WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.881 --> 00:00:05.712 We're here in Orlando and it's Sapphire time. 2 00:00:05.712 --> 00:00:07.700 Give me your take. What? What have you heard? 3 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:08.319 What's what's going to be new? 4 00:00:08.319 --> 00:00:09.871 How does it help our clients? 5 00:00:09.871 --> 00:00:11.872 SAP announced a new platform, 6 00:00:11.872 --> 00:00:14.935 the SAP Business AI platform, as a foundation 7 00:00:14.935 --> 00:00:17.205 for the autonomous suite. We should rather say 8 00:00:17.205 --> 00:00:20.250 consisting of data, apps, and AI. 9 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:25.200 I think this is a great advancement of some of the things we've done already. 10 00:00:25.225 --> 00:00:30.010 What is more interesting than just the pure announcements of many AI agents 11 00:00:30.035 --> 00:00:34.080 is the fact that the connectivity between the different solution landscapes, 12 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:37.897 like the lines of business in spend, in finance, in HR, 13 00:00:37.897 --> 00:00:43.151 are now obviously coming together. And having connected business processes 14 00:00:43.151 --> 00:00:46.446 which are technically connected at the back end automatically, 15 00:00:46.446 --> 00:00:50.748 I think already gives the whole transition from old to new, 16 00:00:50.748 --> 00:00:54.088 i.e. from ECC to SAP S/4 HANA a completely different perspective. 17 00:00:54.088 --> 00:00:57.874 So, I think it's an exciting time because clients will now be able to move faster. 18 00:00:57.874 --> 00:01:01.498 One thing we did here is, of course, the access to interfaces. 19 00:01:01.498 --> 00:01:03.463 Let's talk about that for a moment, because I think 20 00:01:03.463 --> 00:01:05.111 for our organizations that we serve. 21 00:01:05.111 --> 00:01:06.465 Do you have any comments on that? 22 00:01:06.465 --> 00:01:07.540 Operating on the clean core, 23 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:09.977 if you're doing it in a clean core manner, 24 00:01:09.977 --> 00:01:13.277 then you are working with the APIs. 25 00:01:13.277 --> 00:01:16.000 You're working on a documented business process approach. 26 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.970 And therefore, yes, it is an announcement of how data should be accessed 27 00:01:19.970 --> 00:01:23.640 and how commercial structure SAP needs to look like you are, 28 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.787 to your point, very well set. 29 00:01:25.787 --> 00:01:29.311 And then yes, you can leverage some of the new capabilities like 30 00:01:29.311 --> 00:01:33.293 data pipelines and BDC, SAP Business Data Cloud and others, 31 00:01:33.293 --> 00:01:36.983 or you can use A2A agentic framework 32 00:01:36.983 --> 00:01:39.360 for agent to agent communication as well. 33 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:40.998 What should we tell our clients? 34 00:01:40.998 --> 00:01:42.724 What should we recommend to them? 35 00:01:42.724 --> 00:01:46.422 The SAP Business AI platform is a is a great thing. 36 00:01:46.422 --> 00:01:49.350 If you know your stuff in SAP, you are well prepared. 37 00:01:49.350 --> 00:01:53.205 You can use built, you can govern the agent aside. 38 00:01:53.205 --> 00:01:56.547 And with that governance comes contextualization, 39 00:01:56.547 --> 00:01:58.558 business context, very important. 40 00:01:58.558 --> 00:02:01.932 And the right reasoning so that your agent is not hallucinating 41 00:02:01.932 --> 00:02:05.145 about a supply chain process in energy for example, 42 00:02:05.145 --> 00:02:07.304 while you are giving him a question about retail. 43 00:02:07.304 --> 00:02:10.966 My best recommendation I can give to anybody at the moment is 44 00:02:10.966 --> 00:02:12.830 to begin talking about your processes. 45 00:02:12.830 --> 00:02:15.105 Begin understanding what the capabilities are 46 00:02:15.105 --> 00:02:19.251 that are becoming available now, and let's figure out how it can be used 47 00:02:19.251 --> 00:02:22.859 to the benefit of the organization, the industry that these clients are in. 48 00:02:22.859 --> 00:02:24.209 Thank you for joining me here. 49 00:02:24.209 --> 00:02:25.409 Thank you, Neil. 50 00:02:25.409 --> 00:02:28.370 Here from Orlando. Absolutely. We'll have more to come.