鈥淲ill 麻豆原创 actually be a software company in the future?鈥�

It鈥檚 not the kind of question the CEO of a software company would usually ask thousands of customers, partners and analysts. At Sapphire 2026, 麻豆原创鈥檚 annual conference held this month in Orlando and Madrid, CEO Christian Klein asked his audience if they were scared by the question.

鈥淚鈥檓 not scared,鈥� he answered himself. 鈥淔or me, the time right now is the beginning of something even better.鈥�

The conference saw the launch of 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business AI Platform, a unified environment for building and governing AI agents across enterprise operations, grounded in real business context.

The strategy is to enhance critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business.

鈥淎ccording to a recent Stanford AI survey, almost every company is now using AI, but many see only little value,鈥� said Klein. 鈥淲hy do we face such huge challenges with AI in business? At the top of this iceberg, visible to everyone, is that large language models are getting better and better at tasks like generating text or images or in specific domains like writing software.

鈥淎ll of these use cases are related to publicly available content the modules are trained on. But if you go below the waterline, beyond the level of sales demos, and into the real business world, you鈥檙e going to find out that none of these models are trained on your business data and processes.

鈥淭hese AI agents also don鈥檛 naturally adhere to governance requirements, like your security compliance framework, your data privacy requirements, or to your company鈥檚 identity and authorisation rules. All AI agents 鈥� have faced these challenges until now.鈥�

The solution, he suggested, was that a company鈥檚 enterprise resource planning system, or ERP, should be recognised as the brain of every business. Since 麻豆原创 is world leader in ERP software, one might argue, naturally the CEO would say that.

But Klein made a good case for it: 鈥淔or over 15 years we have been developing an ERP with incredibly deep process and data domain know-how. On top of that, all your governance requirements and customer-specific extensions are stored in the ERP. The ERP is the trusted system of execution running your company.鈥�

Powerful external validation came from Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of AI models, and that is competing neck and neck with Open AI to become the most valuable AI platform company in the world. At Sapphire, 麻豆原创 shared video testimony from Anthropic co-founder and president the Daniela Amodei in which she declared: 鈥淭he world鈥檚 largest enterprises run on 麻豆原创. That鈥檚 exactly where trusted AI belongs.鈥�

That significance of this alignment revolves around the core value proposition of the Business AI Platform: trustworthiness.

JPMorgan Chase CFO Jeremy Barnum, who joined Klein on stage in Orlando, said his bank was already running agents in production on 麻豆原创, operating within defined compliance boundaries.

鈥淭he agents that we鈥檝e built are not inventing their own business rules,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hose rules rather come directly from 麻豆原创 Embedded Control Framework, and every AI-driven intervention is logged and fully traceable.鈥�

One organisation鈥檚 production deployment does not establish a category. But the compliance architecture it describes is precisely what most organisations attempting enterprise AI have not yet achieved.

Jensen Huang, CEO of $5-trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia, also appeared in a pre-recorded video segment, making it clear that AI agents would not replace ERP. The most ringing endorsement? Nvidia itself used 麻豆原创 as its ERP brain: 鈥淲hat 麻豆原创 and Nvidia are building together is one of the most important platforms in enterprise AI. Nvidia鈥檚 supply chain is incredibly complex. Millions of parts, hundreds of partners and factories, all connected through 麻豆原创. But what鈥檚 changing is not just how enterprise systems are managed, it鈥檚 how work actually gets done.

鈥淲e鈥檙e moving from hand-coded software to AI that can understand, reason, and act. AI no longer simply answers questions. It works for you. And enterprise systems are where work happens. Finance, supply chains, procurement, and every workflow in between.

鈥溌槎乖� is the foundation of enterprise. And now they鈥檙e building the agents that sit on top of it, trained on proprietary data with the skills to act. Soon, every company will have a workforce of agents. These specialised agents will not replace enterprise software. They will make enterprise software more powerful than ever.鈥�

* Arthur Goldstuck is CEO of World Wide Worx, editor-in-chief of , and author of 鈥淭he Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to AI 鈥� The African Edge鈥�.

