麻豆原创 has announced a series of AI innovations at its annual 麻豆原创 TechEd conference, expanding its portfolio for developers. The enhancements to Joule Studio and Joule Work, as well as the 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform 鈥� including 麻豆原创’s latest tabular foundation model 鈥� offer new tools to build and extend AI agents.

麻豆原创 said its strategy is to advance the development and adoption of agentic AI by providing richer business and data context for agents, and governance controls to manage their use across organisations.

Philipp Herzig, CTO of 麻豆原创 SE, said the 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform, along with 麻豆原创 Knowledge Graph, 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, Joule Studio, Joule Work and agentic orchestration and integration capabilities, is now generally available.

鈥淭his entire platform is now generally available with all its capabilities, starting at the top with Joule Work, available on every device, every computer, in every browser. Joule Work is where you put your intent and get work done, in one experience across the entire 麻豆原创 landscape and beyond. That is the shift we are delivering at scale. Everything underneath runs on 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform.鈥�

Asked how 麻豆原创 connects with external AI agents entering the market and supports customers already using agents from other vendors, Herzig said the company follows an open strategy.

鈥淐ustomers say that if 麻豆原创 provides an agent in the core domains where they have 麻豆原创, there鈥檚 no need to build and own one. There are tons of agents out there, and we have made sure, via our agent gateway, that there is full interoperability. Our AI agent hub allows you to discover the agents, 麻豆原创 agents and non-麻豆原创 agents, and you can document them and make them compliant.鈥�

Herzig also addressed vendor lock-in and the challenges organisations face when using AI models from different vendors, discussing 麻豆原创鈥檚 approach to letting customers select models for specific use cases.

He said that tailoring a use case for optimisation inevitably brings some lock-in, but that model switchability remains viable for organisations keeping their AI use cases fairly generic.

AI to serve autonomous enterprise operations

Florian Kunzke, global director of AI strategy at 麻豆原创, echoed Herzig鈥檚 view that the company is moving from AI that learns how a business operates to AI that runs it, with the objective of mobilising AI to serve autonomous enterprise operations.

He said 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI strategy continues to evolve, particularly from a user interface and user experience point of view, with agents embedded in its technology suite.

Kunzke said Joule Work and Joule Studio, alongside 麻豆原创 Knowledge Graph 鈥� which provides a structured semantic foundation for Joule 鈥� are central to 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI strategy. The company aims to help organisations become autonomous enterprises while addressing challenges such as the impact of geopolitical tensions on supply chains, the need to improve productivity through AI investment, and the requirement to generate ROI.

He cited , released in August 2026. According to the research, 80% of respondents said AI had improved individual productivity, while 50% said it helped them make better decisions.

However, he stressed the need for perspective on how AI is being adopted and used across organisations. 鈥淚t is important to distinguish between what happens at organisational level and what happens at individual level. There is a gap, and that is what 麻豆原创 is looking to address,鈥� said Kunzke.

He also acknowledged that shadow AI, rogue AI, cyber security threats and the maturity of digital infrastructure continue to affect AI adoption. However, he added that 麻豆原创 is confident its technology empowers customers to select the right AI for a job, as well as the necessary level of control.

鈥淵ou can improve what you are able to observe and measure. With agentic solutions and processes, and the adoption of these processes, the question is what to aim for in terms of governance, what tools will the organisation need. It makes sense to have tools be as close as possible to the applications being used.鈥�

Independent AI expert Johan Steyn, founder of , said the shift to agentic AI marks an inflexion point. “AI strategy stops being about which tools you buy and becomes about how you orchestrate and govern agents,” he said. “Capability is becoming abundant; governance is the scarce advantage.”

Latest tabular AI model

麻豆原创 announced its latest tabular AI model, 麻豆原创-RPT-2.0, which will expand beyond classification and regression to support anomaly and outlier detection, and richer AI-powered analysis through embeddings.

According to 麻豆原创, these native, multi-table capabilities will further reduce manual engineering while delivering faster, deeper insights from structured data.

In partnership with HPE, 麻豆原创 also announced plans to deploy 麻豆原创-RPT-2.0 on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2027.

The model is scheduled to run directly on the ISS to support anomaly triage, predict potential problems before failures escalate, reconstruct missing sensor values using historical data, and generate mission-health reports for astronauts and ground teams.

Herzig added: 鈥淭he same trusted 麻豆原创-RPT model that powers global supply chains can also work in space. 麻豆原创鈥檚 deep-rooted, proven expertise has led to the International Space Station鈥檚 use of our tabular foundation model to predict potential mission-critical failures in orbit. With 麻豆原创-RPT and TabPFN from Prior Labs, we bring the unique capabilities of tabular AI into the enterprise and across every frontier.鈥�

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麻豆原创 Business AI Platform gives organizations one place to build, contextualize and govern AI across 麻豆原创 and third-party environments. With Joule Studio, business users and developers can use no-code and pro-code tools to build and extend agents, choosing from more than 70 AI models. Customers in the Joule Studio early adopter program also can design and run n8n workflows in Joule Studio, with broader availability to follow. The 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud and 麻豆原创 Knowledge Graph solutions ground those agents in trusted business data and context, helping organizations select the right model for each use case and better manage AI value and consumption. Importantly, 麻豆原创 customers鈥� data remains their data. 麻豆原创 does not share customer data with anyone to train or improve large language models.

