Explore the latest SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud feature highlights from the September 2026 releases.

In this monthly update, Klaus-Peter Sauer covers what shipped across releases 2026.19 and 2026.20, including replication flow improvements, stronger data product governance, more detailed cost monitoring, easier data integration monitoring, and new AI-powered capabilities.

You’ll see how these updates can help data teams build more flexible replication pipelines, manage runtime settings consistently across landscapes, improve multilingual data quality, establish clearer governance for data product access, understand object store consumption, and use SAP Business AI to simplify SQL development and pipeline analysis.

You will see what is new in:
✅ Delta Load for Local Tables (File) as Replication Flow Source — Use local tables stored on object store as replication flow sources with delta and initial-plus-delta load types.
✅ Transport Runtime Settings for Replication Flows — Choose which runtime settings move with a replication flow across development, test, and production landscapes.
✅ Attribute Translation and Data Validation — Validate translation completeness with text entity rules and provide fallback text when translations are unavailable.
✅ Data Product Governance Improvements — Establish formal agreements between data producers and consumers, with terms and conditions, access requests, approvals, and an auditable record of data product usage.
✅ Object Store Requests Consumed by Category — See control plane, read, and write requests separately for greater visibility into SAP Business Data Cloud consumption.
✅ Add and Clear Filters in Data Integration Monitor — Apply column filters directly in the monitor, see active conditions at a glance, and clear them in one step.
✅ AI SQL Code Generation and Pipeline Analysis — Generate or modify SQL views using natural language and create AI-powered business summaries plus error and impact analyses based on pipeline metadata.

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:26 – Delta Load for Local Tables as Replication Flow Source
01:01 – Transport Runtime Settings for Replication Flows
01:39 – Attribute Translation and Data Validation
02:38 – Data Product Governance Improvements
04:53 – Object Store Requests Consumed by Category
05:32 – Add and Clear Filters in Data Integration Monitor
06:05 – AI SQL Code Generation and Pipeline Analysis
07:14 – Wrap-Up

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How can enterprises securely connect AI agents to business systems? Explore the MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite and its role in agentic integration.

In this episode of Discover SAP Business AI Platform, host Gaurav Dey sits down with Dhawal Joshi, Chief Product Manager for SAP Integration Suite Platform, and Vishnuprasad Hegde, VP, API Management Portfolio, SAP Integration Suite, to explore Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how SAP Integration Suite helps enterprises connect AI agents with business systems.

The conversation breaks down the three core MCP constructs, tools, resources, and prompts—and explains how the MCP Gateway can expose APIs, integration flows, and connectors through purpose-built MCP servers. You’ll also hear why MCP and APIs are complementary rather than competing technologies: APIs continue to provide the foundation for enterprise integration, while MCP standardizes how AI agents discover and interact with business capabilities.

The discussion also explores what enterprise-ready MCP requires, including authentication and authorization, traffic management, rate limiting, threat protection, mediation, observability, and governed access. Dhawal and Vishnu explain when SAP recommends using the MCP Gateway, including scenarios where agents are built on SAP or third-party platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. Finally, they look ahead to planned capabilities including additional data sources and connectors, MCP Server Federation, and dynamic client registration.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
✅ What Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and how tools, resources, and prompts work
✅ How SAP Integration Suite turns APIs and integration flows into MCP tools
✅ Why MCP complements APIs rather than replacing them
✅ How MCP Gateway supports security, governance, traffic management, and observability
✅ How MCP Gateway can connect agents built on SAP and third-party platforms
✅ What’s planned next for MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite

Guests:
Dhawal Joshi – Chief Product Manager, SAP Integration Suite Platform
Vishnuprasad Hegde – VP, API Management Portfolio, SAP Integration Suite

Host:
Gaurav Dey – Platform & AI, SAP

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome to Discover SAP Business AI Platform
02:07 – What’s new in SAP Business AI Platform
04:15 – Meet Dhawal Joshi and Vishnuprasad Hegde
05:30 – Icebreaker: the AI word game
07:19 – What is MCP? Tools, resources, and prompts
10:11 – MCP Gateway in SAP Integration Suite
11:03 – Turning APIs and integration flows into MCP tools
12:49 – MCP and APIs: why enterprises need both
14:28 – Security and governance for MCP servers
16:43 – Traffic management, rate limiting, and observability
19:02 – When to use SAP Integration Suite MCP Gateway
20:31 – Accessing MCP Gateway
21:04 – MCP Gateway roadmap and planned capabilities
22:43 – Key takeaways from the experts
24:15 – What’s on the horizon for SAP Business AI Platform
26:32 – SAP Connect and SAP TechEd
27:19 – Closing remarks

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How can businesses prepare their data for AI at scale? See how Armstrong World Industries is building a connected, AI-ready data foundation with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Business AI Platform.

