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As of 2026-08-28

The latest SAP Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, Joule and BW/4HANA news — curated and refreshed daily by Analytics Legends, the knowledge platform for SAP analytics consultants.

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• Software 3.0 - Agentic Engineering for SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 Development

  Agentic AI can now produce a working SAPUI5 application in hours rather than weeks. The engineering question is no longer whether an agent can write the code, but how a Fiori development team keeps that speed inside…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Data architect miniseries - Leveraging the open data ecosystem to drive success

  Data architecture decisions shape what comes next. For SAP Partners, choosing the right path to SAP Business Data Cloud can make a real difference in how customers unify data, innovate faster, and build more resilient…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Architecting Your Data Foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise

  A Preview into Module 1 of the Getting Started series with SAP Business Data Cloud

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Exploring Story Filter APIs in SAP Analytics Cloud

  Want to control Story Filters beyond the standard SAC UI? This blog provides a deep dive into Story Filter APIs, demonstrating how developers can leverage scripting to automate filtering, personalize stories, and…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Execute and Monitor SAP Datasphere Task Chains from UC4

  Learn how to integrate SAP Datasphere Task Chains with Automic Workload Automation (UC4) using REST APIs. This article walks through a production-proven approach for securely authenticating, executing, and monitoring…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Inside SAP Series- Mid-Year Highlights & What’s Coming Next

  Inside SAP Series- Mid-Year Highlights & What’s Coming Next The 2026 Inside SAP Series is designed to give an inside look into how SAP’s IT organisation drives innovation from within. The series features experts from…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• Role-Based Action Authorization in SAP RAP – Enabling Actions Only for Authorized Users

  Introduction In SAP RAP applications, it is common to have certain actions that should be available only to specific business users. For example, consider a Product Management application where all users can display…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-28

• OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent

  OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly…

  the-decoder.com · 2026-08-27

• SAP Developer News, August 27th, 2026

  In this week’s SAP Developer News: Joule Studio Challenge, Hot Module Replacement for the UI5 CLI, ABAP Cloud Developer Trial 2025, SAP BTP ABAP Environment - Release 2608

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Socure raises $156M at $5.2B valuation and acquires AI startup Fravity

  Identity verification company Socure Inc. today announced a $156 million strategic growth investment at a valuation of $5.2 billion. Part of that money went to agentic artificial intelligence startup Fravity AI,…

  siliconangle.com · 2026-08-27

• Nvidia eyes $12.9 bn Hugging Face deal to expand AI platform control

  Nvidia is moving to acquire AI platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a move that would extend its reach beyond chips into how AI models are distributed and used by enterprises. The Information…

  infoworld.com · 2026-08-27

• How John Boos & Co. escaped the ERP customization trap, and built a 'perpetual platform' instead - an SAP cloud ERP story

  Classic ERP systems seem flexible - until customizations impede change. Britt East, CIO of John Boos & Co., faced those problems head on. The business had ambitious goals, but could their ERP platform keep up? Here's…

  diginomica.com · 2026-08-27

• Accelerating Business AI Adoption in Cloud ERP Private with Expert-Guided Implementation (EGI)

  SAP Business AI is transforming the way organizations operate by embedding intelligent capabilities directly into business processes. At the center of this innovation is Joule , SAP’s AI copilot, which is designed to…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• 📣 SAP Engagement Cloud Q3 2026 Release 📣

  When marketers lack context, customers feel it. A promotion arrives after a purchase. A recommendation includes outdated inventory. AI & Analytics: Create, personalize, and measure with greater intelligence Marketers…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Group Reporting - Release 2608 is generally available

  With each quarterly release, Group Reporting continues to expand its capabilities to help you automate, streamline, and modernize your consolidation processes. Group Reporting release 2608 adds ownership-driven group…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Extracting SAC Parent-Child Hierarchies into Databricks Using OData

  Learn how to extract parent-child hierarchies from SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) using OData and transform them into an analytics-ready structure in Databricks . This article walks through the key hierarchy fields,…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Building Smarter Stories with AI: Creating a Scripted Story Using AI-Assisted Story Code Generation

  A New Way to Write Story Scripts AI-Assisted Story Code Generation is a new addition to the growing family of AI-assisted features in SAP Analytics Cloud, available as of release 2026.16 . It joins other recent…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• AI-Powered Forecasting with SAC, SAP RPT & Gen AI - Part 4: From Script to Service

