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2026 marks an adoption inflection point, with even traditionally cautious finance organizations recognizing that AI is now required to remain competitive. Agentic AI will transform workflow execution, reducing multi-click treasury and finance tasks to “five second experiences” and significantly boosting productivity.
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Kyriba embeds its LLM directly into its platform, ensuring customer data never leaves the system, critical for treasurers and CFOs managing highly proprietary liquidity information.
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AI will level the playing field across industries by exposing companies to best in class processes that can be replicated or adapted using agent driven models.
In this SAPinsider podcast, Tom Callway, VP of Product Marketing at Kyriba, joins us to explore how AI, especially agentic AI, is reshaping the Office of the CFO. Although 69% of finance teams report using AI in the SAPinsider Office of the SAP CFO Benchmark Intelligence report, most usage still centers on analytics rather than workflow transformation. Callway explains why the real shift is only beginning as finance and treasury leaders move from experimentation to productivity‑driven adoption.
Callway describes Kyriba’s evolution from embedded machine‑learning capabilities to a fully agentic platform designed to convert multi‑step workflows into seconds‑long experiences. A key differentiator, he notes, is Kyriba’s architecture: customer data remains inside Kyriba’s environment, with the LLM embedded directly into the platform to maximize transparency and trust. This approach reflects a core principle: AI adoption in finance requires not only innovation, but also confidence in how sensitive liquidity and financial data is handled.
The conversation also explores how agentic AI will democratize best‑in‑class processes, enabling companies to learn from one another and benefit from cross‑industry expertise. Callway shares why 2026 represents a turning point: AI is no longer theoretical, competitors are already deploying it, and organizations that delay risk falling behind.
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Listen to the interview clip or read the full article in the March version of the SAPinsider Magazine, available March 16 to 19, 2026, at our North America, Las Vegas event.
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