The Pre-Read The briefing before the SAP meeting.

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DatePostFormatPlatformAvailability
29 Sep 2026QRC3, the September 2026 quarterly release of SAP HANA Cloud, is live. Agents can keep memory. SQL can call SAP AI Core models.shortlinkedinlive
25 Sep 2026"Is this purchase contract healthy?" still means four or five SAP transactions and a spreadsheet.shortlinkedinPlanned
25 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
22 Sep 2026Approved 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.supershortxPreview
22 Sep 2026Daikin 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.supershortxlive
22 Sep 2026Where does your SAP S/4HANA target architecture live?longlinkedinlive
22 Sep 2026The 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.supershortxPlanned
21 Sep 2026EssilorLuxottica 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.supershortxPreview
21 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
20 Sep 2026SAP LeanIX target architecture diagrams and planning features updated August-September 2026. S/4HANA programs gain baseline-to-target visualization and impact assessment for migrations.supershortxlive
19 Sep 2026The 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.supershortxPreview
19 Sep 2026SAP Ariba Spend Analysis and Insights is now available. The solution expands the procurement data foundation for AI at scale.supershortxlive
18 Sep 2026Colombina, 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.supershortxlive
17 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
16 Sep 2026A late-payment score used to need a data scientist and weeks of feature work. A tabular foundation model reads the table and predicts.shortlinkedinlive
16 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
16 Sep 2026Connecting an agent to your SAP APIs is the easy part. Deciding which calls it may make is the product.shortlinkedinlive
15 Sep 2026The Datasphere-Databricks news isn't a feature. It's a choice: rebuild the semantic layer twice, or connect to it once.shortlinkedinlive
14 Sep 2026Group structure maintenance used to mean keying in ownership percentages by hand.shortlinkedinlive
13 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
12 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
12 Sep 2026Fiori 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.supershortxlive
11 Sep 2026Group 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.supershortxlive
11 Sep 2026The token bill moved to finance. Most SAP budgets still book it under IT.longlinkedinlive
11 Sep 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
10 Sep 2026Lockheed Martin went live with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, Payroll, Recruiting and Onboarding for 123,000 employees. Major HR landscape modernization now in production.supershortxlive
10 Sep 2026France 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.supershortxlive
10 Sep 2026S/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.supershortxlive
24 Aug 2026The 2608 upgrade isn't another AI slide. Two things shipped.shortlinkedinlive
24 Aug 2026SAP already publishes the news. Somebody still has to read it before the meeting.shortlinkedin
24 Aug 2026The 35% is SAP's target. The 60% is a consultancy model. Not the same claim.shortlinkedinlive
18 Aug 2026Most 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.supershortx
17 Aug 2026Cirque 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.supershortxlive
17 Aug 2026S/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.supershortxlive
13 Aug 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
23 Mar 2026Order 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.supershortxPlanned
13 Mar 2026SAP 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.supershortxPlanned
13 Mar 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
12 Mar 2026SAP'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.supershortxPlanned
12 Mar 2026ABAP 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.supershortxPlanned
12 Mar 2026SAP 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.supershortxPlanned
11 Mar 2026New 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.supershortxPlanned
11 Mar 2026MCP 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.supershortxVision
10 Mar 2026SAP 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.supershortxPlanned
8 Mar 2026SAP 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.supershortxlive
27 Feb 2026SAP 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.supershortxPreview
27 Feb 2026Traditional 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.supershortxPreview
27 Feb 2026The same release adds AI-assisted Root Cause Analysis in beta — translating performance issues into plain-language explanations with prioritized recommendations.supershortxPreview
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [1/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [2/11]shortxPreview
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [8/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [5/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [10/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [4/11]shortxPreview
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [7/11]shortxPreview
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [11/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [9/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [3/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud ERP 2602 [6/11]shortxlive
27 Feb 2026Cloud 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.shortxlive
27 Feb 2026SAP'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.supershortxVision
13 Feb 2026Joule 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.shortxlive
13 Feb 2026SAP 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.shortxPreview