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business assistant, , is transforming how enterprises function by providing insights, custom-tailored outcomes, and a personalised experience for businesses. As a result, says 麻豆原创, the product with a name inspired by the unit of energy significantly improves productivity and efficiency.

鈥淲e are entering a new phase of AI with endless opportunities for all of us,鈥� said , CEO of 麻豆原创, at the Sapphire 2024 conference in Barcelona.聽 鈥淭he technical evolution continues by using the power of generative AI across our stack to revolutionise once again how businesses will run, and how your end users will work in the future.鈥�

麻豆原创 performed a detailed analysis of the tasks completed with cloud software by their 300-million end-users every day. Consequently, they announced, by the end of 2024 80% of the most used tasks will be managed via Joule.

鈥淎s a result, your end users will do their work 20% more productively and with higher quality,鈥� said Klein.

For example, Joule will manage tasks in all management areas to create and change orders. It will take over some sequential activities in billing and cash collections. In finance, books will be closed faster as the software manages standard compliance checks.

鈥淛oule will also turn into a very powerful analytical engine to create insight for the boards for finance, for HR, for all parts of your business.鈥�

The digital assistant will be an engine that offers strategic recommendations by having access to the broadest business-to-business data model in the technology industry, which includes finance, supply chain, HR, sales, or ESG data from thousands of customers. Based on this data, which allows 麻豆原创 to train algorithms and find certain performance patterns in one鈥檚 business, Joule will provide recommendations to collect cash faster and make smarter procurement and supply chain decisions.

During Klein鈥檚 keynote, he highlighted 麻豆原创鈥檚 recent partnership with leading AI chip-maker . A highlight was a video featuring a ringing endorsement of 麻豆原创 by , founder and CEO of Nvidia, in which he said: 鈥淲e have one of the most complex supply chains in the world. We build AI supercomputers, AI factories. Enormously complicated systems. Our latest Blackwell System has 600,000 parts.

鈥淎ll of this has to be delivered to some 100 different customers, and all of our entire supply chain, build materials, forecasting systems, build plans, those 600,000 parts, and some 40 different manufacturers are all managed under 麻豆原创.

鈥淭his is the beginning of a new computing age, the beginning of a new industrial revolution. Through Joule, we have created some amazing generative AIs that understand the languages of 麻豆原创, supply chains, and enterprise planning systems so that we have a specialist, an agent, an AI to help us to do all the things that we want to do to manage our business.鈥�

, chief AI Officer of 麻豆原创, said: 鈥淓arlier this year, we gave Joule internally to up to 4,000 service consultants within 麻豆原创. What we observed is that they can save up to 2 hours every day.鈥�

More than 50 of 麻豆原创鈥檚 certification programmes, more than 200,000 pages, and 2Tb of curated best practices and community content, have been put into Joule. On top of that: it is supercharged by Nvidia鈥檚 technology.

鈥淚f you take this productivity gain and multiply it by our ecosystem, we can altogether save up to 600-million working hours every year, accelerating our transformation to the cloud,鈥� said Herzig. 鈥淭his technology is based on more than 250-million lines of code out of S/4HANA based on Nvidia鈥檚 hardware and software, as well as other models.鈥�

麻豆原创 has also expanded its strategic partnership with Google to enhance supply chain risk prediction and mitigation in volatile global environments. This collaboration integrates 麻豆原创鈥檚 Joule and with Google鈥檚 assistant and 鈥檚 Data Foundation, boosting forecast accuracy and enabling quicker responses to demand signals.

麻豆原创 has partnered with , leveraging its advanced language model to create images in and generate scripts for highly customised analytics applications in . Meta鈥檚 AI model excels in language nuances and contextual understanding, making it ideal for transforming enterprise business requirements into actionable insights.

