# The Pre-Read > The briefing before the SAP meeting. The Pre-Read is an independent briefing on SAP products for people who own or run an SAP landscape. It says what changed, what is live and what is only announced, with dates and sources. It does not give configuration or tenant-specific instructions. Site: https://thepreread.news/ Library: https://thepreread.news/api/library.json RSS: https://thepreread.news/feed.xml ## Essentials - [Autonomous Enterprise](https://thepreread.news/autonomous-enterprise): Autonomous Enterprise is SAP's vision for a business where people set the direction and AI assistants and agents execute processes across domains, with every action governed. There is no product or license by that name. SAP delivers it through Joule, SAP Autonomous Suite, Industry AI, SAP Business AI Platform, and the RISE with SAP and SAP GROW adoption paths, each with its own availability. - [Joule Work](https://thepreread.news/joule-work): Joule Work is SAP's workspace where people state a goal and Joule Assistants coordinate Joule Agents to carry it out across SAP and non-SAP systems. The Joule Work mobile app is generally available; the Joule Work experience on the web, on the desktop, and inside the mobile app is in SAP Early Adopter Care, with general availability planned for the second half of 2026. - [SAP Autonomous Suite](https://thepreread.news/sap-autonomous-suite): SAP Autonomous Suite is SAP's integrated suite of business applications, built around cloud ERP and organized into five domains (finance, spend, supply chain, HR, and customer experience) where Joule Assistants and Joule Agents run processes under human supervision. The suite has no single release date; each assistant and agent inside it carries its own availability. - [SAP Business AI Platform](https://thepreread.news/sap-business-ai-platform): SAP Business AI Platform is SAP's foundation for building AI agents and applications, grounding them in business data, and governing them in production. It brings SAP BTP, SAP Business Data Cloud, AI Foundation, and SAP's Business Transformation Management solutions under one name. Since October 1, 2026, SAP BTP ABAP environment is called SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environment. - [RISE with SAP — agent-led transformation](https://thepreread.news/rise-agent-led): RISE with SAP is SAP's guided, agent-led path for companies on SAP ERP Central Component or on-premises SAP S/4HANA to move onto SAP Cloud ERP Private. It combines a methodology, expert guidance, and seven named migration assistants; the first custom code migration agent became generally available in Q2 2026. Companies new to SAP use SAP GROW instead. ## News - [QRC3, the September 2026 quarterly release of SAP HANA Cloud, is live. Agents can keep memory. SQL can call SAP AI Core models.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/hana-cloud-september-2026-whats-new-short) (2026-09-29) - ["Is this purchase contract healthy?" still means four or five SAP transactions and a spreadsheet.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/purchase-contract-insights-agent-short) (2026-09-25) - [SAP Ariba Procure to Order 2608 release brings user-focused enhancements across Buying and Procurement core processes. Organisations improve compliance, streamline approvals, and make purchasing decisions with greater confidence.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/ariba-procure-to-order-2608-innovations) (2026-09-25) - [Approved partners run SAP Business AI projects with SAP Build and Joule Studio. Packages: €15,000 (Agent Adoption) to €100,000 (Enterprise, 3+ custom agents). SAP nominates customers; public sector excluded. Pilot through December 2026.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/business-ai-100m-partner-adoption-incentive) (2026-09-22) - [Daikin completed a 10-month SAP Cloud ERP pilot for 300+ frontline users across finance, logistics, procurement, and sales. Counter efficiency improved 10%; financial close accelerated 20%. Blueprint now scales to more than 400 branches.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/daikin-sap-cloud-erp-pilot) (2026-09-22) - [Where does your SAP S/4HANA target architecture live?](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/leanix-target-architecture-long) (2026-09-22) - [The Service Procurement Agent for SAP S/4HANA processes supplier documents into intelligent service entry sheets. It extends Joule-style automation from procurement into service operations and spend management.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/service-procurement-agent-s4hana) (2026-09-22) - [EssilorLuxottica runs 15,000 stores on SAP S/4HANA Retail and pilots Joule in smart glasses. Voice commands deliver inventory, customer history, and cross-sells hands-free. Two-week pilots; commercialization by year end.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/essilorluxottica-sap-joule-pilot) (2026-09-21) - [SAP September 2026 Security Patch Day: 19 new Notes. Note 3747649 (CVSS 10.0) affects Extended Passport; Note 3759472 (CVSS 9.8) affects NetWeaver Message Server. Integration Suite, S/4HANA, SAPUI5, CAP, developer tools. Patch immediately.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/sap-security-patch-day-september-2026) (2026-09-21) - [SAP LeanIX target architecture diagrams and planning features updated August-September 2026. S/4HANA programs gain baseline-to-target visualization and impact assessment for migrations.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/leanix-target-architecture-sap-update) (2026-09-20) - [The Accounting Accruals Agent is released in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (Restricted Availability). It applies accrual policies, calculates accruals, and proposes journal entries through Joule.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/accounting-accruals-agent-ra) (2026-09-19) - [SAP Ariba Spend Analysis and Insights is now available. The solution expands the procurement data foundation for AI at scale.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/ariba-spend-analysis-and-insights-ga) (2026-09-19) - [Colombina, a food producer, migrated to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. The move delivers faster delivery, stronger security, and a foundation for AI-enabled growth.