In my previous article, I explored how is supercharging delivery across our Asia Pacific (APAC) partner ecosystem. Now, 麻豆原创 partners are at the frontier of agentic AI 鈥� AI that doesn鈥檛 simply advise, but acts. According to the report, 72% of organisations in APAC agree that accelerating AI adoption has increased partner involvement and blurred accountability between internal teams and partners. The shift from tools to agents is central to how organisations are transforming how work gets done, and changing the way partners operate.

The Agentic Shift 鈥� From Recommendation to Action

While an AI copilot responds to questions and surfaces insights, an AI agent goes further. Given an intent, it can orchestrate tasks, make sequential decisions, and adapt to changing conditions; all with a human in the loop.

Unveiled at Sapphire earlier this year, 麻豆原创 is building agentic capability across and , with more than 200 agents and over 50 assistants available this year. They are built on Joule Studio, the platform where partners and customers can build and manage the full lifecycle of their own agents.

Across APAC, this development has accelerated 麻豆原创 partners鈥� move from experimentation to execution. In Korea, ASPN has built 麻豆原创i, an agentic AI platform running natively on , , and Joule Studio. 麻豆原创i enables business users to query 麻豆原创 data in natural language and execute transactions 鈥� creating sales orders, purchase orders, and financial documents with human approval before anything is posted.

鈥� is building for the autonomous era rather than for simple Q&A. 麻豆原创i already goes beyond answering questions to executing transactions and creating documents in 麻豆原创, and we are steadily making its AI agents more capable. These AI agents break a request into steps, apply the customer鈥檚 own rules before calling the LLM, and learn from approved outcomes 鈥� all while requiring a person to confirm before anything is posted to 麻豆原创.鈥�

DoIn Nam, Committee Member, Platform Solution & Service Division, Business AI Team, ASPN Co., Ltd.

In Japan and Southeast Asia, ABeam Consulting and ABeam Systems have deployed agents across a range of industries, integrating them with customer data to maximise transformation outcomes. ABeam鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agent and Equipment Maintenance Agent are both planned for the , bringing APAC partner innovation closer to our customers.

鈥� views AI agents not merely as tools for short-term operational efficiency, but as the foundation for achieving digital transformation, and we focus on maximising the value of results by integrating our customer鈥檚 data with AI agents. Our strength lies in our ability to deploy agents across a wide range of industries and business functions, from financial services and logistics to food and railway, and to take the lead in bringing these to market quickly, in close collaboration with 麻豆原创.鈥�

Arata Nishii, Senior Expert, ABeam Consulting Ltd.

Partner-Driven Momentum

APAC is 麻豆原创’s fastest-growing partner-led territory globally and the region with the highest number of certified partner consultants. This is an incredibly diverse region with mature enterprise landscapes in Japan and Australia, high-velocity growth in India and China, and AI Centres of Excellence in Korea and Singapore. Scaling AI therefore requires partners who deeply understand local regulatory and data realities.

That’s why 麻豆原创 has committed a 鈧�100 million partner-led AI adoption fund to support the deployment of 麻豆原创-built AI assistants, agents, and partner-built innovation on the . By the end of 2026, 麻豆原创 expects 400 AI agents in the , with partners driving significant contributions. Today, 麻豆原创 has received over 680 partner agent submissions.

Accenture ANZ 麻豆原创 practice, for example, has already delivered into production and is deploying agentic solutions across Procure-to-Pay, service entry sheets, and treasury. The company is using its Human Led AI methodology anchored in maximising standard 麻豆原创 functionality to reduce customisation and technical debt.

鈥淎肠谤辞蝉蝉 globally, we have built more than 60 agents on the platform, a number that continues to grow as we deliver demonstrable outcomes with our customers. The 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform gives us the secure, compliant foundation to access 麻豆原创 data and infuse AI as close as possible to the business process 鈥� while our approach ensures we maximise standard 麻豆原创 functionality and protect our customers鈥� long-term architecture.鈥�

Dr. Nicholas Nicoloudis, Reinvent Digital Core Leader, Reinvention with 麻豆原创, Accenture

IBM鈥檚 Value Generation partnership with 麻豆原创 also demonstrates the depth of commitment our partners are making to the agentic AI opportunity. The company focuses on helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to production impact, while protecting the investments these customers have already made.

