Morning Brief — July 15, 2026

Good morning. Today’s SAP landscape rewards those who treat platform‑level changes as personal OKRs. The mid‑month patch cycle just landed, SAP’s AI SDK hit a milestone release that redefines how we embed intelligence, and a powerful industrial‑AI collaboration is reshaping what’s possible on the shop floor. Here’s what you need to know—and, more importantly, what you should do about it.

Platform Updates

The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) received its scheduled feature‑pack update overnight. Headline items focus on tighter integration between SAP AI Core and the SAP HANA Cloud data layer, alongside long‑awaited improvements to the ABAP environment on BTP.

• AI Core inference endpoints now support direct table‑function invocation from HANA Cloud calculation views—no additional replication. You can run an AI model against live transactional data without leaving the database layer.
• ABAP Environment 2408 (build 20260715‑0000) introduces RAP‑native support for SAP AI Core client provisioning, enabling ABAP developers to deploy and manage machine learning models directly from the ADT lifecycle.
• A new Fiori elements floorplan for guided analysis has been released, blending conversational AI with analytical list pages.

Action Items

1. AI Core + HANA: If you’re on BTP, request a trial of the new HANA inference endpoint in your dev tenant. Create a simple calculation view that calls an AI Core model (e.g., a demand forecast) and benchmark latency vs. a side‑car approach. Document results for your CoE.
2. ABAP developers: Update the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse to tomorrow’s daily build. Review the new CL_AI_CORE_CLIENT class in system transaction SE80. Write a minimal RAP business object that consumes a dummy model to explore the integration before your next sprint planning.
3. UX teams: By August 1, identify three analytical list‑report apps that would benefit from the new interaction pattern; prototype one with the guided analysis floorplan in the SAP Fiori tools for Visual Studio Code.

Full BTP release notes

Security & Patches

July 2026 Patch Day is live. SAP has issued 13 new Security Notes, including one HotNews (CVSS 9.1) and two High priority items.

• Critical: SAP Security Note #3487261 (HotNews) – A remote code execution vulnerability in the Internet Communication Manager (ICM) of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. Exploitation requires network adjacency, but proof‑of‑concept code is circulating in the community.
• High: #3488912 – Improper access control in SAP BTP OAuth 2.0 configuration can allow escalating privileges across subaccounts. All BTP‑managed applications are affected.
• High: #3484720 – Missing XML validation in SAP Fiori Launchpad on BTP could lead to sensitive information disclosure.

Immediate Actions

• By end of business today: Apply HotNews #3487261 to all ABAP‑based systems (ERP, S/4HANA, SolMan) if they face any internal segment with unknown devices. If an immediate patch isn’t possible, implement the temporary kernel parameter workaround documented in the note.
• BTP subaccount owners: Review your OAuth 2.0 client scopes across development, test, and production subaccounts. Revoke any non‑essential scopes and enforce certificate‑based authentication for admin APIs. The SAP BTP cockpit now includes a “Security Configuration Check” tile—run it this week.
• All Fiori Launchpad administrators: Enable the new XML sanitization parameter in the FLP configuration (profile parameter ~viewer/escape_xml_input = TRUE) as detailed in SAP Note #3484720. No restart required.

Security notes on Launchpad | Community security discussions## Community Alerts A thread titled “AI Core vs. Embedded AI: real‑world costs” has gone to the top of the SAP Technology Q&A board this week. The conversation reveals that several early adopters are reaching the free‑tier limit of AI Core within 48 hours when running inference on high‑frequency IoT data, leading to unexpected billing spikes in their dev accounts.

• Practitioners report that switching to batch inference via HANA stored procedures reduces AI Core calls by 70–90% for similar use cases.
• SAP Mentor Mira Vogel shared a small ABAP utility report (link in thread) to estimate monthly costs based on your planned transaction volumes.

Takeaways

• If you are planning to use AI Core for real‑time inference, model your request volume now using the cost estimation tool shared on the community. Compare the numbers with the new HANA‑integrated inference approach released today.
• Join the thread and share your own findings; SAP product managers are watching that space closely.

Development & Tools

Today marks a significant release for JavaScript developers in the SAP ecosystem: @sap/ai-sdk-js version 2.13.0 has been published. This is not a cosmetic bump—it adds first‑class support for prompt chaining and streaming directly from BTP destinations.

• You can now chain multiple AI prompts using a fluent API and receive token‑by‑token streaming via Server‑Sent Events.
• The release includes a fully typed OrchestrationClient for AI Core, abstracting away the HTTP layer completely.
• Breaking change: The completion method has been renamed to chat.completion.v1; your existing code must be updated.

References

• ai-sdk-js: v2.13.0
• FORCAM ENISCO Designs SAP POD 2.0 for the Shop Floor
• Epicor’s Conexiom Expansion Pushes AI Automation Deeper into Distributor Workflows