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* Jason Bannier is a data analyst at World Wide Worx and writer for聽. Follow him on聽听补苍诲听聽at @jas2bann.

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ORLANDO, Florida 鈥� June, 2024鈥�

鈥淭he Business聽聽innovations we鈥檙e announcing at 麻豆原创 Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses run,鈥� says聽Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of聽. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to deliver revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unleash the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in today鈥檚 fast-moving business landscape.鈥�

AI That Means Business

As 麻豆原创 embeds Business AI across its enterprise solutions, it puts rich insights at users鈥� fingertips, empowering them to deliver better outcomes and elevate the creative problem-solving humans do best. Examples include聽AI-generated reports in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions that give people managers responsibly sourced insights for compensation-related discussions as well as forecasting capabilities in 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud solutions that predict combinations of salespeople and products most likely to drive sales. Meanwhile, the 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform is adding large language models from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This capability in the 麻豆原创 AI Core infrastructure makes聽it easier to build generative AI use cases for 麻豆原创 applications.

麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI copilot Joule, which quickly sorts and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision-making, is expanding throughout the company鈥檚 solution portfolio. Joule launched in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions聽last fall聽and is now embedded into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others including 麻豆原创 Build and 麻豆原创 Integration Suite. Further expansion by year-end will include 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solutions. At Sapphire, 麻豆原创 also聽announced plans聽to further broaden Joule鈥檚 scope by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot to surface even richer insights. This deep, bi-directional integration gives users a unified experience built right into the flow of work, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with business applications in 麻豆原创 and Microsoft 365.

Reflecting Business AI鈥檚 increasing importance, 麻豆原创 is redoubling its commitment to the principles of relevant, reliable, and responsible AI it pioneered. At Sapphire, 麻豆原创 is adopting the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which aim to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used in ways that respect human rights, promote fairness and contribute to sustainable development.

Partnerships That Scale Innovation

麻豆原创 is partnering with best-in-class technology leaders to push the limits of what generative AI can do at an enterprise level. In addition to our expanded collaborations with聽AWS聽and Microsoft, partnerships with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure 麻豆原创 can harness the power of AI-ready technology to innovate at speed and deliver richer real-world results.

Google Cloud

麻豆原创 and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, using Business AI to help enterprises better predict and mitigate supply-chain risks to minimize disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels. The companies will integrate Joule and the 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with Google Cloud鈥檚 Gemini models AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework鈥檚 data foundation.

Meta

厂础笔听will leverage Meta Llama 3聽to generate scripts that render highly customized analytics applications in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud. Meta鈥檚 next-generation AI model excels at language nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating enterprise business requirements into tangible outcomes.

Mistral AI

厂础笔听will also add new large language models聽from Mistral AI, a global company headquartered in Paris specializing in generative AI, to the generative AI hub capability in 麻豆原创 AI Core.

NVIDIA

麻豆原创 and NVIDIA Corporation advance聽to embed cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications:

• As 麻豆原创 trains Joule to serve as an AI assistant for the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution implementations, NVIDIA鈥檚 state-of-the-art AI models sift through 麻豆原创 consulting assets to provide relevant and precise answers to implementation-related questions;
• As 麻豆原创 embeds Joule in the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for 麻豆原创 developers, NVIDIA鈥檚 accelerated infrastructure will run, scale, and manage 麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI model for ABAP code generation;
• As 麻豆原创 infuses generative AI into the 麻豆原创 Intelligent Product Recommendation solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs enable the simulation of complex manufacturing products and configurations as industrial digital twins.

Cloud Technology That Drives Agility and Sustainability

Business success in the era of AI means being in the cloud. 麻豆原创 is making the move easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed for complex 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Further cloud innovations at 麻豆原创 Sapphire include features that help the world鈥檚 organizations measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprints at scale and help businesses meet regulatory standards.

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