Learn about the feature highlights in January 2026 with SAP Datasphere!

We delivered three new releases this month, so let’s check out the top features presented by Klaus-Peter Sauer:
00:28 – Enable Auto-Retry for a Task in a Task Chain
00:57 – Task ports of tasks in Task Chains
01:37 – Technical user for scheduling
02:07 – Manage Tasks with REST APIs
02:39 – Analytic Model: New functions in the Expression Editor (YTD, QTD, MTD)
03:00 – Reuse a target table of one replication as a source of another replication flow
03:31 – Support parquet format for cloud storage sources
03:54 – Partitioning of local tables with data
05:09 – Longer technical names of data builder objects
06:06 – BW Modernization updates

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#SAPDatasphere #DataFabric #BusinessAI

2025 was a big year for SAP Business AI with new capabilities designed to turn business data into real impact.

In this highlights recap, we look back at key moments across SAP events: Joule expanding for developers, consultants, and business users; the Joule action bar bringing help across SAP’s portfolio and beyond; and Joule agents that help turn insights into action wherever work happens. We also spotlight new assistants across finance, procurement, supply chain, HR, and customer experience, including 40+ new agents in 2025, plus progress on agent orchestration and Agent2Agent compatibility.

You’ll also hear about the foundation behind it all: an AI operating system to build and run at scale, with multi-model support (any model to any model), plus tools like prompt optimization. And we close with the momentum: 2,400 Joule skills, 300+ use cases, 34,000 SAP Business AI customers, and reported value potential of €441M p.a. for a €10B-revenue company.

Thank you to our customers, and here’s to an even brighter 2026!

Get a peek at upcoming generative AI innovations: https://sap.to/6052hEBLm

#SAPBusinessAI #Joule #AI

Managing orders, inventory, fulfillment, and customer interactions across channels shouldn’t be complicated. In this quick feature demo, see how SAP Order Management Services helps retailers deliver seamless experiences and build lasting loyalty.

In the demo, a social-driven purchase hits a fulfillment snag: a picking delay threatens the delivery promise. The Order Reliability Agent flags the issue, recommends the next best action, finds an alternate sourcing option, and escalates to the operations manager when cost/margin approval is needed, so teams stay in control and customers still get their order on time.

Chapters:
00:00 – Overview: OMS bundle for retailers
00:16 – Why it matters: loyalty across channels
00:28 – Unify data & orchestrate orders in a central hub
00:49 – Demo scenario: social discovery to purchase
01:14 – Issue flagged: picking delay and risk to promise
01:28 – AI Order Reliability Agent: next best action + escalation
01:56 – Outcome: on-time delivery and repeat purchase
02:16 – Wrap-up: efficiency, profitability, loyalty

Learn more about SAP Order Management Services ➡️
https://sap.to/6055hDhL7

In this video, Pavithra G K, Head of SAP Knowledge Graph, explains how SAP Knowledge Graph works like a brilliant librarian for enterprise AI. It connects domain knowledge across SAP landscapes and translates it into a common, machine-understandable language, making your business information connected, understandable, and ready for intelligent applications, including SAP’s AI copilot, Joule.

Chapters:
00:00 – SAP as the world’s “business library”
00:27 – What SAP Knowledge Graph does (connects + translates)
00:55 – Example: procurement question for Joule
01:26 – From confident guesses to deterministic answers
02:01 – What customers need to do (SAP manages the graph)
02:17 – Where to learn more (blog + course)

Learn more about SAP Knowledge Graph. 👉 https://sap.to/6055hDzfR

#SAP #BusinessAI #KnowledgeGraph

That problem often starts with disconnected design data. Andreas Madlencnik explains why every product begins with data, and how missing connections lead to inefficiencies, rework, and delays across the supply chain.

Find out how SAP’s solutions for PLM helps fix it. 👉 https://sap.to/6052hDzLQ

Sarah Mei Niesel from SAP had the chance to speak with Rolf, Managing Director of Cideon Software & Services, about the biggest mistake companies make when starting their PLM journey.

Learn more. 👉 https://sap.to/6059C7gRt

See how SAP Cloud ERP 2602 strengthens Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) with smarter inspections, streamlined investigations, automated UK regulatory reporting, and clearer compliance insights—helping teams stay proactive, reduce risk, and support operational excellence.

In this highlight tour, Claudia and her digital twin walk through four EHS innovations designed to simplify day-to-day safety work: plan and execute inspections end-to-end (including mobile), keep investigations moving with a consolidated overview, automate UK incident reporting where required, and spot compliance risk faster with new operational insights.

🔍 End-to-end EHS inspections (incl. mobile) — Plan and execute inspections with checklists and ad hoc inspections, document findings, and manage corrective and preventive actions, all in one integrated process.

🕵️ Investigation overview dashboard — Track milestones, responsibilities, open actions, and root causes (with or without recommendations) in a single view to accelerate root-cause analysis and prevent repeat incidents.

🇬🇧 UK regulatory reporting for RIDDOR & BSA — When an incident qualifies, the system automatically determines reporting duties, creates required artefacts, attaches them to the investigation, and sends email notifications, supporting timely, auditable submissions.

