SAP CEO Says “Almost Right” Is Not Good Enough as Company Launches Autonomous Suite

SAP made bold promises about AI at Sapphire 2025: Knowledge Graph, Joule Studio, and AI Agent Hub would ship by the end of the year. Those tools are now technically available, but adoption has lagged, and SAP is already announcing version 2.0. “Joule Studio adoption has been minimal compared to what we’d like,” said Manoj Swaminathan, SAP’s chief product officer for Business Suite, in a briefing ahead of this year’s Sapphire. The tool “was limited to content-based experiences,” he said. “Anytime more complex agents were involved, it had limited capabilities.” The issue, according to SAP’s chief AI officer Jonathan von Rüden, was that SAP had favored ease of use over power in its original architecture. “People wanted to see more pro-code flexibility,” he said in an interview at Sapphire 2026. “We had gone with a low-code approach. You could give it extension points and tools, but you couldn’t touch the core of it. Now you can build a custom agent, connect it to your own GitHub.” Custome

May 12, 2026 — From finance and procurement to supply chain and manufacturing, specialized AI agents are moving into the enterprise systems where business decisions are made, data is accessed and […] The post NVIDIA and SAP Bring Trust to Specialized Agents appeared first on AIwire.

Announced today at SAP Sapphire — where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined  SAP CEO Christian Klein’s keynote by video — SAP and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration helps enterprises run specialized agents with security and governance controls.

Insider Brief SAP and robotics software company Cyberwave have deployed fully autonomous AI-powered robots inside an active SAP logistics warehouse in Germany. According to Cyberwave, the deployment is operating at SAP’s warehouse in St. Leon-Rot using SAP Logistics Management, the company’s cloud-native logistics execution platform. The robots are handling box folding, packaging and shipping fulfillment […]

A demand signal drops. A supplier goes dark. A competitor cuts prices. Your planning system gives you a dashboard. What you actually need is a decision in minutes, not weeks. That’s the gap SAP and DataRobot are closing together. Enterprise planning is undergoing a fundamental shift. For decades, organizations have relied on structured planning cycles,... The post From Planning to Action: SAP Enterprise Planning enhanced by DataRobot appeared first on DataRobot.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Tessera Labs announced $60 million in oversubscribed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to accelerate its mission of bringing AI-native automation to enterprise transformation. Foundation Capital, Myriad Venture Partners, and Osage University Partners also participated. The announcement arrives as the global SAP community convenes in Orlando for its flagship annual event, underscoring […]

Everyone wants a piece of the enterprise AI pie, and this week, we saw a string of companies making their moves. From Anthropic and OpenAI announcing new joint ventures targeting enterprise AI deployment to SAP dropping $1B on German AI startup Prior Labs, it’s becoming clear that if you’re a startup building enterprise tools, you’re likely an acquisition target.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

SAP is moving to fix a problem that has quietly held back enterprise AI. The company is acquiring, targeting two weak points that most organizations still struggle with: fragmented data […] The post SAP Seeks Solution to Enterprise AI Puzzle with Dremio, Prior Labs Acquisitions appeared first on AIwire.