A simple question about a purchase order used to cause frustration, burn time, and waste money.

Employees at LC Waikiki, a global fashion retailer with tens of thousands of employees, had to navigate multiple systems to piece together data across sales and procurement. Answering a single question could take up to 10 minutes.

Today, they just ask Joule. What used to take 10 minutes now takes about three seconds, driving a 70% increase in operational efficiency and a 50% reduction in manual errors.

Using capabilities in Joule Studio, LC Waikiki partnered with SAP and NTT DATA Business Solutions to build a custom AI-driven experience that dynamically interprets user requests, applies role-based context, performs the necessary queries, and connects data across systems to present a complete view in one place. It then links people directly to the relevant transaction.

At SAP, stories like these inspire our vision for the enterprise in which AI transforms how people and processes work—one where people set the direction and AI executes. We call it the the Autonomous Enterprise.

In the Autonomous Enterprise, decisions are grounded in real-time intelligence, workflows are automated end-to-end, and AI proactively improves every function while empowering people to do their best work.

The Autonomous Enterprise also provides fully governed AI you can trust, so you can achieve more. Making this a reality for companies is critical because AI is now essential to how all work gets done. It is increasingly involved in decisions that carry financial, operational, and regulatory consequences.

Joule: One place to direct the entire business

In the Autonomous Enterprise, Joule Work, announced at SAP Sapphire, is the next step in the evolution of how people engage with and execute end-to-end business processes. Joule Work is a dynamic workspace that adapts to intent, keeps people focused on outcomes, and delegates execution to AI.

Through Joule Work, you can say goodbye to manually coordinating work across multiple applications and interfaces. Instead, tell Joule what you want to accomplish. Joule Assistants with role and process context will coordinate teams of Joule Agents to surface the right insights and automate routine work across departments and systems. Rather than static, disjointed systems, you get workspaces that pull together information and menus from various systems that fit your specific needs, in real time.

Joule Work is available now to customers in the SAP Early Adopter Care program. SAP Early Adopter Care program for the Joule Work desktop app is planned for Q2 2026; general availability for both is planned for H2 2026. The Joule Work mobile app is generally available now.

We also announced that Joule’s bi-directional Agent-to-Agent (A2A) capabilities will be generally available in Q4, enabling third-party agents to securely call on Joule Agents and act within enterprise processes, extending interoperability in both directions across SAP and non-SAP environments. Agents built in Joule Studio will natively support A2A protocols, enabling interoperability and scalability for multi-agent execution.

SAP Autonomous Suite: The operational core of the modern enterprise

While Joule Work empowers every individual to do their best work and expand their impact, the SAP Autonomous Suite transforms how entire business functions, or “autonomous domains,” work.

SAP Autonomous Suite spans five domains: finance, spend, supply chain, human capital management, and customer experience. These domains will operate as a single system, so workflows and agents run across functions without fragmenting into separate tools, separate data, or separate decisions. This approach allows AI recommendations to reflect your full operating reality.

With SAP’s integrated suite of business applications and industry-leading business data, AI in the Autonomous Enterprise is grounded in the specifics of how key business functions actually work. This foundational context for transformative AI outcomes is where SAP’s unique experience comes in. For decades, we have been trusted to run our customers’ most important functions. SAP Autonomous Suite infuses our deep knowledge of business processes into your AI, along with the data context and operational guardrails it needs to be truly effective and reliable at enterprise scale.

Each organization is also unique. Over time, your business has defined how your work gets done. These are the rules, workflows, and how systems respond when something unexpected happens, like a failed transaction, so processes don’t break. In the Autonomous Enterprise, AI delivers its greatest value by respecting these boundaries, turning your unique ways of working into a true advantage.

At SAP Sapphire, we announced new Joule Assistants and Joule Agents, spanning the domains of the Autonomous Enterprise, to help organizations move from managing work to directing outcomes. These new assistants and agents will roll out through the end of this year.

SAP Business AI Platform: The foundation of the Autonomous Enterprise

The SAP Business AI Platform turns the vision of human-led, AI-driven business operations into something enterprises can build and run. It enables them to move from AI experimentation to execution by grounding agents and applications in real business context that governs it all at enterprise scale.

