The latest evolution in the partnership between SAP and Google Cloud is not about abstract innovation or tech buzzwords. It’s about building smart, composable, AI-powered enterprise systems that actually work—at scale, across industries, and with measurable business results. At SAP Sapphire 2025, the spotlight is squarely on how these two tech leaders are making AI actionable, data valuable, and ERP transformation faster, smarter, and safer.
SAP and Google Cloud are working across every layer of enterprise technology—data integration, AI agents, infrastructure, and security—to help customers reduce project risk, accelerate innovation, and tap into the power of their existing SAP systems. This isn’t AI for AI’s sake. This is AI for outcomes.
At the core of this partnership is a shared focus on generative AI and agent-based architectures. SAP’s Joule is now enhanced with Google Cloud’s Gemini models via the SAP Generative AI Hub on SAP BTP. These AI agents can now act across SAP applications with intelligence and autonomy—providing everything from invoice resolution and marketing content generation to natural language customer service.
Google Agentspace further empowers this vision, offering a unified interface for users to access enterprise agents and SAP data from wherever they work. Whether it’s a CRM, IT ticketing tool, or data analytics suite, employees can now invoke AI with full SAP context. Agent2Agent (A2A) protocols allow SAP and Vertex AI agents to talk to each other—cutting out brittle, manual integrations and replacing them with standards-based intelligence orchestration.
Companies like AMD are already seeing results. Using Vertex AI and the Cortex Framework, AMD built finance and customer operations chatbots that fetch real-time SAP data and respond in natural language—reducing service time and accelerating forecasting insights.
For decades, SAP data has been siloed, locked behind complex integrations and analytics workarounds. Now, BigQuery and SAP Business Data Cloud are changing that. With prebuilt connections and models from Google Cloud’s Cortex Framework, customers can activate their SAP data in real time for ML, analytics, and operational workflows.
Brazilian paper giant Suzano is a standout example. Using Cortex and gen AI, the company created a natural language interface that allows employees to query SAP data via simple questions—cutting data retrieval time by 90% and democratizing enterprise insights across teams.
But AI means nothing if it’s not supported by the right infrastructure and security. That’s why Google Cloud has rolled out new SAP-optimized VM families like M4 and C4D, offering 127% performance gains at 36% lower TCO. With single-instance 99.95% uptime SLAs, even the most demanding S/4HANA environments now run reliably and securely under RISE with SAP.
Security is equally robust. Google Unified Security and Assured Workloads provide multilayered defense for SAP workloads, supporting ITAR and public-sector compliance mandates. These tools offer real-time monitoring, access control, and threat mitigation built into the cloud fabric—enabling SAP customers to operate with resilience and confidence.
What this means for ERP Insiders
Activate your AI strategy with agents, not experiments. Enterprise leaders should prioritize AI initiatives that are embedded into business workflows—like Gemini-powered SAP Joule agents or Google Agentspace integrations. AMD’s chatbot success shows that AI, when paired with real-time SAP data, can enhance operations without requiring a total replatform. Start with finance, service, or procurement to see fast wins.
Make your SAP data actionable now. Instead of warehousing data for dashboards, consider using Cortex and BigQuery to make SAP data active, connected, and ready for ML. As Suzano proved, giving teams self-service access to SAP insights via natural language can transform decision-making and accelerate ROI across the board.
Future-proof your ERP infrastructure for scale and security. Don’t wait for legacy systems to fail before upgrading. Google Cloud’s new SAP-optimized infrastructure ensures better performance and lower costs, with built-in security and compliance. For RISE with SAP customers, this means peace of mind with always-on uptime, ITAR-ready workloads, and real-time observability.
