Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Enterprise Service Management Archives | Âé¶¹Ô­´´ News Center /tags/sap-enterprise-service-management/ Company & Customer Stories | Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Room Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:25:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 When Insight Is Not Enough: What’s New in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience Q2 2026 /2026/07/new-in-sap-cx-q2-2026-when-insight-is-not-enough/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:15:00 +0000 /?p=246137 AI has made it easier than ever to identify the next best action. Yet for many organizations, executing those actions consistently across teams, channels, and systems remains the greater challenge.

Harmonize your CRM and CX with a single autonomous system

As customer journeys become more connected and complex, gaps in execution can lead to inconsistent experiences, slower response times, and missed opportunities. The next frontier of customer experience is not generating more insights, but turning insight into coordinated action at scale.

This latest release of the solution portfolio helps organizations strengthen that foundation by connecting workflows across marketing, commerce, sales, and service—enabling more consistent, scalable execution across every customer interaction.

Explore the highlights of the Q2 2026 release. For full sub-solution details, see our recaps for the , , , , and solutions.

Turning customer intent into action

Customer interactions are becoming more conversational, connected, and immediate across channels and touchpoints. At the same time, organizations need faster access to information and simpler ways to take action—whether engaging customers, managing campaigns, or responding to changing business needs.

  • Conversational AI shopping through a model context protocol (MCP) server: Enable secure integration between and AI agents that can guide or act on behalf of customers. AI assistants can query real-time product information, provide inventory updates, manage shopping carts, and complete transactions directly within chat or voice interfaces—creating more intelligent, conversational buying experiences beyond the traditional storefront. 
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Conversational AI shopping through an MCP server
  • Joule in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Engagement Cloud (Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Early Adopter Care): Bring Âé¶¹Ô­´´’s conversational AI directly into campaign workflows. Teams can ask product or campaign questions in natural language and get accurate answers without searching across multiple systems. They can also duplicate successful campaigns without starting from scratch, freeing more time for strategic thinking, creativity, and customer engagement.
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Joule with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Engagement Cloud
  • Rich communication services (RCS) in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Engagement Cloud: Engage customers with rich, interactive messages supported by Google and featuring media, carousels, and action buttons within native mobile messaging experiences. Branded, verified messages help build trust and guide customers smoothly from discovery to purchase without requiring an additional application.
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RCS chat integration

Scaling personalized engagement

Recognizing customer intent is only the beginning. As engagement channels expand, marketing teams need to respond quickly while delivering relevant, personalized experiences at scale. This requires frictionless campaign execution, timely insights, and the ability to tailor every interaction to each customer’s needs and preferences.

  • AI-assisted content composer (pilot): Generate high-quality, on-brand campaign content in . Using Gemini models informed by audience, product, and campaign context, teams can quickly create and refine content variations so they can launch personalized campaigns faster and spend less time on manual content creation.
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AI-assisted content composer
  • Embedded audience builder: Enable marketers to access and activate rich data from directly within Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Engagement Cloud. With this capability, they can build advanced segments themselves without switching systems or waiting on data analysts. The precision and relevancy of omnichannel campaigns can be improved by combining behavioral, transactional, account, and profile data with operational data across the business.
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Audience builder in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Engagement Cloud

Enabling consistent sales execution at scale

Success depends on turning insight into disciplined, repeatable actions that drive predictable revenue outcomes. As sales environments grow more complex, even small inconsistencies in data, priorities, or execution can undermine forecasts and cause opportunities to slip away. Acting with greater consistency and confidence calls for stronger data integrity, aligned behaviors, and clearer guidance.

