SAP-Solution: S/4

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.

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 is supporting TCS's large-scale payroll transformation, thereby advancing its cloud-first strategy.

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.

„Cloud first“ is becoming „AI first“: SAP is evolving from an ERP system into a platform for AI-driven business processes. Many companies are still a long way from this. Bridge technologies already enable AI applications in on-premises SAP systems and pave the way to the cloud.

Why the future of AI in the SAP environment isn't just in the cloud—but right where people work today.

Many companies are currently faced with the challenge of ensuring that their existing SAP HR landscape is technically future-proof. What companies can learn from the successful HR transition at Kurtz Ersa, a global technology group.

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

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.