In my previous article, I explored how is supercharging delivery across our Asia Pacific (APAC) partner ecosystem. Now, Â鶹ԭ´´ partners are at the frontier of agentic AI ¨C AI that doesn¡¯t 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 ¨C 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, Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ partners¡¯ move from experimentation to execution. In Korea, ASPN has built Â鶹ԭ´´i, an agentic AI platform running natively on , , and Joule Studio. Â鶹ԭ´´i enables business users to query Â鶹ԭ´´ data in natural language and execute transactions ¨C creating sales orders, purchase orders, and financial documents with human approval before anything is posted.

¡° is building for the autonomous era rather than for simple Q&A. Â鶹ԭ´´i already goes beyond answering questions to executing transactions and creating documents in Â鶹ԭ´´, and we are steadily making its AI agents more capable. These AI agents break a request into steps, apply the customer¡¯s own rules before calling the LLM, and learn from approved outcomes ¨C all while requiring a person to confirm before anything is posted to Â鶹ԭ´´.¡±

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¡¯s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agent and Equipment Maintenance Agent are both planned for the , bringing APAC partner innovation closer to our customers.

¡° 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¡¯s 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 Â鶹ԭ´´.¡±

Arata Nishii, Senior Expert, ABeam Consulting Ltd.

Partner-Driven Momentum

APAC is Â鶹ԭ´´’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 Â鶹ԭ´´ has committed a €100 million partner-led AI adoption fund to support the deployment of Â鶹ԭ´´-built AI assistants, agents, and partner-built innovation on the . By the end of 2026, Â鶹ԭ´´ expects 400 AI agents in the , with partners driving significant contributions. Today, Â鶹ԭ´´ has received over 680 partner agent submissions.

Accenture ANZ Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ functionality to reduce customisation and technical debt.

¡°´¡³¦°ù´Ç²õ²õ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI Platform gives us the secure, compliant foundation to access Â鶹ԭ´´ data and infuse AI as close as possible to the business process ¨C while our approach ensures we maximise standard Â鶹ԭ´´ functionality and protect our customers¡¯ long-term architecture.¡±

Dr. Nicholas Nicoloudis, Reinvent Digital Core Leader, Reinvention with Â鶹ԭ´´, Accenture

IBM¡¯s Value Generation partnership with Â鶹ԭ´´ 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.

¡°Through our Value Generation partnership with Â鶹ԭ´´, has built a comprehensive portfolio of generative and agentic AI solutions that embed directly into the Â鶹ԭ´´ 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.¡±

Sharath Burla, Senior Partner ¨C Â鶹ԭ´´, Asia Pacific & China, IBM Consulting

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

¡°´¡³Ù , 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI adoption and realise greater value from their Â鶹ԭ´´ investments.¡±

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 Â鶹ԭ´´ data and integrate it with non-Â鶹ԭ´´ data and partner platforms, without months of extraction and transformation cycles.

Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s approach to providing a semantic data layer that allows AI to operate across the full business, not isolated pockets of it.

Â鶹ԭ´´ GROW Fast ¨C 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.

Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´’s platform with their own delivery IP and rapid-deployment frameworks.

Deloitte, for example, has launched Jumpstart AI ¨C a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)-led model for Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI use-case discovery and rapid build, complemented by DevAria, Deloitte’s AI-powered development assistant for Â鶹ԭ´´, which compresses development time by up to 2 times.

¡°AI 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI into tangible business outcomes. With the Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI Platform, organisations now have the tools and frameworks to build, run, and govern AI agents across Â鶹ԭ´´ and non-Â鶹ԭ´´ 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¡¯s business. Across procurement, finance, sales, data, governance, and beyond, we are moving from identifying the right opportunity to a working solution in weeks.¡±

Vipin Shetty, Asia Pacific Â鶹ԭ´´ CTO, Deloitte

The Autonomous Enterprise Era

Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ partners who understand each customer¡¯s unique environment and change capacity.

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

Peter Moore is the Regional Head of Partner Ecosystem Success at Â鶹ԭ´´ Asia Pacific.

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Armed with real-world expertise and extensive know-how, Â鶹ԭ´´ consultants act as a bridge between the business and technology domains ¨C bringing hundreds to thousands of hours of hands-on experience and best practices in implementing, customising, and managing Â鶹ԭ´´ roll-outs.

In fact, Â鶹ԭ´´ consultants are such crucial pieces of the digital transformation puzzle that the global market for Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ consultants work, helping them augment their productivity, cut down time-consuming searches, and make better-informed decisions.

Joule for Consultants draws from Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s vast knowledge base ¨C including over 9TB of expert-curated Â鶹ԭ´´ knowledge, 3 million non-public documents, 250 million lines of (advanced business application programming) and 30 million lines of (ABAP core data services) code ¨C 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ partners and consultants have already adopted Â鶹ԭ´´ Joule for Consultants and are using the tool across various phases of Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ 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¡¯ time to 31% (US$12.3M). Businesses also ranked ¡°alignment with business strategy¡± and ¡°availability and quality of data¡± as the top two strategies for maximising ROI from AI.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Joule for Consultants has the potential to help Â鶹ԭ´´ partners drive this ROI, and is designed with quality data and expert-aligned advice based on Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 ¨C ultimately driving greater customer impact.

Importantly, Â鶹ԭ´´ 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, Â鶹ԭ´´-specific answers in natural language.