鈥淭hrough our Value Generation partnership with 麻豆原创, has built a comprehensive portfolio of generative and agentic AI solutions that embed directly into the 麻豆原创 environments our clients already rely on. From intelligent procurement and vendor reconciliation to warranty processing and sustainability, these solutions are delivering measurable outcomes at scale spanning more than 23 line of business use cases and over 30 custom solutions for industries including CPG, retail, manufacturing, defence, utilities, life sciences, and electronics.鈥�

Sharath Burla, Senior Partner 鈥� 麻豆原创, Asia Pacific & China, IBM Consulting

For cbs, the agentic AI opportunity is taking shape across industries, such as manufacturing. The company is developing 麻豆原创-integrated AI agents to manage material master data change requests through , process supplier emails using relevant 麻豆原创 data, and manage purchasing outline agreements. Through natural language interactions, these agents are designed to reduce manual effort and errors, and improve response times.

鈥淎迟 , we believe the real value of agentic AI lies in making everyday business processes simpler, faster, and more intuitive. We see AI agents becoming essential digital assistants for our customers, providing a foundation to progressively introduce new AI-driven use cases across business functions. This opens new opportunities for us to help customers accelerate 麻豆原创 Business AI adoption and realise greater value from their 麻豆原创 investments.鈥�

Jack Wong, Consulting Director, cbs Asia Pacific

No Data Strategy, No AI Strategy

Every AI agent rests on a dependency rarely featured in a demo or prototype; it requires clean, connected, and business-ready data. An AI strategy cannot exist without a sound data strategy and addresses this directly. It enables organisations to access structured, contextualised 麻豆原创 data and integrate it with non-麻豆原创 data and partner platforms, without months of extraction and transformation cycles.

麻豆原创 BDC runs natively on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and the spans Snowflake, Collibra, Confluent, Databricks, DataRobot, and more.

The Value of AI data reveals 73% of organisations in APAC prioritise vendors that integrate with their existing technology stack. This confirms the importance of 麻豆原创鈥檚 approach to providing a semantic data layer that allows AI to operate across the full business, not isolated pockets of it.

麻豆原创 GROW Fast 鈥� Enterprise-Grade AI at Startup Speed

The business value of AI is not exclusive to large enterprises. Midsize companies that are scaling fast in footprint and complexity often face enterprise-level challenges at startup speed. tackles that issue, offering a pre-scoped, partner-delivered model that establishes AI-ready cloud foundations in weeks, not months; while maintaining enterprise-grade governance and security.

麻豆原创 GROW Fast helps fast-growth companies move from scattered AI experimentation to a coherent and integrated AI strategy built on a . And partners are offering the structured and proven path by combining 麻豆原创’s platform with their own delivery IP and rapid-deployment frameworks.

Deloitte, for example, has launched Jumpstart AI 鈥� a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)-led model for 麻豆原创 Business AI use-case discovery and rapid build, complemented by DevAria, Deloitte’s AI-powered development assistant for 麻豆原创, which compresses development time by up to 2 times.

鈥淎I is moving rapidly from experimentation to execution. At , we are seeing this firsthand, both in how we use Joule internally to improve our own efficiency and in how we help clients turn 麻豆原创 Business AI into tangible business outcomes. With the 麻豆原创 Business AI Platform, organisations now have the tools and frameworks to build, run, and govern AI agents across 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 applications. What makes this particularly interesting is that there is no one-size-fits-all agentic AI use case. The real value comes from identifying and building use cases relevant to each client鈥檚 business. Across procurement, finance, sales, data, governance, and beyond, we are moving from identifying the right opportunity to a working solution in weeks.鈥�

Vipin Shetty, Asia Pacific 麻豆原创 CTO, Deloitte

The Autonomous Enterprise Era

麻豆原创鈥檚 ambition is clear: to become the number one Business AI company, powering the .

Our customers have moved past the question of whether to adopt AI to how quickly they can deploy it with confidence. That confidence comes from 麻豆原创 partners who understand each customer鈥檚 unique environment and change capacity.

Increasingly, partners are not just implementing 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI but are also 麻豆原创’s force-multiplier bringing the Autonomous Enterprise to life. While 麻豆原创 partners have always been the engine of this ecosystem, today, they are also its architects, and the autonomous enterprise they are building together with 麻豆原创 will define the competitive landscape for the rest of this decade.