Armstrong World Industries faced a growing challenge: data was siloed across multiple systems, making it difficult to share a consistent data story and keep pace with business demand. And as AI became a bigger priority, connecting trusted business data became even more critical.

Working with SAP partner Applexus, Armstrong is creating a modern business data foundation that brings SAP and non-SAP data together. Using SAP Business Data Cloud, the team can transform existing business warehouse information into data products in SAP Datasphere and make that trusted, semantically rich data available for AI. Armstrong reports improvements in data quality and user experience, with users saving roughly 20 to 30 hours per week.

For Armstrong, this foundation is also an important step on its journey toward a more autonomous workforce, bringing data and AI closer together so they can operate with shared business context.

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Agentic AI is moving from concept to reality.

Discover SAP’s vision for the Joule Product Design Assistant: specialized AI agents working together to support product development, reduce manual effort, and help teams innovate faster.

✨ The real breakthrough isn’t a single AI capability. It’s orchestration.

Who is the team behind your team?

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Shop RE/DONE’s latest collection exclusively in-store throughout September at 475 Broome Street, NY.

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The same signals shaping your experience can also inform what happens behind the scenes.

At the Retail Innovation Lab, SAP’s Industry AI approach connects those signals across merchandising, inventory, fulfillment, supply chain, and customer experience, bringing autonomous commerce to life in a real store environment.

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Tide is preparing for its next stage of growth with SAP Cloud ERP, supported by implementation partner YASH Technologies.

As one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintech companies, Tide provides a digital financial platform that helps small businesses save time and money. To support continued expansion, Tide needed an ERP foundation built for scalability, standardization, integration, and security, without requiring another major software change as the business grows.

In this customer story, hear how SAP Cloud ERP helps Tide connect data across systems, streamline key finance processes, and stay current with cloud-based updates. You’ll also learn how YASH Technologies supported a fast implementation using SAP best practices, out-of-the-box capabilities, SAP Business Technology Platform, and standard API management to enable real-time data exchange across Tide’s application landscape.

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See how Al Hatab Foods uses SAP Business AI Platform to improve production, increase capacity utilization, and reduce waste.

Al Hatab Foods, a leading food company in Saudi Arabia, has grown from a bakery business into fresh meal production, with a goal of producing 1 million fresh meals per month while maintaining consistent taste, quality, and customer experience.

To support this new line of business, Al Hatab Foods needed better visibility into shop floor operations, faster decision-making, and a flexible technology foundation to connect data across SAP and non-SAP systems. Working with Körber Stellium, the company used SAP Business AI Platform, SAP HANA Cloud, and SAP Integration Suite to collect data from IoT devices, support digital manufacturing, and enable the customization needed for its greenfield factory.

The results: 85% capacity utilization, 35% waste reduction, and 25% production improvement. Hear how Al Hatab Foods is using SAP technology to improve operations, scale production, and build a more connected manufacturing environment.

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Discover what’s new in SAP HANA Cloud Q3 2026 in under 7 minutes, including AI, agent memory, knowledge graph, and resilience updates.

Join Thomas Hammer, Lead Product Manager for SAP HANA Cloud, for a fast-paced first look at the latest release highlights and what they mean for enterprise data, AI, application development, and mission-critical workloads.

In this release preview, Thomas walks through new and enhanced capabilities across SAP HANA Cloud, including SAP Agent Memory Service, expanded database object discovery and data retrieval tools, AI-assisted calculation view modeling, the new AI_CORE_REQUEST database function, and GeoSPARQL support for the SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine.

You’ll also hear how SAP HANA Cloud is strengthening business continuity with multi-region disaster recovery for database tenants, simplifying SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure, improving performance optimization with the Analytics Advisor, and extending access to SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake through SAP Business Data Cloud.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:47 – AI and Agentic Data Innovations
03:02 – SAP AI Core and Knowledge Graph Updates
04:20 – Resilience, Deployment, and Performance
06:00 – SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake
06:15 – Outro

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Think you know how fast SAP GROW works? We put real customer numbers to the test — game show style.

✅ 15 weeks to go live
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