Five Minute Briefing - SAP
February 25, 2026
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
Joule with SAP Signavio solutions is now generally available, helping users, analyze, and manage business processes using natural language. According to SAP, Joule is an AI solution that turns siloed data and tasks into intelligent, connected workflows that help improve decisions, speed up end-to-end processes, and create a unified AI experience across SAP and non-SAP systems.
SAP opened its defense innovation hub in Munich, Germany, underscoring its long-term commitment to strengthening digital readiness as a core element of modern defense capability. The hub is launched as armed forces and security institutions face increasing pressure to manage complex missions across allies, domains, and supply chains while maintaining resilience, transparency, and control.
SAP announced that the SAP Emarsys solution is being renamed to SAP Engagement Cloud—reflecting SAP's strategy to make engagement a core enterprise capability across the SAP portfolio. SAP Engagement Cloud now brings SAP's trusted enterprise backbone to the customer experience, enabling organizations to connect customer insight and operational execution in real time. It builds on market-leading personalization capabilities, the company said.
Vasion, a leader in serverless printing and Intelligent Print Automation, announced that Vasion Output has achieved SAP certification as integrated with GROW with SAP and integrated with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Think About It
As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than by machines. Rather than thinking of applying AI wherever possible and over-automating, leaders should think about the most beneficial uses of the technology and begin implementation of the technology in those areas first before expanding further.