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SAP: SAP and French AI companies join forces to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty

November 18, 2025. SAP SE today announced a closer collaboration with French AI companies, including both new and deepened partnerships with Bleu, Capgemini and Mistral AI.

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Bleu and Delos Cloud: French-German collaboration for strong European digital sovereignty

In the face of a volatile and dynamic geopolitical environment, Bleu and Delos Cloud have forged a strong French-German alliance to protect Europe’s digital infrastructure in a sustainable way. As part of this partnership, an agreement was signed to ensure mutual support and technical and operational cooperation in large-scale crisis and emergency situations, which is particularly effective in large-scale crisis and emergency situations. The aim is to ensure a rapid and coordinated crisis response even in extreme cases such as military conflicts or cyber attacks.

The cooperation enables cross-border and early detection, analysis, defense and resolution of cyber incidents. By working closely together, Bleu and Delos Cloud are strengthening Europe’s resilience and digital sovereignty. Together, they are setting new standards for trustworthy data management and operational reliability – both for crisis prevention and long-term stability.

In cooperation with SAP, state authorities and governments, Bleu and Delos Cloud are ready to make a decisive contribution to Europe’s digital sovereignty. Their common goal is to keep critical infrastructure secure, resilient and under European control. More information can be found here.

Capgemini: Driving Europe’s AI-driven digital and technological sovereignty

SAP and Capgemini are intensifying their strategic partnership to strengthen cybersecurity and accelerate the adoption of sovereign, AI-powered solutions for the digital transformation of businesses across Europe. As part of the Franco-German industrial alliance, both companies sign a cooperation agreement and launch a sovereign technology partnership, giving European organizations access to comprehensive enterprise data management, migration services, modern cloud infrastructure, automation platforms and advanced AI capabilities for various industries – including the public and regulated sectors. With this joint approach, SAP and Capgemini are setting new standards for a trusted, compliant and resilient digital infrastructure, helping European organizations to innovate securely and independently.

Mistral AI: Alliance for European Sovereign AI

SAP and Mistral AI today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty in the field of artificial intelligence. Together, they will provide organizations with the first fully sovereign AI stack for Europe:

Merging Mistral AI and SAP products : SAP will deliver Mistral AI’s frontier AI, including Le Chat, through the sovereign AI Foundation on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). This joint offering combines the strengths of enterprise software and artificial intelligence, enabling sovereign cloud solutions for Europe on purpose-built AI data centers. Mistral AI Studio will be integrated with the AI Foundation and SAP solutions, enabling customers and partners to develop and deploy sovereign cloud applications and AI agents securely, compliantly and at scale in their own environments.
Joint development of sovereign customer solutions: SAP and Mistral AI will design and develop industry-specific AI applications based on SAP’s technology leadership and Mistral AI’s AI expertise to address complex engineering and R&D challenges and create additional business value.

This collaboration represents a critical step in enabling sovereign AI to European standards. The AI Foundation within the SAP Business Technology Platform serves as an integration layer that makes SAP Business AI available on almost any infrastructure. Together with partners and supported by governments, Mistral AI and SAP are creating the foundation for scalable and compliant AI solutions in Europe – covering sovereign AI from hardware to platform and applications to user interface.

A standalone pillar for digital sovereignty will specifically support public services and regulated sectors in Europe, initially in Germany and prospectively in other industries. By integrating Mistral’s AI capabilities into SAP’s European cloud infrastructure, the partnership will enable secure and scalable AI deployments that are optimally tailored to local requirements.

A unified vision for Europe’s digital sovereignty

These partnerships form a key pillar of SAP’s comprehensive Sovereign Cloud solutions, which aim to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty and realize the full potential of artificial intelligence. SAP is stepping up its investment in European sovereignty, deploying the SAP Cloud Infrastructure Service in local data centers and committing over €20 billion to sovereign cloud and AI solutions. By combining reliable governance and strict compliance with the ability to retain complete control over data and assets, SAP is creating a robust digital foundation. This foundation is based on leading technologies from a European perspective and supports governments, public institutions and companies under European control.

Information about SAP

As a 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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