By Taryn Plumb
Publication Date: 2026-09-16 02:03:00
This follows an ongoing trend by the company: In July 2023, SAP announced that all future innovations would be delivered cloud-first. But facing backlash, the company backtracked, saying in early 2026 that its AI, Joule, and other cloud-first tools would be available to on-prem customers.
There was a caveat, though: New products and features would only be made available to customers committing to transition to RISE with SAP, the company’s subscription-based ERP migration platform.
SAP also announced software billing changes at its Sapphire 2026 conference. Historically, the company has charged consumption-based pricing (that is, the more software is used, the higher the cost), but it plans to shift to imposing capacity-based (per-server) pricing on its partners, with caps for certain scenarios.
