SAP: EU AI Cloud unveiled – A unified vision for Europe’s sovereign AI and cloud future

The now complete full-stack offering for sovereign cloud solutions enables customers to choose the right level of sovereignty and deployment for their requirements – whether in SAP-owned data centers, on trusted European infrastructure or as a fully managed solution on customer premises. The EU AI Cloud supports data residency in the EU and full sovereignty, enabling each organization to meet its unique regulatory and operational requirements.

Cohere: Sovereign, agent-based and multimodal AI capabilities for European organizations

SAP and Cohere are joining forces to deliver leading agent-based AI capabilities with Cohere North. This extends existing state-of-the-art multimodal AI capabilities through EU AI Cloud and sovereign offerings. Cohere North will be integrated into SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), enabling customers for whom EU data residency is essential to incorporate robust, production-ready AI into their core business processes across industries. Together, SAP and Cohere will enable organizations to gain deeper insights, more accurate decision support and smarter automation of complex workflows – without compromising on sovereignty, compliance or performance.

A strong and growing ecosystem

The EU AI Cloud is supported by a strong and growing ecosystem of leading European and global partners. By directly integrating advanced AI models and applications from partners such as Cohere, Mistral AI, OpenAI into SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), the EU AI Cloud provides a way to develop, deploy and scale AI-powered applications. Customers can leverage these partner offerings as SaaS, PaaS or IaaS and use them flexibly via SAP’s own infrastructure or trusted European partners.

This collaborative approach ensures that European businesses and public sector organizations benefit from the latest AI innovations – securely, in full compliance with European standards and with the sovereignty and flexibility they need.

Deployment options for every security profile

The EU AI Cloud offers flexible deployment via SAP Sovereign Cloud, giving customers full control over infrastructure, platform and software, tailored to their regulatory and operational requirements. AI models run on SAP’s software abstraction layer (SAP Cloud Infrastructure + BTP) in European data centers, ensuring compliance and independence from US hyperscalers.

• SAP Sovereign Cloud on SAP Cloud Infrastructure (EU)
  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) from SAP, developed with open source technologies and operated in SAP’s European data center network. All data remains within the EU to ensure compliance with European data protection regulations.
• SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site
  An infrastructure offering operated by SAP within a customer-owned or customer-selected data center. It provides the highest level of data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty while maintaining SAP cloud innovation and architecture.
• Selected hyperscalers by market
  For customers choosing SAP Commercial SaaS on global cloud providers; sovereignty capabilities as needed.
• Delos Cloud
  A secure and sovereign cloud solution in Germany that supports public sector transformation and meets country-specific sovereignty requirements.

About SAP

As the global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP (NYSE:SAP) is at the intersection of business and technology. For more than 50 years, companies have relied on SAP to realize their full potential by unifying business-critical operations such as finance, procurement, human resources, supply chain and customer experience. 

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Further links

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