Product development is becoming a strategic leadership priority. Here’s why an integrated PLM approach matters.

In this interview, Sarah Mei Niesel from SAP speaks with Achim from DSC Software AG, an SAP partner, about why product development can no longer be treated as a purely operational function. As markets change faster, product portfolios become more complex, and decision cycles continue to shrink, organizations need greater transparency, stronger governance, and better access to trusted product data.

You’ll hear why product development is increasingly a C-level concern, with direct impact on competitiveness, profitability, and business resilience. Achim explains how shorter innovation cycles, rising customer expectations, and growing product complexity are changing the way companies need to steer product development. The discussion also covers why leaders need clear goals, reliable data visibility, and fact-based decision-making to create value from product development.

The conversation explores common challenges that organizations often underestimate, including complex data structures, locally adapted processes, knowledge transfer, and workforce transformation. Achim also explains why isolated optimizations are no longer enough. To unlock the full value of PLM, companies need an integrated, end-to-end approach that connects product development with manufacturing, supply chain, external partners, and broader business objectives.

Watch to learn how an integrated PLM strategy can help organizations reduce complexity, improve transparency, support knowledge transfer, and build a stronger foundation for future-ready product development.

Read the full SAP Community article:
Why strategic leadership in product development will make or break your future
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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
01:06 – Why product development is a leadership topic
01:41 – Challenges organizations often underestimate
02:20 – Why an integrated PLM approach matters
03:02 – How DSC Software AG supports PLM transformation
03:19 – Closing remarks

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Welcome to the Autonomous Enterprise. It’s the end of business as we know it. It’s the beginning of business as we want it. Learn more: https://sap.to/6057BEj7VT

Welcome to the Autonomous Enterprise. It’s the end of business as we know it. It’s the beginning of business as we want it.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings Business AI deeper into ERP, helping people work faster, reduce manual effort, and stay in control.

In this AI innovation overview, Yannick Peterschmitt from Cloud ERP and SCM Product Success explores how the 2608 release moves organizations closer to SAP’s vision of the Autonomous Enterprise. See how Joule Work, AI-assisted experiences, and intelligent agents are helping transform everyday ERP processes across user experience, professional services, environment, health, and safety, and finance.

You’ll see how SAP Business AI can support people in the flow of work, from using natural language to update business documents, to analyzing work in progress, to turning compliance documents into structured obligations, to preparing journal entries for review. These innovations help reduce repetitive work, improve decision-making, and give teams more time to focus on higher-value activities.

Highlights include:

🧠 Joule Work — Bring together business context, relevant insights, automation, and AI agents in one dynamic workspace built around user intent.

✨ AI-assisted easy fill — Update SAP business documents using natural language instead of entering data field by field.

📊 AI-assisted work in progress analytics and management — Analyze aging work in progress, surface critical insights, and generate executive summaries to support faster project financial decisions.

🦺 AI-assisted compliance management — Transform regulations, permits, and corporate policies into structured compliance obligations while keeping users in control.

📒 Journal entry agent — Interpret unstructured business information, recommend accounting data, and prepare journal entries for review.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome & Introduction
00:23 Business AI and the Autonomous Enterprise
01:15 Joule Work
01:56 AI-assisted easy fill (User Experience)
02:34 AI-assisted work in progress analytics & management (Professional Services)
03:04 AI-assisted compliance management (Environment, Health & Safety)
04:01 Journal entry agent (Finance)
04:42 Closing Thoughts

• Read Yannick’s blog on AI Release Highlights in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 release:
https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blog-posts-by-sap/unlock-ai-and-next-gen-cloud-erp-innovations-in-sap-s-4hana-cloud-public/ba-p/14434537
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings Business AI, intelligent agents, and continuous ERP innovation into everyday work.

In this release overview, Bert Schulze, Head of Product Success for SAP Cloud ERP, shares his personal highlights from the 2608 release. See how SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition continues to evolve with AI-assisted experiences, SAP-managed business scenarios, and core ERP innovations across finance, manufacturing, workplace safety and compliance, and professional services.