  • Agentic opportunity summary overview: Give sales teams the tools they need to quickly assess deal health. This capability in aggregates engagement signals, activity levels, and progress indicators into a real-time view, allowing teams to identify risks early, prioritize effectively, and maintain deal momentum.
  • : Optimize sales velocity and help ensure the right product placement with retail execution enabled by intelligent, AI-enhanced processes that maximize revenue. Teams can improve visit planning and execution, harness insights to improve sales performance, and optimize interactions. For consumer products companies, this helps drive shelf availability, promotion compliance, and merchandising effectiveness across retail locations. Field teams gain greater visibility into store-level execution, enabling more consistent brand presence and stronger sell-through performance.
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Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Sales Cloud, field sales add-on
  • Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Incentive Management: Improve sales team effectiveness by using the solution, which is part of solutions. It helps drive profitable behaviors that increase revenue and support business growth while providing real-time performance insights, dispute management, and motivating rewards. Teams can use flexible tools to streamline incentive compensation and quickly design, test, and launch sales plans. AI-supported recommendations are also available to guide organizations in optimizing plans, maximizing outcomes, and uncovering actionable insights.
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Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Incentive Management
  • Consumer Products Intelligence (Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Early Adopter Care program): Enable consumer product companies to turn the enormous amount of sales and trade data they generate into better decisions. It uses analytics and AI to help improve trade spend performance, increase sales revenue and margins, and reduce manual effort.
     

Standardizing service execution across the enterprise

Service teams are increasingly expected to deliver faster, more reliable support while managing growing complexity across channels and requests. Achieving this objective requires simplifying how services are accessed and helping ensure consistent processes across the organization.

  • Self-service catalog: Allow employees to quickly find what they need without understanding backend processes. Through this guided, intuitive catalog for requests are automatically routed with the right context, reducing delays and improving resolution times.
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Self-service catalog
  • Content package framework: Leverage the framework for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Enterprise Service Management to deliver rapid, scalable value across lines of business. Prebuilt, reusable configurations for case types, workflows, and catalogs help organizations deploy services more quickly while simplifying implementation across the business. With this approach, organizations can eliminate complexity, empower partners, and speed adoption. Content packages for HR service delivery will be coming soon. 
  • Email editor in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Service Cloud and Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Enterprise Service Management: Compose, edit, and manage customer communications more efficiently while maintaining high-quality service interactions. The modern, user-friendly email editor is built for an AI-first world.
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Email editor in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Service Cloud
  • Creation of sales objects from customer hub: Let agents fully manage leads, opportunities, appointments, and sales orders directly from the service agent workspace of Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Service Cloud. This capability helps turn each customer interaction into an opportunity to deliver more value.
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Creation of new opportunity in Agent Desktop

Accelerating connected order management

Turning insight into action requires connected systems that can adapt as the business evolves. As organizations expand order channels, fulfillment networks, and technology landscapes, they need integration and order management that can keep pace so teams can respond faster to change.

  • Flow connector: Enables smooth data flow between the solution, other Âé¶¹Ô­´´ solutions, and third-party products. This predefined capability allows business users to configure custom business flows and integrations with minimal IT involvement, creating connected order management processes across the enterprise.
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Flow connector in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Order Management Services

Execution at scale: the next customer experience advantage

As AI becomes embedded in daily operations, the differentiator shifts from insight generation to execution.

Our recently announced strategic partnerships with and Google Cloud help extend this execution-first approach by connecting AI-powered service, commerce, and engagement experiences directly to operational systems and business data. As a result, organizations can move from isolated interactions and insights to coordinated actions that drive faster resolutions, better customer experiences, and greater business impact.

Learn more about Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX in Q2 2026 

Read the Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Help documentation to get started with these new capabilities:


Balaji Balasubramanian is president and chief product officer for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience and Consumer Industries at Âé¶¹Ô­´´.

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Out-of-the-Box AI Agents, AI-Assisted Insights and Loyalty Tools: What’s New with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience in Q4 2025 /2026/01/sap-cx-q4-2025-out-of-the-box-ai-agents-ai-assisted-insights-loyalty-tools/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:15:00 +0000 /?p=239644 The recent holiday shopping season signaled a major shift in how people interact with brands, moving from traditional search toward conversational agents that do more than answer questions. These agents anticipate intent and orchestrate entire workflows: retrieving information, summarizing options, taking actions, and closing tasks.

Accelerate growth and deliver winning experiences with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX

This isn’t just a consumer trend; it is reshaping engagement models across industries.

