If you configured SAP Cloud Identity Services when it was launched 10 years ago and never touched your signing certificates since, they are about to expire – if they have not already. An expired signing certificate means invalid access tokens and broken authentication across every application in your tenant. This is not just a maintenance task. It is an opportunity to shorten your certificate lifetimes, automate rotation, and position your organization for the post-quantum cryptography transition that is already underway.

The updated and expanded guide from the DSAG Working Group on Audit and Risk Management provides practical best-practice recommendations for auditing SAP S/4HANA environments, covering both On-Premises (Release 2025) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (Release 2508). Designed for experienced auditors, system administrators, and consultants, the guide helps organizations assess existing SAP landscapes while also providing valuable guidance for planning and implementing new environments.

We have published a new landscape recommendation for Joule Work in the SAP Architecture Center, giving SAP customers greater flexibility in designing their SAP Business AI landscapes. The key update is that customers can now choose between a traditional SaaS architecture, with one Joule instance per stage, and an alternative landscape layout designed for large enterprise deployments.

SAP Cloud Identity Services play a critical role in enabling the Autonomous Enterprise with secure and scalable identity and access management for business users and going forward also for agent identities. Learn how these agents can be used to act on behalf of a user or standalone. It will also be explained how SAP-managed IAM scenarios simplify the administration tasks required for this.