E3 Category: MAG 26-06

The SAP Integration Suite is moving closer to the shop floor. With the Edge Integration Cell and SUSE Rancher, it bridges the gap between cloud innovation and local control—a must for regulated industries and PI/PO migrants.

The debate on AI in Europe is shifting from pure innovation to issues of sovereignty, infrastructure, and long-term strategic control. How will Europe’s position within the global AI ecosystem become a factor in technological independence and geopolitical influence?

Analysts confirm Boomi’s importance: The company helps businesses make trustworthy data actionable, manage APIs, and deploy AI productively at scale. Boomi continues to strengthen its position as a provider of data enablement and enterprise integration. In recent months, Boomi has received awards in the categories of integration, API management, data management, and agent-based AI. IPaaS leader according to Gartner…

For most companies in the DACH region, SAP transformation is a reality of business operations. For 70 percent of SAP customers, the S/4 migration is currently underway or has already been completed. This is shown by the latest SAP 2026 study conducted by Valantic in collaboration with the analyst firm Techconsult.

"The Beginning of Better": Christian Klein expressed his hope for an improvement in SAP's difficult situation on the Sapphire stage in Orlando.

SAP is leading its existing customers on a journey of its own accord (autonomously) while they strive to reach the summit with their ERP system.

According to a recent study by Fivetran, only 15 percent of companies are fully prepared for the production-level deployment of agent-based AI—even though nearly 60 percent of companies are already investing millions.

SAP Build Apps as a standalone offering is a thing of the past. Why now, of all times, is still the right time to migrate—and which tools are best suited to reliably bring business, IT, and AI together for the long term.

Data sovereignty has evolved from a compliance issue to a strategic prerequisite for data- and AI-driven core processes. This is the key finding of the global Barc study „Data Sovereignty 2026: Reality, Relevance, Roadmap,“ for which 320 companies were surveyed.

Integrating AI into SAP is operationally necessary. Since many functions are tied to SAP, the side-by-side model offers a flexible alternative: It decouples AI from the core system and enables it to run in a separate architecture.

SAP and Cyberwave have deployed fully autonomous, AI-powered robots in an active SAP logistics warehouse for the first time. The project is underway at the warehouse in St. Leon-Rot, which is operated using SAP Logistics Management. There, robots independently perform tasks such as folding boxes, packing, and handling shipments. The companies explain that the deployment is intended to increase warehouse throughput and relieve employees of…

SAP plans to acquire the U.S.-based data platform provider Dremio, thereby expanding the SAP Business Data Cloud to include agent-based AI. The planned acquisition is primarily intended to strengthen the SAP Business Data Cloud and help companies consolidate SAP and non-SAP data on a single platform. Financial details have not been disclosed. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026…