📊 Operational compliance insights — New insight cards like Overdue Tasks and Overdue & Due Tasks per Location help you spot risks fast and jump straight into task lists to take action.

Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome & introduction
00:30 – End-to-end EHS inspection planning & execution
01:10 – Investigation overview dashboard
02:05 – UK Incident reporting: RIDDOR & BSA automation
02:57 – Operational compliance overview enhancements
03:42 – Summary & invitation to community

• Read more about the latest Environment, Health, and Safety innovations in SAP Cloud ERP 2602: https://sap.to/6057hB8IP
• Check out the SAP Cloud ERP Community: https://sap.to/6055CIrvT

• Explore SAP Cloud ERP innovations: https://sap.to/6056CIrvp

#SAPCloudERP #EHS #ERP

Discover how SAP Cloud ERP 2602 transforms Finance operations with agentic AI for accruals and a powerful new actual liquidity analysis, helping finance teams work faster, reduce manual effort, and gain clearer cash flow visibility.

In this highlight tour, Alina and her digital twin walk through two innovations from General Ledger Accounting and Cash and Liquidity Management. Together, they modernize period-end work and make it easier to understand where cash comes from and how it’s used, supported by transparent reasoning and drill-down traceability.

🤖 General Ledger Accounting – Accounting Accruals Agent — Agentic AI interprets accounting policy documents, pulls historical data, performs calculations, and generates accrual proposals automatically. Accountants review and post proposals in the new Manage Accrual Proposals app, complete with clear rationales behind each amount (generally available with 2602.1).

💧 Actual Liquidity Analysis — Get a standardized view of cash flows with balances, FX effects, and period summaries—plus drill-down to Check Cash Flow Items for full traceability.

Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome & introduction
00:26 – Accounting Accruals Agent (General Ledger Accounting)
01:44 – Actual Liquidity Analysis (Cash & Liquidity Management)
03:00 – Summary & community invitation

• Read more about the latest Finance innovations in SAP Cloud ERP 2602: https://sap.to/6056h6htG
• Check out the SAP Cloud ERP Community: https://sap.to/6055CIrvT

• Explore SAP Cloud ERP innovations: https://sap.to/6056CIrvp

#SAPCloudERP #Finance #SAPBusinessAI #ERP

Learn how SAP IBP 2602 streamlines complex inventory decisions with characteristics-based planning (CBP) and shelf life, so planners can meet compliance requirements while protecting product quality and reducing waste from expired stock.

In this highlight tour, you’ll see a real planning scenario where demand requires specific CBP attributes (market qualification and potency) plus a minimum remaining shelf life. Instead of running separate checks and making risky trade-offs, the planning run evaluates all constraints at once, automatically selecting suitable inventory and creating the right supply to fulfill demand.

🧬 Plan with CBP attributes + shelf life together — Link demand to a specific attribute combination (for example, market qualification and potency) with a required minimum remaining shelf life.

📦 Automatically identify suitable batches — The system considers batch qualification and remaining shelf life to select inventory that meets both compliance and quality needs.

⚙️ One run, all constraints — A single supply planning run evaluates constraints simultaneously and can trigger new compliant supply (for example, stock transfer requisitions and planned orders) with shelf-life parameters applied.

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction: CBP with shelf life
00:18 – Scenario + requirements (market + potency + 100 days)
00:46 – Forecast includes CBP + shelf life constraint
00:57 – Stock details: which batches qualify
01:47 – Run supply planning: constraints evaluated together
02:10 – Results: STR created + compliant supply
02:24 – Order network: how demand is fulfilled
03:15 – Wrap-up: compliance + optimal utilization

• What’s new (Help Portal): https://sap.to/6059hBRgF

• Learn more about SAP Integrated Business Planning: https://sap.to/6053cGTA3

Discover how AI-assisted MRO inventory analysis in SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) 2602 streamlines the validation of MRO inventory planning results, helping planners build trust in key parameters like safety stock, reorder points, and target inventory positions with less manual investigation.

In this highlight tour, you’ll see how the new analysis experience brings results, drivers, and relevant inputs into a single view, so maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) planners can move from “fact-finding” to confident decision-making faster, keeping maintenance supply chains running efficiently.

🤖 AI-assisted validation in one view — Get a clear summary of optimized results plus MRO-specific analysis that accounts for the factors behind the planning run, explained in business-friendly language.

🖱️ Faster access from where you work — Launch the analysis with a simple right-click in Planner Workspace or the SAP IBP add-in for Microsoft Excel, then accept results in a single action.

🔎 Less guesswork, fewer context switches — See key inputs and settings (like service level, lead time, and part demand) in one place, reducing time-consuming digging across windows, profiles, and configurations.

Chapters:
00:00 – Scenario: validating MRO planning results
00:54 – Introducing AI-assisted MRO inventory analysis (2602)
01:07 – Launch from Planner Workspace or Excel add-in
01:22 – Summary + MRO-specific analysis explained
01:44 – One view for settings and inputs
01:58 – Wrap-up: faster, more confident decisions

• What’s new (Help Portal): https://sap.to/6050hBRom

• Learn more about SAP Integrated Business Planning: https://sap.to/6053cGTA3