Gaurav Dey is joined by San Tran, Product Manager for SAP Business Data Cloud, to discuss the groundbreaking partnership between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks. They chat how SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) is driving AI-first enterprise transformation through seamless SAP Data Sphere integration, zero-copy data sharing, and advanced AI/ML workflows.

Also, how Business Data Fabric and SAP Business AI are enabling future-ready enterprise IT, making it easier than ever to turn enterprise data into real business value. From hands-on use cases like cash flow forecasting, margin analysis, and attrition analysis to practical tips for engineers and data scientists, you’ll get a front-row seat to digital transformation outcomes that matter.

Also in this episode:
– How SAP and Databricks have formed a deep partnership, enabling seamless integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks for advanced machine learning pipelines and AI/ML use cases.
– The new zero-copy data sharing approach for real-time, bi-directional data access between SAP and Databricks, eliminating the need for cumbersome data replication and ETL processes.
SAP’s Business Data Fabric architecture as a holistic strategy for managing, enriching, and analyzing both SAP and non-SAP data, including SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud migration.
– Leveraging powerful tools like SQL analytics, Python notebooks, and integrated ML tooling (including MLflow) within the SAP ecosystem for engineers and data scientists.
– Real-world use cases—such as cash flow forecasting, margin analysis, and attrition analysis—demonstrating how AI and machine learning are being applied to solve business challenges.
– The upcoming BDC Connect, which will expand integration capabilities and allow enterprise Databricks customers to combine SAP and non-SAP data for a complete business view.
– Hands-on resources, including trial environments, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Build, SAP Document AI, webinars, and upcoming SAP TechEd workshops, to help you get practical experience with SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks.
– How the data marketplace and SAP Data Sphere integration are shaping the future of data-driven innovation and BW modernization strategy.

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0:00:00 – Introduction & Welcome
0:04:08 – What’s New in SAP BTP & Services
0:04:27 – Meet the Expert: San from SAP
0:04:35 – Fun Game: AI & Jokes
0:05:40 – SAP & Databricks: Why the Partnership Matters
0:08:46 – Business Data Fabric Architecture Explained
0:11:57 – The Role of Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud
0:13:21 – Real-World Use Cases & AI/ML Integration
0:15:34 – What’s in It for Existing Databricks Customers?
0:17:59 – SAP Databricks vs. Enterprise Databricks
0:19:22 – SAP Business AI & Databricks: Working Together
0:21:36 – BW Modernization & Digital Transformation
0:23:56 – What’s Next: BDC Connect & Future Roadmap
0:25:13 – Hands-On Resources & Learning Opportunities
0:26:45 – Closing Remarks & How to Get Involved

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See the biggest moments from Supply Chain Connect at #SAPConnect 2025 — where SAP leaders and customers reveal how intelligent orchestration, real-time data, and AI are transforming supply chain resilience.

In this highlight reel, SAP experts demonstrate how SAP Business Suite, powered by SAP Business AI, helps organizations move beyond siloed tools and reactive decisions. With end-to-end visibility and orchestration across every process, businesses can predict risks, adapt faster, and turn disruption into long-term advantage.

00:00 – Opening: From Reaction to Resilience
01:30 – Thomas Saueressig on the New Era of Supply Chain Orchestration
03:15 – SAP Supply Chain Orchestration Overview
05:00 – Real-Time Visibility and Predictive Risk Detection
06:45 – AI in Action: Intelligent Execution Across Networks
08:10 – Closing: Building the Supply Chain of the Future

Thomas Saueressig, Executive Board Member for SAP Product Engineering, opens the session by highlighting how today’s supply chains require more than visibility — they need synchronization. He explains how SAP Supply Chain Orchestration, an AI-native solution built on SAP Business Technology Platform, connects processes across planning, logistics, and procurement in real time.