The Q4 2025 (Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX) release propels this transformation further with new out-of-the-box agents designed for customer service and the ability to easily build custom agents with Joule Studio. Additionally, AI features like predictive segmentation and AI-assisted reporting expedite planning and decision-making—foundational catalysts for future-ready businesses.

With WalkMe Premium now available across Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX applications, teams can upskill and reskill with in-the-moment guidance. And Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Loyalty Management takes new engagement models to the next level, helping businesses strengthen relationships and drive long-term growth.

Here, explore more of the highlights from the Q4 2025 release. And for full sub-solution details, see recaps for , , , , and .

Better customer engagement with out-of-the box agents and custom tools

With Âé¶¹Ô­´´, customer experience applications, data and AI come together as one—powered by Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Business Technology Platform. Whether it’s resolving an issue or managing inventory, CX applications connected to Âé¶¹Ô­´´ ERP keep processes running smoothly. AI agents take it further, by reasoning and acting directly in core processes, turning complexity into clarity. One of the most critical areas is in customer support.

  • : Deliver instant and accurate self-service by putting knowledge at customers’ fingertips. Deflect common inquiries, resolve complex questions with AI, and escalate seamlessly to human agents when needed—reducing contact center load while improving customer satisfaction.

    Digital Service Agent can be combined with , creating one conversational AI that handles the entire journey—from product discovery and transaction to post-sales support. Customers can ask questions, get answers, and complete purchases in a single frictionless interaction. Together these agents unlock agentic commerce and intelligent service, which strengthens customer relationships and deliver experiences that truly stand out.
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Digital Service Agent
  • : Create custom, business-ready AI agents for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience Cloud applications—fast and without complexity. Joule Studio, a part of , gives developers a powerful low-code, no-code environment to create and deploy AI agents and connect them seamlessly to Joule, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX apps and third-party systems. These agents can retrieve information, complete tasks, and run autonomous actions grounded in enterprise data from Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Knowledge Graph, and non-Âé¶¹Ô­´´ systems.

    For example, users can build a sales assistant agent that instantly pulls historical purchase records, analyzes buying patterns, and recommends the most relevant products or offers—helping sales teams increase conversion rates and shorten sales cycles. Learn how to .

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Boost insights and workforce skilling with AI-powered guidance

AI is no longer optional; it’s the engine behind smarter, faster customer engagement. As digital experiences raise the bar, customers expect speed, personalization, and simplicity in every interaction. Meeting those expectations requires more than automation. It demands AI-driven insights and skills that scale across the organization.

  • : Âé¶¹Ô­´´ is embedding AI upskilling into the core of customer experience applications with WalkMe Premium for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX solutions. This solution empowers employees to work smarter and learn faster, driving better outcomes from day one. With real-time, role-based guidance and automation across , , , and , teams can unlock the full potential for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX solutions without complexity.
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WalkMe Premium for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX solutions
  • : Easily generate custom reports and comparisons in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Emarsys, and uncover campaign and customer insights instantly.

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  • : Enable service agents in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Service Cloud to quickly understand key consumption trends for a premise. With AI-generated summaries of consumption graphs, agents can immediately identify usage fluctuations, anomalies, and important patterns to support faster resolution for utilities customers.
  • : Check the overall health of the sales pipeline in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Sales Cloud and display opportunities based on quantity and probability score.
  • Promotion and account plan configuration: In , customers can configure promotion types and account plan types, defining scope, levels, spend, and baseline management, in order to enable flexible planning and support future indirect promotions.
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Configure account plan type
  • Engagement events: In Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Emarsys, ingest inbound events from external data sources to further enhance segmentation and personalization throughout the journey.
  • (pilot): Use predictive AI segments in Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Emarsys to reach audiences that are most likely to engage based on a contact’s behavior, status, or channel preference.
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Predictive AI segments

Build lasting connections with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Loyalty Management

Customer loyalty is more than a metric; it’s a long-term strategy for growth. As expectations rise, organizations need solutions that create meaningful, lasting relationships. Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Loyalty Management helps businesses deliver personalized experiences, reward trust, and strengthen engagement at every touchpoint, turning everyday interactions into enduring connections.