鈥溌槎乖� TechEd has always been where builders shape what comes next,鈥� said Philipp Herzig, CTO of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭his year, we are showing how we are moving from AI learning your business to running it. Joule Work is where you put your intent and get work done, in one experience across the entire 麻豆原创 landscape and beyond. That is the shift we are delivering at scale. Everything underneath runs on 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform, delivering faster time to value through out-of-the-box business understanding, higher accuracy, enterprise-readiness that is secure, governed and compliant from the first deployment, and a unique context layer built on over 50 years of process and industry expertise, encoded into every agent action. This is AI built where real work happens.鈥�

Joule Work and Joule Studio Make the Autonomous Enterprise Real

New capabilities for Joule Work will help make AI agents more effective at handling complex business processes via open protocols including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). These innovations advance Joule Work to better understand context, make decisions and execute multistep business workflows across enterprise systems and business domains:

• New agentic thinking capabilities that plan and orchestrate the steps assistants and agents need to reliably complete complex, multistep business workflows across 麻豆原创 landscapes.
• New capabilities in 麻豆原创 Knowledge Graph will incorporate data from additional 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 sources that are unique to each customer. Users can query and explore their customized data in natural language and get accurate answers grounded in their own information.
• Advancements in interoperability allow third-party agents to securely invoke Joule Agents through a governed agent gateway. This enforced access control enables agents from different providers to collaborate across business workflows without sacrificing governance or control.
• New 麻豆原创 Enterprise AI Gateway solution will extend governance to AI interactions, offering a centralized way to manage AI traffic across the enterprise that will consolidate authentication, policy enforcement, routing, monitoring, usage tracking and auditing.
• New Joule Assistant and 麻豆原创 AI Agent Hub expand governance capabilities, and a new AI Governance Assistant helps customers meet compliance requirements for the EU AI Act. These are designed to address critical barriers to scaling enterprise AI: keeping AI systems classified, compliant and operating within defined organizational guardrails and context.

麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud as the Grounding Engine of the Autonomous Enterprise

麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud Ontology Manager in 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud (麻豆原创 BDC) will provide an AI-native authoring experience for building ontologies across 麻豆原创 and third-party data. By helping AI understand how data from different teams, systems and applications relate to one another, AI agents can more accurately reason and make decisions across the enterprise. The solutions complement 麻豆原创 Knowledge Graph, which provides rich business context for 麻豆原创 data.

Additionally, 麻豆原创 is expanding its lakehouse capabilities with Dremio, adding native support for Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris plus a high-performance, federated query engine that will enable unified data access without moving or copying the data. 麻豆原创 expands its partnership with Databricks, bringing the full scope and latest innovations of data engineering and enterprise AI capabilities into 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud as 麻豆原创 Databricks. Core innovations such as Lakeflow, Agent Bricks, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase will help customers to simplify data management and provide a strong data foundation for their AI journey. With a deeper integration to 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, a new 麻豆原创 Application Data Foundation, as well as an integration between Joule and Genie, 麻豆原创 and Databricks are helping customers establish an enterprise-wide lakehouse as the foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise and Joule Work.

The 麻豆原创 Reltio solution, recently announced at 麻豆原创 Connect, will bring multidomain master data management to 麻豆原创 BDC. It unifies and enriches customer, supplier and product records across 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems into trusted, reusable data products that can power applications and AI agents.

Tabular Foundation Model Trusted for Business, Validated in Space

麻豆原创 announced its latest tabular AI model, 麻豆原创-RPT-2.0, which will expand beyond classification and regression to support anomaly and outlier detection, and richer AI-powered analysis through embeddings. These native, multi-table capabilities will further reduce manual engineering while delivering faster, deeper insights from structured data. In addition, a new 麻豆原创-RPT-TS model will help customers predict values across time-indexed business metrics for key forecasting use cases using the 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning solution without requiring custom machine learning.

In partnership with HPE, 麻豆原创 also announced the deployment of 麻豆原创-RPT on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), one of the most significant edge-compute validations of any enterprise AI model to date. 麻豆原创-RPT is planned to run directly onboard the ISS to support anomaly triage, predict issues before failures escalate, reconstruct missing sensor values from historical data, and generate explainable mission-health reports for astronauts and ground teams 鈥� all without requiring data to be sent back to Earth for analysis.

