planning and analysis: Customers can plan across all lines of business by combining transactions, analytics, and planning with SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors software, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, and third-party data.
• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) modernization: SAP BPC customers can modernize planning to a scalable, cloud-native environment with enhanced collaboration and AI capabilities.

SAP’s unified approach is already delivering measurable value for customers worldwide. By leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud for planning, organizations are achieving faster, more accurate forecasts, streamlined planning, and greater alignment between finance and operations.

Customers successful with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning include Blue Diamond Growers, BMW, Calleway Golf, Decathlon, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Mondelez, Stihl, and many others across all industries.

Kemira Oyj, a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions, accelerated its digital transformation by deploying SAP Analytics Cloud for planning. Kemira simplified over 50 percent of legacy master data and harmonized data structures to the cloud across 400 plants in 37 countries within 15 months. This transformation enables real-time financial planning for more than 1,000 users, and enhances forecast accuracy, supporting agile decision-making, sustainability goals, and future-ready business models.

Taras Podbereznyj, CIO of Kemira Oyj, said, “Data is at the heart of our transformation program. It will continue to steer the company as the foundation for innovation and insights, supporting new digital business models and levels of agility and helping us become more competitive in the market.”

Looking ahead

As organizations navigate increasing uncertainty and volatility, SAP remains dedicated to helping customers turn data into action. Moreover, the company vision is clear: to provide the most comprehensive, intelligent, and trusted planning platform, helping every business make confident plans across the enterprise and perform at their best in the face of uncertainty.

Dan Yu is chief marketing officer of SAP Business Data Cloud.

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SAP Design Talks: Office furniture manufacturer Steelcase is creating products that don’t just push the boundaries of design and craftsmanship but serve as a platform to articulate identity. Be surprised by the insights from James Ludwig, Vice President, Global Design and Product Engineering for Steelcase Inc.

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Originally published on October 10, 2018

For decades, data has been the backbone of innovation. And in today’s AI-enabled economy, its role has never been more vital. Now, data must be delivered in a way that both people and AI agents can understand and act on with confidence.

At SAP, we believe in creating an ecosystem that simplifies your data landscape and preserves the mission-critical business context of all of your data. This is made possible with a business data fabric.

This architectural approach marks the culmination of decades of progress — from cubes to warehouses to lakehouses — now converging toward a business data fabric architecture that brings the true meaning of data together for AI projects to succeed at scale.

Simplify your data landscape with a business data fabric

Earlier this year, we announced SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC), making end-to-end business data fabric capabilities available for everyone that relies on mission-critical SAP data, including fully managed SAP Databricks.

This week at SAP TechEd Berlin, we announced the SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP BDC that brings Snowflake’s data and AI capabilities directly to SAP customers.

Together with SAP BDC, this provides organizations with the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for every data and AI workload — extending their business data fabric while maintaining governance, interoperability, and semantics. As a solution extension, SAP Snowflake will be available directly through SAP, providing a simplified operational experience for customers.

For many customers, integrating data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments adds complexity, especially when bringing transactional and analytical workloads together. Too often, that process comes with a hidden data tax: it strips away the business context and semantics that give data its meaning.

We recently announced SAP BDC Connect, a capability that gives customers bi-directional, zero copy data and metadata sharing in SAP Business Data Cloud with their existing Databricks and Google Cloud environments. Today, we are excited to announce SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake, making it dramatically easier for customers to harmonize and govern mission-critical data wherever it resides.

Connect all your data

As organizations simplify their data landscapes, building a trusted data foundation rooted in business context has become a top priority. A global survey of 1,200 business and technology leaders found that nearly half are heavily investing more in harmonizing business data, underscoring the growing importance of using data built on industry standards.

To help accelerate this progress, SAP delivers fully managed data products as a core component of SAP Business Data Cloud, now with new innovations that expand coverage and connectivity:

• Data product studio: A new capability in SAP BDC allows users to create, model, and manage reusable data products using both visual tools and SQL-based transformations from a single workspace. Users can define schema, lineage, and logic to blend SAP and non-SAP data into governed assets with full version control and lifecycle management. It is a simpler way to cross-pollinate data products across lines of business and ensure a consistent definition of data across your business data fabric.
• Additional SAP data products: New data products are now available through SAP BDC, spanning SAP Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, sustainability, and customer experience solutions and more — bringing even broader coverage across business domains.
• Bi-directional data sharing: We announced data sharing between SAP BDC and SAP HANA Cloud, unlocking the value of data across both transactional and analytical workloads. Customers can reuse existing objects, such as SAP HANA calculation views, directly in SAP BDC — preserving business logic, KPIs, and governance as they extend models across their business data fabric.

Amplify your agents and applications with an AI database

We’re expanding SAP HANA Cloud with new capabilities that make it the AI database for building agents and intelligent applications, helping developers connect and understand all types of data: structured, spatial, graph, vector embeddings, and more, all within a single in-memory engine.

Today, we’re expanding these multi-model capabilities with three major innovations that make it easier to build agentic AI experiences.

• Expanded knowledge graph capabilities to enable accurate agents: SAP HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine will now enable customers to automatically generate knowledge graphs from SAP HANA Cloud metadata. The automated graph will include tables and columns and can demonstrate data relationships. These knowledge graphs are customizable and composable, so developers can review data mapping, modify the graph structure, execute a semantic search, and use it to ground agents with the business context it needs to reason accurately.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for SAP HANA Cloud: We’re expanding SAP HANA Cloud with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, giving Joule Agents access to rich multi-model engines in SAP HANA Cloud. While SQL remains the default database standard, MCP allows Joule Agents to go beyond rows and columns to interface with unstructured data — understanding relationships, locations, and meaning across all data types. In practice, that means Joule Agents can navigate relationships between customers and suppliers, analyze geographic dependencies through spatial data, and perform semantic searches through vector embeddings.
• Tabular AI capabilities: This integration with SAP AI Core allows users to run AI workloads such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling directly on structured business data from SAP HANA Cloud. Along with ready-to-use tabular AI models, customers also gain access to the SAP-RPT-1 AI model, a new transformer-based foundation model. Embedded natively in SAP HANA Cloud, this delivers predictions without task-specific pre-training, enabling developers to use simple SQL procedures to bring AI closer to their SAP data and generate semantically rich outputs.

Get started today

A business data fabric provides a deeply integrated ecosystem for all your data. And with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud, you have a fully managed solution for every data and AI workload that ensures business context remains intact across your data landscape.

• Experience SAP BDC with the free “Getting Started” series
• Sign up for early access to public preview features and product road map
• Learn more about SAP Business Data Cloud

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of SAP Data and Analytics.

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Led by SAP Executive Board Member Muhammad Alam, in charge of SAP Product & Engineering, SAP executives announced a string of business AI innovations, including role-aware Joule assistants, during the kickoff keynote at the inaugural SAP Connect event in Las Vegas this week. 

Against the backdrop of the event theme—”Connect Everything, Achieve Anything: Agents, Data, and the Business Suite”—they set out SAP’s vision for how SAP Business Suite, which combines AI, data, and applications, can transform enterprises and deliver unprecedented business value to customers despite global macroeconomic uncertainties. 

Unique times

“We are living in very unique times,” Alam said at the start of the keynote. “Unique in terms of the unpredictability we face from a geopolitical and macroeconomic perspective, and also unique in terms of the advancement in AI and the potential that carries for all of us.”  

He added, “Even the most significant challenges can be responded to, navigated, and—when approached the right way—turned into opportunities. And that’s exactly where SAP comes in. Because the best way to face uncertainty is with confidence that you can see what’s happening across your business and your network.”