Podcast: Sylvie Sollod, GVP of Platform Product Marketing, SAP

Host Robert Holland speaks with Sylvie Sollod, Global Vice President of Platform Product Marketing at SAP about the strategic evolution of the SAP landscape following the Sapphire 2026 announcement of the SAP Business AI Platform. Sollod discusses how, rather than replacing the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), the SAP Business AI Platform consolidates SAP BTP, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), AI capabilities, and Business Transformation Management tools (like LeanIX and Signavio) into a single, unified environment designed for building and governing enterprise AI agents at scale. Sollod emphasizes three core pillars of this new architecture: “build” (intent-driven agentic development via Joule Studio), “contextualize” (grounding AI in SAP’s semantic business data fabric), and “govern” (managing agent lifecycles through the AI Agent Hub to ensure compliance and security). This episode is highly relevant for SAPinsiders because it directly addresses widespread customer anxiety regarding past investments in SAP BTP, and Sollod reassures users that their existing SAP BTP skills and integrations remain the secure foundation of this modernized architecture. Furthermore, the conversation highlights practical next steps for developers and architects, pointing them toward Joule Studio trials and upcoming events to gain hands-on experience building intent-driven AI agents.