Microsoft and SAP Ship Agent-to-Agent Integration via Microsoft IQ at SAP Sapphire 2026

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At SAP Sapphire 2026, Microsoft and SAP announced agent-to-agent integration between Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule via a shared intelligence layer called Microsoft IQ, effectively turning ERP into an autonomous action system. They also shipped SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric with bi-directional zero-copy delta sharing, coming H2 2026. Over 60% of new RISE with SAP deployments now land on Azure, with 'Azure Boost for SAP' pairing Cobalt 200 processors with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.