WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has selected advanced disaster risk management system EDiSON for use in the Solomon Islands.

The system was developed by SAP Japan and INSPIRATION PLUS, a venture from Oita University focused on disaster prevention.

EDiSON, which runs on SAP Business Technology Platform, exemplifies how intelligent enterprise technology can be harnessed to address global challenges such as cyclones (typhoons) and floods. It integrates diverse types of information, including real-time, visual meteorological data and historical data records, to drive predictive insights and smarter operations assisted by SAP Business AI and machine learning.

These predictions offer authorities a vital tool for delivering faster response times and mitigating damage in the event of a natural disaster. This includes forecasting terrain damage, dispatching emergency services to affected areas and supporting decision-making in issuing evacuation advisories. The Solomon Islands initiative is envisioned as a blueprint for other small island developing states, showcasing how cutting-edge technology can democratize disaster resilience.

“EDiSON represents a leap forward in how science and technology can empower vulnerable communities,” UNESCO Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction Soichiro Yasukawa said. “By integrating AI and real-time data, we are not only improving early warning capabilities but also building a foundation for long-term resilience and sustainable development.”

The project, part of UNESCO’s Disaster Prevention Strengthening Program, will be operational in 2026. It aims to establish a scalable, data-driven model for disaster preparedness and responses of small island nations that face the increasing severity of natural disasters driven by climate change. The Solomon Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean, face frequent threats from earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, droughts and flooding. EDiSON will serve as a transformative solution to enhance national preparedness and response capabilities.

EDiSON integrates static and real-time dynamic data from government, municipal and private sector sources. The system delivers predictive insights and real-time visibility into emerging disaster risks. This empowers authorities to issue timely evacuation orders and make informed decisions that protect lives and infrastructure.

Why EDiSON? Proven Performance and Scalable Sustainability

“This project exemplifies SAP’s commitment to using technology to empower resilient communities,” said Sophia Mendelsohn, chief sustainability and commercial officer at SAP SE. “EDiSON is a powerful example of how our cloud platform and AI capabilities can be tailored to meet the needs of communities facing real-world challenges. We’re proud to support UNESCO in bringing this innovation to the Solomon Islands and beyond.”

UNESCO’s selection of EDiSON was driven by the system’s proven track record in Japan—a country renowned for its advanced disaster management systems. The system’s ability to overcome traditional barriers such as fragmented data, limited analytical capacity and underutilization in field operations makes it especially valuable for resource-constrained nations such as the Solomon Islands. EDiSON’s modular design helps ensure scalability and adaptability, enabling governments to deploy sophisticated disaster management tools without requiring extensive budgets or technical expertise.

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WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that UiPath Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in agentic automation, has successfully gone live with an SAP Cloud ERP Private solution as part of its strategic digital transformation initiative.

The company achieved 93% clean core in solution design and 88% clean core across the overall implementation, advancing its goals to modernize ERP, a component of its ongoing journey toward operational excellence.

As part of UiPath’s growth strategy, the company targeted ERP as a critical area of transformation, taking an automation-first approach to streamline and standardize its operations. As a global company, UiPath needs to comply with multi-GAAP reporting across different geographies. By moving to the cloud, UiPath is now able to connect fragmented systems, cut time and resources spent on billing cycles, and simplify complex multi-GAAP reporting processes—including order to cash, lead to cash, finance, procurement and human resources.

“Our transformation efforts are centered around two key goals—how can we leverage automation to improve customer experience and, in doing so, make our teams and overall business more efficient and agile,” UiPath CFO and COO Ashim Gupta said. “Modernizing our ERP system was a strategic move to meet those two goals, enabling greater agility and efficiency through the automation and standardization of key processes and workflows. SAP Cloud ERP Private gave us the ability to do just that with the added benefit of a frictionless transition with minimal disruption, positioning us for future growth and innovation.”

