By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Most AI projects around SAP still start with a copy. Custom code, exceptions and twenty-year process quirks stay invisible to the model. Teams move data into a second platform. They rebuild logic. They add another security layer. Cost and risk rise before any agent does useful work. That is the gap Neptune DXP25 now claims to close.
On 2 October 2026 Neptune Software released Neptune DXP25 from Oslo. At the centre sits the AI Context Hub. It gives any AI the context of a customer’s SAP system, including custom logic. Every action executes inside SAP under the permissions of the user, whether that user is a person or an agent. Data stays where it is already governed. Existing SAP authorisations apply. No second security model is required. Customers decide the exact scope. The platform works on both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA. Private cloud, public cloud or on-premise installations are supported. Teams can begin without waiting for a migration. The release builds on earlier capabilities already shipped by Neptune. Naia Build uses AI to speed application construction. Agentic Apps let AI perform real work inside business processes. Process Flows provide visual orchestration across people, systems and agents. Agent-to-Agent connections allow agents to work with other agents rather than in isolation. CEO Andreas Grydeland Sulejewski described current AI as a smart new hire without an access badge. The Hub, he said, issues that badge: governed, auditable and limited to the access required. Neptune positions the move as the next step toward what it calls the Autonomous Enterprise. The company, founded in Oslo in 2011, reports more than 600 customers and over four million licensed users. It works with more than 100 certified partners and is recognised by Gartner and G2.
The commercial test is whether the no-copy claim holds under real authorisations. If agents can read custom logic and still execute only inside existing SAP roles, the second-platform tax disappears. If customers still feel compelled to extract data for training or audit reasons, the Hub becomes another integration layer rather than a replacement. Early indicators will appear in how many production agents run solely under native SAP permissions and how few parallel security models are still maintained. Watch those two numbers. They decide whether the badge is real or just another login screen.
Author bio: James Vance, senior commentator for an international technology weekly covering enterprise software and AI deployment inside core systems of record.