We believe this recognition reflects our continued investment in a modern, scalable AI-ready integration platform that meets the needs of organizations operating across increasingly complex hybrid and multicloud landscapes.

Why orgnizations continue to choose Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite

Part of Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Technology Platform (Â鶹ԭ´´ BTP), Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite brings together API management, event‑driven architecture, process integration, and AI‑assisted development in one unified offering. It gives customers a reliable way to connect distributed systems, orchestrate workflows, and operate securely across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—whether those landscapes run primarily on Â鶹ԭ´´ solutions or a mix of third‑party applications.

By using metadata, events, and APIs as its backbone, the suite provides an integration foundation that supports AI agents and increasingly autonomous enterprise processes. Organizations in manufacturing, logistics, retail, and other highly regulated industries rely on this foundation to maintain performance and stay compliant at global scale.

Innovation that scales with your business

Over the past year, Â鶹ԭ´´ expanded its AI‑assisted capabilities to help customers move faster and operate with security and reliability. New AI-assisted features include anomaly detection, script optimization, traffic prediction, and integration‑flow generation. Combined with more than 4,000 prebuilt integration flows and over 250 connectors, organizations can accelerate design and reduce manual effort.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite now runs in more than 40 data centers worldwide, giving customers flexibility for in‑region processing and data‑sovereignty requirements. These enhancements help teams detect issues earlier, optimize performance, and shorten time‑to‑value across complex hybrid landscapes.

Accelerating agentic AI adoption

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“Advanced event mesh has completely changed the way integration and process orchestration run. Everything works better.”

Benedikt Althaus, team lead, Integration Services and Platform Solutions, Gebr. Heinemann SE & Co. KG.

Shimano Europe benefits from the efficient, scalable, and future‑proof integration foundation of Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite to accelerate its go‑to‑market process. By streamlining integrations across systems, the company improves operational efficiency and enhances the overall customer experience through a more agile and reliable integration landscape.

“To accelerate the go-to-market process, we provided an effective and efficient integration platform with Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite, a future-proof and scalable solution that improves our customers’ experiences.”

Fernanda Ribeiro, IT application architect, Shimano Europe

Siemens AG relies on Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite to harmonize global reporting processes and ensure compliance with evolving regulatory requirements. By standardizing integrations across regions and supporting diverse country‑specific tax protocols, Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite helps Siemens streamline compliance operations and maintain consistent reporting quality worldwide. This foundation strengthens Siemens’ ability to adapt to changing regulatory environments with greater confidence and efficiency.

“Managing international tax requirements is much easier. It will be implemented around the globe.”

Andrea Spandau, head of Digital Tax Ecosystem, Siemens AG

Looking ahead

We believe this year’s recognition underscores our commitment to advancing Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration Suite with deeper AI capabilities, more reusable business content, broader industry coverage, third-party adapters, and an improved developer experience. Our goal is to help customers automate more of their operations, innovate with confidence, and scale as their businesses evolve.

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Sid Misra is chief marketing officer for Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Technology Platform.

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But what happens when the bill comes due, so to speak, from local jurisdictions? How may a business transact commerce globally while adhering to an emerging set of electronic-invoicing requirements that differ among countries?

Global visibility across multiple tiers of the supply chain

As global supply chains weather shifting tariff policies, geopolitical tensions, and climate events, business leaders have turned to cloud-based business networks to instill operational resilience, extend transparency, and foster collaboration. The convergence of data, applications, and artificial intelligence capabilities enable businesses to manage supply chains, procurement, logistics, asset maintenance, working capital, dynamic discounting, and other crucial interdependencies with comprehensive reach. Yet just as digital platforms foster connected commerce, they also facilitate regulatory oversight of the very same activity. That which simplifies business processes can at the same time invite complexity in the regulations governing them, particularly when the fine print varies by jurisdiction. Call it a paradox of procurement, or an irony of the intelligent enterprise.

The proliferation of legislation mandating electronic invoicing reflects a desire on the part of governments to bolster tax compliance, streamline financial reporting, combat fraud, and document the ethical sourcing of product components. To aid with compliance in the jurisdictions where they transact, can support buyers and suppliers alike with the necessary workflows for invoice generation, submission, receipt, and storage—all while safeguarding otherwise confidential data. Our prioritizes business-to-business collaboration by providing localization support for 41 countries, tailoring requested data to required format, and connecting businesses directly with trading partners and tax authorities. Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network can integrate seamlessly with government electronic-invoicing portals through partners as well as through .

Electronic-invoicing capabilities take shape around emerging legislation

Already in 2026, new electronic-invoicing mandates have taken effect in , , and , with the and set to follow suit later in the year. Though it takes shape differently around the world, the trend toward electronic invoicing is unmistakable. Requirements range from periodic reporting to continuous transparency, from preapproval of transactions by tax authorities to notification after the fact, from country-specific formats to , and so on. In India, Malaysia, and Romania, for example, suppliers must clear invoices with tax authorities, whereas in Belgium, Germany, and Japan invoices must conform to a particular format. In France and the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, a specific platform or network must be engaged. requires businesses to issue and receive invoices via its Sistema di Interscambio (SDI) platform, using a country-specific XML format called FatturaPA. By contrast, permits UBL, CII, and ZUGFeRD formats but takes an ambivalent approach as to method of transmission.