The high clean core scores reflect UiPath’s commitment to adopt best practices from SAP and minimize custom code to help ensure long-term agility and ease of innovation. The implementation was delivered on time and within scope, supported by a collaborative effort between UiPath and SAP. With SAP Cloud ERP Private now live, UiPath is well positioned to accelerate its automation-first vision and drive continuous innovation across its global operations, enabling scalable growth, improved compliance and enhanced user experience across its enterprise functions.

“UiPath’s successful go-live with SAP Cloud ERP shows how next-generation ERP, when combined with intelligent automation can deliver tangible business outcomes: faster processes, leaner operations and the ability to scale globally,” said Jan Gilg, chief revenue officer and president, SAP Americas and the Global Business Suite. “This is what disciplined execution and an outcomes-driven transform looks like in an AI-first economy, which is why we’re proud to partner with UiPath on their journey.” 

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London Climate Action Week 2025 brought together over 45,000 delegates across 700 events and saw SAP recognized with a Responsible AI Impact Award.

This year’s London Climate Action Week was less about reaffirming action, and more about accelerating it. Now in its seventh year, this is Europe’s largest city-wide climate event, bringing together policymakers, investors, NGOs, and technologists to accelerate plans ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Three major themes stood out across the week.

1. Decarbonize and build resilience

Business leaders and policymakers are focused on scaling decarbonization while also confronting the reality of escalating physical risks. From industrial heat to infrastructure retrofits, the message was clear: climate disruption is now a core business risk. As resilience is becoming synonymous with competitiveness, organizations are embedding climate data into board decisions and using it to guide strategy.

This shift is urgent: climate-driven losses are no longer theoretical, and businesses should treat physical risk with the same granularity and urgency as margin forecasting.

SAP has focused on turning physical climate risk into actionable intelligence for customers. By integrating sustainability metrics with financial models, companies can frame adaptation investments as cost-avoidance with measurable return on investment.

2. Mobilize climate finance

The gap between climate capital and real-economy transformation remains wide, especially in emerging markets. But momentum is building. London’s mayor announced a new climate finance task force aimed at crowding in public-private investment, while investors discussed blended finance models and sustainability-linked instruments. To stay investable, companies must present decision-grade sustainability data and show credible transition plans.

SAP is working with customers to bridge the divide between macro-level climate finance signals and operational decisions. That means using our systems to unify environmental data with financial and risk metrics, so sustainability reporting isn’t just about compliance, but about surfacing value. With green bonds and adaptation finance accelerating, businesses that can connect site-specific risk to capital expenditure planning will be best placed to access new funding streams.

We’re helping customers uncover the hidden costs of climate disruption — whether that’s increased cooling, transport volatility, or water constraints — and link them to balance sheet impacts. The result is a stronger business case for resilience investments, and more relevant data for financial partners.

3. Digital innovation and AI

A wave of sessions focused on the power of digital tools to accelerate climate action. SAP and fellow sustainability leaders highlighted how AI is enabling everything from emissions forecasting to supply chain optimization, while digital twins are helping companies and cities simulate disruption, model trade-offs, and optimize resources in real time.

Central to this story is responsible AI. At London Climate Action Week, SustainableIT.org recognized SAP with the Responsible AI Impact Award for its cross-functional work to embed ethical, human-centered AI into enterprise systems, driving outcomes that are not only efficient, but also equitable and sustainable.

This approach is guided by SAP’s Global AI Ethics Policy, which is grounded in the UNESCO recommendations on the Ethics of AI, and shapes how we build and deliver AI across all our sustainability and business solutions.

At SAP, we’re designing AI to assist, not replace, human activity — to scale climate action with integrity. We are focused on delivering embedded business AI tools that turn complexity into clarity, while preserving transparency and auditability.

Applying SAP’s tech lens: from insight to impact

London Climate Action Week 2025 made one truth unavoidable: climate leadership now hinges on trusted data and innovative technology, including human-centred AI. Across sessions, AI and unified data were repeatedly cited as the accelerants of climate progress, whether mapping Scope 3 emissions or modelling extreme weather scenarios.