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/colombina-s4hana-cloud-private-edition) (2026-09-18) - [SAP Integration Suite offers an Integration Content Migration Agent. GenAI converts SAP PI/PO Java mappings to Groovy scripts, generates flows, checks clean-core readiness. Limited to Premium and Enhanced Editions in selected regions.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/integration-content-migration-agent-ga) (2026-09-17) - [A late-payment score used to need a data scientist and weeks of feature work. A tabular foundation model reads the table and predicts.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/tabpfn-3-5-plus-sap-ai-core-short) (2026-09-16) - [SAP AI Core now includes Prior Labs TabPFN-3.5 Plus. The tabular foundation model delivers instant business predictions without custom training. Available for SAP customers.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/tabpfn-3-5-plus-sap-ai-core-ga) (2026-09-16) - [Connecting an agent to your SAP APIs is the easy part. Deciding which calls it may make is the product.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/integration-suite-mcp-gateway-ai-agents-short) (2026-09-16) - [The Datasphere-Databricks news isn't a feature. It's a choice: rebuild the semantic layer twice, or connect to it once.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/datasphere-databricks-integration-short) (2026-09-15) - [Group structure maintenance used to mean keying in ownership percentages by hand.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/group-reporting-2608-ga-short) (2026-09-14) - [SAP Integration Suite adds MCP Gateway and advanced event mesh support for agentic AI. Secure, governed connections from AI agents to APIs, processes, and backend services.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/integration-suite-mcp-gateway-ai-agents) (2026-09-13) - [SAP Datasphere models can now be explored and reused directly from Databricks workloads and ML pipelines in SAP Business Data Cloud. Semantic layer integration without duplicating logic.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/datasphere-databricks-integration) (2026-09-12) - [Fiori apps library 2.0 now runs upgrade impact analysis across every launchpad app. One pane shows all apps before the S/4HANA release upgrade lands.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/fiori-upgrade-impact-analysis) (2026-09-12) - [Group Reporting 2608 is generally available. Ownership-driven group structure management and consolidation automation now live. Finance owners gain automated ownership calculations and streamlined consolidation processes.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/group-reporting-2608-ga) (2026-09-11) - [The token bill moved to finance. Most SAP budgets still book it under IT.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/ai-token-spend-finance-line-long) (2026-09-11) - [SAP Managed Joule now provisions end-to-end through SAP for Me. Covers Joule, Joule Work, Joule Studio and Joule Work Desktop without direct BTP access. Shifts rollout ownership for IT leaders.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/sap-managed-joule-setup-sap-for-me) (2026-09-11) - [Lockheed Martin went live with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Payroll, Recruiting and Onboarding for 123,000 employees. Major HR landscape modernization now in production.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/lockheed-martin-successfactors-live) (2026-09-10) - [France e-invoicing mandate went live September 1. Receive obligation for all companies; issue and e-reporting for ~7,000 large and medium enterprises. SAP Document and Reporting Compliance supports it.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/france-einvoicing-mandate-live) (2026-09-10) - [S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608.1 final What's New and Product Assistance now available. Extensibility object changes require review before HFC rollout this weekend.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/09/s4hana-cloud-2608-1-final-whats-new) (2026-09-10) - [The 2608 upgrade isn't another AI slide. Two things shipped.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/s4hana-cloud-2608-short) (2026-08-24) - [SAP already publishes the news. Somebody still has to read it before the meeting.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/inaugural-short) (2026-08-24) - [The 35% is SAP's target. The 60% is a consultancy model. Not the same claim.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/agentic-transformation-economics-short) (2026-08-24) - [Most supply-chain rankings still score a module. Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites scores the stack. SAP is a Leader. That is the comparison if orchestration and fulfillment are one landscape.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/sap-leader-gartner-supply-chain) (2026-08-18) - [Cirque du Soleil built an AP colleague named Genato. It reads the inbox, clocks urgency, checks SAP, and drafts the reply. Humans still approve. Priority work: 98% faster. Backlog: down a quarter.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/cirque-genato-ap-agent) (2026-08-17) - [S/4HANA Cloud 2608 is live. Easy Fill is GA: describe a Fiori field in plain language and it fills. A production agent checks availability, then releases the order. D/P tenants upgraded this weekend.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/s4hana-cloud-2608-ga) (2026-08-17) - [SAP HANA Cloud now enables agents to auto-discover and query your data layer. Agents scan database metadata, build their own knowledge graphs, and autonomously fetch the exact data they need—no manual schema mapping required. Real hands-off data access.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/08/hana-cloud-agentic-data) (2026-08-13) - [Order Reliability Agent ships Q2 2026 — SAP Order Management now detects and resolves issues before customers see them. Plus AI assortment management and Retail Intelligence for demand planning.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/order-management-retail) (2026-03-23) - [SAP Business Data Cloud launches Retail Intelligence (GA H1 2026) — pre-configured, AI-ready data product unifying planning, execution, and customer engagement data. AI-generated demand simulations built in for closed-loop retail operations.