  A pipeline that runs when you run it by hand isn't a service. Part 4 covers the gap in between: two FastAPI endpoints, an honest look at a broad exception handler that shouldn't ship as-is, and the real manifest,…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Testing SAP RAP OData Service Using SAP Gateway Client

  Introduction: The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) provides a modern framework for developing transactional applications and exposing business data through OData services . Once a RAP service is created…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting the MCP Server for SAP BTP Administration

  Introduction SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) has long required administrators to juggle the BTP Cockpit, the btp CLI, and various service-specific dashboards to manage their cloud landscape. Whether creating…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Practical AI in SAP Business One: from business questions to better decisions

  For many SMEs, the most valuable AI opportunities are also the most practical: finding answers faster, reducing repetitive work and making better decisions. The challenge is turning that potential into something…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• SAP CX Wins TrustRadius Top Rated 2026: Earning Trust, Powering the Future of Agentic AI

  Across sales, service, and commerce, customers consistently highlighted the depth of integration, reliability at enterprise scale, and the tangible business impact of AI-powered workflows.

  news.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Inside Arctic Wolf’s new agentic security platform

  AI-powered attacks are becoming faster and more automated, putting pressure on security teams that still investigate alerts sequentially. At RSAC 2026 , Arctic Wolf introduced the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform and…

  cio.com · 2026-08-27

• Why Organizational Memory Is Becoming Manufacturing’s Last Defensible Asset

  IFS Loops CTO Ravi Bulusu argues that when AI agents execute the work applications once mediated, only two assets remain defensible: organizational memory and process intelligence. With 60% of IFS agentic transactions…

  erp.today · 2026-08-27

• What Accenture’s McCoy Acquisition and Mid-Market Push Signals for SAP ERP Teams

  Accenture's mid-market SAP moves with ADVANCE and acquisitions signal critical insights for S/4HANA projects. The focus shifts from merely implementation capacity to addressing data readiness, process harmonization,…

  erp.today · 2026-08-27

• Jade Global Extends SAP Reach Across Advisory and Automated Managed Services

  Jade Global now offers end-to-end SAP support, combining advisory services for S/4HANA roadmap planning with intelligent automation for managed services. This integrated approach aims to streamline SAP implementations…

  sapinsider.org · 2026-08-27

• On-Demand Webinar: Connect SAP and Microsoft Fabric

  The article discusses a webinar on how to integrate SAP data into Microsoft Fabric using Open Mirroring and Xtract Universal for near-real-time synchronization, enabling enhanced analytics and collaboration while…

  sapinsider.org · 2026-08-27

• D.D. SYNERGY Builds Its SAP Practice Around S/4HANA, Analytics, and Managed Services

  D.D. SYNERGY, an SAP Gold Partner, expands its portfolio beyond ERP with analytics, cloud, and managed services. They leverage S/4HANA implementations to deliver comprehensive solutions, as demonstrated by their…

  sapinsider.org · 2026-08-27

• Mainframe redux (2/2) - how healthy is the mainframe talent pool?

  If the mainframe is to be re-born as an enterprise transaction engine and data store in a cloud and AI-enabled world, it really needs to build a hybrid skills base that has a foot in both worlds.

  diginomica.com · 2026-08-27

• SAP EMEA Business AI Agent Hackathon 2026 - Our Runners-up Medal Winning SAP Joule Agent

  Background and Context – Why we need an agent or Why we choose this use case for the AI Hackathon As we transition legacy Microsoft AX entities into SAP-managed S/4HANA Private cloud operations, invoice traceability…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Mastering SAP Cloud ALM Monitoring Dashboards

  With SAP Cloud ALM and Joule, the future of ALM is already here: AI agents that monitor your landscape, explain every anomaly, drive your project delivery, write your stakeholder reports, and flag risks before you ask.…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Building a judgment layer on top of SAP AP automation

  The Invoice Nobody Wanted to Touch Invoice #2208202601. Value is €18,400. The Value is €800 over the purchase order. Blocked, sitting in an AP clerk's queue. This is the case for ~1,200 others this month, and there is…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Data architect miniseries - Unpacking the knowledge core for data architects

  Data architecture is becoming a key foundation for AI, analytics, and intelligent applications. For SAP Partners, understanding how trusted data products fit into that foundation can make a real difference. Join our…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Securing 3rd-Party Custom Agents with SAP MCP Gateway – Applying the OWASP API Security Top 10

  AI agents are increasingly moving from answering questions to taking actions. An agent may retrieve business data, create an order, update a business object, trigger an integration flow, or execute another enterprise…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• What's new in localization in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608?

