We’re excited to announce that Cycle 1 of the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative for 2026 is now live!
This cycle features 56 new projects, offering SAP customers and partners the opportunity to gain early insights into upcoming product developments and collaborate directly with SAP teams to shape the next generation of SAP solutions.
🗓Registration is open until March 13, 2026.
In a rapidly evolving business environment, early involvement can make a meaningful difference. Through the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative, you can work directly with SAP product managers and developers, sharing your feedback on concepts, prototypes, and plans while they are still in the early stages.
To help you explore all available opportunities, we’ve prepared a complete overview of the projects.
View the full list here, or browse the links below to discover the topics most relevant to you.
SAP Ariba
SAP Business Technology Platform
- AI-powered Code Upgrade Automation
- BPTX Early Insights
- Customize SAPUI5 apps for business users – provide feedback on new and planned features
- SAP BTP Developer’s Guide
- SAP BTP: Improving the Admin’s and Solution Architect’s Experience
- SAP Integration Suite
- Validate MCP Hub
SAP Concur
- Intelligent Audit Evolution: Accelerating Audits with Automation and AI
- New User Onboarding Experience in SAP Concur
- Reimagining Travel & Expense with SAP Concur-embedded virtual cards experience
- SAP Concur – User Profile Management
- SAP Concur Expense: Streamlining Corporate Card Administration
- SAP Concur: Travel and Expense Intelligence (Reporting) – Data Platform
- SAP Concur: Travel and Expense Intelligence (Reporting) – Recommendations
- Trip Extras – Connecting suppliers to business travelers when it matters most.
- Verify: Shaping the Future of Auditing and Compliance
Data & Analytics
- Exploring BDC Web & Mobile Experiences to drive user relevancy and adoption
- Product Insights / Product 360
- SAP HANA Database Migration to SAP HANA Cloud (XSC,XSA,CAP)
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- A modern Output Management experience in ERP Suite
- Agentic AI – Analytical Business Insights
- Agentic AI Smart Billing Assistant
- AI Agent with Financial Correspondences
- AI Assisted SAP Workflow Management
- AI assisted use cases for Embedded Analytics
- AI-assisted task automation
- AI in Core Logistics (HUM, SN, BM, MM-IM, Kanban)
- Business Partner and Product Master in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- Concept for Harmonized Period Control
- Configuration experience of Situation Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- Customer returns user experience
- E-mails in business context with integrated business communications for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- Embedded AI and Joule for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- Enhanced Payment Order Management in Automatic Payment Run Process
- Farmer Collaboration and Engagement
- Generate Settlement Rules
- Identity and Access Management: Upgrade and Change Handling
- IFRS 9- Credit-Risk Based Impairment for Trade Receivables using Advanced Valuation
- Improving Sanction Party List screening with AI
- Improving the Usability of Task and Application Logs in Group Reporting
- Limit Management Modernization (Credit Risk Analyzer)
- Material Long Texts – Automated Content Generation for Product Master
- Parallel Unit of Measure
- Project staffing, consider dependencies & provide smart staffing across different roles of projects
- SAP S/4HANA Business Partner Master Data Analytics Dashboard
- Simplify and Improve the Intrastat Declaration Process with AI
- Task Center (One Inbox) experience evaluation in SAP Business Suite
- Understanding Payment Reconciliation Processes and Automation Barriers in Bank Statements
- Unlock more flexible Margin Analysis in SAP Cloud ERP
SAP Globalization
Others
- Agentic AI Operations with SAP Automation Pilot
- How Designers and Developers Use SAP Design System Resources
- Integrated Planning in Dairy
- Research into an Intelligent Spare Parts Request Processing Agent
- SAP Reference Architecture
Let’s shape the future together!
Innovation happens through collaboration. By participating in the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative projects, you help SAP create better, more relevant solutions for businesses like yours. This is your chance to influence what comes next.
Don’t miss out – sign up today at influence.sap.com and be a part of the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative Cycle 1 in 2026!
Warm regards,
Your SAP Customer Engagement Initiative Team
Follow-up after registration: When you register for a project, you will be invited to an introductory call with the SAP project lead. At this point further participation is optional. Typically, all activities are governed by the Feedback Agreement with SAP.
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