SAP is a Leader in first ever 2026 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTMfor Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.
The first ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms (DTO) is out now. SAP has been recognized as a Leader, with the furthest position for Completeness of Vision.
We believe this recognition reflects our vision and execution in delivering a continuous closed-loop DTO with dynamic observability and AI-driven actionability features that support agentic readiness, enterprise knowledge activation, transformation management and value orchestration.
SAP Business AI Platform brings together a unique combination of AI-native DTO capabilities that include SAP Signavio (process transformation), SAP LeanIX (enterprise architecture), WalkMe (digital adoption), SAP Business Technology Platform, Business AI and Business Data Cloud capabilities into a closed-loop stack.
Together, these capabilities support the design and analysis of how businesses operate and adapt, foresee the impact of change, track value realized, and increase orchestration potential across people, AI agents, processes, applications and data – an emerging enterprise imperative, as autonomy gains a foothold.
What’s a digital twin of an organization (DTO)?
Gartner define a digital twin of an organization as “dynamic software model that relies on operational and contextual data to understand how an organization operationalizes its business model, connects with its current state, responds to changes, deploys resources, simulates future states and delivers customer value.
A DTO platform is a technology platform that supports the creation, management and operationalization of a DTO.”
DTO Market
The Gartner Magic Quadrant provides a clear, research-based overview of the evaluated vendors in a given market. This year’s Magic Quadrant assessed 18 vendors across a range of criteria, including market understanding, offering strategy, innovation, product and service quality, customer experience, and more.
Digital twin of an organization platforms unify business operations model, business performance model operational intelligence model capabilities. Use cases are extensive and broad, with the report citing as key, the following: Digital twin for business operations, Digital twin for customer excellence, Digital twin for governance, risk and compliance, and Digital twin for strategy realization.
Why we believe we are a Leader
SAP’s solutions for DTO, delivered through the SAP Business AI Platform:
Support DTO end-to-end combining dynamic enterprise observability, AI-driven actionability and value analysis for continuous performance insights, discovery, future-state design, deployment and value realization
Uniquely serve all four transformation dimensions (people, processes, applications and data) in a continuous, closed-loop DTO
Enable full agentic life cycle management, allowing organizations to observe, govern, and optimize AI agents as organizational actors in reaching full enterprise potential
Support organizations in enterprise knowledge activation, making enterprise context actionable
“We are honored to be acknowledged as a Leader in this inaugural Magic Quadrant for DTO. Seeing DTO recognized as its own Magic Quadrant category is a big moment, not just for SAP, but for the whole industry,” says Alessandro Manzi, Head of Product Management at SAP Signavio. “For years, digital twins have helped companies understand their operations, but what’s changing now is the expectation that a twin shouldn’t just document and analyse the business, it should help run and improve it. As enterprises scale agentic AI and move toward more autonomous ways of operating, the ability to create, curate, govern and expose context based on data-driven and tribal knowledge is what really sets modern DTO as a must-have for any large organisation.”
“Our approach at SAP centers on a continuous, closed-loop DTO, a system where insight drives action, value analysis informs decisions, and enterprise knowledge fuels both people and AI agents working side by side. It’s a living, breathing view of the business that leaders can trust, and one that’s built to turn understanding into outcomes.
Being named a Leader and being positioned furthest for completeness of Vision motivates us to keep innovating our space and building what truly matters for our customers”.
Download here a complimentary copy of this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms report.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Twins of an Organization Platforms, Marc Kerremans, David Sugden, 27 July 2026.
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SAP is a Leader in first ever 2026 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.The first ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms (DTO) is out now. SAP has been recognized as a Leader, with the furthest position for Completeness of Vision.Download here a complimentary copy of the report.We believe this recognition reflects our vision and execution in delivering a continuous closed-loop DTO with dynamic observability and AI-driven actionability features that support agentic readiness, enterprise knowledge activation, transformation management and value orchestration.SAP Business AI Platform brings together a unique combination of AI-native DTO capabilities that include SAP Signavio (process transformation), SAP LeanIX (enterprise architecture), WalkMe (digital adoption), SAP Business Technology Platform, Business AI and Business Data Cloud capabilities into a closed-loop stack.Together, these capabilities support the design and analysis of how businesses operate and adapt, foresee the impact of change, track value realized, and increase orchestration potential across people, AI agents, processes, applications and data – an emerging enterprise imperative, as autonomy gains a foothold.What’s a digital twin of an organization (DTO)?Gartner define a digital twin of an organization as “dynamic software model that relies on operational and contextual data to understand how an organization operationalizes its business model, connects with its current state, responds to changes, deploys resources, simulates future states and delivers customer value. A DTO platform is a technology platform that supports the creation, management and operationalization of a DTO.”DTO MarketThe Gartner Magic Quadrant provides a clear, research-based overview of the evaluated vendors in a given market. This year’s Magic Quadrant assessed 18 vendors across a range of criteria, including market understanding, offering strategy, innovation, product and service quality, customer experience, and more.Digital twin of an organization platforms unify business operations model, business performance model operational intelligence model capabilities. Use cases are extensive and broad, with the report citing as key, the following: Digital twin for business operations, Digital twin for customer excellence, Digital twin for governance, risk and compliance, and Digital twin for strategy realization.Why we believe we are a LeaderSAP’s solutions for DTO, delivered through the SAP Business AI Platform:Support DTO end-to-end combining dynamic enterprise observability, AI-driven actionability and value analysis for continuous performance insights, discovery, future-state design, deployment and value realizationUniquely serve all four transformation dimensions (people, processes, applications and data) in a continuous, closed-loop DTOEnable full agentic life cycle management, allowing organizations to observe, govern, and optimize AI agents as organizational actors in reaching full enterprise potentialSupport organizations in enterprise knowledge activation, making enterprise context actionable”We are honored to be acknowledged as a Leader in this inaugural Magic Quadrant for DTO. Seeing DTO recognized as its own Magic Quadrant category is a big moment, not just for SAP, but for the whole industry,” says Alessandro Manzi, Head of Product Management at SAP Signavio. “For years, digital twins have helped companies understand their operations, but what’s changing now is the expectation that a twin shouldn’t just document and analyse the business, it should help run and improve it. As enterprises scale agentic AI and move toward more autonomous ways of operating, the ability to create, curate, govern and expose context based on data-driven and tribal knowledge is what really sets modern DTO as a must-have for any large organisation.””Our approach at SAP centers on a continuous, closed-loop DTO, a system where insight drives action, value analysis informs decisions, and enterprise knowledge fuels both people and AI agents working side by side. It’s a living, breathing view of the business that leaders can trust, and one that’s built to turn understanding into outcomes.Being named a Leader and being positioned furthest for completeness of Vision motivates us to keep innovating our space and building what truly matters for our customers”.Download here a complimentary copy of this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Twin of an Organization Platforms report.Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Twins of an Organization Platforms, Marc Kerremans, David Sugden, 27 July 2026.Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from SAP T&I. Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articles
