SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings new Governance, Risk, and Compliance innovations to help organizations streamline VAT reporting, simplify e-invoicing error resolution, and improve international trade classification with AI-powered support.

In this release highlights video, an AI avatar representing Hiruni Badulle walks through the latest Governance, Risk, and Compliance updates delivered with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608. See how new capabilities in SAP Document and Reporting Compliance and AI-powered trade classification can help organizations improve efficiency, accuracy, transparency, and regulatory compliance.

You’ll see how the new Manage External Tax Items capability supports consolidated VAT returns by incorporating tax items from external systems. This helps organizations bring SAP and non-SAP tax data together in a single VAT return, supporting a more complete and accurate reporting process. The capability is currently available for the UK VAT return, with support for additional countries planned in future releases.

The video also introduces the E-Invoicing Submission Error Resolution Agent in SAP Document and Reporting Compliance. This AI-powered feature turns technical invoice submission messages into clear guidance, explains why a rejection occurred, and recommends next steps to resolve it. For integration and connectivity errors, the agent can resolve issues autonomously. For business-impacting errors that require document or master data corrections, it guides users through the resolution process.

Finally, Hiruni highlights the International Trade Classification Agent, which helps organizations assign customs tariff numbers and commodity codes to products. The agent provides clear explanations for its recommendations, helping users understand and validate classifications while improving consistency, supporting compliance, and reducing manual effort across trade operations.

Highlights include:
📊 Consolidated VAT returns with external tax items — Include tax-relevant transactions from external applications in a single VAT return.

🧾 Manage External Tax Items — Extend VAT reporting beyond SAP systems and support standardized tax reporting across distributed landscapes.

🤖 E-Invoicing Submission Error Resolution Agent — Turn technical submission errors into clear guidance and recommended resolution steps.

⚡ Autonomous error handling — Resolve integration and connectivity errors automatically where possible.

🌐 International Trade Classification Agent — Recommend customs tariff numbers and commodity codes for product classification.

✅ Transparent compliance support — Provide clear explanations, improve audit readiness, and help reduce manual effort across tax and trade processes.

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction to Governance, Risk, and Compliance highlights for release 2608
00:21 – Consolidated VAT returns with external tax items
00:36 – Manage External Tax Items capability overview
01:30 – E-Invoicing Submission Error Resolution Agent
01:51 – AI-guided error analysis and resolution recommendations
02:27 – International Trade Classification Agent
02:37 – AI-powered product classification for trade compliance
03:18 – Release 2608 summary and additional resources

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Discover how a leading elevator manufacturer unlocked innovation during-not after-their SAP transformation journey using SAP’s Transformation Lab Quick Start.

Join host Yannick from SAP Product Success with Alexandra Altermann from SAP and Jan Loehe from implementation partner proaxia as they explore how organizations can accelerate service innovation while already in the middle of a large ERP program. The elevator company featured here faced a complex, heavily modified ERP landscape, overloaded teams, and a deprioritized service business, yet still needed to standardize, modernize, and innovate. This Expert Talk shows exactly how they did it.

In this Expert Talk, you’ll:
✔️ Understand why innovation gets crowded out during complex ERP transformations-and how to prevent it.
✔️ Learn the key difference between a traditional proof of concept and a value prototype built on SAP standards.
✔️ Discover how the SAP Transformation Lab QuickStart delivers a hands-on, end-to-end service prototype in just 10–12 weeks.
✔️ See how omnichannel customer service, intelligent asset management, and field service excellence were modeled for a real industrial customer.
✔️ Explore how SAP Business AI and Joule support service dispatching, AI-assisted email drafting, and mobile technician workflows.
✔️ Hear the real business outcomes customers identify- from reducing technician search time and admin effort to uncovering top-line opportunities like higher contract renewal potential.
✔️ Find out why the best time to start a value prototype is before you think you need one.

