What was announced at the SAP Sapphire 2026 keynote?

SAP Business AI Platform (Announced), SAP domain models (Announced), Joule Studio 2.0 (Announced), Intent to acquire Dremio (Announced), Intent to acquire Prior Labs (Announced), Open agent interoperability at no charge (Announced), and 1 more.

What were the highlights of the SAP Sapphire 2026 keynote?

SAP's 2026 theme was the Autonomous Enterprise. It launched the SAP Business AI Platform, merging its AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and BTP, added SAP domain models and Joule Studio 2.0, announced intents to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs, and said its applications will become an Autonomous Suite. Anthropic joined on stage. The SAP Business AI Platform merges SAP's AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and Business Technology Platform. Joule Studio 2.0 is an open build layer: bring your own LLM or use SAP's models. SAP announced its intent to acquire Dremio, a data and agentic lakehouse with federation across clouds and databases.

Who gave the SAP Sapphire 2026 keynote?

Christian Klein, on 2026-05-12 in Orlando, Florida.

SAP Sapphire 2026: Global Keynote: The Beginning of Better

Christian Klein · May 12, 2026 · 1h 25m · Orlando, Florida

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SAP's 2026 theme was the Autonomous Enterprise. It launched the SAP Business AI Platform, merging its AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and BTP, added SAP domain models and Joule Studio 2.0, announced intents to acquire Dremio and Prior Labs, and said its applications will become an Autonomous Suite. Anthropic joined on stage.

Key themes: Agents, Enterprise apps, Data platforms · AI-written summary from the published transcript

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The SAP Business AI Platform merges SAP's AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and Business Technology Platform
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Joule Studio 2.0 is an open build layer: bring your own LLM or use SAP's models
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SAP announced its intent to acquire Dremio, a data and agentic lakehouse with federation across clouds and databases
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SAP also announced its intent to acquire Prior Labs, a lab for tabular foundation models (TabPFN)
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SAP AI agents will exchange data with third-party agents at no extra charge, Joule Studio 2.0 development is free, and SAP will invest over 100 million euros in its ecosystem
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SAP's applications will become an Autonomous Suite across finance, spend, supply chain, HCM and CX