Author: Peter M. Färbinger, E3 Magazine

Many years ago, Qualtrics could hardly believe its luck: Through its partnership with SAP, the company gained global visibility and access to SAP’s existing customer base. Now Databricks is in that privileged position. How will it all turn out?

Journalist and anchor Christiane Amanpour addressed this message to her colleagues at CNN. She will be leaving the news network in 2027 after 43 years.

LEG Thüringen is digitizing and standardizing its previously paper-based business travel management using SAP Concur Request and Expense, thereby benefiting from significantly shorter processing times and greater transparency in travel management.

In addition to traditional SQL databases from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, the SAP HANA database platform also features two other engines: Graph and Vector. In the age of AI, these powerful engines on the HANA platform are indispensable.

The Autonomous Enterprise represents an attempt to redefine ERP architecture. It is suggested that graph architecture, semantic grounding, and autonomous orchestration will give rise to a new dimension of efficiency and automated compliance.

A macroeconomic and architectural turning point in the ERP landscape began many years ago with the advent of cloud computing. The global economy has been undergoing a sustained transformation of its business application systems since the rise of client-server-based data processing architectures (DV/Org) in the late 1990s.

From a computer scientist’s perspective, the specific ERP risk that AI agents in the SAP Autonomous Enterprise might trigger erroneous actions or corrupt master data stems from several systemic causes. Is the SAP Knowledge Graph a way out of this dilemma?

Two weeks after the premiere of *Carmen* (Georges Bizet, 1838–1875) with Teodor Currentzis and Asmik Grigorian, I was on stage at the Festspielhaus against the backdrop of *Carmen*. The technical director and the set designer explained the set design together—it somehow reminded me of Christian Klein.

The opening speech by an SAP manager at the 2026 annual conference of the German-speaking user association DSAG highlighted the frenzy and turmoil surrounding the current AI offerings. The activist moves by SAP CEO Christian Klein are leading to chaos.

When taken to their logical conclusion—the Business AI Platform, the Autonomous Enterprise, and the Knowledge Graph—these technologies open up the possibility for existing SAP customers to transition away from S/4HANA: an SAP without SAP.

The election of a new DSAG CEO marks the end of Jens Hungershausen’s successful tenure. DSAG members are now called upon to chart a new course: a positive partnership with SAP is balanced by a constructive yet critical discussion of ERP.

The 2026 Annual Conference of the German-Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) at the Cologne Exhibition Center will be held under the theme: “Claim Your Ground. Lead Your Business.” The DSAG’s Call for Autonomy.