Microsoft and SAP Advance Enterprise AI on Azure, Sapphire
🚀 At SAP Sapphire 2026, Microsoft and SAP announced expanded integrations to embed AI across SAP applications on Azure, emphasizing Microsoft IQ as a shared intelligence layer and agent-to-agent capabilities between Copilot and Joule. The updates include bi-directional, zero-copy delta sharing with SAP Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, sovereign cloud expansions, and an enlarged RISE with SAP acceleration program. These developments aim to move enterprises from experimentation to production-ready, governed AI at scale.