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/bdc-retail-intelligence-ga) (2026-03-13) - [SAP Cloud ERP Private FPS01 adds Change Record Management Agent for R&D — autonomous impact analysis for product changes with AI-generated next-step proposals. R&D teams can now automate what used to be manual impact studies.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/cloud-erp-private-change-agent-rd) (2026-03-13) - [SAP's Catalog Optimization Agent scales to 10M+ products with 70% faster content improvement and 63% reduced maintenance. In agentic commerce, catalog quality is the currency of visibility.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/catalog-optimization-agent) (2026-03-12) - [ABAP Cloud gets native VS Code support with the new ABAP Cloud Extension featuring built-in agentic AI via ABAP MCP Server (GA Q2 2026). Major signal: enterprise ABAP development is moving from Eclipse into the VS Code ecosystem.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/abap-cloud-vs-code-mcp-server) (2026-03-12) - [SAP overhauls its Services and Support with three tiers: Foundational (included free), Advanced (proactive AI-guided support), and Max (dedicated success managers + prototype dev). Replaces the legacy engagement model.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/services-support-tiers) (2026-03-12) - [New SAP Joule Tender Analysis Agent reads dense RFQ documents and generates bid recommendations — cuts tender processing effort by 5% with potential for 1%+ revenue growth on competitive bids.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/tender-analysis-agent) (2026-03-11) - [MCP now connects SAP Joule, Integration Suite, and HANA Cloud into one autonomous stack. Agents discover tools, create POs, and build knowledge graphs — no hard-coded integrations required.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/mcp-joule-integration-suite-hana) (2026-03-11) - [SAP Commerce Cloud gets a Storefront MCP Server in Q2 — AI agents from ChatGPT, Perplexity, or custom builds can discover and buy products directly. Channel-less agentic commerce becomes real.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/storefront-mcp-server-commerce) (2026-03-10) - [SAP Cloud ERP Private FPS01 embeds Joule and AI agents directly into the private edition — AR Agent and Cash Management Agent among the first. AI in ERP is no longer a public-cloud-only story.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/03/cloud-erp-private-fps01-ai) (2026-03-08) - [SAP Signavio February 2026 introduces Process Networks in beta — an object-centric view that connects business objects across end-to-end processes instead of fragmented case-based diagrams.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/signavio-process-networks-thread) (2026-02-27) - [Traditional process mining looks at one case type at a time. Process Networks map how sales orders, deliveries, goods issues, and invoices interact across Lead-to-Cash — revealing inefficiencies that only surface at the intersection of process steps.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/signavio-process-networks-thread-2) (2026-02-27) - [The same release adds AI-assisted Root Cause Analysis in beta — translating performance issues into plain-language explanations with prioritized recommendations.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/signavio-process-networks-thread-3) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [1/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/cloud-erp-2602-blueprint-provisioning) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [2/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-accounting-accruals-agent) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [8/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-ai-production-routing) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [5/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-sales-orders-from-unstructured-data) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [10/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-asset-overview-joule) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [4/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-trade-classification-agent) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [7/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-ai-situation-handling) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [11/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-permit-to-work) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [9/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-combined-orders-manufacturing) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [3/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-actual-liquidity-analysis) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 [6/11]](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-ai-returns-handling) (2026-02-27) - [Cloud ERP 2602 mini series: the most AI-embedded release yet. Agents for accruals and trade classification, AI-driven sales orders and production routing, new treasury and asset management apps.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/2602-series-intro) (2026-02-27) - [SAP's CAIO outlines generative UI — Joule and Joule Agents build intent-driven interfaces on the fly. No more static dashboards: describe what you need and get a purpose-built control center in seconds.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/generative-ui-joule) (2026-02-27) - [Joule with SAP Signavio is now GA — 50+ skills for process analysis, value cases, and onboarding through natural language. Process mining meets conversational AI in production.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/joule-signavio-ga) (2026-02-13) - [SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2602 introduces AI-powered "smart helpers" in beta — task automation that handles routine Fiori workflows autonomously. A preview of where ERP user experience is heading.](https://thepreread.news/news/2026/02/s4hana-smart-helpers-beta) (2026-02-13) ## Dates - [SAP Security Patch Day (next: 2026-10-13, 2026-11-10, 2026-12-08)](https://thepreread.news/dates/#cal-001) (monthly, second Tuesday) ## Optional - [News archive](https://thepreread.news/news/) - [Availability ledger](https://thepreread.news/status/) - [Answers](https://thepreread.news/answers/)