SAP CTO Philipp Herzig Explains SAP’s Enterprise AI Strategy at Sapphire

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans · May 15, 2026 · 15m

Bob Evans speaks with SAP CTO Philipp Herzig from SAP Sapphire in Orlando about SAP’s AI strategy, platform evolution, customer modernization challenges, governance, and enterprise-scale agent deployment. Herzig lays out SAP’s positioning around openness, business AI, autonomous agents, security, and migration support, while addressing confusion around API policy changes and fair-use limits.

SAP’s AI Inflection Point

The Big Themes:

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