SAP and OpenAI Partner to Launch Sovereign OpenAI for Germany

WALLDORF and SAN FRANCISCO — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and OpenAI today announced the launch of OpenAI for Germany, a partnership to bring SAP’s enterprise applications expertise and OpenAI’s leading AI technology to Germany’s public sector.

SAP Sovereign Cloud: Embrace the cloud — without compromise

To ensure sovereignty, OpenAI for Germany will be supported by SAP’s subsidiary Delos Cloud, running on Microsoft Azure technology. The collaboration will enable millions of public sector employees to use AI safely and responsibly while meeting strict data sovereignty, security, and legal standards.

Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE, said, “Applied AI is what truly creates value. As a Business AI company with decades of experience serving public sector organizations, we believe OpenAI for Germany represents a huge step forward. We’re bringing together SAP Sovereign Cloud expertise with OpenAI’s leading AI technology to pave the way for AI solutions that are built in Germany, for Germany.”

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said, “Germany has long been a pioneer in engineering and technology, so it’s no surprise that millions of Germans already use ChatGPT to make their lives easier, drive scientific breakthroughs, and build new businesses. With OpenAI for Germany, we’ll work with local partners to extend this potential to the public sector—helping to improve services and ensuring that the benefits of AI are shared across the country, and doing so in line with German values of trust and safety.”

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, said, “With this partnership we are looking forward to bringing more AI capabilities to Germany’s public sector. Azure as the platform for Delos Cloud will power this, helping to ensure AI is deployed with the highest standards of sovereignty, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience—empowering public institutions to adopt AI confidently and responsibly.”

Through this collaboration, planned for launch in 2026, OpenAI, SAP and Microsoft will focus on helping employees in German governments, administrations and research institutions accelerate their daily work and spend more time on people, not paperwork. OpenAI for Germany also serves as a cornerstone for developing customized public sector applications and integrating AI agents directly into existing workflows to automate and improve processes such as records management and administrative data analysis.

In support of this approach, SAP plans to expand the existing infrastructure of Delos Cloud in Germany to 4000 GPUs for AI workloads. Subject to future demand, SAP plans to further invest in applied AI capabilities in Germany, scaling through existing SAP-owned infrastructure as well as through new collaborations with co-location providers and other partners. These efforts aim to extend the sovereign offering to additional industries and markets across Europe.

OpenAI for Germany directly supports Germany’s national AI ambitions. The German Federal Government’s High-Tech Agenda targets AI-driven value creation of up to 10% of GDP by 2030, signaling a major push to adopt AI across the economy and public sector. Meanwhile, the “Made for Germany” initiative, which is now backed by 61 leading companies and global investors, including SAP—has pledged more than €631 billion in investments to accelerate growth and modernization. SAP also recently announced an investment of more than €20 billion to strengthen Germany’s digital sovereignty.

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Five-Time Leader in Gartner Integration Platform-as-a-Service Magic Quadrant: Why Customers Trust SAP Integration Suite

SAP has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for the fifth consecutive time.

SAP Integration Suite: Accelerate productivity across SAP and non-SAP landscapes

We believe this prestigious recognition is a testament to our continued innovation, robust capabilities, and customer-centric approach. In our opinion, it also reinforces SAP Integration Suite as a trusted solution for organizations seeking to standardize on a single integration technology for unifying business processes and applications across systems – SAP and non-SAP. 

Recognition in iPaaS

The Gartner Magic Quadrant provides an overview of the technology vendors in the iPaaS market and positions them according to their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. SAP is positioned as the highest in the Ability to Execute category.

As the key integration technology of SAP Business Suite, SAP Integration Suite empowers organizations to seamlessly and natively connect applications, APIs, events, business processes, and data across hybrid environments – within SAP and non-SAP ecosystems – without disruption. Its AI-assisted features, extensive library of proven and maintained cross line of business integrations, and user-friendly interface enables rapid and reliable integration.

Comprehensive integration, powered by AI

AI is transforming how business connect systems, automate workflows, and unlock real-time insights across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. By embedding AI functionality directly into SAP Integration Suite, organizations can move beyond static connections to dynamic, self-optimizing ecosystems that adapt, learn, and evolve with the business.

For example, SAP last year introduced groundbreaking generative AI and machine learning capabilities that help business users and developers generate and automate integration workflows, detect API anomalies, and streamline data validation, transformation, and mapping. These capabilities boost developer efficiency, lower operational costs, and ensure data consistency and integrity across connected systems.

Our commitment to AI-driven innovation for integration is unwavering. At SAP Sapphire Orlando, we announced several exciting capabilities, including third-party adapters for non-SAP application connectivity, an AI adaptor that connects workflows with all large language models (SAP and non-SAP owned), and AI-powered API trends and predictions. These new features empower organizations to build more efficient and secure workflows, backed by FedRAMP certification, which ensures compliance for regulated industries. Looking ahead, we have a complete road map of cutting-edge AI features that will continue to be incorporated into SAP Integration Suite.

Pre-built integrations and industry accelerators

A key strength of SAP Integration Suite is its extensive library of over 10,500 pre-built integration artifacts and more than 250 third-party adapters available through SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

With access to pre-built integration flows, APIs, and connectors, organizations can quickly implement best-practice integrations tailored to their industry needs, reducing implementation effort and cost by up to a factor of 10. This content is regularly updated and fully maintained by SAP, ensuring customers always have access to the latest solutions.

Easy user experience and customer trust

Our commitment to customer success is reflected in high satisfaction ratings: 95 percent of customers recommend SAP Integration Suite on Gartner Peer Insights™. Its easy user experience is designed for all user personas, with integration specialists reporting the highest satisfaction scores. Another 78 percent percent customers surveyed on Gartner Peer Insights reported choosing SAP Integration Suite due to its product functionality and performance.

Endress+Hauser, for example, uses SAP Integration Suite to ensure its business is future proof. A global leader in measurement instrumentation, services, and solutions for industrial process engineering, Endress+Hauser helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide operate process applications and plants safely, reliably, efficiently, and sustainably. In an interview, Juergen Schrempp, director of Applications, said: “With SAP Integration Suite, we are well prepared for the future. Whatever will come — new business models, AI — we can react quickly and are flexible, and that counts in the end.”  

Shimano Europe uses SAP Integration Suite to improve its customers’ experiences. Established in 1921, Shimano continues to supply captivating products that help promote cycling, fishing, and rowing cultures. In an interview, Fernanda Ribeiro, IT application architect, said: “To accelerate the go-to-market process, we provided an effective and efficient integration platform with SAP Integration Suite, a future-proof and scalable solution that improves our customers’ experiences.”

CONA Services LLC, a premium provider of IT services for the largest North American Coca-Cola bottlers, uses SAP Integration Suite to reduce the cost and complexity integration. Supporting multiple integration platforms was costly, requiring different skill sets for development and support, so CONA minimized integration costs and complexity by standardizing on SAP Integration Suite to connect multiple SAP solutions and third-party applications. Umesh Borikar, director of Middleware and Integration, said: “We consider the adoption of SAP Integration Suite on SAP BTP an important step in our digital transformation, helping us significantly reduce the cost and complexity of supporting multiple integrations.”

Looking ahead

We are very grateful for this fifth consecutive Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader recognition. Thank you to our customers, partners, and analyst community for the vote of confidence.

SAP Integration Suite continues to set the standard for enterprise integration with ongoing investments in AI, packaged content, and premium user experience. We are energized to deliver more innovations and will remain committed to ensuring SAP customers are well equipped to meet the demands of digital transformation — today and into the future.

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