For each of these countries, Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network can provide a solution. Connectivity to Italy’s SDI portal is natively embedded, obviating any need for additional licensing. For Germany, invoices sent through Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network arrive in the UBL format. Organizations with a license for the cloud edition of the can even receive invoices originating outside Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network, such as via e-mail or the pan-European Peppol procurement system.

Not only can Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network accommodate the different formats set into law, but other invoicing attributes as well. Consider the obligation to archive. In Germany, invoices must be kept on hand for eight years. In France, it’s a decade. Elsewhere, mandates vary or may not apply. Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network offers the flexibility to match business rules, or the parameters set by organizations within which transactions may proceed with trading partners, to all manner of regulatory requirements. This can prove especially valuable with orchestrating documents and processes that span sourcing, procurement, and finance—corporate functions that, prior to the advent of cloud-based networks, had often operated in relative isolation. Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network can also provide businesses with the end-to-end visibility and—equally important—the analytics to assess performance, gauge against benchmarks, and identify opportunities for growth and collaboration.

For the emerging set of electronic-invoicing mandates across the globe and other compliance-related processes, . That’s because no matter where commerce takes place or in which local currency, C-suite leaders understand one thing is priceless: peace of mind. Only a cloud-based network supple enough to carry out operational processes on a global scale yet sufficiently nimble to adhere strictly to electronic-invoicing requirements and other regulations that typically arise on a national level can instill the confidence that businesses need to thrive in these turbulent times.

Learn how Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network can by streamlining business processes, increasing visibility, and connecting to new buyers.

Jörn Keller is executive vice president and chief product officer for Â鶹ԭ´´ Business Network.

Across industries, accurate data is the foundation for both auditable disclosures and reliable insights to steer sustainable transformation. But environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data aggregation and validation can be a daunting challenge given that most companies have not fully integrated their ESG data recording and control into their core financial, procurement, supply chain management, and human resources systems.

For over 50 years, Â鶹ԭ´´ has helped businesses master complexity. With today’s evolving ESG regulatory landscape, including the arrival of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Â鶹ԭ´´ is again rising to the complex challenges of enabling customers to record, report, and act on their sustainability obligations. This includes the difficulties in collecting accurate emissions data across internal operations and global supply chains.

Achieving Competitive Advantage with Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability Solutions Powered by Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI

By integrating sustainability data with cloud ERP, Â鶹ԭ´´ can uniquely enable businesses with the agility to keep pace with rapidly evolving ESG standards; link disparate data sources to share trusted, real-time insights with sustainability decision-makers; and achieve their net-zero ambitions.

Companies can start today by adopting – integrated with – for ESG data management and reporting. They can extend sustainability management with and to help accelerate their journey to the , managing the carbon entering and leaving their systems and balancing their “carbon books” the same way they balance their financial books.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Business AI can take the value of our sustainability solutions to the next level by helping our customers set data-driven ESG and net-zero strategies, increase the transparency of supply chain emissions, automate sustainability reporting, achieve regulatory compliance, find and mitigate ESG-related risks, and better communicate the value of sustainability to their customers – all powered by the world’s largest and most comprehensive pool of foundational business data.

Combined with partner services for customer-specific data and reporting requirements, Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability solutions can offer new levels of business insight for executive-level decision-making to help businesses reach their sustainability goals and comply with CSRD and other regulatory frameworks.

CSRD Toolbox

Companies operating in the EU face pressure from the expanding ESG regulations under CSRD to disclose their sustainability performance with a data granularity and auditability that – over time – will bring sustainability reporting on par with financial reporting. CSRD requirements will first impact large public-interest companies with over 500 employees that need to report in 2025 on 2024 ESG performance. Requirements cascade to small and midsize enterprises in coming years.

Under CSRD, companies will need to report based on the requirements of both the EU Taxonomy, which classifies sustainability disclosures for investors, and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the disclosure rules set by the European Financial Reporting Financial Group (EFRAG), a standard-setting body of the EU. With Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability Control Tower, companies can comply with both the EU Taxonomy and ESRS, gaining agility through the convergence of ESG data management and cloud ERP – and soon AI-driven business process optimization.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability Control Tower: A Trusted ESG Data Foundation for EU Taxonomy and ESRS

With Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability Control Tower, you can assess activities in line with the EU Taxonomy, reporting on KPIs for eligibility and alignment.

• Enable a holistic view of EU Taxonomy reporting through shared use of data  
• Kick-start EU Taxonomy data management and reporting with pre-built and adaptable templates  
• Simplify the EU Taxonomy process with integration with Â鶹ԭ´´ S/4HANA Cloud 
• Integrate customer or partner extensions via APIs 

You can also streamline ESRS disclosures, integrating ESG data across systems and extending content and functionality.

• Gather ESG data and determine KPIs 
• Meet evolving ESG and financial disclosure requirements including ESRS 
• Set, track, and achieve targets to support sustainable business 
• Obtain a limited external assurance and prepare for reasonable assurance 

Act Now

Businesses need to start now to be prepared not only for CSRD compliance, but for gaining the insights to steer sustainability investments and future-proof long-term value. 

For over 50 years, Â鶹ԭ´´ has been enabling the world’s leading businesses to master complexity, delivering the integration and innovation needed for industry-leading performance. With Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability Control Tower and other cloud-driven innovations, Â鶹ԭ´´ and its partners can help companies master CSRD as well and build the foundation for the evolution of their long-term sustainability strategies.  

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Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer and co-GM for Â鶹ԭ´´ Sustainability.