At the center is Joule Studio, a fully managed environment that empowers enterprises to build and manage the full lifecycle of AI agents, applications, extensions, and workflows. Intent-based development capabilities allow people to describe what they need in natural language. A Joule Agent then generates structured requirements, specifications, code, and test artifacts grounded in SAP process and data context.

Developers can work within the tools they already use, including VS Code and MCP-enabled toolchains, and choose their preferred agent frameworks, such as LangGraph, AutoGen, and LlamaIndex.

Through deep integration with the SAP Knowledge Graph, SAP Business Data Cloud—and the new SAP Domain Models trained on SAP code, customer data, metadata, and business processes—Joule Agents reason over real, semantically rich enterprise data rather than generic knowledge. SAP Domain Models are available through the SAP Early Adopter Care program, with general availability planned for Q3 2026.

Speed and governance, no longer a tradeoff, are built into the SAP Business AI Platform. At SAP, we believe that corporate governance—including approval flows, compliance processes, identity management, and the ability to audit decision-making—must carry into how AI is deployed, updated, and scaled. Joule Studio runtime provides a secure, production-ready, fully managed environment for deploying agents, helping organizations meet compliance standards while reducing infrastructure complexity.

An enhanced SAP AI Agent Hub also provides a vendor-agnostic command center to discover, inventory, and govern SAP and non-SAP AI agents and MCP servers across the enterprise. Integration with SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX further embeds governance and architecture transparency into the development process.

The SAP AI Agent Hub leverages enterprise-wide process intelligence to continuously track where AI agents are creating value and can proactively surface where they can deliver even more, because we believe AI needs to remain accountable for outcomes in addition to uptime. SAP AI Agent Hub is generally available, with additional capabilities rolling out through 2026. See release timelines in the SAP Sapphire Innovation News Guide.

Empowering everyone to solve business challenges with AI

We are making the Autonomous Enterprise a reality because at SAP, we believe that companies of all sizes need far more than marginally better AI models or the latest bolt-on solutions. They deserve AI-driven outcomes that increase innovation, revenue, and margins.

The Autonomous Enterprise is what brings our vision to life: AI grounded in your data, connected across your most important processes, and governed to fit how your business runs.

Brenda Bown is chief marketing officer for SAP Business AI.

Partnership opens new pathways for enterprise data migration with SAP AI-supported tooling complemented by Palantir’s AIP for data migration scenarios to simplify an expedite digital transformation for SAP customers, with Accenture as a co-innovation partner for joint customers

This year at SAP Sapphire, SAP and Palantir announced an expansion of their strategic partnership focused on delivering new data migration capabilities designed to help enterprise customers succeed in the AI era and realize SAP’s vision of the Autonomous Enterprise.

The enhanced partnership is designed to facilitate joint customers’ cloud migrations, with the most complex data migration scenarios moving quickly, securely, and confidently through their business transformation journeys.

AI embedded across the migration life cycle

The expanded partnership builds on SAP’s broader agentic migration strategy, uniting SAP’s deep expertise in enterprise applications and SAP Business AI with Palantir’s AIP to deliver AI-driven data migration capabilities that accelerate timelines, secure cost efficiencies, and fundamentally transform how organizations operate. SAP customers can now leverage Palantir’s AIP for data migration scenarios alongside the agent-led toolchain from SAP, which includes business transformation tools and the new migration and modernization assistants to accelerate their transformations to SAP Cloud ERP.

“To turn the vision of the Autonomous Enterprise into reality, organizations need trusted partners to help them transform their core operations and unlock the power of business data and AI,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “Together with Palantir, we are enabling customers to move to the cloud with speed and confidence through complementary capabilities that accelerate innovation across the enterprise.” 

“We are proud to partner with SAP and Accenture to bring the power of advanced AI and data migration to the world’s most important operations. This partnership is designed to help customers realize the full value of their data, accelerate cloud migrations and AI adoption, and build more resilient and efficient operations,” said Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies. 

