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SAP says its network handles over $8 trillion of trade a year. Its AI agent post names no customer.
SAP says AI agents handle more than 90% of a wholesaler's 100,000 supplier confirmations unaided. Its Takeda figures are forecasts.
SAP says Somerset Council moved about 8,500 staff off its 17-year-old payroll system in 13 months, on budget. Nobody named the budget.
SAP offered 300 AI agents. Workday's product chief, a former SAP executive, called the autonomous enterprise idea "cold and soulless".
NHS England counts 137 trusts benefiting from a £330 million Palantir-led data platform. Twenty-nine say they are not using it.
SAP won a Dutch military cloud deal of up to ten years. The ministry says it does not end its SAP dependence.
SAP will run Cohere's AI agents for clients with strict rules on where data is kept. Its launch post gives no price.
SAP opened its top support plan to partners. It cites research that 95% of firms see no measurable return on generative AI.
Erasmus University's switch from SAP to Oracle is €8.3 million over budget. A one-year delay cost €4.5 million of it.
SAP and Databricks announced a way to use SAP data without copying it out. Neither said when it ships or its price.
SAP says more than 18,000 people work for it in India, its second-largest location. Teams there help build Joule, SAP's AI assistant.
Erasmus University's move from SAP to Oracle is 70% over budget, at €20.2m. A one-year delay cost €4.5m of that.
SAP spent about €518 million on Prior Labs. The AI start-up brought in under €1 million of SAP's sales last quarter.
SAP introduced a tool flagging AI agents that may be high-risk in the EU. EU fines for breaches reach 3% of turnover.
SAP paid about €518 million for AI start-up Prior Labs. Last quarter it added less than €1 million to SAP's sales.
Microsoft said Foundry will get the tool GitHub uses to run AI agents. SAP may cut off agents skipping its approved routes.
SAP says its AI model is 50,000 times more energy-efficient than chatbot AI. It plans to run it on the space station.
SAP says its tool cuts building an AI agent to about 2.5 hours from 13. Consultants' project estimates rest on those hours.
SAP says its AI assistant can cut book closing time by up to 68%. Its release skips how controllers check it.
Palantir got £186 million more from Britain's defence ministry than its published contracts show. The FT counted £282 million in ten years.
SAP will add AI to its sovereign cloud in three countries, none of them Germany. SAP's German users want a date.
SAP plans three AI tools for early 2027 with no published price. One is a premium gateway for AI traffic.
ServiceNow's net new AI contract value rose 65%. Its shares fell 18% after hours as its sales forecast missed estimates.
SAP's four new AI assistants write test cases and fix custom code in live cloud migrations. Only early adopters can use them.
Oracle said 13,000-plus NetSuite customers plug in Claude or ChatGPT. Its own assistant has worked only in the US and Canada.
Bosch says 10 AI tools on SAP save it several million. Its full rollout of SAP's Joule waits for reliable answers.
SAP will stop giving away its AI agent builder after December. Its release note gives no price for the premium version.
Insurer IAG paused an SAP migration to map 300-plus processes. It cleared 40% of its company codes before migrating data.
SAP ends main ECC support in 2027. Firms that move off it can lose the record of which payment settled which invoice.
Workday borrowed $2.5 billion at rates up to 6.5%. $1 billion of it will repay debt that cost 3.5%.
SAP earned its 12th Leader rating for commerce software.
MPs wanted Palantir out of NHS data work over lock-in. Ministers will review whether to extend its contract by two years.
An SAP developer says AI writes in seconds the code checks teams usually skip. Fixing its errors takes him about an hour.
AWS announced $1 billion for engineers who build AI inside client firms. Gartner advises clients to plan the exit before they arrive.
Infosys cut its revenue growth forecast to 1%-2% despite $5.2 billion in large deal wins. Its results release gave no reason.
SAP now lets AI agents sort sales leads and handle service cases. Only select customers can switch them on so far.
Anthropic plans to back a European AI consultancy, the FT reported. Its engineers would sit inside clients, where SAP consultants bill days.
SAP deadlines and VMware squeeze IT budgets, CIO.com reported. A survey put vendor-pushed upgrades at about 28% of big firms' software budgets.
About 80% of SAP's product-development work now goes into AI. Handelsblatt says it has brought little revenue so far.
SAP puts about 80% of its product-development resources into AI, Handelsblatt reported. The paper says it has brought little revenue so far.
