The SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2026 Release is now live in production. With new innovations and enhancements delivered across the suite, the next step is understanding what’s new and what’s relevant for your landscape.
We’ve put together a range of resources that can help you quickly get up to speed.
The sections below outline how to navigate those resources and make sense of the 1H 2026 release.
How to Navigate the 1H 2026 Release
As with every release, there’s a lot of content available. A good starting point is the combination of the release brochure and overview video, which together provide a quick look at key highlights.
From there, the What’s New Viewer becomes the main reference point. This is where you can explore updates in more detail, understand what’s automatically applied versus configurable, and identify anything that may require closer attention.
If you want to see new features in action, the short demos help make everything more tangible. For a broader and more in-depth view, the solution walkthrough videos take a deeper dive into key updates within a given solution area, bringing together multiple innovations and showing how they work in practice.
Finally, the product area blogs and on-demand webinars, such as the Product Q&A and Strategic Product Road Map Update, add additional context.
Solution Walkthrough Videos (now available!)
We just launched a new set of solution walkthrough videos that provide a deeper look at key updates by solution area.
These videos highlight multiple innovations within each solution area and show how they work in practice.
You can explore them here:
Bringing It All Together
To simplify navigation, all of these resources are available on the Product Release and Road Map page in the SAP Community.
Looking Ahead
Beyond the individual updates, the 1H 2026 release also reflects the broader direction shared at SAP Sapphire.
Many of the innovations in this release tie into SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise, where AI is embedded directly into business processes to not just support decisions, but increasingly help execute them.
If you haven’t already, it’s worth catching up on the recent SAP Sapphire sessions and announcements to see how this release fits into that broader strategy.
