Morning Brief — July 24, 2026

SAP’s Q2 numbers are out, and the message is unmistakable: cloud momentum is dominating the roadmap, with AI integrations shifting from pilot to production. That acceleration means your landscape decisions this quarter will echo far into 2027. Today we translate the latest platform updates, the July patch notes, and real-world agentic AI moves into concrete tasks for your stack.

Platform Updates

The SAP BTP cockpit now surfaces dynamic entitlement monitoring for Cloud Foundry and Kyma runtimes. If you haven’t already, activate the BTP usage dashboard (feature toggle in subaccount Entitlements → Usage) to spot services creeping toward quota – several teams have reported unexpected throttling on SAP HANA Cloud when connection pools exceeded 80% of storage-bound tiers.

• SAP Business Application Studio has been updated to extension pack 2407.1. The standout: a new ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model wizard that scaffolds SAP Fiori elements from CDS views in half the steps. Open an existing dev space, select Update Extensions, and verify the version in the About dialog.
• SAP AI Core (resource plan standard) now supports GPU‑accelerated inference for custom models deployed on NVIDIA A10G hardware. If you’re training document extraction or classification models, request a quota increase via the BTP quota-on-demand tile and re-deploy with the gpu: a10g selector in the serving template. Early adopters see 4x faster inference on invoices.
• SAP Integration Suite advanced event mesh now in GA: brokers can handle 100k messages/second per topic. Action: migrate existing Kafka or MQTT pipelines to the new Event Mesh Advanced service (plan standard‑x) if your current throughput is buckling during month‑end.

Security & Patches

July’s SAP Security Patch Day (July 14) delivered 11 new Notes, two rated Hot News.

• Note #3432879 – CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in SAP NetWeaver AS Java (versions 7.50 and above). Exploitation requires only network access to the ICM HTTP port; there is no workaround. Action: apply the kernel patch immediately across all Java stacks, then validate with transaction SMICM → Plug‑in Service → check kernel version >= PL 800. Scope your landscape via solution manager for any standalone Java engines (e.g., Enterprise Portal, PI/PO).
• Note #3440012 – Missing authorization check in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.3, enabling unauthenticated document listing. Set the AuthFilter parameter in the CMC → Applications → Web Intelligence → Processing Server to enforce.
• If you maintain a central patch repository, refresh your SAP Host Agent to patch level 7.50 PL 42 (covers 3 medium-severity Notes) before the next S/4HANA update.

Community Alerts

A Diginomica piece details how Travis Perkins is putting agentic AI into production alongside SAP – not as a chatbot, but as a goal‑driven orchestration layer that chains together inventory checks, supplier reviews, and order creation across S/4HANA and third‑party systems. Read the full analysis- Takeaway: The discussion on SAP Community reveals many of you are still treating AI as a siloed copilot. The Travis Perkins approach

References

• SAP Announces Q2 and Half-Year 2026 Results
• How building firm Travis Perkins is laying the foundations for agentic AI
• How Querlo Gives SAP Customers More Control Over Conversational AI Models