SAP announced a range of AI innovations for developers at its annual SAP TechEd conference, including upgrades to Joule Studio, Joule Work, and the Business AI platform, the new table model SAP-RPT-2.0 with anomaly detection and multi-table processing, a collaboration with HPE to deploy SAP-RPT on the International Space Station, and free access to Joule Studio for some customers until December 2026.
SAP CTO Philipp Herzig gave an interview discussing the “SaaS is dead” debate, how AI is changing the way software is used at work, how agents can access accurate information, controlling AI costs, and building models for business data. He argued that “SaaS is dead” confuses building applications with running them, and stressed that enterprise production environments still require substantial human work.
Irfan Khan, President of SAP's Data & Analytics business, said AI's impact on enterprise software should not be seen simply as replacement. He noted AI companies mostly build one-time runtime layers that cannot mirror years of enterprise data history, and LLMs' pretrained data cannot automatically incorporate real-time business records. He believes agents will change software interaction, platforms must define agent behavior boundaries, and no enterprise has yet fundamentally transformed operations through agentic AI.
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