• Six teams are competing for the highest employee recognition at SAP: the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award. • Starting this year, the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award comes with a modified, more focused approach. • It now consists of two categories: “Scaling Innovation” and “Emerging Ideas.” Both reflect a different type of breakthrough thinking and the various ways in which innovation drives SAP’s success. • This year’s award theme is AI. • The first category, “Scaling Innovation,” honors project teams that excel in innovation, align with SAP’s strategic priorities, and demonstrate significant and sustainable impact on the company. • The winners will be announced during the award ceremony on March 26, 2026.

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  • SAP has announced the finalists for its 2026 Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award, now split into “Scaling Innovation” and “Emerging Ideas” categories, both themed around AI. The “Scaling Innovation” prize will recognize teams that deliver substantial, sustainable impact aligned with SAP’s strategic priorities, with winners revealed at the March 26 ceremony. Among the finalists is the SAP Joule for Developers ABAP AI project, which embeds AI‑powered tools-predictive code completion, unit‑test generation, real‑time explanations, and chat assistance-directly into ABAP development environments. The solution also accelerates legacy code migration to S/4HANA, already serving thousands of developers across 280 customers and 470 partners, and is slated for enterprise release in 2025.

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