You’ll see how Business AI helps people work faster while staying in control, from updating ERP transactions with natural language, to accelerating receivables and payables clearing, to helping production supervisors identify scheduling conflicts and keep operations moving. You’ll also get a closer look at new capabilities for hazardous substance inventory management and a redesigned time-recording experience across desktop and mobile.

🧠 AI-assisted easy fill — Use natural language to update ERP transactions faster and reduce manual data entry.

💰 Receivables and payables clearing agent — Analyze open items, propose balanced clearing entries, explain recommendations, and support faster financial close.

🏭 Production planning and operations agent — Help supervisors check component availability, identify scheduling conflicts, and support order release through natural language.

🦺 Hazardous substance inventory — Centralize hazardous substance, product, and safety information to support compliance and workplace safety.

⏱️ Time recording app — Log project time faster with flexible entry, bulk edits, personalized views, and a consistent desktop and mobile experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome & Introduction
00:35 The Autonomous Enterprise & Business AI
00:58 SAP-managed business scenarios
01:40 Business AI in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
01:54 AI-assisted easy fill (User Experience)
02:29 Receivables & payables clearing agent (Finance)
02:58 Production planning & operations agent (Manufacturing)
03:25 Hazardous substance inventory (Workplace Safety & Compliance)
03:50 New and improved time-recording app (Professional Services)

• Read Bert Schulze’s complete SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 Release Highlights blog: https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blog-posts-by-sap/what-s-new-in-sap-s-4hana-cloud-public-edition-2608-release/ba-p/14438491
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SAP just announced 7 AI migration and modernization assistants at SAP Sapphire, and they’re designed to do one thing: fundamentally simplify ERP migration at scale.

In this episode of Rise into the Future, host Pratibha sits down with Sören and Sonja – two SAP product leaders building the next evolution of the RISE with SAP transformation journey – to unpack what agent-led transformation actually means, how it works, and when customers can get access.

You’ll see a live demo of the full journey: from project setup through custom code remediation, powered by Joule, the SAP IDE, and a new migration cockpit, all with human-in-the-loop control throughout.

Here’s what we cover:
• Why SAP launched agent-led transformation now – and what it adds to RISE
• All 7 migration & modernization assistants, explained clearly
• Live demo: SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformation across three roles
• How agents work alongside existing tools (SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, WalkMe)
• Real customer feedback and early outcomes
• Availability roadmap: what’s live now, what’s coming by year-end

0:00 – Introduction & series welcome
1:28 – Why now? The RISE journey and the AI dimension
3:07 – Overview: 7 migration & modernization assistants
4:04 – Assistant 1: System Analysis
4:27 – Assistant 2: Data Management
4:57 – Assistant 3: Custom Code
5:42 – Assistant 4: Configuration
6:08 – Assistant 5: Test Management (+ Tricentis partnership)
6:51 – Assistant 6: Rollout
7:17 – Assistant 7: Project Management
8:03 – Live demo: ECC to S/4HANA transformation in action
15:03 – Key demo insights: familiar tools + human-in-the-loop
15:45 – How agents complement existing SAP tools
17:17 – Early customer results and business outcomes
20:37 – Availability roadmap: what ships when
21:34 – Wrap-up and next steps

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Really interesting takeaway from Ricard Rovira Marti from Vodafone.

Instead of replacing governance, SAP Business Data Cloud is helping enable it: by building a knowledge layer that keeps data connected and meaningful across systems.

A great example of how to balance innovation with control.

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The secret to finding the next big talent for the world’s biggest pitch? ⚽️ Data.

SAP Sports One turns every sprint, touch, and decision into a clear picture, so coaches and scouts see the full potential in real time. https://sap.to/6053BEDGrD

Here’s the paradox of the AI era: the more we automate operational tasks, the more profoundly human leadership becomes.

For too long, leadership has been conflated with management, overseeing workflows, tracking progress, and running the operational engine. But AI is poised to take on much of that work, freeing up leaders to do what they were always meant to do: solve complex problems that require nuanced, critical, and uniquely human judgment.

The real work is navigating the leadership dilemmas and strategic challenges that no algorithm can solve. This shift doesn’t diminish the role of a leader; it elevates it.

In this clip, Muizz Bolanji of @danfoss shares his perspective on why this is the most exciting opportunity for leaders today. It’s time to move from managing processes to leading people.

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