Deloitte Australia told about 170 staff their jobs were cut. It is hiring over 500 to run clients' back-office work.
SAP's user group chief says AI costs are stacked on prices that are not falling. He doubts that can last.
SAP topped €10 billion in quarterly sales for the first time. Its finance chief called the next quarter critical.
Gartner predicted leading firms will make 80% of new apps disposable by 2030. SAP maintains its core ERP system until 2040.
SAP added AI roleplays to renewals for 100+ certifications. A stand-alone quiz remains.
SAP discontinued equipment software. Leonhard Weiss, with 8,200 employees, made its own replacement.
Microsoft lost a bid to appeal in a £270m licence case.
SAP says all BMW finance reporting uses one template. Approximately 800 processes were standardised.
Broadcom sent some VMware customers quotes up 1,500%. 90% of CIOs polled weigh alternatives.
SAP stock rose 57% to €201 since July. Options price a 7.5% swing.
Salesforce won a UK tax tender worth up to £2bn. HMRC first estimated £1bn.
Some Ericsson quotes took over two weeks. On SAP's software, many now take minutes.
SAP must stop offering one Signavio function in Germany, a court ruled. Celonis won.
Wipro's SAP HR move was scoped at over three years. It took 13 months.
US Customs priced an SAP planning contract at up to $100 million. Migration follows.
SAP found AI in 25% of tasks. Only 9% of firms adapted around it.
SAP's cloud now runs payroll for Dachser's 19,000 German staff. It took eight months.
Wipro planned three years to move 240,000 staff onto SAP. It took 13 months.
Workday unveiled four autopilot AI agents. Dow, a customer since 2019, has activated none.
SAP puts engineers inside customers. What they build becomes software for the industry.
SAP offered some AI to on-premise users. Half their maintenance must move to cloud.
SAP fixed 20 security flaws on Tuesday. Two could let attackers seize systems.
UBS said it expects SAP's cloud backlog to slow. SAP reports on 21 October.
EY's Americas staff fell 4.9% last year. Its revenue there rose 4.2%.
SAP was in Germany's plan for government AI. Berlin has now dropped the plan.
Microsoft charged a startup $17,600 for Claude. Its $25,060 in credits did not count.
SAP's user group asked firms about live AI. Only 3% ran SAP's.
SAP now moves customers' money through its own payment firm. It named no fee.
SAP showed its AI finance assistants. ITOCHU first had to resolve 3,000 modifications.
SAP said old ERP on Oracle loses its patches after 2030. Even SAP-sold licences.
SAP agreed to buy HR startup TechWolf. Rivals Workday and ServiceNow had backed it.
38% of SAP users kept S/4HANA on budget, ASUG found. 61% hit the date.
KPMG offered staff facing cuts an extra £100 for confidentiality. Partners averaged £880,000.
SAP's $903 million Pentagon contract guaranteed it only $100,000.
SAP won a $903 million Pentagon cloud contract. Only $100,000 of it is guaranteed.
SAP's upgrade took a US city 14 months. Starting it took eight years.
SAP's CEO said AI agents will not run critical work 100% alone.
Deutsche Telekom moved 90 SAP applications to Google Cloud. SAP energy use fell 40%.
Salesforce showed its AI working inside SAP. SAP experts question whether that's allowed.
SAP customers have seven days to give notice on next year's support.
A court ordered SAP to restore a refiner's software after 14 months.
SAP reseller's system never worked, a retailer alleges. It cost over $2 million.
Two IBM engineers quit over a refused idea. In 1972 it became SAP.
SAP's chief executive said voice replaces much data entry in three years.
KPMG cut jobs in its SAP and AI teams. Partners averaged £880,000.
Broadcom raised VMware prices by 10x or more, European cloud providers say.
Grocery Outlet's SAP launch cut gross margin by almost 2 points.
Zeiss dropped the clean rebuild of its SAP after about €200 million.
AWS made AI agents sign into SAP as you. No shared account.
Some SAP board members told Klein to build only on OpenAI. He refused.
Attackers could get into SAP systems without a password. SAP fixed it yesterday.
Brussels settled with SAP. It is now asking about Oracle.
Asda's tech divorce from Walmart, including a new SAP system, cost £1.22bn.
34,000 pre-orders. SAP has already run the pilot.
SAP identified at least $100 million in AI token risk.
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Asda budgeted £800m. The bill came to £1,224m.
Zeiss stopped a €200m SAP build after six years.