Whether you’re mid-transformation on SAP S/4HANA, evaluating service management modernization, or looking to build faster stakeholder alignment before a major project commitment, this Expert Talk shows how a value prototype moves you from uncertainty to clarity- built on SAP standards, with zero guesswork.

Chapters:
00:13 – Welcome and Introduction
02:46 – Innovation challenges during ERP transformation
07:04 – Value prototype vs. traditional POC
13:44 – End-to-end architecture and live demo
20:43 – Business outcomes and value drivers
24:49 – Key takeaways and closing

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See how dsm-firmenich uses RISE with SAP to unify post-merger operations, simplify its technology landscape, and prepare for future innovation.

dsm-firmenich is a global leader in nutrition, health, and beauty, formed through the merger of dsm and Firmenich. Bringing two companies together meant more than combining cultures. It also meant unifying business backbones, including finance, HR, and operational systems, so teams could work as one company.

Before its new journey with SAP, dsm-firmenich had a fragmented and complex technology landscape. With RISE with SAP, the company brought finance and HR processes together under one umbrella, helping create common processes, improve business continuity, and support greater flexibility as customer needs and market dynamics change.

Today, dsm-firmenich uses a broad SAP landscape, including SAP Ariba, Central Finance, SAP SuccessFactors, and Joule. As the company continues evolving its technology foundation, it is preparing its business to move faster, adapt to change, and explore innovation beyond integration with guided agents and AI-enabled processes.

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See how Align Technology uses RISE with SAP and SAP BRIM to support subscription-based business models and scale dental innovation.

Align Technology’s mission is to make better smiles. Known for transforming orthodontics from wires and brackets to clear aligners, the company has helped create 20 million smiles and continues to innovate across digital dentistry, manufacturing, and patient care.

As Align Technology evolves from traditional manufacturing toward subscription services, the company is transforming its technology stack with RISE with SAP and SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management. With SAP BRIM, Align Technology can support subscription growth, simplify license upgrades and renewals, and enable more self-service experiences for customers.

By putting SAP BRIM at the center of its transformation, Align Technology is preparing to support new treatment approaches while simplifying and scaling its platform for the future. The result is a stronger foundation for revenue growth, operational agility, and continued innovation in dental care.

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Formula 1 legends Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard went head-to-head on F1 trivia!

From World Championship records to pit stop times, they proved that decades in motorsport don’t always help you remember the year Nico Rosberg won his title. 😉

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See what’s new in SAP Business Data Cloud for Q3 2026, including AI-powered data access, governed sharing, and planning insights.

Join the What’s New crew as Orla Cullen, KP Sauer, and Thomas Hammer walk through the latest feature highlights across SAP Business Data Cloud, including SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud. This quarterly update shows how SAP is bringing AI closer to business data, simplifying access to trusted insights, and helping teams work faster across data, analytics, and planning.

In this episode, you’ll see how SAP HANA Cloud deepens integration with SAP AI Core through SQL-based prediction and AI text completion, while new knowledge graph and natural language tools make it easier to discover and retrieve enterprise data. You’ll also learn how SAP Datasphere improves multi-space management, expands REST API connectivity for replication flows, and introduces governance capabilities that help data producers and consumers share data with transparency and control.

The video also highlights new SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities, including Compass smart boundaries for simulation, embedded Compass widgets in stories, and AI-assisted prompts that help financial planners identify patterns, risks, and next steps more efficiently.

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Chapters
00:00 – Welcome to the Q3 2026 update
00:48 – SAP HANA Cloud and SAP AI Core integration
01:12 – SQL prediction and AI text completion
02:39 – Agentic data access in SAP HANA Cloud
04:27 – SAP Datasphere Q3 feature highlights
04:41 – Copy spaces with dependencies
06:20 – REST API for replication flows
08:03 – Data product governance and access agreements
10:11 – SAP Analytics Cloud updates
10:35 – Compass smart boundaries
11:50 – Compass widget in stories
12:50 – AI-assisted prompts for financial planning
14:06 – Wrap-up and next steps

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See how Edgewell Personal Care uses SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Cloud ERP, and SAP Concur to improve people data, support better decisions, and prepare for AI.