Peter Moore is the Regional Head of Partner Ecosystem Success at 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific.

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Armed with real-world expertise and extensive know-how, 麻豆原创 consultants act as a bridge between the business and technology domains 鈥� bringing hundreds to thousands of hours of hands-on experience and best practices in implementing, customising, and managing 麻豆原创 roll-outs.

In fact, 麻豆原创 consultants are such crucial pieces of the digital transformation puzzle that the global market for 麻豆原创 consulting is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8% between 2025 and 2035 to USD 38.98 billion[1].

Earlier this year, we launched to further supercharge the way millions of 麻豆原创 consultants work, helping them augment their productivity, cut down time-consuming searches, and make better-informed decisions.

Joule for Consultants draws from 麻豆原创鈥檚 vast knowledge base 鈥� including over 9TB of expert-curated 麻豆原创 knowledge, 3 million non-public documents, 250 million lines of (advanced business application programming) and 30 million lines of (ABAP core data services) code 鈥� and turns that institutional expertise into a real-time, context-aware assistant. It understands the solution landscape a consultant is working in, interprets code on the fly, and surfaces relevant guidance in seconds.

Across APAC, a significant number of 麻豆原创 partners and consultants have already adopted 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants and are using the tool across various phases of 麻豆原创 implementation projects.

Early pilots show clear value: faster delivery cycles of up to 14%, smoother onboarding, and as much as 1.5 hours saved per consultant per day. The payoff is not simply efficiency but the ability for teams to spend more time on strategic design, stakeholder engagement, and delivering tangible outcomes for customers.

AI-Powered Consulting: the Next Frontier for 麻豆原创 Partners

According to the recent conducted by Oxford Economics, AI is expected to drive an average ROI of 16% (US$4.7M) per organisation this year, a figure which will nearly double in two years鈥� time to 31% (US$12.3M). Businesses also ranked 鈥渁lignment with business strategy鈥� and 鈥渁vailability and quality of data鈥� as the top two strategies for maximising ROI from AI.

麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants has the potential to help 麻豆原创 partners drive this ROI, and is designed with quality data and expert-aligned advice based on 麻豆原创 best practices for businesses across industries. With AI itself acting as a productivity enabler, consultants are able to accelerate delivery and increase consistency across projects 鈥� ultimately driving greater customer impact.

Importantly, 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants is not replacing consultants; it is enhancing their expertise. Instead of spending hours searching documentation or manually comparing configurations, consultants can ask targeted questions and receive contextual, 麻豆原创-specific answers in natural language.

Routine tasks 鈥� from generating sample code to drafting configuration notes 鈥� can be automated, freeing consultants to focus on advising stakeholders, shaping roadmaps, and managing change.

麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants also helps ensure consistency and quality at scale. Teams across markets and time zones can draw on the same trusted guidance, cross-check design decisions against proven implementation patterns, and onboard new colleagues more quickly.

By embedding best practices directly into project execution, Joule for Consultants extends 麻豆原创鈥檚 long-standing investments in enablement and certification, turning static learning into live support. In doing so, it helps the next generation of consultants build confidence faster and deliver better outcomes for customers from day one.

麻豆原创 Partners as Catalysts of AI-First Transformation

麻豆原创鈥檚 partner ecosystem remains central to our AI-first, Suite-first strategy, and partners throughout APAC are leading the shift towards AI-enabled consulting. As 麻豆原创 Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach highlighted at 麻豆原创 Global Partner Summit at 麻豆原创 Sapphire earlier this year: 鈥淧artners will deliver the promise of 麻豆原创 Business Suite.鈥�

In APAC, partners such as ABeam Consulting, Infosys, ITSN Korea, LTIMindtree, , , and many more are already embedding 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants into their methodologies and training programmes to enhance delivery speed and collaboration.

KPMG, for example, was the first global partner to pilot Joule for Consultants with 麻豆原创, and together with 麻豆原创, have been for delivering meaningful real-world AI transformation.

The APAC region is already seeing tangible impact when 麻豆原创 partners combine industry expertise with AI-powered innovation. 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants is guiding faster design, sharper diagnostics, and cleaner architectures that help our joint customers realise value sooner.

From Pilots to Practice

The next chapter for 麻豆原创 partners is about scaling AI adoption and innovation. Many partners are moving beyond pilot programmes and embedding 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants into their standard methodologies. Others are co-innovating with 麻豆原创 to explore capabilities like AI-driven diagnostics or automated value-tracking.

