Five Minute Briefing - SAP
October 28, 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
IBM is announcing the release of IBM Ready for SAP Solutions to help midsize and fast-growing organizations accelerate cloud ERP modernization, unify enterprise data, and establish an AI-ready digital core. Bringing together IBM's industry expertise, fit-to-standard delivery, and IBM Consulting Advantage, the company's AI-powered consulting delivery platform, IBM Ready for SAP Solutions is designed to help organizations accelerate transformation at scale, the companies said.
NetApp, the intelligent Data Infrastructure company, is expanding its long-standing partnership with SAP, announcing plans to explore deeper cloud-native integration of NetApp capabilities into SAP Cloud Infrastructure, SAP's Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.
Precisely, a leader in unified data management for AI-ready data, is introducing the Precisely Automate MCP Server and native OData support in Precisely Automate—enabling AI assistants and applications to interact with SAP automation workflows through a standards-based interface, while supporting SAP Clean Core requirements.
SAP announced it has entered an agreement with TechWolf to acquire the AI work intelligence platform company. TechWolf gives enterprises a continuously updated view of the work their people do and the skills they have, using its proprietary data model called context graph for work.
Think About It
High availability and operational resilience are the goals of every CIO. They know that hardware fails, networks go down, software has bugs, and people make mistakes. Strategies are put in place to mitigate against such incidents, but there are times when IT operations management is betrayed by the very systems that are supposed to help keep technology and services running.