SAP has announced a major push into enterprise AI with the launch of its new Autonomous Enterprise strategy, introducing a unified AI platform and a range of AI agent-powered business tools. The company also expanded its partnerships with several major tech firms, including Anthropic and Palantir Technologies.
The announcement was made during SAP Sapphire 2026, where SAP revealed its new SAP Business AI Platform alongside an Autonomous Suite designed to automate business operations using AI agents embedded directly into enterprise workflows.
SAP CEO Christian Klein said businesses handling mission-critical operations cannot rely on AI systems that are only “almost right.” He explained that SAP’s approach focuses on combining AI with trusted business data, governance and security to deliver more reliable and compliant results.
The newly launched SAP Business AI Platform brings together the company’s AI services, cloud technologies and data systems into one managed environment. A key part of the platform is its knowledge graph technology, which helps AI agents understand relationships between business data so they can make more context-aware decisions.
Developers will be able to create AI agents and automate workflows through Joule Studio using both no-code and pro-code development tools hosted on SAP’s infrastructure.
SAP also highlighted several new and expanded partnerships supporting the initiative. Anthropic’s Claude AI models will be integrated into SAP systems to help power enterprise assistants across areas like procurement and human resources. Meanwhile, Palantir Technologies will assist SAP customers with large-scale data migration and transformation projects.
The company is also working closely with cloud and AI partners including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Cohere and Mistral AI.
Alongside the platform, SAP introduced its Autonomous Suite, which includes more than 50 specialised AI assistants designed for departments such as finance, supply chain and HR. These assistants coordinate hundreds of smaller AI agents to complete complex business tasks automatically.
One featured tool, called the Autonomous Close Assistant, is designed to speed up financial closing processes, reducing timelines from weeks to just a few days.
SAP also showcased industry-focused AI applications, including predictive maintenance tools developed with European energy company RWE. According to SAP, the AI system can study past incident data, identify root causes and automate maintenance planning.
Another key launch was Joule Work, a new interface designed to simplify how users interact with SAP software. Instead of switching between multiple applications, users can simply describe what they want to achieve, while AI handles workflows, data coordination and task execution in the background. SAP said Joule Work will support desktop, mobile and voice interactions.
To encourage wider adoption of AI agents, SAP announced a €100 million investment fund for partners building AI solutions on its platform. The company also updated its RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP programs to include AI assistant access and new automation tools for ERP migrations, which SAP claims can cut migration workloads by more than 35%.
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