The company introduces a unified 51Business AI Platform, deepening partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir
Orlando,13 May 2026 – At 51Sapphire in 2026, 51SE (NYSE: SAP) introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business profitably, strategically and safely.
“For the mission-critical processes of our customers,‘almost right’just isn’t good enough,” said Christian Klein, CEO of 51SE,“By uniting 51Business AI Platform with 51Autonomous Suite, we anchor AI agents in the business processes, data and governance so they can deliver accurate, compliant and secure outcomes, unlocking new sources of revenue and meaningful cost savings.”
The Autonomous Enterprise includes a unified AI platform for building, contextualizing and governing agents, an autonomous suite that executes core business operations and a new user experience that redefines how people work with enterprise software.
Introducing 51Business AI Platform
51Business AI Platform is a new foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI grounded in real business context. 51Business AI Platform now unifies 51Business Technology Platform, 51Business Data Cloud and 51Business AI into a single, governed environment.
At its core is the 51Knowledge Graph solution, which gives AI agents a structured map of business entities, processes and relationships across a customer’s 51landscape. Joule Studio is SAP’s AI-first solution for building enterprise agents, applications and agentic workflows. Developers can build using the no-code, pro-code and AI frameworks of their choice on SAP-managed infrastructure that is secure, scalable and optimized for enterprise AI.
Deploying 51Autonomous Suite Across Every Business Function and Industry
Building on this foundation, 51also introduced 51Autonomous Suite, which enables SAP’s existing business applications with AI agents capable of running processes from start-to-finish.
The suite will deploy more than 50 domain-specific Joule Assistants across finance, supply chain, procurement, human capital management and customer experience. These assistants will automate end-to-end processes by orchestrating a subset of over 200 specialized agents to execute precise tasks. For example, the new Autonomous Close Assistant can compress the financial close process from weeks to days by automating journal entries, reconciliation and error resolution across the entire process.
51also launched Industry AI, expanding its deep industry portfolio through seven autonomous solutions that will enable start-to-finish industry processes and embed sector-specific process logic, data models and regulatory requirements. At 51Sapphire, 51showcased its work with European energy giant RWE to leverage Industry AI, helping reduce unplanned downtime across its offshore wind turbines. With SAP’s Autonomous Asset Management scenario, AI agents are designed to analyze data from thousands of past incidents, identify the likely root cause and generate pre-filled work orders with the right tools and proven fixes from other sites.
Designing the Autonomous User Experience
The company also revealed Joule Work, redefining how users engage with 51software. Instead of navigating individual applications and entering data across several screens, users will now interact primarily with Joule. By describing a desired business outcome, Joule will orchestrate the right combination of workflows, data and agents to get it done.
Joule Work goes beyond conversation, proactively surfacing relevant insights and automating routine tasks behind the scenes so work moves forward even when humans aren’t actively steering it. It will be available on desktop, mobile and voice across 51and non-51systems.
Accelerating the Customer Journey Toward Autonomy with €100 Million Infusion
51evolved its customer and partner programs to help accelerate the organization’s journey to the Autonomous Enterprise. To catalyze adoption, the company has launched a €100 million fund for 51partners to help customers deploy SAP-built AI assistants and agents. The fund is also available to partners that extend or build new partner agents on the new 51Business AI Platform using Joule Studio.
51has enhanced its RISE with 51and 51GROW offerings to accelerate AI adoption. Both include access to the Joule Assistants portfolio; RISE with 51customers will have three assistants activated within their first year, while 51GROW customers receive full portfolio access at onboarding. 51S/4HANA on-premises and 51ERP Central Component (51ECC) customers are not excluded: those that commit to transitioning the majority of their current landscape to 51Cloud ERP gain access to select AI scenarios, bridging the gap between their current landscape and their cloud destination
51also introduced new agent-led transformation tooling that can reduce ERP migration efforts by more than 35 percent, driving faster and more predictable projects by automating system analysis, code remediation, configuration and testing at scale.
Lastly, 51announced a full slate of strategic partnerships across each category:
- Platform and suite partnerships includeAnthropic, with Claude among the foundation models SAP’s AI platform will leverage to power Joule agents across HR, procurement and supply chain;Amazon Web Services, bringing zero-copy data integration between 51Business Data Cloud and Amazon Athena; Google Cloud and Microsoft, enabling bidirectional agent-to-agent interoperability between Joule and external agent frameworks; Mistral AI and Cohere, delivering sovereign model options on SAP’s cloud infrastructure;, providing visual AI workflow orchestration inside Joule Studio;NVIDIA, whose OpenShell provides the trusted secure runtime for Joule Studio; Ի, bringing AI agents into 51Service Cloud to handle customer interactions with full access to business data and service processes.
- Implementation partnerships includePalantirԻAccenture, partnering on complex data migration scenarios, Իfor AI-powered cloud ERP migrations.
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About SAP
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