Throughout the session, SAP leaders and customers show how integrated data, automation, and AI-driven insights enable proactive decision-making and collaboration across the value chain. From predictive alerts to coordinated response execution, these innovations illustrate how SAP helps enterprises achieve true resilience — not just recovery.

These highlights capture SAP’s vision for the future of supply chain management: connected, intelligent, and adaptive. With SAP Business AI and SAP Business Data Cloud, companies gain the agility and foresight to lead transformation and build supply chains that thrive in uncertainty.

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Gartner has recognized SAP as a Visionary for the second consecutive year in its 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) with SAP Build, its unified low-code platform.

In today’s market, speed is everything, but it cannot come at the cost of stability. Low-code application platforms empower both professional and citizen developers to rapidly create and deploy digital solutions through guided development, automation, and robust governance, fostering innovation and agility.

SAP Build is uniquely designed to solve this challenge, empowering customers to innovate three times faster while building on the trusted governance and data foundation of their core SAP systems. It is an AI-powered solution that combines application development, workflow management, task automation, agent development, and workspace creation into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Strategic challenges in modern software development

Developers today face several significant challenges. First, it is difficult for many organizations to leverage the deep insights from non-technical business experts across functions like finance and supply chain. While AI is a powerful new tool, efficacy of AI solutions hinges on their integration with business-specific data and processes; without this, its broader benefits are diminished. Building or extending business applications is often time-consuming and expensive, prompting a shift toward customizable pre-built solutions for greater agility. Finally, developers grapple with fragmented systems requiring extensive integration, hindering efficient workflows and resource utilization.

These challenges collectively underscore the need for a more robust AI-powered development platform.

The SAP Build advantage

SAP is recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for LCAP for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

SAP Build offers unique benefits that streamline the development process and ensure innovative and efficient solutions. Read the full report here.

• Reduce complexity: SAP Build reduces complexity by delivering everything IT teams need to build, automate, and extend SAP without stitching together disconnected tools, licenses, or architectures in one place. It is pre-integrated, commercially included in SAP applications, and built to simplify development from the start
• Deliver faster: SAP Build helps teams deliver 3x faster by reducing the time it takes to go from request to result. Teams don’t start from zero, and once they start, they move faster, because the tools, pre-built solutions, and AI are grounded in SAP context and give best-practice guidance out of the box.
• Scale with confidence: SAP Build provides the proven path to a clean core, allowing users to confidently extend, automate, and build new applications without introducing future risk or upgrade pain. By inheriting the trusted governance, security, and access rules from the most critical systems, every extension is built to be both scalable and upgrade-safe from day one. This unique approach empowers users to protect the stability of their core while accelerating business-wide innovation.

Tap into the power of generative AI

SAP is embedding AI capabilities across the SAP Business Suite, including SAP Build, to help customers automate business processes and improve efficiency.

Now generally available, Joule Studio allows users to design, deploy, and manage custom AI agents and Joule skills tailored to their organization’s data and workflows, helping address specific operational needs. SAP has also extended Joule to process automation, workspace management, and application development, including ABAP, through the SAP Joule for Developers add-on.

These tools use SAP-aware AI models to support faster, more accurate development and automation. Together, these enhancements help teams reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and focus on higher-value work.

Businesses gain a competitive edge with SAP Build

With more than 17,000 customers now leveraging SAP Build solutions globally, momentum continues to surge, enabling developers to build, automate, and innovate with greater speed and ease.

Proximus, for example consolidated 57 HR apps into one unified portal using SAP Build, integrated with SAP SuccessFactors software to serve 10,000 employees and increasing satisfaction to 94 percent. Hitachi High-Tech cut customizations from 9,000 to 22 by shifting to side-by-side extensibility on SAP BTP using SAP Build Process Automation for cross-system workflows and task automation. And Gerdau reduced onboarding time by 50 percent and cut manual errors by 90 percent with a cloud-based extension made with SAP Build, integrated into SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Next steps

To learn how SAP Build adds value to your cloud ERP, explore use cases that address specific challenges in business processes. To unlock the full potential of application development, automation, and AI, take the next step with the following resources:

• Explore the basic trial and start your learning journey
• Visit the SAP Build product page

Bharat Sandhu is chief marketing officer for SAP BTP at SAP.