  • : Empowers businesses with AI-driven insights to capture and unify customer data in a dynamic, cloud-based loyalty profile. These profiles provide deep insights into individual motivations, enabling smarter segmentation and highly targeted marketing campaigns. From managing global programs on a unified platform to forming strategic alliances and scaling initiatives for impact, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ helps transform loyalty into a measurable, powerful engine for sustainable engagement and success. Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Loyalty Management has integrations for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Service Cloud and Âé¶¹Ô­´´ S/HANA Cloud Private Edition to make the transformation faster.
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Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Loyalty Management

The future of engagement is here, get ready with Âé¶¹Ô­´´

How we engage is changing faster than ever. Âé¶¹Ô­´´â€™s Q4 2025 innovations in customer experience anticipate this shift on every level. Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX is enabling organizations to move beyond reactive strategies and into a world of proactive, personalized experiences.

Businesses that embrace and integrate these new models throughout their enterprise, pairing agentic AI with human intelligence and creativity, will set new standards for customer loyalty and growth.

Learn more about Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX in Q4 2025

Read the Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Help documentation to get started with these new capabilities.

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Balaji Balasubramanian is president and chief product officer for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience and Consumer Industries.

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The Power of Connection: Harnessing Customer Experience for Competitive Advantage /2025/05/connection-harnessing-customer-experience-competitive-advantage/ Mon, 26 May 2025 12:30:00 +0000 /?p=233958 Every customer interaction is a chance to win loyalty and drive growth. Companies that prioritize customer experience can stand out with seamless, high-quality interactions that build lasting connections.

Newly unveiled innovations and partnerships revolutionize the way work gets done

In the AI era, relying on standalone line-of-business applications limits growth. To unlock their full potential, businesses need a connected business suite, a unified data strategy, and a powerful data foundation — forming an integrated system that breaks down silos, empowers teams, and enables personalized engagement.

Foundation for intelligent growth

With more than 50 years of expertise in managing critical business data, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ helps companies unlock AI that is relevant, reliable, and responsible. This year at , we announced innovations for customer-centric, AI-powered growth — whether paired with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ or non-Âé¶¹Ô­´´ solutions. These innovations build on the three critical growth drivers:

  • delivers real-time insights and connections across systems and data. With built-in AI, it transforms complexity into clarity and enables fast, agile action.
  • centralizes trusted internal and external data, breaking down silos to deliver real-time visibility and insights for personalized experiences.
  • , is central to this growth strategy and brings AI into every interaction — from marketing to service — tapping into business-critical data to deliver seamless, context-rich experiences, while maximizing the value of existing Âé¶¹Ô­´´ investments.

This integrated approach enables smarter decisions, more responsive service, and long-term loyalty.

Our latest innovations expand upon this growth engine, helping companies stand out.

AI-driven automation for accelerated impact

Our expanding portfolio bridges the gap between intelligence and automation. These ready-to-use AI agents automate routine tasks deliver value quickly with minimal configuration. New agents include:

  • Quote Creation Agent: Drafts structured, CRM-ready quotes, reducing response time from hours to minutes. Learn more about .
  • Catalog Optimization Agent: Continuously improve SEO and product descriptions to improve discoverability and conversion. Learn more about .

Working seamlessly within existing Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX environments, Joule Agents preserve human judgment where it matters most while automating the rest, freeing teams to focus on growth.

Quote Creation Agent: Automated quote drafts from customer email requests

Connections that drive efficiency and growth

unifies service delivery across sales, marketing, HR, finance, procurement, and more, powered by AI and embedded across Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Business Suite. With its unique focus on user experience, it boosts productivity and operational excellence.

For Âé¶¹Ô­´´ CX users, it centralizes processes for sales inquiries and support, accelerating close rates and shortening deal cycles. This unified approach turns fragmented service into seamless, AI-powered orchestration.