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

Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s 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.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Partners as Catalysts of AI-First Transformation

Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s partner ecosystem remains central to our AI-first, Suite-first strategy, and partners throughout APAC are leading the shift towards AI-enabled consulting. As Â鶹ԭ´´ Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach highlighted at Â鶹ԭ´´ Global Partner Summit at Â鶹ԭ´´ Sapphire earlier this year: ¡°Partners will deliver the promise of Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Suite.¡±

In APAC, partners such as ABeam Consulting, Infosys, ITSN Korea, LTIMindtree, , , and many more are already embedding Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´, and together with Â鶹ԭ´´, have been for delivering meaningful real-world AI transformation.

The APAC region is already seeing tangible impact when Â鶹ԭ´´ partners combine industry expertise with AI-powered innovation. Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ partners is about scaling AI adoption and innovation. Many partners are moving beyond pilot programmes and embedding Â鶹ԭ´´ Joule for Consultants into their standard methodologies. Others are co-innovating with Â鶹ԭ´´ to explore capabilities like AI-driven diagnostics or automated value-tracking.

As Â鶹ԭ´´ across APAC, our partners are also building AI-native skills that go far beyond using a tool: they¡¯re redesigning how projects are delivered, how teams collaborate, and how value is measured.

And that may be the greatest impact of Â鶹ԭ´´ Joule for Consultants. It doesn¡¯t just make consulting faster ¨C 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 Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s ecosystem. With tools like Â鶹ԭ´´ 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 Â鶹ԭ´´ Asia Pacific.

[1] Source: Business Research Insights ¨C Â鶹ԭ´´ 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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A longtime Â鶹ԭ´´ Gold Partner recognized for delivering cloud innovation and managed services, Mindsprint has now embraced Â鶹ԭ´´ solutions to transform its own internal operations ¨C accelerating decision-making, increasing efficiency, and creating a platform for future international growth.?

?¡°With GROW with Â鶹ԭ´´, we have upgraded our operational and financial systems to an integrated cloud ERP. This integration provides real-time visibility, supports faster decision-making, and enhances operational efficiency,¡± said Suresh Sundararajan, CEO and Co-Founder, Mindsprint. ¡°This transformation has improved how we track performance, manage projects, and allocate resources, giving us the foundation we need to expand our global footprint with speed and confidence.¡±?

Facilitating Collaboration Through an Integrated and Scalable System?

?As Mindsprint scaled its operations, the company recognized the opportunity to streamline and unify its core business processes.?

?Critical operations such as customer relationship management, project staffing, and financial reporting were being managed using a variety of tools leading to limited visibility and manual reconciliations.?

To address these challenges, Mindsprint deployed GROW with Â鶹ԭ´´ in six months, bringing together its finance, sales, procurement, and operations under one cloud-based ERP. The implementation included integrations with Â鶹ԭ´´ Concur and Â鶹ԭ´´ Ariba, along with the deployment of robotic process automation (RPA) to streamline reporting and reduce manual workloads.??

The results have been significant. Mindsprint has accelerated its month-end financial reporting processes by 30 to 50 percent, enabled 100 percent system-based revenue recognition, and established end-to-end visibility into staffing, utilization, and project profitability. With an integrated system and a single source of truth, leaders across the business are empowered to act faster and with greater confidence.?

Internal Transformation, External Advantage?

While the benefits are clear inside the organization, the transformation is also shaping Mindsprint¡¯s broader strategy as an Â鶹ԭ´´ partner.?

¡°By becoming a customer of Â鶹ԭ´´ ourselves, we have strengthened our credibility as a partner,¡± said Suresh. ¡°We now have an even more detailed firsthand understanding of what transformation takes ¨C not just technically, but operationally, financially and more ¨C and that makes our client engagements that much more impactful.¡±?

As Mindsprint continues to roll out its Â鶹ԭ´´ environment to offices across the US and Asia-Pacific, the company sees GROW with Â鶹ԭ´´ as a crucial foundation for sustainable growth.?

Eileen Chua, Managing Director, Â鶹ԭ´´ Singapore, said, ¡°By implementing GROW with Â鶹ԭ´´, Mindsprint has brought together its finance, procurement, sales, and project management operations under a single digital backbone, building a future-ready intelligent enterprise that¡¯s primed to scale. As both a partner and a customer, Mindsprint is in a unique position to walk their talk and show how digital transformation with Â鶹ԭ´´ delivers real, measurable impact.¡±?

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In his new role, Moore will be responsible for leading and expanding Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s vibrant partner ecosystem across the APAC region. His remit includes driving partner recruitment, enablement, and co-innovation to deliver exceptional value to customers. He will focus on strengthening strategic alliances, fostering collaboration, and empowering partners to deliver transformative digital solutions leveraging Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s industry-leading technologies.

¡°The partner ecosystem is crucial to Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s success in Asia Pacific, especially as we experience rapid cloud adoption and increasing demand for specialized industry solutions,¡± said Simon Davies, Regional President, Â鶹ԭ´´ APAC. ¡°Peter brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record in building and managing successful partner programs. We are confident that his leadership will further elevate the value we deliver to customers through our partners and drive continued growth across the region.¡±

Moore brings over twenty years of experience in the technology industry, with a deep understanding of the Asian market. Since joining Â鶹ԭ´´ twelve years ago, he has served in multiple leadership roles and is an active executive sponsor for many strategic Â鶹ԭ´´ customers and ecosystem partners.? By prioritizing customer success, he has helped drive innovation and thought leadership in many industries across Asia Pacific, Japan and Europe.

¡°I am thrilled to take on this new role to lead the partner ecosystem in Asia Pacific,¡± said Moore. ¡°The opportunity to work with such a dynamic and innovative partner network is incredibly exciting. I look forward to collaborating closely with our partners to help businesses across the region achieve their digital transformation goals and realize the full potential of Â鶹ԭ´´¡¯s solutions.¡±

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