SAP has unveiled its Autonomous Enterprise strategy, introducing a unified AI platform and a suite of agent-led applications, while expanding partnerships with companies including Anthropic and Palantir Technologies.
Announced at SAP Sapphire 2026, the offering combines a new SAP Business AI Platform with an Autonomous Suite designed to run core business processes end-to-end using AI agents embedded within enterprise workflows.
“For the mission-critical processes of our customers, ‘almost right’ just isn’t good enough,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, adding that the platform anchors AI agents in business data and governance to deliver “accurate, compliant and secure outcomes.”
At the centre of the announcement is the SAP Business AI Platform, which unifies SAP’s existing technology stack, data cloud and AI capabilities into a single governed environment. The platform uses a knowledge graph to map enterprise data and relationships, allowing AI agents to operate with business context. Developers can build agents and workflows through Joule Studio using no-code and pro-code tools on SAP-managed infrastructure.
SAP’s expanded partner ecosystem underpins the strategy. Anthropic’s Claude models will be integrated into SAP’s platform to power enterprise agents across functions such as HR and procurement. Meanwhile, Palantir Technologies will work with SAP on complex data migration and transformation scenarios, alongside other implementation partners.
Additional partnerships span cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft, as well as AI and infrastructure players such as NVIDIA, Cohere and Mistral AI.
On top of this, SAP introduced the Autonomous Suite, which deploys more than 50 domain-specific AI assistants across functions such as finance, supply chain and human resources. These assistants coordinate over 200 specialised agents to execute tasks.
One example includes an Autonomous Close Assistant aimed at reducing financial closing timelines from weeks to days.
SAP also expanded its industry-specific AI offerings, showcasing use cases such as predictive maintenance in the energy sector. In a collaboration with European energy company RWE, SAP said its AI agents can analyse historical incident data to identify root causes and automate maintenance workflows.
The company unveiled a new interface called Joule Work, positioning it as the primary way users interact with SAP systems. Instead of navigating multiple applications, users can describe outcomes, with AI orchestrating workflows, data and agents in the background. The interface will be available across desktop, mobile and voice.
To accelerate adoption, SAP announced a €100 million fund for partners building and deploying AI agents on its platform. It also updated its RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP programs to include access to AI assistants and introduced tools to automate ERP migration tasks, claiming reductions in migration effort of more than 35%.
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