I was there. Three days in Orlando, a flood of announcements, and let's be honest, the highlight was Roger Federer taking the stage. Twenty Grand Slams worth of poise dropped into a keynote about enterprise software. Surreal, and a hard act for any product demo to follow.
But SAP made a serious run at it. Here's what actually matters.
The big shift: Work-as-Code
SAP's thesis for the Autonomous Enterprise is simple. AI agents become the system of work. Business processes stop being clicks in a UI and start being code: declarative, composable, governed, and executed by agents. Humans set strategy and handle exceptions. The pitch is grounded in 50 years of business context that generic LLMs don't have.
Five things to know
1. SAP Business AI Platform + Joule Work. A unified layer over BTP, Business Data Cloud, and AI Foundation. Joule Work is the new front door. Describe intent, and agents coordinate cross-application workflows as executable work.
Voice via LiveKit
A2A and MCP protocol support, so agents can talk to agents
GA of the bi-directional Microsoft 365 Copilot integration
Anthropic's Claude added to the LLM lineup, alongside Meta and Mistral
2. The SAP Autonomous Suite. The biggest repositioning of SAP's SaaS portfolio in years, spanning Autonomous Finance, Spend, Supply Chain, HCM, and CX. 200+ specialized agents and 50+ role-based assistants (Payroll, Supplier Management, Cash & Treasury) ship in the coming months, each with predefined ROI and KPIs.
3. Joule Studio: where Work-as-Code gets built. Custom agents, applications, and extensions authored from natural-language prompts. New SAP Domain Models, trained on SAP's own code, generate clean-core-compliant output with high precision. Partnerships with n8n (visual workflow orchestration) and Vercel (design tooling) round out the developer surface.
4. Data foundations get smarter. Business Data Cloud gains conversational AI for generating dashboards, data products, and analytical models in natural language, plus a new Amazon Athena integration. SAP-RPT-1.5 introduces "tabular orchestration" and retrieval-augmented prediction (RAP) for structured enterprise data. Agents are finally getting trustworthy answers from rows and columns.
5. RISE & GROW accelerators. New migration and modernization assistants autonomously analyze legacy custom code, fix data quality, and automate testing for S/4HANA transitions. Strategic AI partnerships with Palantir (data migration tooling) and Conduct (SAP change lifecycle management).
The traction number
34,000 customers on SAP Business AI (+26% YoY), and Joule now handles 80% of common SAP transactions across 11 languages.
Bottom line
The narrative SAP is selling is clean. Business processes become Work-as-Code, agents execute them, humans steer. The Microsoft 365 Copilot interop, the A2A/MCP standards bet, and the addition of Claude all signal an open, interoperable agent fabric rather than a walled garden. The next few quarters of agent rollouts, Joule Studio maturity, and on-premise availability will tell us how much of the keynote is real today versus roadmap.
(And yes, Federer was great.)