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Kimi Antonelli and Valtteri Bottas. Stranded in the desert. Racing to a mystery finish line. Welcome to the Cost Cap Challenge! 🏁

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Standard Chartered’s strategic deployment of AI and SAP solutions across 50+ global markets delivered transformative productivity gains, enhanced user experiences, and earned the company recognition as a winner of the 2025 SAP Innovation Awards.

To find out more about the SAP Innovation Awards and how to submit your own innovative ideas, visit: https://sap.to/6058fTQYj

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At SAP Sapphire in Madrid, our social media team took us on a fun ride with the ultimate emoji challenge: Can you guess the SAP solution based on just emojis?

The results? Surprisingly accurate, wildly creative, and full of laughs.

Think you can crack them too? Some might really surprise you! 💭✨

WALLDORF — SAP SE today announced its financial results for the second quarter and half-year 2025.

At a glance

• Current cloud backlog of €18.1 billion, up 22% and up 28% at constant currencies
• Cloud revenue up 24% and up 28% at constant currencies
• Cloud ERP Suite revenue up 30% and up 34% at constant currencies
• Total revenue up 9% and up 12% at constant currencies
• IFRS operating profit of €2.5 billion; non-IFRS operating profit of €2.6 billion, up 32% and up 35% at constant currencies
• Outlook 2025 unchanged

Q2 2025 I in € millions, unless otherwise stated

Christian Klein, CEO:

“We have delivered yet another quarter of outstanding results. AI innovations such as Joule becoming available ‘everywhere and for everything’ and SAP Business Data Cloud as a powerful accelerator of AI make our portfolio ever stronger. Enterprise operations are about to enter a new era, and SAP is best positioned to benefit from that evolution.”

Dominik Asam, CFO:

“We achieved a very good Q2, with accelerating total revenue growth, strong profitability and free cash flow. Our performance was supported by continued customer demand and disciplined cost control. As we move into the second half, we remain cautiously optimistic, keeping a close eye on geopolitical developments and public sector trends.”

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Listen to the latest episode of Unlocking SAP BTP, episode 119, featuring Howard Holton, COO of GigaOm, Mark Wright, Senior Director of Product Marketing at SAP Build, and Niklas Siemer, Product Manager at SAP BTP. This episode is focused on SAP Build and why it’s a game-changer for developer efficiency.

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That’s a wrap on another #SAPSapphire.

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Get the highlights from the SAP Sapphire Customer Keynote in Madrid! This reel recaps key moments where global business leaders shared their transformation stories, demonstrating how today’s innovations power tomorrow’s resilience. We also touch on major SAP announcements around Joule, AI, and strategic partnerships.

👉 BASF: Shared their greenfield S/4HANA transformation with RISE with SAP, adopting Clean Core principles and going live with their agro business pilot without interruption, now focusing on AI with good data for smart decisions.

👉 CAF: Detailed their adoption of SAP Business Data Cloud in partnership with Databricks to connect IT and OT worlds, aiming to optimize costs and improve maintenance through a “virtuous cycle” of results.

👉 DSM Firmenich: Explained their tiered SAP strategy post-merger, using the Business Suite, GROW with SAP, and RISE with SAP to simplify a complex landscape and foster a unified way of working.

👉 Pandora: Discussed choosing RISE with SAP for scalability and to avoid building extensive in-house capabilities, implementing Joule for Developers to accelerate global transformation with a “crawl, walk, run, sprint” AI adoption approach.

👉 Siemens Healthineers: Outlined how they are building on SAP, with future systems in the RISE environment, and view the integrated toolchain (Signavio, LeanIX, etc.) as the digital backbone for continuous operational excellence.

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