"If you're still looking for best-in-class or best-of-breed when it comes to your enterprise management systems, it might be time to raise your expectations. According to Stephan de Barse, president of the global Business Suite for SAP, a new gold standard has emerged - a superlative he calls "best of suite." In de Barse's view, the competitive arena for enterprise management now exists within an integrated framework of AI, data, and core applications."
""Many companies treat AI like a separate layer somewhere in the technology stack," said de Barse. "That way, it's disconnected from your end-to-end business processes and disconnected from your data strategy. The moment AI doesn't make it back to the end-to-end business-process context it's very, very difficult to drive value.""
"According to McKinsey's on-going tracking of enterprise AI from the C-Suite perspective - captured in regular releases of its State of AI reports - the percentage of organizations that report using AI in three or more divisions more than doubled between 2021 and 2025. Use of AI in four or more company divisions tripled across that time period."
A new 'best of suite' standard combines integrated AI, data, and core applications as the competitive arena for enterprise management. The SAP Business Suite provides proximity for AI to traverse divisions and functions, enabling AI-centered workflows to operate across end-to-end processes. Treating AI as a separate technology layer disconnects it from business processes and data strategy, reducing the potential to deliver value. Enterprise AI adoption has accelerated: McKinsey tracking shows organizations using AI in three or more divisions more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, while usage across four or more divisions tripled, pointing toward broader, enterprise-wide AI deployment.
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