SAP-Solution: BDC

The U.S. government’s drastic order to block access to Anthropic’s state-of-the-art AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals is serving as a massive, strategic wake-up call for the European SAP community. Following its cloud exit, this long-standing SAP customer now needs an AI exit.

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…

It’s not a bad idea for SAP CEO Christian Klein to design a future ERP user interface based on the „headless“ IT concept. With Joule Work, SAP has laid the groundwork for this. But how does headless technology align with the new SAP API policy?

Existing SAP customers are currently experiencing the same situation as when waiting for their own suitcase at baggage claim at the airport: many beautiful and perhaps valuable suitcases are passing by; the existing customer is waiting in vain for their own suitcase, their own ERP problem solution.

SAP is sharpening up its AI strategy: With acquisitions such as Reltio, Dremio and Prior Labs, the Group is focusing on better data integration, consistent databases and access to structured company data for analytics and AI.

Since the first mention of the round trip problem as a mathematical challenge in 1930, many researchers have dealt with it and developed optimization methods that are also used for other ERP optimization problems. Whether SAP Business AI with Joule has a solution approach for supply chain management here is as yet unanswered.

The traditional era of enterprise resource planning, or ERP for short, is effectively dead when taking a critical, analytical look at current IT and AI developments, and with it SAP's cloudy marketing concept of the so-called Intelligent Enterprise.

SAP plans to acquire the MDM provider Reltio. The technology is intended to help SAP customers to make company data AI-ready. Details of the deal have not yet been disclosed. Once the acquisition is complete, Reltio will strengthen the SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) - an integral part of SAP's strategy of prominently anchoring artificial intelligence in its core products. The company intends to use this...

For existing SAP customers, the urgent question is what is really behind this new glossy term of an autonomous ERP suite and whether it is a genuine technical revolution for users or merely a stock market-driven labeling scam.

Behind the cloudy AI marketing promises of the Walldorf-based software company SAP, a fundamental paradigm shift is currently taking place that will massively change the future of business data processing. LLMs naturally fail with abap tables.

For the German-speaking SAP user group (DSAG), it is unacceptable that SAP severely restricts the use of APIs for undocumented purposes, for systematic mass data extractions and for interaction with autonomous generative AI systems from third-party providers.

Manuel Sedlak, Head of SAP Public Cloud Services at Nagarro, explains in an interview with E3 magazine how the transformation to an „Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise“ can succeed with the SAP Business Suite.