Agentic AI on SAP
Expert articles from IOTEK’s practice and team of experts in this category. Click any card to read the full article.
-
The deterministic line: what a finance-close agent can — and cannot — safely do
Half of finance teams still take more than five business days to close — and everyone is now being sold a finance-close agent. The value and the safety…
-
SAP’s agentic AI, decoded: what Joule, Joule Agents and Joule Studio actually do in 2026 — and what they don’t
SAP went from announcing a copilot in September 2023 to launching an “Autonomous Enterprise” in May 2026. Here is a dated, sourced map of what is generally available,…
-
Giving every SAP AI agent a boss: org-charts, budgets, heartbeats, and kill-switches for agentic operations
Everyone’s asking which SAP process to automate next. In 2026 that’s the easy question. The hard one — the one almost nobody is budgeting for — is: who…
-
Read-only first: designing SAP agents your auditors approve before they ever post a document
Everyone is demoing agents that post journal entries, approve POs, and reconcile accounts in seconds. Almost none of them can tell an auditor, six months later, exactly why…
-
What an SAP AI agent actually costs to run: the token, license, and human-review math behind the demo
Behind every thirty-second agent demo sit three separate meters — model tokens, SAP AI Units, and the human who has to approve what the agent posts. The one…
-
Responsible AI governance on SAP BTP — compliance, audit trails, and the human-in-the-loop requirement
When an AI agent acts inside your ERP, the accountability does not move to the model — it stays with you. What GDPR, the EU AI Act and…
-
Agentic AI for SAP Finance — automating the period-close, exception-handling and reconciliation work that costs controllers weeks every month
SAP’s finance agents promise to give controllers their month back — but the portfolio spans GA, beta and roadmap, and the architecture underneath matters more than the demo.…
-
The SAP AI data problem — why your agents are only as good as your master data, and what to do about it
SAP says it in its own words: “AI is only as reliable as the data and processes it operates on.” Before your agent program, there is a master…
-
SAP Joule vs. custom BTP agents — when to extend the copilot and when to build your own
SAP now offers two legitimate paths to agentic AI: extend Joule’s standard capabilities, or commission a custom agent on the BTP pro-code stack. Choosing wrong is expensive in…