Jul 20, 2026
•4 minute read
Articles
The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.
What Article 50 of the EU AI Act Means for Enterprise AIArticle 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect August 2, 2026, dividing transparency duties between AI providers and business deployers. SAP and GRC teams must identify where AI appears in enterprise processes, determine which disclosures apply, assess targeted exemptions, and decide how to document compliance.
AI Needs Context: How OpenText and SAP Are Building the Future of Enterprise IntelligenceOpenText’s expanded partnership with SAP and SAP Business Data Cloud aims to connect structured SAP data with OpenText content management through a secure, zero-copy, AI-ready information foundation that improves governance, insights, and finance/procurement operations across the enterprise.
Jul 17, 2026
•3 minute read
Personalizing billing and account communications directly from SAPThe article argues that organizations should transform billing from a back-office output into a customer-facing, personalized, accessible, and compliant communication channel—especially across industries like utilities, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing—using OpenText Document Presentment for SAP to deliver governed statements that improve customer experience, reduce inquiries, and meet regulatory requirements.
Jul 17, 2026
•2 minute read
How manufacturers can generate logistics documents directly from SAPThe article explains that manufacturing logistics documents are critical but often fragmented across systems, causing errors, delays, and compliance risks, and argues that generating them directly from SAP with a centralized solution can improve accuracy, streamline updates, and support faster, more compliant global shipments.
Jul 17, 2026
•2 minute read
AP automation for SAP: what to look for, and who delivers itThe article explains how SAP-based finance teams should evaluate AP automation by distinguishing deeply embedded, SAP-certified, and cloud-connected solutions, comparing major vendors and SAP-native tools, and emphasizing that the best choice depends on SAP landscape, migration plans, compliance needs, and the depth of integration—not just whether a vendor “works with SAP.”
Jul 17, 2026
•10 minute read
SAP Automation Tool Added to SAP MarketplaceProcess Runner, newly available on the SAP Marketplace, gives business users an Excel-based, low-code way to extract, transform, load, and automate SAP data across ECC and S/4HANA with built-in security, validation, and governance, helping organizations cut processing time and reduce errors without heavy SAP training or IT dependence.
Jul 16, 2026
•4 minute read
From 12 Days to 3: How Breaking IT Bottlenecks Accelerates Your SAP CloseThe article argues that month-end closes are slowed mainly by IT dependency in SAP finance workflows, and that by empowering finance users with self-service automation in Excel—rather than relying on tickets and custom IT support—organizations can cut errors, free IT resources, and reduce close time from around 12 days to as little as 3 days.
Jul 16, 2026
•3 minute read
SAP Data Migration and the 2027 Deadline: What Every Business Needs to Know Before It’s Too LateSAP ECC 6.0 mainstream maintenance ends in 2027, making S/4HANA migration urgent, and organizations should choose a migration approach, cleanse and validate legacy data, use appropriate tools, and monitor go-live and post-migration reporting to avoid costly failures and delays.
Jul 16, 2026
•5 minute read
Why Complementary Tools Beat the SAP-Only ApproachThe article argues that because most enterprises will continue running hybrid SAP and non-SAP environments under Clean Core constraints, SAP-only strategies are too complex and limited, while complementary tools like Wands for SAP and Angles for SAP better preserve compliance, speed time-to-value, improve adoption, and help organizations get more from their existing SAP investment without adding unnecessary complexity.
Jul 16, 2026
•4 minute read
SAP Security Patch Day July 2026: Year’s Largest Critical and High Priority WorkloadSAP Security Patch Day July 2026 delivered the year’s largest combined workload of critical and high-priority entries. Layer Seven, Pathlock, and SecurityBridge explain the attack paths, remediation order, and operational barriers SAP teams must address across hybrid landscapes.
Jul 15, 2026
•3 minute read
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