Drawing on these insights, businesses can look to three main areas to boost their sustainability efforts:

• Make sustainability data first-class business data: SAP Green Ledger posts auditable carbon and financial entries side by side, turning emissions into actionable profit and loss drivers. When linked with site-level climate risk data, SAP Green Ledger allows businesses to understand the cost of disruption — from heatwaves to resource scarcity — and align sustainability with enterprise planning.
• Augment teams with responsible AI: With SAP Green Token, AI-assisted declaration image analysis automates thousands of supplier documents; with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, AI-assisted emission factor mapping links thousands of materials to high-quality emission factors in minutes. In SAP Sustainability Control Tower, AI now also supports environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report generation, using best-practice templates to draft audit-ready reports, complete with data visualizations. This frees up sustainability teams to focus on strategy while increasing speed, accuracy, and regulatory confidence.
• Unify processes, finance, and sustainability in the cloud: SAP Sustainability Control Tower will become an intelligent application within SAP Business Data Cloud later this year, which will unify sustainability data and business operations on a single platform, enabling consistent reporting, deeper insight, and smarter decision-making across the enterprise.

By breaking down silos among sustainability, finance, procurement, and operations, SAP is enabling businesses to act faster on everything from climate disclosure to adaptation investment. When ESG data is managed like financial data — with rigor, governance, and relevance — it becomes a strategic asset.

Together, these capabilities turn the rallying cry of London Climate Action Week 2025 “from morality to materiality” into a practical playbook: embed sustainability where business happens and use responsible AI to scale impact without compromise. From emissions to adaptation to finance, the future of climate leadership is not just digital, it’s enterprise-deep.

Monica Molesag is global head of Sustainability Communications at SAP.

In February 2025, SAP introduced Joule for developers and ABAP AI capabilities, ushering in a new era for ABAP development. This powerful integration of generative AI into the development environment is helping to revolutionize how developers interact with SAP systems. Designed to enable smarter, faster, and more intuitive coding, these tools help developers elevate both productivity and innovation.

Joule for developers leverages a purpose-built large language model (LLM) trained on millions of lines of SAP code. It can deliver contextual, ABAP-specific results that support tasks ranging from intelligent code suggestions to automated unit test creation. As customers continue their SAP S/4HANA transformations, these AI features can also support optimized code migration through smart analysis, explanations, and actionable suggestions. The result: AI becomes a collaborative partner that helps developers tackle complex challenges with confidence and efficiency.

IDC’s recent white paper, “ABAP Development in the Age of AI”, outlines how AI is transforming modern development. One key finding: 80% of developers reported increased productivity when using AI coding assistants, with an average productivity gain of 35%. The top-used features include unit test generation, code generation, and autocompletion—clear signs that AI is now a central pillar of the development experience.

To succeed in this evolving landscape, developers must cultivate new skills. These include writing precise natural language prompts, verifying AI-generated code, integrating proprietary data for improved AI context, and using AI to enhance requirements documentation. These capabilities ensure AI remains an intelligent collaborator that upholds enterprise-grade standards.

SAP Build solutions and ABAP Cloud can further empower developers by enabling automation, improved security, and scalable collaboration—all while supporting a clean core strategy. These tools reflect SAP’s commitment to intelligent extensibility that balances innovation with system integrity.

AI is no longer just a futuristic concept—it’s a vital asset shaping every phase of the software development life cycle. Developers are evolving from code writers to orchestrators of intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and co-create. Joule for developers and ABAP AI capabilities illustrate how SAP is leading this evolution by providing tools that are aligned with enterprise development needs and future-ready innovation.

To learn more, explore the IDC white paper, “ABAP Development in the Age of AI.”

Sonja Lienard is senior vice president of Product Marketing and head of SAP BTP ABAP at SAP.