SAP-Solution: Cloud, but native!

Katharina Pietschnig is taking over as managing director of Natuvion in Austria. The former head of Project Excellence & Steering was promoted after 18 months with the company and will now be responsible for the strategic development of the Austrian office, as well as human resources management, recruiting, and professional development. Natuvion, an SAP partner specializing in IT transformations, aims to further expand its operations in Austria with this personnel decision. Pietschnig brings…

Natuvion and IBM have agreed to a strategic partnership for SAP transformations in the energy sector. SAP partner Natuvion and IT company IBM aim to support energy utilities in their migration to SAP S/4HANA Utilities and to create additional capacity for this purpose. According to the companies, up to 40 local and regional utilities with more than ten…

With its product updates for Q1 2026, SAP is continuing to drive the integration of artificial intelligence into business processes and development environments. The focus is on the Joule AI platform, which is increasingly becoming the central user interface for various solutions.

Digit Solutions has appointed Fabian Hirsch as Vice President of Sales for the DACH region. The provider of cybersecurity services and solutions for digital infrastructure aims to expand its growth in German-speaking countries with the help of this experienced IT manager. Hirsch has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has held senior sales positions at IT system integrators and manufacturers, among other roles. Most recently…

Zalaris Consulting and Perisoft Global Services have entered into a partnership for SAP transformations in Australia. SAP partner Zalaris and SAP service provider Perisoft aim to support companies in modernizing their HR, finance, and cloud landscapes. The focus is on an integrated approach that combines HR, finance, and cloud processes within a unified SAP strategy. According to the companies, this will enable businesses to carry out SAP transformations in a more structured manner…

The European Commission has appointed former SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe as Special Representative for Industrial Artificial Intelligence. He is to advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen on issues related to industrial AI and submit an evidence-based report with recommendations for strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty. According to the…

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.

First, my colleague Christof Kerkmann reported in the *Handelsblatt* on the restructuring of SAP’s Executive Board: CEO Christian Klein plans to focus on AI technology going forward, as Executive Board member Muhammad Alam (Product and Engineering) will be leaving the company in early 2027. Klein is supported behind the scenes by a strategic advisor.

SAP promotes the Autonomous Enterprise as the next step in the evolution of digitalization. But with every decision delegated to AI agents, dependence on the underlying models grows. How autonomous do companies really become as a result, and who controls this autonomy?

The podcast for the E3 cover story is a supplement and continuation of the online texts from the E3 print magazine. A dialog between two AI avatars with knowledge from the German-speaking E3 editorial team provides an insight into the processes surrounding SAP and the SAP community. Translations into English, Spanish and French are provided by DeepL and Google.

Sapphire 2026 marks a strategic turning point. Instead of cloud migration, process harmonization, and S/4 HANA transformation, this year’s focus was on the „Autonomous Enterprise“—and thus on the question of how ERP landscapes will become smarter and more autonomous in the future.