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In this conversation, SAPinsider’s Robert Holland sits down with Jesper Sleimann, SAP’s Head of Business AI for the EMEA region, to explore BTP’s foundational role in turning AI from a pilot-phase curiosity into an industrialized, enterprise-ready capability. Drawing on a memorable Lego analogy — new AI models snapping into BTP’s existing scale, integrations, and governance like bricks across generations — Jesper explains what it takes to move AI off the sidelines and embed it at the heart of where work actually gets done. He identifies the highest-value starting points as “high-friction” business processes: procurement, invoice operations, document-heavy workflows, and any area where decision latency or repetitive effort creates measurable bottlenecks. The key success factors, he argues, are clear process ownership, high-quality business data, and governance built in by design — not added as an afterthought.

Looking ahead to the rest of 2026, Jesper paints a picture of AI landscapes that function less like collections of individual tools and more like an agentic operating system — where embedded AI, custom agents, and unified data and process automation all share the same security model and business logic within BTP. He also highlights sovereign AI as a critical milestone, particularly for European customers who need greater control and cloud sovereignty over their AI environments. The message throughout is clear: the value of AI compounds when it is connected, governed, and grounded in decades of SAP business process and data expertise.

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