SAP's Autonomous Enterprise – It Now Calls Itself An AI Company - Josh Bersin
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SAP's Autonomous Enterprise – It Now Calls Itself An AI Company - Josh Bersin
SAP just declared itself an AI company. And honestly? That should make you feel better, not worse.
Here's why.
You bought a tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly vanished. And somewhere in the ba
SAP just declared itself an AI company. And honestly? That should make you feel better, not worse.
Here's why.
You bought a tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly vanished. And somewhere in the back of your mind you wondered if the problem was you.
It wasn't. The problem is that even the biggest enterprise software companies in the world are still figuring out how to make AI actually work inside existing systems. SAP has thousands of engineers and billions in R&D — and they're still navigating this transition.
That's the insight most gurus skip.
AI isn't replacing your current software overnight. The smarter move — even at the enterprise level — is layering AI on top of what already works. Not ripping anything out. Not rebuilding from scratch. Finding one specific task in your existing workflow that's slow, repetitive, or error-prone, and solving just that.
One process. One problem. One measurable result.
Start there. Prove it works. Then expand.
That's how real AI adoption happens — even at the billion-dollar level.
What's the one business process you'd fix first if you knew it would actually work this time?
In other words, if you keep all the arcane, database driven, integrated applications from SAP in place and you decide you want to build a massively ...
