The Best Data for Business AI: What SNP’s Kyano Innovations Mean for APAC SAP Landscapes

When SNP welcomed a record 2,000 industry experts to Transformation World 2026 in Heidelberg this July, it issued the announcements from Singapore for good reason. The company’s message, “Shaping Tomorrow” through the best data for business AI, lands squarely on the desks of APAC CIOs and enterprise architects navigating the region’s most compressed SAP transformation window yet. With SAP user groups from China joining the event for the first time, and Australian infrastructure services provider Ventia among the customers presenting, the APAC voice at this year’s conference was unmistakable.

The timing is critical. SAPinsider’s ERP Migration and Transformation 2026 benchmark research found that while 55% of organisations report having deployed SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, only 34% have fully completed their transition. A further 35% plan to make the switch before the end of 2026, more than double last year’s figure. Across the more than 100 customer presentations at the event, three project types dominated:

• SAP Cloud ERP moves
• Data archiving
• System decommissioning

Each maps directly to a distinct layer of SNP’s Kyano platform.

SAP Cloud ERP Moves

The centrepiece announcements at Transformation World both target the cloud migration itself. Kyano Lorna, a new agentic AI layer for the Kyano platform, is embedded directly within an active transformation project rather than sitting alongside it as a chatbot. It combines a knowledge base built from thousands of successful SNP engagements with the ability to reach into a customer’s SAP landscape, scan system data, flag risks early, generate transformation rules, and support closed-loop troubleshooting during test migrations.

For APAC ERP program managers, Lorna’s availability 24/7 in any language matters in a region spanning a dozen major business languages and time zones far removed from European consulting benches.

SNP’s new strategic partnership with Palantir reinforces the same project type at scale. Pairing SNP’s record of 15,000 SAP transformation projects with Palantir’s Ontology and AIP platforms, the partners are collaborating on large-scale moves to SAP Cloud ERP applications and on their first joint solution, Test Data Proposal. This solution automates one of the most stubbornly manual migration tasks of identifying the right test data for given customer test cases. These are exactly the modernisation programs SAPinsider research shows organisations racing to complete, as SAP’s AI announcements overtake even the 2027 maintenance deadline as the top external factor shaping ERP strategy.

Data Archiving

A cloud move is only as lean as the database behind it, which is where the second project type comes in. Kyano Outboard automates SAP ERP and BW archiving, classifying hot, warm, and cold data and executing mass archiving with built-in retention and legal hold management. SNP cites a 25% reduction in data storage and licensing TCO over five years for a 5TB system. Thus, right-sizing the database before migration directly shrinks scope, cost and risk for organisations heading into SAP Cloud ERP Private (Formerly RISE with SAP) or SAP Cloud ERP subscriptions priced on system size.

The new Kyano Oros solution extends this discipline to unstructured data, which accounts for roughly 80% of enterprise data volumes and has largely sat beyond the reach of traditional transformation tools. For APAC organisations whose AI ambitions depend on complete, trustworthy data foundations, structured-data housekeeping alone no longer suffices.

System Decommissioning

The third project type addresses what happens to the systems left behind. Kyano Datafridge lets organisations retire legacy SAP and non-SAP systems while offloading historical data to low-cost storage, where it remains available through extensive SAP-like transaction access, backed by a KPMG-certified compliance framework and now available in a cloud-native version. TotalEnergies, which presented at Transformation World, used it to decommission 17 SAP ECC systems that were consuming resources purely to keep audit data available.

All three project types run on the same foundation: Kyano Manage, the platform layer that automates testing, data verification, archiving, decommissioning and application retirement with full traceability. That shared audit trail allows Lorna’s AI acceleration to coexist with the evidentiary standards regulators in Australia, Singapore, and Japan expect.

What This Means for Mastering SAP Insiders

Treat archiving and decommissioning as phase zero of the cloud move. With 35% of organisations planning to switch to SAP S/4HANA before the end of 2026, integrator capacity will tighten sharply. APAC teams that shrink their data footprint first, using tools such as Kyano Outboard and Datafridge, buy themselves shorter cutovers and smaller cloud subscriptions when partner availability is scarcest.

Make auditability a formal selection criterion for agentic AI. Regulators across APAC will not relax evidentiary standards because a project used AI. Enterprise architects evaluating solutions like Kyano Lorna should demand embedded, project-level AI with a complete audit trail, rather than bolt-on assistants that sit outside the system of record.

Put unstructured data on the ERP critical path now. With SAP’s AI announcements now the leading external factor in ERP strategy, CIOs who scope only structured data into their transformation will arrive in the cloud with 80% of their information still unusable by AI. Capabilities like Kyano Oros belong in the migration blueprint, not a post-go-live wish list.