The SAP Agent Stack
Where the document layer sits — and where it bottlenecks
User
Joule
The gateway / conversational interface
50+ Joule Assistants
Domain helpers: finance, procurement, supply chain, HR, CX
200+ Specialized Agents
The Autonomous Suite — execute specific tasks
SAP Business AI Platform
BTP + Business Data Cloud + Business AI, unified
Knowledge Graph + BDC + Reltio
452K tables, 7.3M fields, MDM — SAP's structured data layer
⚠ THE BOTTLENECK
Document Layer
Invoices · POs · Contracts · Vendor records · Receipts
feeds
THE LAYER SAP DIDN'T ACQUIRE
Nanonets — Document AI
Structured, audit-ready, enterprise-grade extraction at the accuracy bar Klein set
interface layer
UI helpers
execution layer
platform layer
data layer
THE READ
SAP bought Reltio, Dremio, and committed €1B+ to Prior Labs to fix its data layer.
It did not acquire a document AI layer. That layer is still where 200+ agents will
stall — and where specialized tools continue to win in 2026.