SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has unveiled innovations and partnerships at its annual Sapphire conference that aim to boost business productivity by up to 30 percent. The company’s generative AI assistant Joule is now more ubiquitous, delivering personalized answers on everything users need to be more productive.
Joule can accompany business users throughout their day, in and out of the SAP application universe, to find data, surface real-time insights, and streamline workflows. Its new ubiquity includes an action bar powered by WalkMe that studies user behavior across applications, turning the assistant into an always-available, proactive AI that can anticipate users’ needs before they arise.
A collaboration with Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine company, enhances Joule’s ability to draw on structured and unstructured data to solve complex business problems. Powered by Perplexity and the SAP Knowledge Graph, Joule now instantly answers questions with visual answers such as charts and graphs grounded in real-time business data.
SAP also introduced an expanded library of Joule Agents that reimagine business processes and workflows from the ground up. Fueled by the world’s most powerful real-time business data and orchestrated by Joule, these AI agents work across systems and lines of business to anticipate, adapt, and act autonomously.
The company also announced an operating system for AI development called AI Foundation. This gives developers a single entry point for building, extending, and running custom AI solutions at scale. A new prompt optimizer helps developers create more effective AI prompts quickly, reducing work on complex use cases from days to minutes.
SAP Business Data Cloud is also expanding with new intelligent applications that can continuously learn, simulate outcomes, and guide actions using business-critical data. These applications can detect changes and optimize processes, anticipating needs and collaborating with both human and artificial thinkers.
SAP has partnered with Palantir to facilitate joint customers’ cloud migration journey and modernization programs. The companies will responsibly deliver essential outcomes and support customers, including the U.S. government, to quickly adapt to changes and disruptions.
Additionally, SAP unveiled a solution that helps customers transition to the cloud faster, delivering personalized guidance and actionable recommendations tailored to an organization’s transformation objectives. This solution can help deliver up to 35 percent faster time to value.
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP aims to bring out its best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2025/05/sap-business-ai-reimagine-how-enterprises-run