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The AI agent layer is the biggest architectural decision your SAP estate faces this decade. Treat it as one.

Salesforce's Marc Benioff confirmed his company will spend $300 million with Anthropic in 2026 on AI coding agents. The cheque is the signal: every major SaaS vendor now sees AI as where the next decade of value will be created and captured. If you run a serious SAP estate, much will turn on whether you can see what AI agents do inside your business, and govern what they are allowed to do.

Can Christian Klein’s Joule Beat The Hyperscalers By Owning The Business Data?

At Sapphire 2026, SAP said RISE customers would commit to activating three Joule Assistants in their first year. SAP is betting that trusted data and end-to-end processes will give it an advantage that even the largest AI companies cannot reproduce. For CTOs, the question is whether that advantage earns Joule a central role. Or whether SAP is using its contracts to secure one.

Christian Klein Says AI Agents Need Clean Processes And Clean Data. Most Companies Have Neither. What Now?

The CEO of SAP, addressing half a million LinkedIn followers earlier this year, was making the case for the Autonomous Enterprise. That's a world where AI agents run business processes end-to-end. Closing periods. Chasing approvals. Reconciling accounts. Acting, in his words, autonomously.

Why Did Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Pay $12.9 Billion for Hugging Face? Because the Future of AI Is About the Diffusion Layer, Not the Frontier Model

This week, Nvidia bought an open-model library. AT&T revealed it has walked away from expensive frontier AI for cheaper alternatives.

Sir Dave Lewis Is Betting $1bn That Ready-to-Drink Is Where Diageo’s Growth Is. SAP Is Built To Back That Bet

Only 54% of Americans now drink at all, the lowest in 90 years. The growth left in the industry is in people who barely buy a drink. Lewis's answer: put Diageo's premium spirits into cans, and make it easy for them to say yes. Different production runs, packaging, retail listings, demand forecasting. SAP can handle it. Acting on it, fast, is down to Dave.

SAP’s Christian Klein Is Building Its AI Case in Two Acts. Act One Landed Yesterday

Strong numbers now, real adoption figures to follow. It's how you win a market that runs on trust.

The AI agent layer is the biggest architectural decision your SAP estate faces this decade. Treat it as one.

Can Christian Klein’s Joule Beat The Hyperscalers By Owning The Business Data?

Christian Klein Says AI Agents Need Clean Processes And Clean Data. Most Companies Have Neither. What Now?

Why Did Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Pay $12.9 Billion for Hugging Face? Because the Future of AI Is About the Diffusion Layer, Not the Frontier Model

Sir Dave Lewis Is Betting $1bn That Ready-to-Drink Is Where Diageo’s Growth Is. SAP Is Built To Back That Bet

SAP’s Christian Klein Is Building Its AI Case in Two Acts. Act One Landed Yesterday

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