Software: How much money does SAP make with artificial intelligence, Mr. Klein?

Walldorf. SAP boss Christian Klein recently took two days to take part in a product development workshop. A team of specialists from all over the world worked in the Berlin office on systems that can carry out everyday business tasks autonomously.

“The functions are not all live yet,” says the manager in an interview with Handelsblatt, “but we are currently building them.”

Klein's presence shows that this is about the future of SAP. The software manufacturer has designed the vision of the “Autonomous Enterprise” - companies should be able to delegate more and more tasks to machines, whether in quarterly financial statements, in logistics or when introducing new employees.

In product development, around 80 percent of the resources flow into systems such as the digital assistant Joule and the technical basis for it.

However, this is not yet visible in the balance sheet, as the business figures from Wednesday show. In the third quarter, SAP increased sales by 13 percent to 10.3 billion euros.