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The following Partner Insight was authored by Jackie Allen, Director, Global Partner Marketing, Microsoft. At this year’s SAP Sapphire, enterprise leaders gathered to share how they’re using cloud, data, and AI to solve some of their biggest business challenges. Among the customer stories highlighted was Medline’s large-scale migration of its SAP environment to Microsoft Azure, detailed in a panel discussion featuring leaders from Medline, Protera, and Intel.

This partner insight was authored by Kyle Bialek, Managing Director at KPMG. Many organizations are investing heavily in AI to drive better forecasting, smarter asset decisions, improved customer experience, and cleaner regulatory reporting. On the surface, the speed and results look great: clean dashboards, confident predictions, faster decisions. What most people don’t see is everything required underneath to make those results trustworthy.

The following Partner Insights was brought to you by Rev-Trac. SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise is ambitious, yet grounded in real, achievable capabilities. AI agents that automate decision-making, coordinate workflows, and act across business systems are on the verge of totally reshaping how organizations operate at scale.

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I’ve spent much of this year interviewing utility technology leaders, SAP executives, and the partners who serve the industry, so when I was exploring the utilities segment of ASUG’s Pulse of the SAP Customer research, I read it with those conversations in mind. The 2026 edition drew 663 respondents, including 51 from utilities, and their answers sounded familiar.

For more SAP utilities customer stories, register for the SAP for Utilities conference in San Antonio, Oct. 6 – 9. The City of Tacoma launched its SAP Business Suite ECC in 2003, providing a foundation for several of its public services, including Tacoma Public Utilities. Over 20 years later, it was due time to refresh its outdated technology landscape.

The following Partner Insight was authored by Steve Green, President, Havensight Consulting Group. Most utility storerooms, distribution centers, and field operations are still running on interfaces that were designed for keyboard-and-screen environments. Workers manually locate purchase order numbers on packing slips. They measure incoming materials with tape measures and enter the results field by field.

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