Five Minute Briefing - SAP
December 17, 2025
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
SAP announced that AUMOVIO, the newly launched global technology company focused on future mobility, has selected a comprehensive suite of cloud solutions from SAP to help build its digital foundation. These include SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Signavio solutions.
SAP SE announced the next stage of its vision for European digital sovereignty with the launch of EU AI Cloud. According to the company, SAP now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe.
SecurityBridge, the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, is introducing the SecurityBridge AI Companion, the first AI-powered security assistant of its kind for SAP systems. According to the company, this innovative AI Security Companion is designed to help SecurityBridge customers navigate the Platform's insights and the broader SAP security domain with ease.
Sovos, the always-on tax compliance company, announced a series of Sovos products that have achieved SAP certification and listings on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Sovos has expanded its Indirect Tax Suite for SAP and enhanced support for multinational corporation's global indirect tax compliance across Brazil, Europe, Turkey, and the United States.
Think About It
For the past decade, the industry mantra has been "move to the cloud." Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost savings. Many organizations followed suit—often quickly—migrating databases and applications out of their data centers. But it was never a sustainable goal to move everything to the cloud, even if industry pundits predicted that outcome.