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An ERP System Designed for Failure - E3-Magazin
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23 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
SAP's AI-driven ERP strategy (Joule, Business AI Platform, Clean Core) creates uncontrollable autonomous agent risks in mission-critical systems; the vendor's closed-architecture approach and restrictive API policy force customers into expensive proprietary tools whilst blocking third-party AI integration and leaving security vulnerabilities unpatched.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you're building AI agents or security tooling for enterprise systems, SAP's customers are now trapped between two bad options: use Joule and risk autonomous agents deleting their database, or stay locked out of integration with better AI by new API restrictions. There's a market for safe autonomous orchestration and SAP-native security that SAP itself won't build.
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Enterprise Software · AI Agents · erp-security · agentic-ai-risk · sap-vendor-lock · autonomous-systems · enterprise-software