Accenture as global strategic services partner

Accenture plays a key role in bringing this joint effort to life as the first global strategic services partner for this initiative, helping their clients translate these capabilities into large-scale business-led programs. Together, SAP, Palantir, and Accenture can help joint customers identify acceleration opportunities across SAP and non-SAP systems sooner, achieve faster time-to-value, and drive continuous innovation by fundamentally redefining the approach to SAP Cloud ERP migrations.

By embracing AI from day one, organizations can automate migration analysis, planning, remediation, testing, and impact assessment—moving from tracking project timelines to creating measurable business value at every stage. 

“In today’s world, speed to value is critical for our clients,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture. “We are excited to co-innovate with SAP and Palantir to help our clients accelerate their journey to ERP modernization with SAP, which is the foundation for reinventing core operations and using AI to achieve new performance frontiers.” 

New SAP-validated deployment options

SAP is making Palantir AIP for data migrations scenarios available as an SAP Endorsed App on the SAP Store, and soon as an SAP Solution Extension, establishing a trusted, SAP-validated path for accelerating complex data migrations, including migrations to SAP Cloud ERP. The new SAP Solution Extension unites SAP’s deep expertise in mission-critical business processes and semantically rich data with Palantir AIP to securely accelerate data migrations for SAP customers. With the new offering, customers can gain faster insights and more intelligent, data-driven business outcomes.

Together, SAP and Palantir are redefining SAP data migrations, including ERP modernization through complementary solutions, transforming a traditionally complex migration process into an effort that enables faster value realization. 

Availability 

Palantir AIP for data migration scenarios is now available as an SAP Endorsed App on the SAP Store. The SAP Solution Extension is planned to be generally available to SAP customers in Q3 2026.

Jan Gilg is a member of the Extended Board of SAP SE.

The company introduces a unified SAP Business AI Platform, deepening partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir

ORLANDO — At SAP Sapphire in 2026, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business profitably, strategically and safely.

“For the mission-critical processes of our customers, ‘almost right’ just isn’t good enough,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “By uniting SAP Business AI Platform with SAP Autonomous Suite, we anchor AI agents in the business processes, data and governance so they can deliver accurate, compliant and secure outcomes, unlocking new sources of revenue and meaningful cost savings.”

The Autonomous Enterprise includes a unified AI platform for building, contextualizing and governing agents, an autonomous suite that executes core business operations and a new user experience that redefines how people work with enterprise software.

Introducing SAP Business AI Platform

SAP Business AI Platform is a new foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI grounded in real business context. SAP Business AI Platform now unifies SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Business AI into a single, governed environment.

At its core is the SAP Knowledge Graph solution, which gives AI agents a structured map of business entities, processes and relationships across a customer’s SAP landscape. Joule Studio is SAP’s AI-first solution for building enterprise agents, applications and agentic workflows. Developers can build using the no-code, pro-code and AI frameworks of their choice on SAP-managed infrastructure that is secure, scalable and optimized for enterprise AI.

Deploying SAP Autonomous Suite Across Every Business Function and Industry

Building on this foundation, SAP also introduced SAP Autonomous Suite, which enables SAP’s existing business applications with AI agents capable of running processes from start-to-finish.

The suite will deploy more than 50 domain-specific Joule Assistants across finance, supply chain, procurement, human capital management and customer experience. These assistants will automate end-to-end processes by orchestrating a subset of over 200 specialized agents to execute precise tasks. For example, the new Autonomous Close Assistant can compress the financial close process from weeks to days by automating journal entries, reconciliation and error resolution across the entire process.

SAP also launched Industry AI, expanding its deep industry portfolio through seven autonomous solutions that will enable start-to-finish industry processes and embed sector-specific process logic, data models and regulatory requirements. At SAP Sapphire, SAP showcased its work with European energy giant RWE to leverage Industry AI, helping reduce unplanned downtime across its offshore wind turbines. With SAP’s Autonomous Asset Management scenario, AI agents are designed to analyze data from thousands of past incidents, identify the likely root cause and generate pre-filled work orders with the right tools and proven fixes from other sites.

Designing the Autonomous User Experience

The company also revealed Joule Work, redefining how users engage with SAP software. Instead of navigating individual applications and entering data across several screens, users will now interact primarily with Joule. By describing a desired business outcome, Joule will orchestrate the right combination of workflows, data and agents to get it done.