Key capabilities across the Âé¶¹Ô­´´ portfolio include:

  • : Self-service and AI routing of complex issues frees HR teams for strategic priorities
  • Finance: Automates accounts receivable/payable inquiries, disputes, and discrepancies to improve accuracy, shorten AR turnover, and accelerate cash flow
  • : Centralized, AI-driven sales inquiries and support, improves response times and boosts close rates

Automation and unified systems help streamline operations and strengthen customer relationships, fueling satisfaction and growth.

Centralized, AI-powered case summaries, timelines, recommended answers

Smarter revenue management for maximized growth

Launching in the third quarter 2025, helps consumer packaged goods companies optimize promotions, budgets, and ROI with AI insights and real-time financial data. integration helps prevent overspend and supports Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Sales and Operations Planning with .

Key enhancements include:

  • Visibility into revenue, margin, ROI, volume, and profit and loss data for account performance insights and better trade promotion decisions
  • Promotion spend insights via integrated Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Cloud ERP
  • More accurate forecasting with Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Integrated Business Planning and streamlined budget planning with
  • Improved trade promotion budget management at customer and product levels, aligned to financial plans

By turning promotion data into demand signals, companies can optimize promotion strategies, reduce overspend, and deliver personalized, data-driven interactions at scale.

Insights into investments and account potential for key account managers

Scalable success: from self-service insights to full B2B commerce

, a powerful Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Cloud ERP add-on, gives B2B customers secure, 24/7 access to real-time order data from all sales channels. Designed for digital-first buyers, it reduces support workload and creates a solid foundation to scale and expand into full B2B e-commerce.

Key capabilities include:

  • Native Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Cloud ERP integration for real-time order and invoice data across channels with no middleware or data duplication
  • Omnichannel visibility — EDI, email, phone, fax, direct sales, e-commerce — for one-stop customer order data access
  • Rapid time to value with preconfigured data models, UI templates, and our vetted partner ecosystem
  • Faster issue resolution with user emulation, allowing support teams to see what the buyer sees
  • Future-ready scalability that easily extends to full B2B e-commerce without re-platforming

With low TCO and deployable in just weeks, the portal supports digital-first convenience and long-term growth.

Real-time order status, delivery estimates, and payment updates across channels

Easy, adaptable, future-ready payments

While Âé¶¹Ô­´´ B2B Self-Service Portal empowers B2B customers with real-time access to orders and transactions, Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Commerce Cloud, open payment framework modernizes payments. Its no-code, low-code architecture enables flexible support for methods like buy now, pay later and a wide range of third-party payment service providers, including Stripe, Adyen, Worldpay, and Airwallex. Announced in the first quarter, the solution allows rapid deployment and customized payment solutions.

Benefits include:

  • Rapid customization of payment experiences for seamless experiences
  • Flexibility to meet evolving buyer needs
  • Seamless scalability while ensuring compliance and security
  • Reduced complexity and time to value

Together, these capabilities form the foundation for long-term growth.

Real-time data intelligence for seamless experiences

As businesses gain control over payment experiences, they also need real-time visibility into the transactions driving their operations. Customers expect consistent, personalized experiences across channels, from in-store to mobile to online, at every touchpoint.

, a modular, cloud-native solution bundle, unifies point-of-sale and digital order data, processes high-volume transactions in real time, and ensures accurate inventory availability across locations. It supports flexible fulfillment and returns, such as buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), and return anywhere, and enables more intelligent inventory planning, sourcing, and channel-aware promotional planning.

These capabilities reduce operational friction, increase loyalty, and help businesses scale profitably and sustainably.

Turning customer experience into competitive advantage

These innovations enable a growth strategy that transforms customer experience into a powerful competitive advantage. By connecting data, processes, and interactions with AI-driven insights, businesses can deliver proactive, tailored experiences that foster loyalty and fuel growth.

Âé¶¹Ô­´´ is committed to helping customers harness the power of customer experience. These innovations reflect our focus on delivering real-world value and unlocking new growth opportunities.

Learn more about our and how they can help your business grow.


Balaji Balasubramanian is president and chief product officer for Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Customer Experience.

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