{"id":45896,"date":"2025-11-24T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/implema.se\/news\/insights-from-sap-partner-summit-in-berlin-and-three-key-trends-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:20:17","slug":"insights-from-sap-partner-summit-in-berlin-and-three-key-trends-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/news\/insights-from-sap-partner-summit-in-berlin-and-three-key-trends-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights from SAP Partner Summit in Berlin \u2013 and Three Key Trends for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The SAP Partner Summit in Berlin gathered over 2,000 participants for two days of deep dives into AI, business data, and SAP Cloud ERP. Implema’s Johan Berg was there, highlighting three clear trends now influencing SAP customers’ choices and priorities going forward \u2013 from how AI is moving into core processes to the rapid development in SAP’s cloud platforms. <\/strong>Hello there… Johan Berg, senior SAP consultant at Implema, just back from the SAP Partner Summit in Berlin! What was your main takeaway from this year’s summit? <\/strong>\u2013 The incredible pace of development in AI. SAP<\/a> already has over 300 embedded AI solutions, Joule with 2,100 capabilities, and a growing number of AI agents. It’s clear that AI is no longer on the sidelines of the SAP platform \u2013 it’s part of the core. <\/p>\n\n

SAP talked a lot about data. What did you take away from that? <\/strong>\u2013 That SAP’s strength really lies in access to business data and deep knowledge of its integrated business processes. According to SAP, over 95% of the world’s business data is inaccessible to general AI models. This makes SAP’s process-centric AI operations significantly more accurate and useful in practice. Was there anything that surprised you?<\/strong>\u2013 Yes, how quickly interest in SAP Cloud ERP is growing. It was clear that many customers are now looking directly at the full-scale SaaS model for SAP S\/4HANA. SAP’s innovation pace is highest there, making the cloud track increasingly relevant. How do these trends affect SAP customers’ choices going forward?<\/strong>\u2013 I think many will place even greater focus on process harmonization, data quality, and competence. As AI moves into core processes, the demands for order and structure increase \u2013 but also the ability to receive innovation. <\/p>\n\n

And what does this mean for Implema’s customers specifically?<\/strong>\u2013 Above all, more opportunities. As SAP now builds more intelligence directly into standard processes, customers can more quickly benefit without large, standalone AI initiatives. Our role becomes helping them understand when<\/em> the functions provide value, how<\/em> they create impact, and what<\/em> needs to be done organizationally to succeed. How does it affect Implema as a partner?<\/strong>\u2013 It means we need to continue building competence in cloud, standardization, and AI \u2013 but also continue to stay close to our customers and understand how technology meets business needs. That’s at least as important as technical knowledge. <\/p>\n\n

Did you feel that the summit’s content confirmed anything you’re already working on?<\/strong>\u2013 Absolutely. Our focus on the combination of technology, processes, and business value feels completely right. That’s also where SAP’s message lies \u2013 that AI and cloud only create value if they’re used in real processes. <\/p>\n\n

Which question do you think will be most central for SAP customers in 2026?<\/strong>\u2013 Moving from vision to everyday reality. AI will become more concrete over the next year, especially as it lands in planning, purchasing, finance, and supply chains. Companies that take the step early will notice a difference quickly. <\/p>\n\n

And finally, what are you personally most looking forward to?<\/strong>\u2013 Putting these insights into practice in customer projects. It’s when we together make the technology practically useful that development becomes real \u2013 and I think 2026 will be a very exciting year in that regard. <\/p>\n\n

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FACT BOX: SAP Partner Summit Berlin \u2013 Key Learnings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AI is now at the core of SAP’s strategy<\/strong>Over 300 built-in AI solutions, Joule with 2,100 capabilities, and 20+ AI agents. 34,000 customers use SAP AI in some form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data is SAP’s biggest strength<\/strong>95% of business data is inaccessible to general AI models. SAP’s process-centric AI builds on relevant, contextual data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP Cloud ERP is accelerating<\/strong>More customers are considering going directly to the SaaS model for SAP S\/4HANA, where the pace of innovation is highest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partner role is changing<\/strong>It’s not about running the fastest, but about evolving together with SAP \u2013 and helping customers translate innovation into everyday benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SAP Partner Summit in Berlin gathered over 2,000 participants for two days of deep dives into AI, business data, and SAP Cloud ERP. Implema’s Johan Berg was there, highlighting three clear trends now influencing SAP customers’ choices and priorities going forward \u2013 from how AI is moving into core processes to the rapid development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":45847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implema.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}