Joule Work goes beyond conversation, proactively surfacing relevant insights and automating routine tasks behind the scenes so work moves forward even when humans aren’t actively steering it. It will be available on desktop, mobile and voice across SAP and non-SAP systems.

Accelerating the Customer Journey Toward Autonomy with €100 Million Infusion

SAP evolved its customer and partner programs to help accelerate the organization’s journey to the Autonomous Enterprise. To catalyze adoption, the company has launched a €100 million fund for SAP partners to help customers deploy SAP-built AI assistants and agents. The fund is also available to partners that extend or build new partner agents on the new SAP Business AI Platform using Joule Studio.

SAP has enhanced its RISE with SAP and SAP GROW offerings to accelerate AI adoption. Both include access to the Joule Assistants portfolio; RISE with SAP customers will have three assistants activated within their first year, while SAP GROW customers receive full portfolio access at onboarding. SAP S/4HANA on-premises and SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) customers are not excluded: those that commit to transitioning the majority of their current landscape to SAP Cloud ERP gain access to select AI scenarios, bridging the gap between their current landscape and their cloud destination

SAP also introduced new agent-led transformation tooling that can reduce ERP migration efforts by more than 35 percent, driving faster and more predictable projects by automating system analysis, code remediation, configuration and testing at scale.

Lastly, SAP announced a full slate of strategic partnerships across each category:

• Platform and suite partnerships include Anthropic, with Claude among the foundation models SAP’s AI platform will leverage to power Joule agents across HR, procurement and supply chain; Amazon Web Services, bringing zero-copy data integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and Amazon Athena; Google Cloud and Microsoft, enabling bidirectional agent-to-agent interoperability between Joule and external agent frameworks; Mistral AI and Cohere, delivering sovereign model options on SAP’s cloud infrastructure; n8n, providing visual AI workflow orchestration inside Joule Studio; NVIDIA, whose OpenShell provides the trusted secure runtime for Joule Studio; and Parloa, bringing AI agents into SAP Service Cloud to handle customer interactions with full access to business data and service processes.
• Implementation partnerships include Palantir and Accenture, partnering on complex data migration scenarios, and Conduct for AI-powered cloud ERP migrations.

Learn more in the SAP Sapphire 2026 Innovation News Guide.

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AI innovation provides role-specific support, automating workflows to boost business productivity

Enterprises don’t need to be rebuilt around AI. AI needs to be thoughtfully brought into the enterprise—in a way that respects what is already working and strengthens it. 

SAP and Anthropic today announced plans to expand their collaboration to deliver advanced AI solutions to enterprise customers, making Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, a primary reasoning and agentic capability embedded across SAP’s AI-enabled solution portfolio, powered by Joule and Joule agents.  

Unveiled today at SAP Sapphire, Anthropic and SAP will collaborate to embed Claude’s agentic capabilities into the newly announced SAP Business AI Platform to advance SAP’s vision of the Autonomous Enterprise in the agentic AI era.

The collaboration builds on SAP’s more than 50-years of business application know-how across processes, data, and governance. This complements SAP’s open ecosystem approach to supporting any model and provides greater customer choice and flexibility to meet evolving AI requirements. 

Connecting directly to SAP Business AI Platform, Claude will empower agents to carry ​out tasks—from closing the books at quarter-end and answering complex employee leave questions to rerouting supplier orders mid-shipment—coordinating across SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Ariba solutions, and other systems via MCP.

“Our open platform means we’re tightly integrated with world-leading companies across our portfolio. Together with Anthropic, we’re building something uniquely valuable for our customers,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “The Autonomous Enterprise requires AI that understands business context and acts within the controls organizations depend on, and our partnership with Claude plays a key role in this.”

“We built Claude to support the work that helps businesses run: closing the books, rerouting delayed orders, or approving expenses, to name a few. With Claude on SAP Business AI Platform, that work happens inside the systems enterprises have already invested in, with the trust and governance SAP customers rely on,” Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, said.

