SAP’s AI-driven flywheel strategy connects applications, data, and AI to power agile, end-to-end enterprise operations and future-ready innovation.

Through ServiceNow and strategic acquisitions, Cprime enables companies to modernize their operating models and embrace AI-native business practices.

At SAP Sapphire, SAP counters the “apps collapse” narrative by asserting that AI agents will enhance enterprise applications.

Oracle and IBM deepen their partnership to bring watsonx to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, accelerating enterprise adoption of agentic AI and hybrid cloud solutions.

ServiceNow’s AI Maturity Index provides a five-stage framework based on insights from 4,500 companies to help enterprises benchmark, govern, and accelerate their AI strategies.

Microsoft partners with AI software provider Gong to deliver the latter’s sales intelligence directly into customers’ software ecosystem for higher sales performance.

GenAI technologies are expanding from clinical settings to improve manufacturing and operational efficiency in healthcare.

Security executive Krista Arndt explains how Security Copilot, agents improve response time to security incidents, accelerate training of new security professionals.

Workday introduces a centralized approach to managing digital labor with its Agent System of Record, aligning human and AI workflows for enterprise clarity.

SAP’s Jan Gilg highlights the shift to modular cloud apps and unified data to drive automation, insights, and business growth.

SAP partners with Databricks to unify structured and unstructured data for AI development, while the upcoming Sapphire event spotlights generative AI, the Joule interface, and ecosystem extensibility.

With momentum on its side, SAP now faces the harder task: proving at Sapphire that it can turn innovation into lasting leadership.

AWS’s 2025 Generative AI Adoption Index reveals a major shift: 45% of IT leaders now prioritize GenAI tools over cybersecurity, reflecting a transformative pivot in tech strategy and C-suite leadership.

At SAP Sapphire, the company is expected to address five critical issues, including AI’s role in applications, data strategy, and hyperscaler trends, which will determine whether it can sustain its lead as the world’s fastest-growing enterprise software vendor.

Workday rejects the agentic AI hype, instead emphasizing practical business outcomes with its expanding AI portfolio aimed at delivering measurable impact across functions.

Workday takes a cautious, customer-driven approach to agentic AI by focusing on a small number of high-impact AI agents to ensure business value and trust.

From AI in org charts to redeploying humans to developing products and services for top-line growth, top executives are evolving their businesses to capitalize on a range of AI-driven opportunities.

Analysis finds a decline in maturity when it comes to using and measuring AI’s impact, but provides clear indication of the traits, and approaches, that establish companies as AI leaders.

Microsoft outlines its vision for building AI-first companies by integrating agentic AI, Copilot, and human collaboration across its business applications suite.

Google Chrome is transforming into an AI-enhanced enterprise platform with cutting-edge security and productivity features, explains Parisa Tabriz.

Snowflake expands its AI Data Cloud to help automotive companies manage data and drive digital innovation.

Under Arvind Krishna’s leadership, IBM has reinvented itself as a global tech powerhouse by doubling market cap, leading in AI and quantum computing, and committing $150 billion to U.S. innovation and manufacturing.

Data.world acquisition, partnerships with key enteprise software players, and wide range of new AI agents enhance the company’s objective to be the core enterprise software platform.

IBM, under CEO Arvind Krishna, has transformed from a struggling giant into a global tech powerhouse by streamlining operations, refocusing on hybrid cloud and AI, and committing $150 billion to U.S.-based R&D and advanced manufacturing, including mainframes and quantum computing.

ServiceNow CEO taps into similar perspective as Microsoft CEO on the impact that AI agents will have on enterprise apps.

Google Cloud’s Matt Renner outlines how AI, customer-centricity, and a thriving partner ecosystem are driving record growth and reshaping enterprise value delivery.

At ServiceNow Knowledge 25, CEO Bill McDermott commented on the era of agentic AI and how the applications business will be impacted.