Jul 2, 2026
•3 minute read
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SAP Note 3255746: The June 2026 Deadline That Could Break Your SAP Data PipelinesSAP Note 3255746 tightens the rules on extracting data from SAP systems, and a June 2026 security patch will technically block non-compliant ODP-RFC calls. Here is who is affected and how to migrate.
The Other 2027 Deadline: REALTECH on Life After SAP Solution ManagerEveryone knows about the 2027 ECC maintenance deadline. Far fewer are planning for the second one: SAP Solution Manager support also ends in 2027, taking ChaRM, ITSM, and Monitoring with it. REALTECH explains why Cloud ALM is not a drop-in replacement.
Jul 1, 2026
•3 minute read
How SAP Organizations Can Turn Invoice Workflows Into Audit-Ready ESG ReportingAuritas is turning routine utility-invoice processing into governed, audit-ready ESG reporting inside SAP, letting sustainability data inherit the same controls as financial transactions, as seen in a high-tech semiconductor company's Scope 2 deployment.
Jul 1, 2026
•3 minute read
Global Tax Management – Benchmark Research Report 2026Global tax functions are at an inflection point. Between February and June 2026, SAPinsider surveyed its community of tax and finance professionals — including technology, finance, tax, and C-level leaders — to understand how they are navigating the most complex compliance environment in a generation. The findings are clear: AI adoption (42%), e-invoicing and real-time reporting mandates (35%), and regulatory and tariff volatility are reshaping the 2026–2028 tax agenda faster than most organizations can absorb with their current tools and architectures. Tax leaders know the operating models of the last decade won't be adequate for the next one, and they are responding by prioritizing automation, standardization, and data governance before chasing the next wave of AI.
But the most actionable finding in this report is the expectations gap — the striking distance between what tax automation and AI were expected to deliver and what has actually been realized. While 43% of organizations expected automation to deliver faster close and reporting cycles, just 6% achieved it; 36% expected better visibility into tax positions, yet only 11% saw it. This report diagnoses why the gap exists, where SAP-centric architectures are winning, and what separates the organizations realizing outcomes from those simply accumulating tools. Download the full benchmark to compare your strategy against your peers and build the foundation that closes the gap.
What you'll learn:
- The seven forces shaping the 2026–2028 tax agenda — and why AI adoption now outranks any single regulation
- Where the expectations gap is widest across close cycles, audit response, visibility, and accuracy
- The strategic priorities tax leaders are funding first: automation, process standardization, and master data remediation
- Which SAP solutions and third-party tax engines (Vertex, ONESOURCE, Sovos, Edicom) are in scope for the next 24 months
- The real state of AI in tax — high evaluation rates, low production deployment, and where the fast-follow use cases are
- The performance metrics that actually win budget: on-time filing, accuracy, and audit defensibility — not headcount reduction
- How leading teams treat tax transformation as an operating-model change, not a technology purchase
Jun 30, 2026
•2 minute read
SAP Makes Significant Management Changes and Splits Product & Engineering OrganizationSAP is reorganizing its leadership to centralize customer success under Thomas Saueressig and to split product and engineering into new Business AI Platform and Autonomous Suite groups led by Philipp Herzig and Manoj Swaminathan, while shifting several support, security, partner, and marketing teams as CEO Christian Klein aims to smooth Muhammad Alam’s eventual exit and accelerate SAP’s integrated AI strategy with minimal immediate impact for customers.
Jun 30, 2026
•4 minute read
Beyond the Hype: Unanswered Questions About SAP’s Autonomous EnterpriseSAP Sapphire 2026 left the industry with a massive new mandate: the Autonomous Enterprise. While SAP’s vision of intelligent AI agents seamlessly running complex business processes is thrilling, it has also introduced a heavy cloud of ambiguity. Technology leaders are excited but cautious, struggling to separate futuristic marketing promises from practical, deployable reality. Behind closed […]
Jun 30, 2026
•3 minute read
Decoding the Autonomous Enterprise: How SAP, Anthropic, and Joule Are Rewriting Enterprise ArchitectureSAP Sapphire 2026 signaled SAP’s shift from ERP vendor to business AI platform provider, unveiling an Autonomous Enterprise strategy built on a unified Business AI Platform, 224 agentic tools, Claude-powered reasoning via Anthropic, and layered governance and Clean Core requirements, while also making clear that much of the vision will roll out through 2026 amid real constraints around interoperability, licensing, and existing customer readiness.
Jun 30, 2026
•11 minute read
Beyond the Sapphire Buzz: How SAP and Palantir Could Actually Be Designed into EnterpriseSAP and Palantir’s partnership signals a broader shift in enterprise AI toward governed, context-rich architectures, where SAP provides transactional execution and Palantir supplies a semantic operational layer with AI orchestration and runtime control to enable trustworthy cross-system decision-making and action.
Jun 30, 2026
•9 minute read
SAP Doubles Down on AI Skills as Learning Week and Open-Book Exams Reshape EnablementThe bottleneck in SAP transformation is no longer the technology; it is the supply of people who know how to use it. SAP is attacking that head-on, putting AI at the center of enablement and quietly rewriting how certification works. Here is what SAP leaders and talent owners should do about it.
Jun 30, 2026
•3 minute read
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