Claude brings additional agentic capabilities and connectivity to Joule

Joule from SAP is an AI-enabled business assistant that helps teams make faster, smarter decisions by embedding contextual, more secure AI directly into SAP and non-SAP business workflows. Now, SAP is expanding Claude’s capabilities to Joule with plans to integrate Anthropic’s advanced agentic AI capabilities across the newly announced SAP Business AI Platform.

With a deeper use of Claude and access to Anthropic’s frontier models, SAP customers can expect additional capabilities, such as:

• Better reasoning on complex business tasks: Claude will empower agents to take real action for hundreds of thousands of SAP customers, across finance, ​​HR, procurement, and supply chain. Agents leveraging Claude connect to SAP Business AI Platform to understand business context grounded in SAP data, make ​​more accurate decisions, and operate safely within defined processes. For example, a Treasury Manager can ask Joule to prepare a CFO briefing for a bank meeting, and within minutes receive a completed presentation populated with live data and analysis as well as flagged financial risks. Work that previously took hours of manual effort now takes minutes. 
• Agentic AI that understands business context: Claude works with business context from across SAP’s enterprise systems and other tools connected through MCP. It takes action step by step: looking up data, making updates, triggering approvals, moving a task forward. Anthropic and SAP will work strategically to build custom agents and agentic workflows in SAP—optimizing for key industries such as public sector, healthcare, education, life sciences and utilities. This combines SAP’s expertise in enterprise applications and AI with Claude’s reasoning and agentic capabilities.

Bringing AI into the systems enterprises already trust

As AI moves from advising to acting, trust is critical, especially in the enterprise and in regulated industries. Anthropic is bringing safe, reliable AI into processes that enterprises already trust. When AI adjusts an order, triggers a workflow, or makes a recommendation inside an SAP customer’s environment, it does so within the same controls that govern human decisions: the approvals, policies, and compliance frameworks already wired into SAP solutions.

Together, Anthropic and SAP plan on bringing this model to life by combining Claude with SAP’s depth and scale, helping organizations move from experimentation into the core of how their organizations operate.

Philipp Herzig is CTO and a member of the Extended Board of SAP SE.

AI agents are no longer confined to demos and copilots. They are beginning to act inside real enterprise systems: executing tasks, invoking tools, and operating continuously across business processes.

For SAP customers, this shift promises step-change productivity. But it also raises a hard requirement: Enterprise AI agents must be safe, governable, and auditable by design.

This is the context for SAP’s deep technical collaboration on SAP Business AI Platform with NVIDIA OpenShell, an open source secure runtime for autonomous AI agents. This collaboration is not about SAP “adopting” a runtime. It is about SAP actively shaping, hardening, and productizing the execution layer for enterprise agentic AI—together with NVIDIA.

Why this matters to SAP customers

For SAP customers, the value of this collaboration is concrete and practical. It enables:

• AI agents that operate inside SAP processes without bypassing governance
• Security models aligned with enterprise IAM and compliance frameworks
• Clear audit trails for agent actions across systems
• Confidence to move from pilots to production

Most importantly, it avoids a false choice between innovation and control. Customers do not have to bolt security on later, or redesign their risk models to accommodate AI agents. Instead, security and governance are built into the execution model from the start.

The real enterprise challenge: Trusting agents that act

When AI systems move from generating responses to executing actions, the risk profile fundamentally changes. Agentic systems can touch systems of record, cross application and data boundaries, and operate without human review at every step.

In all enterprise environments, especially regulated ones, this makes execution safety and governance the defining challenge. Traditional chatbot-era controls are insufficient once agents can access shells, files, networks, credentials, and APIs.

SAP customers know this reality well. Business AI is only valuable if it can be:

• Inspected and audited
• Constrained by policy
• Trusted by security and compliance teams

Solving this problem requires more than infrastructure primitives or application-level rules alone.

NVIDIA OpenShell: The foundation

NVIDIA OpenShell addresses a critical layer of the problem: secure, sandboxed execution of autonomous agents.

As an open source runtime, OpenShell introduces strong capabilities, including:

• Isolated execution environments
• Policy enforcement for filesystem and network access
• Runtime-level containment that limits blast radius even when agent logic fails

These capabilities form a foundational layer for autonomous agents to execute safely. In practice, enterprises need that execution layer aligned with business context and governance.

