Enterprise AI is moving beyond its early chapters. The first phase was experimentation. Organisations tested generative AI in isolated pilots: chat interfaces, search tools, content generation, coding assistants, and internal productivity use cases. The second phase was feature inflation. Every SaaS vendor attached copilots, assistants, summaries, or “AI-powered” labels to existing products. The third phase is beginning to emerge, unevenly, and in early form. It is not abou

When SAP announced its expanded partnership with Anthropic at Sapphire 2026, the immediate reaction across the industry was predictable. Most observers interpreted the announcement as another example of generative AI being integrated into enterprise software platforms. But reducing the partnership to an “AI-enabled ERP” story misses the much larger structural transition now unfolding across the enterprise technology landscape. What SAP revealed is not simply the evolution of