SAP-Solution: LLM

At the 2026 Sapphire events, SAP refined its AI strategy. A vision is taking shape that encompasses autonomy, the partner ecosystem, and the „Autonomous Enterprise.“ It remains to be seen whether these visions will translate into robust solutions.

With an antitrust ruling, the EU has provisionally brought an end to an anti-competitive chapter in SAP’s history. The global leader in ERP was accused of exploiting its dominant market position in maintenance and support to force customers into an inescapable service straitjacket.

Subscription or consumption? Buy, rent, or pay based on usage? Following the on-premise era, existing SAP customers are facing an almost insurmountable complexity of fees. The Business Data Complexity (SAP BDC) defined by the user association DSAG is just the tip of the iceberg.

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.

Anyone who analyzes SAP’s promises regarding the „Autonomous Enterprise,“ the Joule assistant, and autonomous AI agents with the necessary objectivity will inevitably come across a fundamental blind spot in the current AI strategy: hallucinations

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.

While existing SAP customers are forced into an expensive straitjacket with the Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Business Data Cloud (BDC), which cement vendor lock-in, independent iPaaS solutions such as Boomi or hyperscalers demonstrate true agility. They orchestrate hybrid data streams as composable ERP without rigid ABAP constraints. Anyone seeking true digital sovereignty must critically...

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AI foundation for companies: Over 15 LLMs already provided in accordance with EU standards, mainly in Germany.

Companies are facing various challenges and key issues in the digital transformation. The integration of AI and machine learning in particular is increasingly becoming an unavoidable trend.

I had lunch with our senior lawyer in the cafeteria the other day and we ended up staying until 5 in the afternoon. It wasn’t the food that made me feel ill, but rather his concerns about the use of generative AI in light of the GDPR.

Oracle has announced the general availability of the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Generative AI Service.