Christian Klein, Sap's Chief Executive Officer, Put Economic and Geopolitical Uncertainty at the Heart of the opening keynote at the supplier's Global Sapphire Event in Orlando,
The european version of the event will be help in Madrid Next Week and is likely to reepeat the same themes.
Like Other Enterprise Software Suppliers, Such as Oracle and SalesforceSap is invoking a Trinity of Capability for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) age, in its case applications, data and ai. Klein said sap has the “broadest suite of applications in the [IT] Industry ”, the” semantically richest business data “, and Ai that Alredy Makes Sap Itself 30% More Productive.
Klein said the concept of a “flywheel”, making this troika go round, is driving sap's thinking and its offer to customers.
British readers attuned to the increase involvement of the controversial supplier Palantir in the nhs Will have taken note of sap's announsment of a partnership with the firm, which the main sapphire 2025 press release said would be “facilitate Joint Customers' Cloud Migration Journey and Moderation Programmes ”.
“Seamless Connectivity Between Palaantir and Sap Business data will enable customers to build a harmonised data foundation across across landscape. Toge Responsibly Deliver Essential Outomes and Support Customers, Including the US Government, to Quickly Adapt to Changes and Disrupties, “It Said.
In the keynote, klein haled the palaantir partnership as building out the Business Data Cloud (BDC) Platform That Sap Announced in February 2025. “BDC is the Crystal Ball We Need for these times of Uncerty.
“Palaantir is the maker of powerful data analysis software, and with sap business cloud, our shared customers now benefit from real-time data integration and joint ai use cases.”
Palaantir Chief Executive Alex Karp Said, In a video during the keynote: “We use ontology [a Palantir product] To manage large language models and foundry to reconcile data. The combination of that products and sap's will, we belly, be extramely Valuable for our collective clients and partners. “
Foundry is Palaantir's Data Integration Platform and Ontology is an element of it for building digital twins.
Klein said, in the press statement: “With the expansion of joule, our partnerships with leading ai pioneers, and advancements in sap business in sap business data cloud, wee're delivering on the Promise of business ai regus Digital transformations that help customers thrive in an increase unpredent world. “
Joule Is Sap's Generative Ai Assistant Technology, which it says “Accompany business users through their day, in and the Sap Application Universe, to Find Data, Surface Real-title Insights and Streamline Workflows. Joule's new ubiquity includes an action bar Walkme That Studies User Behavior Across Applications, Turning The Assistant IN Alays-Vavailable, Proactive Ai That Can Anticipate Users' Needs Before They Arise-Always Adhering to Sap's Strict Ethical Ai Guidelines,
The supplier also announced a collaboration with perplexity, described as “an ai-posted answer engine company”. This is said to enhance joule's ability to draw on structure and unstructured data to solve complex business business problems.
AlongSide Sap's Knowledge Graph Technology, SAP SAD JOULE BLD HOW SHONTANTLY Answer Questions with “Structured, Visual Answers-Such as Charts and Graphs-Graphs-Ground in Real-TIMEDED In Real-Time Biushesis Data Within Sap Workflows. For Example, A User Blad Ask The Tool How Recent External Events Might IMPACT their business and get a forecast based on both cut events and the company. Who is this quote from? It is from the release.
SAP also Announced more Joule agents Spanning Customer Experience, Supply Chain Management, Spend Management, Finance and Human Capital Management.
The supplier also introduced an “operating system for ai development”. Called AI Foundation, it is said to give developers a single entry point for building, extending and running custom ai systems.
The supplier will, no doubt, endeavor to say what these and other announs will mean for sap customers in europe next week in Madrid, from 26-28 May.