As 麻豆原创 across APAC, our partners are also building AI-native skills that go far beyond using a tool: they鈥檙e redesigning how projects are delivered, how teams collaborate, and how value is measured.

And that may be the greatest impact of 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants. It doesn鈥檛 just make consulting faster 鈥� it makes it smarter, more consistent, and more accessible to the next generation of talent, elevating the work consultants can do, giving them the space to focus on insights, relationships, and results.

Partners have always been the engine of 麻豆原创鈥檚 ecosystem. With tools like 麻豆原创 Joule for Consultants, they are now supercharged with the intelligence layer needed to drive new transformations across APAC.

Peter Moore is the Regional Head of Partner Ecosystem Success at 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific.

[1] Source: Business Research Insights 鈥� 麻豆原创 Consulting Market Size, Share, Growth, and Industry Analysis, By Type (ERP Software, Service and Other), By Application (SMEs and Large Enterprises), and Regional Insights and Forecast To 2035. https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/sap-consulting-market-121265

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From the keynote stage to the showfloor, whether you were a dev, a customer, or a partner, all around 麻豆原创 TechEd Bangalore one phrase was repeated time and again: 鈥済enerative AI鈥�.

The focus of more than 5,000 tech and business decision-makers was fixed firmly on AI and what it could do for their businesses, right now 鈥� the products 麻豆原创 has released through 2024, and what is coming next.

With responsible, reliable, and relevant AI that鈥檚 built for business, the view of the thousands of delegates at TechEd 2023 was that the future is looking bright

There was a wealth of incredible insight and opportunity at TechEd. In fact, it was a little bit like going back to school because the things that stood out to me were the ABCs.

A is for Automation听

First, I was struck by the enormous potential businesses can realise through the power of enterprise automation.

With the help of AI, technology is helping developers and IT teams automate repetitive, mundane tasks and make better decisions, faster. By embedding generative AI capabilities into 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation, 麻豆原创 Signavio, and 麻豆原创 Integration Suite, we鈥檙e helping customers analyse, integrate, automate, and monitor business processes way more simply 鈥� and then immediately write the code to make those processes better. It鈥檚 that easy.

In my discussions with customers, it was clear that complementing process improvement and insights with enterprise architecture insights will be a real force for change in the future. Customers are excited to understand how to optimise and tune their architecture for the best performance across their entire IT stack.

But this isn鈥檛 future-gazing. Businesses are seeing real results today. Take Zuellig Pharma, one of Asia鈥檚 leading healthcare companies, providing pharmaceutical distribution and digital and commercial services across 26,000 direct outlets. Zuellig Pharma implemented best-in-class processes across its 麻豆原创 infrastructure, creating more than 180 automations using 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation to streamline and simplify its business.

B is for Build听听

Aligned to the focus on automation is the empowerment of a new, powerful resource for IT departments 鈥� citizen developers enabled by 麻豆原创 Build. And given every developer will be an AI developer, the opportunity for an AI-infused future is tantalising.

Rucha Nanavati, CIO of Indian car giant Mahindra & Mahindra, said it best.

鈥淲e started identifying tasks that don鈥檛 require a lot of human intelligence and that enabled our human workforce to focus on more strategic initiatives,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat led us to automate more than 250 business processes in 3 months, most of which was done by a community of more than 100 citizen developers.鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 great, but let鈥檚 talk about benefits. We count more than 900 workdays saved, and more than 400 development days saved in just a year鈥檚 time. We鈥檝e seen a 35% gain in developer efficiency and 20% faster execution of our jobs. And we鈥檝e saved more than 13,000 trees. All in one year,鈥� concluded Nanavati.

The story of Mahindra & Mahindra shows the power of a workforce that has been empowered to make real change to their IT systems and the tangible results that can be realised. And with the ability to link low-code, no-code development with pro-code development via , as well as increasing amounts of natural language interaction through 麻豆原创 Joule, it is easier than ever to modernize processes fast.听

C is for Clean Core听听

At 麻豆原创, we know better than most that enterprise systems can be complex. That鈥檚 why a 鈥� a cloud compliant, modern, flexible ERP that can be updated and scaled simply 鈥� is at the centre of our strategy.听听

And it鈥檚 a concept that鈥檚 also at the heart of the future strategic direction for all of our customers.听听

Takuya Sakai, CIO of Hitachi HiTech, embodies that more than most. His company has used 麻豆原创 ERP globally for more than 20 years, over which time the system became more and more complex.