Edgewell Personal Care is focused on making useful things joyful, with consumer products people use every day. To support 7,000 global teammates and stay agile in a competitive market, the company needed to simplify its systems, processes, and data foundation.

By moving from legacy systems to an integrated SAP cloud landscape, Edgewell brought people data into the same connected environment across SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Cloud ERP, and SAP Concur. The company also established an HR data steward program, improving data accuracy from 29% at the start of the process to an average score of 96%.

That clean data is helping Edgewell make better people and business decisions. With predictive insights, leaders can identify employees who may be at risk of leaving and have meaningful stay conversations earlier. It also creates a stronger foundation for automation and AI, including Joule embedded across the SAP suite. For Edgewell, data-driven HR is helping the business move with more agility, react to customer needs, and bring tomorrow closer.

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@MercedesAMGF1 Team Principal and CEO Toto Wolff was supposed to own forty percent of the team he runs. Niki Lauda asked for ten of it, on the same terms, hours after finding out. Toto agreed, and the man who took a piece of his stake became the closest friend he had.

In the third episode of Significant Figures, Toto sits down with Jason Bell and Ariana Bravo to revisit the moments behind the numbers that have shaped his life so far. There is 2021, the night in Abu Dhabi that still overshadows a record eighth title. The 17 that took him to a race weekend at the Nürburgring. The 30 percent that made him an owner. The 15 that he still calls an absolute horror. And then his “Bring It” Number: the number Toto brings to the table himself, and the only one he says points forward rather than back.

Significant Figures is a new series about the people behind the public achievements – the pressure, relationships, turning points and beliefs that shape their lives and careers.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 – What’s To Come
01:17 – 2021 – Abu Dhabi
07:00 – 17 – The Start
18:13 – 30 – The Initial Stake
27:00 – 15 – Family Grief
34:47 – 3 – The Future
38:36 – The Debrief

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See how McCarthy Building Companies uses SAP SuccessFactors HCM to build an employee data foundation for growth, retention, and faster workforce decisions.

McCarthy Building Companies is a 100% employee-owned construction leader with 160 years of history and 8,000 employees across the United States. As the company continues growing, it needs to manage the complexity of a mobile workforce, 300 different unions, and employees moving from project to project across changing job sites.

With SAP SuccessFactors HCM, McCarthy has created a core source of truth for employee data. By going live with Employee Central, Onboarding, and Learning at the same time, the company built a foundation that helps leaders better understand employees, support growth, and make more informed workforce decisions.

That visibility matters in an industry where people are the product. McCarthy now has a more holistic view of its workforce, helping managers make better, faster decisions and support employee retention. While industry turnover is typically around 17% to 18%, McCarthy’s turnover is closer to 10%, a difference the company attributes to managers having better information about employees. For McCarthy, this is about more than improving HR today. It’s about building a platform for the future.

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See how The Ocean Cleanup uses SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Concur to unify operations, improve transparency, and focus resources on ocean recovery.

The Ocean Cleanup has an ambitious goal: remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. To get there, the organization combines a data-driven approach with a global operating model focused on removing legacy plastic from oceans and stopping more plastic from reaching them through rivers.

As The Ocean Cleanup scaled, its operations became more complex. Teams were working across different tools, making it harder for leadership to access transparent, accurate information and make well-informed decisions. With SAP Cloud ERP, the organization now has a single source of truth, giving teams real-time data and greater visibility across global operations.

SAP Concur also helps simplify travel and expense management for employees working around the world, including local currency conversion and easier post-travel reporting. By reducing manual effort, The Ocean Cleanup can focus more time and resources on its mission: making the world a better place by removing plastic from oceans and rivers.

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