OpenText and SAP: Building AI-Ready Enterprise Intelligence

Enterprises investing in AI face a recurring problem: structured business data lives in one system, while unstructured content sits scattered across legacy infrastructures never designed for AI workloads. Without connecting these worlds, AI initiatives risk producing disconnected outputs that fail to deliver measurable business value. OpenText and SAP are addressing this challenge with a new integration tier built on SAP Business Data Cloud.

What was announced

OpenText and SAP are extending their nearly 30-year partnership with a new integration layer that operates across data, analytics, and AI. The collaboration introduces a unified foundation that combines SAP Business Suite structured data with OpenText information management capabilities, with finance, procurement, and enterprise AI initiatives as the primary use cases.

A central innovation is a zero-copy approach that lets organizations securely access and analyze information across SAP and OpenText environments without replicating data. This new integration tier builds on existing application-layer integrations between SAP Business Suite and OpenText, creating a single context-aware foundation for AI-ready operations.

Why this matters

For CIOs, CISOs, IT directors and procurement leaders, AI outcomes depend on trusted, governed information. Disconnected content and data create silos that slow decision-making and weaken governance. By unifying SAP business data with OpenText content management, organizations gain a connected information layer that supports intelligent workflows at scale.

AI outcomes depend on trusted information. Without strong governance, context, and visibility across enterprise data and content, organizations risk creating disconnected AI experiences that fail to deliver meaningful business value

Technical details

• Zero-copy access: secure analysis of SAP and OpenText information without data replication.
• New integration tier: operates across data, analytics, and AI layers of SAP Business Data Cloud.
• OpenText Aviator: enables secure, connected content, data, automation, and AI across the enterprise.
• Governance and context: tighter control over data quality, security, and lineage.
• Finance and procurement focus: improved operational visibility and faster decision-making with trusted information.
• Ecosystem approach: partner-led innovation connecting systems, data, AI, and business outcomes.

Softprom and OpenText

Softprom is the official distributor of OpenText. Our team helps enterprises adopt OpenText information management and AI-ready solutions, integrate them with SAP environments, and design connected data foundations for finance, procurement, and broader enterprise AI initiatives.

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