鈥淭hat complexity incurred significant maintenance costs, prevented the company from quickly introducing new innovation, and ultimately hindered its growth,鈥� said Sakai-san. 鈥淚t was very critical to reduce the complexity.鈥�

Using 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (BTP), Hitachi HiTech was able to easily upgrade 麻豆原创 S/4HANA systems in the public and private cloud 鈥� at the same time reducing the number of add-ons and customisations in the software down from 9,000 to just 800.

鈥淯sing 麻豆原创 BTP we can build smart, global digital processes without touching the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA core. 麻豆原创 BTP is a very, very important tool to accelerate our business processes,鈥� concluded Sakai-san.

What鈥檚 next: AI for business, not AI for AI鈥檚 sake听

It鈥檚 easy to get carried away by hype and excitement, especially around innovation like generative AI.

But what I saw at 麻豆原创 TechEd was even more exciting 鈥� new innovations, here today, that are already making a tangible difference to real business problems.

The key is in the context 鈥� using your AI to connect data, not just collect it. By generating reliable, responsible insights that understand the context of the business processes that surround them, Business AI will help boost productivity, efficiency, and real outcomes.

Read more about the new announcements at 麻豆原创 TechEd 2023 here: 听

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According to McKinsey, generative AI has the potential to add . In the Asia-Pacific, this spells good news sinceare committed to investing in generative AI technologies by year-end, or are at least exploring the possibility. Already, in Singapore, allegedly uses AI in the office and the .听听

Over the next few years, we will see Asia become the world鈥檚 innovation hub with AI. At 麻豆原创 we already understand the huge opportunity, made possible by Gen AI, to fundamentally change the way businesses run.听听

Intelligent answers for real-world problems听

And businesses are already taking advantage of the benefits of AI today.听

In Korea, Kakao Enterprise uses AI to broaden the business capabilities of its mobile app. By taking of advantage of 麻豆原创 Business Platform (BTP), is has enabled its users to conveniently search data, process transactions, and conduct frequently-used business processes through its app.听听

Meanwhile in Thailand, Zuellig Pharma is using 麻豆原创 Intelligent Robotic Process Automation alongside machine learning to reduce processing times by 93%, allowing them to fulfil sales orders faster.听

Introducing a new way to integrate AI into your business听

Realising those sorts of benefits from AI requires a strategic, enterprise-led focus on business outcomes. That鈥檚 why we are focused on delivering the most relevant, reliable, and responsible AI that is built for business to our customers.听听

One recent example of how we鈥檙e doing this is the launch of our new generative AI co-pilot, Joule. Joule works by quickly sorting through and contextualising data from multiple systems to bring users smarter insights 鈥� and ultimately helping to make better decisions. It works by generating responses based on real scenarios, all with the necessary guardrails to ensure responsible use within the 麻豆原创 ecosystem. This enables our customers to get work done faster and drive better business outcomes in a secure, compliant way.听听

With Joule, users maintain full control over decision-making and data privacy across 麻豆原创 applications. Joule builds on and enhances existing 麻豆原创 Business AI offerings. More than 26,000 麻豆原创 cloud customers already have access to 麻豆原创 Business AI across multiple scenarios and partner solutions.听

Our customers know their ideal value journey best and 麻豆原创 is here to ensure they have the necessary solutions in place to achieve their goals in the long run. With our new Premium Plus package for RISE with 麻豆原创, customers have the flexibility to choose the package which best drives their business results, including one that has more tools to power faster, make better decisions and maximise the impact of AI across their processes. We鈥檝e also included added sustainability insights, faster finance decisions, and a networked Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) portal to boost ESG outcomes and aid compliance.听

Empowering our customers to create future-ready organisations sits at the core of 麻豆原创鈥檚 vision. In my next post, I鈥檒l share the new products and announcements we made at our 麻豆原创 TechEd 2023 in India and how they鈥檒l also be helping businesses to transform their operations in 2024 and beyond.听听

In the meantime, learn more about 麻豆原创 TechEd and listen to the keynotes and customer sessions here: 听

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