Enterprises expect clarity on questions such as:

• Which business role authorizes an action?
• Which process context applies?
• How actions map to enterprise policies and audit trails?

This is where SAP’s contribution becomes decisive.

What SAP brings: Enterprise semantics, governance, and scale

SAP is co-developing and contributing to OpenShell based on enterprise reality.

1. Enterprise-driven runtime requirements

SAP operates at a level of scale and responsibility that few software providers do: mission-critical processes, regulated industries, and millions of transactions per hour.

By bringing real SAP agentic workloads into the collaboration, SAP provides the operational proving ground that OpenShell needs to mature from a powerful runtime into an enterprise-hardened one.

This includes shaping requirements around:

• Isolation boundaries that match enterprise risk models
• Policy enforcement aligned with real business constraints
• Auditability that stands up to customer and regulatory scrutiny

2. Co-development of OpenShell capabilities

SAP is committing engineering capacity to the OpenShell open-source code base, with a focus on areas that matter specifically to enterprises: runtime hardening, policy modeling, enterprise identity integration, and auditing and governance hooks.

SAP is helping define how secure agent execution must work for enterprises; not just theoretically, but in production.

3. Joule Studio runtime: From runtime safety to enterprise control

Where OpenShell secures execution, Joule Studio runtime provides the enterprise harness that makes agents usable and governable in business systems:

• Business-aware policy semantics like roles, skills, life cycle
• Enterprise identity and access control
• Observability and auditability across agent behavior
• Deployment and operational governance across landscapes

This ensures that agent autonomy is always framed by business intent and accountability, not just technical permissions.

OpenShell answers: “Can this action safely execute?”; Joule Studio runtime answers: “Should this action happen at all?”

Raising the bar for enterprise agentic AI

This collaboration represents more than an integration. It reflects a shared intent to define what “enterprise-grade” actually means for autonomous AI systems.

By combining NVIDIA’s runtime and security innovation and SAP’s enterprise productization, governance expertise, and operational scale, SAP and NVIDIA are working toward an integrated solution for trusted agent execution—one that enterprises can inspect, govern, and rely on.

For SAP customers, this means AI agents that are not just powerful, but designed to earn trust in the environments where trust matters most.

Andre Lamego is senior vice president and chief product officer of SAP BTP Fabric

Today at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to build SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) Connect for Amazon Athena, a new offering that will provide bi-directional zero-copy integration between Amazon Athena and SAP Business Data Cloud.

Building on their long-standing partnership, AWS and SAP are making it easier for customers to access mission-critical SAP data products across AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick, and Amazon SageMaker. This will allow teams to deliver self-service analytics and build AI agents across all lines of business—without waiting for IT teams to replicate, prepare, and provision SAP data. 

“The next era of business will be defined by how well organizations turn intelligence into action at scale,” said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, SAP Product & Engineering. “By bringing together SAP Business Data Cloud and widely adopted AWS AI and analytics capabilities, customers can unlock the true potential of data and AI.” 

Enabled by SAP BDC Connect, the integration delivers near real-time, zero-copy access to semantically rich SAP data products directly through Amazon Athena, keeping data in place, preserving its original business context, and eliminating replication delays. Customers can query and analyze this data immediately, or choose to store and transform it for use across the broader AWS environment. This gives teams a governed, secure environment within AWS to easily build reports, dashboards, and AI agents.

“SAP and AWS share a commitment to helping customers put their most valuable data to work,” said Ruba Borno, vice president of Global Specialists and Partners at AWS. “By combining SAP Business Data Cloud with the AWSsecure, global infrastructure and advanced AI services, organizations can unlock mission-critical SAP data and act on it at the speed and scale their business demands.” 

With SAP BDC Connect for Amazon Athena customers can: 

• Create a single, trusted foundation for all their business data, SAP and beyond 
• Get AI up and running faster with business data that is ready to use 
• Build intelligent applications and agents powered by the business data that matters most 
• Fast-track insights and innovation with self-service analytics that reduce time-to-insight from weeks to hours 

General availability

SAP Business Data Cloud is already available on AWS in the U.S. East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.