鈥淭he same trusted 麻豆原创-RPT model that powers global supply chains also can work in space,鈥� said Herzig. 鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 deep-rooted, proven expertise has led to the International Space Station鈥檚 use of our tabular foundation model to predict potential mission-critical failures in orbit. With 麻豆原创-RPT and TabPFN from Prior Labs, we bring the unique capabilities of tabular AI into the enterprise and across every frontier.鈥�

Out-of-the-Box Assistants and Agents Define Our Advantage

For five decades, 麻豆原创 has built the systems of record that run your business. We will deliver, out of the box, a suite of assistants and agents across five horizontal domains all running on 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform 鈥� with industry specialization 鈥� that provides a baseline for systems of intelligence and systems of action.

Ecosystem Partners Help Expand Platform Capabilities

The global 麻豆原创 partner ecosystem brings new capabilities to the ongoing operation and extension of solutions on 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform, helping customers advance toward the Autonomous Enterprise. At 麻豆原创 TechEd, the following partner announcements were highlighted:

A collaboration with Intel closes the loop between enterprise workflows and autonomous robots, bridging informational technology and operational technology through physical AI.

In addition, new 麻豆原创 solution extensions with , and extend autonomous capabilities for customers, helping them run their core processes end to end, without handoffs between systems.

Beyond technology, 麻豆原创 is empowering its strong developer community with new enablement and engagement with tens of thousands joining for Devtoberfest leading up to 麻豆原创 TechEd, new reference architectures, tutorials and hands-on opportunities attendees can try onsite at the event and at home.

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From the rise of the Autonomous Enterprise to the case for embedding AI at the very core of business operations, the world of work is undergoing seismic shifts that are fundamentally altering what it means to work inside an enterprise.

The question organisations now face is not whether AI will reshape the workforce, but whether they are ready to lead that transition in a way that genuinely empowers their people.

At 麻豆原创 Sapphire 2026, under the banner of The Beginning of Better, 麻豆原创 made its most consequential set of workforce-related announcements to date. Taken together, they represent a clear and considered answer to that question.

From process operators to leaders of judgment

The Autonomous Enterprise framework introduced at Sapphire is built on an explicit design principle: humans must remain at the centre, not as operators of process, but as leaders of judgment, strategy and change. As AI assistants take on the coordination work that has long consumed employee time and attention, people are freed to focus on the decisions, relationships and creative problem-solving that machines cannot replicate.

Joule Work, 麻豆原创鈥檚 reimagined AI engagement layer, illustrates this shift vividly. Rather than navigating multiple systems and entering data across screens, employees can now describe what they need to accomplish in plain language 鈥� fill an open headcount, manage my team鈥檚 time-off backlog 鈥� and Joule orchestrates the right workflows, data and agents to make it happen.

The model of work is shifting from task navigation to intent-driven interaction, reducing operational friction and returning cognitive bandwidth to the things that matter most.

Planning for a workforce that includes people and agents

One of the most strategically significant themes at Sapphire was how organisations plan and design for a workforce that now includes both human employees and AI agents executing tasks in concert.

 reveals that 62% of C-suite executives are dissatisfied with how well people data connects to business performance, making it harder to translate strategy into workforce action. 麻豆原创鈥檚 new AI-enabled workforce planning capability directly addresses this, connecting financial data from 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP, contingent workforce data from 麻豆原创 Fieldglass, and people and skills data from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors into a unified foundation for decision-making. Planning shifts from a periodic exercise to a continuous discipline, with AI agents able to model scenarios, simulate KPI impacts and recommend actions in real time.

New organisational modelling capabilities within 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central allow leaders to explore alternative structures, evaluate changes to roles and reporting lines, and understand implications before they are implemented, supporting thoughtful, data-informed change rather than disruptive restructuring.

Ongoing efforts to close skills gap

Across every industry and every region, leaders are confronting the same reality: new roles are emerging, new competencies are required, and the processes that have defined work for decades are being reimagined at speed by generative AI.

Traditional approaches to workforce development, such as annual training cycles, standalone learning systems, and scheduled courses, cannot alone keep pace. The recently unveiled Workforce Upskilling Assistant offers a new capability that delivers personalised, AI-driven learning directly within the flow of daily work, whether that is in Microsoft Teams, Slack or 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors itself.

By converting organisational content into adaptive micro-learning and embedding timely nudges into workflows, the assistant brings the right learning to the right person at the right moment instead of when a calendar event dictates it. Organisations that embed learning into culture and workflows with AI-powered tools are significantly ahead of peers, and .

Trust is the foundation

None of this transformation succeeds without the trust of the workforce it is designed to serve. Accenture found that , while significant proportions report burnout and anxiety about the future of their roles.

Here, the emphasis that humans remain firmly in control reflects a commercial and human reality that enterprise leaders across our region understand well: technology that erodes trust fails. Technology that builds trust, endures.

The organisations that will lead this era are those that invest as intentionally in workforce readiness, reskilling and governance as they do in AI platforms and automation.

The Autonomous Enterprise is, at its heart, a vision for human progress, one where intelligent systems handle the operational burden and people are empowered to pursue the work that only they can do. 麻豆原创 is committed to helping organisations across the region build enterprises where that potential is fully realised.

The Beginning of Better starts with the people inside it.

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