  Hello and welcome back to my blog post! Happy to have you here! I'm thrilled to walk you through the latest localization enhancements from our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 release. In todays interconnected…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Sept 9 2026: Join Our Live Session on CX AI Toolkit & Joule in SAP Sales Cloud Version 2

  How can AI help sales teams spend less time searching for information and more time selling? Join our live session on CX AI Toolkit and Joule in SAP Sales Cloud Version 2 to see how embedded AI can streamline…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Meet Your New ALM Dashboard Agent for Implementation Projects in SAP Cloud ALM

  ALM Dashboard Agent in Joule can turn a simple natural-language prompt into actionable analytics cards for SAP Cloud ALM data, in minutes. Simply tell Joule what you want to track in your project and it can create a…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Generative AI-Powered Document Processing in SAP Integration Suite

  What if SAP Integration Suite could understand a PDF document instead of simply processing it? Imagine a supplier invoice or customer sales order arriving in a shared mailbox. Instead of relying on rigid,…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• From Hype to Hands-On: Level Up Your AI Skills This August

  This blog answers the most-asked questions from our Beyond Hype AI live sessions, covering individual usage analytics and centralized activation of Joule Assistants and Agents in SAP for Me. Read on to explore the Web…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• AI-Powered Forecasting with SAC, SAP RPT & Gen AI - Part 3: From JSON to a Trustworthy Sentence

  Part 2 ended with a raw API response. This post is about what happens next: why five predicted percentages don't add up to 100, the honest fix for that (and the real numbers behind it), and how a second AI turns a JSON…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Capturing Background Job Errors in SAP Using the Application Log (SLG0/SLG1)

  When an ABAP program runs interactively, errors can be shown directly to the user on screen — a message, a popup, an abort. But when that same report runs as a background job, there's no one watching, and no screen to…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Clean up your system before you decide to Move To SAP S/4 HANA

  SAP DMLT | RISE with SAP Clean Up First, Size Second. Before you enter RISE sizing discussions with SAP there is one step that can measurably reduce your subscription cost and most organisations skip it. Your ECC…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• When One Size Doesn't Fit All: KPI Distribution for Lump Sum&Uplift in SAP Revenue Growth Management

  Key Account Managers invest significant time negotiating promotion terms with retailers, yet system-generated distributions, such as lump sum spend and uplift volume, sometimes don't reflect those agreements. When that…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• LGM Knowledge Snippet: On Processing variant determination

  In my earlier posts I explained what Processing Variants are and how to maintain them . This post zooms in on a single, practical question: when a Transportation Request is created, how does SAP Logistics Management…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Implementing Multi-Selection Price Aggregation in SAP RAP

  Introduction: In SAP RAP, there are scenarios where an action needs to process multiple selected records at once rather than handling each record individually. A common example is a travel application where each Travel…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• AI-Powered Memory Games Bring Personal Stories into Dementia Care

  Memory Lane Games collaborated with SAP and EY to develop an AI prototype that can generate memory games tailored to an individual’s life experiences.

  news.sap.com · 2026-08-27

• Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability.

  Security teams are discovering that the most capable AI models cost too much to run on routine, high-volume work, and The post Tokenmaxxing is out. How to minimize AI spend without sacrificing security capability.…

  thenewstack.io · 2026-08-25

• S/4HANA’s hidden migration challenge: SAP expert retirement

  While many companies are busy switching from ECC to S/4HANA , an even more critical migration is looming: A large amount of SAP knowledge and experience will soon be lost to retirement. Computerwoche spoke with Uwe…

  cio.com · 2026-08-25

• Partner Learning Accelerator: SAP Certified - Positioning SAP Business AI Platform

  Preparing for the SAP Certified, Positioning SAP Business AI Platform certification? Give your preparation a focused boost with our Partner Learning Accelerator. In this 90-minute live session, we’ll review the…

  community.sap.com · 2026-08-25

• Data Product Data Governance in SAP Business Data Cloud

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  community.sap.com · 2026-08-25