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2026 will prove to be a transformational year for many companies as AI assistants and agents drive high value in service delivery. I’m already excited about the Q2 Innovations blog! Get registered and ready for a preview at Sapphire 2026 of how SAP’s embedded AI innovations are delivering value for customers every day. But first things first, let me highlight some key innovations delivered in Q1 for SAP Enterprise Service Management (SAP ESM).
Ensuring seamless look and feel throughout a unified workspace
Delivering the right user experience has high impact on value and adoption for service specialists especially when the ESM workspace includes third party applications and processes. Using mashups is the preferred method to create an integrated environment ensuring service representatives don’t have to login to different systems or open sperate windows. Now the configuration for mashups has been extended to include theme parameters. With this setting the embedded mashup will adjust automatically to the system set theme providing a consistent look and feel for SAP and 3rd party embedded solutions.
Deliver connected experiences and activity across solutions
The event hub service in BTP allows solutions to publish inbound and outbound events ensuring others can access these activities for visibility and execution of line of business specific processes. SAP ESM now publishes outbound events to the SAP BTP Cloud Application Event Hub so other applications receive them ensuring a unified and transparent experience across systems. This simplifies the need for system-to-system integration and centralizes events. This transparency can be realized with SAP SuccessFactors ensuring case updates are provided on employee service interactions directly on the SuccessFactors home page.
Self-Service available anytime, anywhere
Employees can get instant answers and create cases from the SAP SuccessFactors Mobile app providing easy 24/7 access for HR support. This provides greater flexibility and ease of access for HR related inquiries and gives employees the ability to work from their channel of choice, even if they are on the go. HR Case management is available as well, allowing creation of new cases, viewing and updating existing cases from wherever they are. Additionally, employees receive notifications when action is needed, ensuring case resolution without response delays.
Accelerating case resolution with UX simplicity
An approval process can delay case resolutions. Working with our customers’ inputs, several improvements have been made that reduce time, ensure consistency and enable a more streamlined handling of cases where approvals are needed. Ensuring quick steps to final resolution, both Service reps and managers benefit from a more efficient process and consistency while approvals are in progress. The following capabilities have been enabled to accelerate the approval process:
Flexing AI to accelerate case resolution
Another key improvement in Q1 includes extending the business information extraction capability to include custom fields. This capability saves time, reduces errors and delivers ease to service teams – eliminating the need to scour through email for relevant information and then having to make several manual entries. SAP to SAP solutions is rather logical, but often there are custom fields or 3rd party solutions. Now with custom fields included there’s additional flexibility ensuring service reps have improved automation, prepossessing and context to quickly close cases.
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More Information & Thank you!
For additional Q1 innovations relevant for SAP Enterprise Service Management, reference Kirsi Tarvainen’s blog on SAP Service Cloud and register for the upcoming Q1 Release Webinar, and to keep up as we release capabilities each month reference the What’s New in our help portal. Please also reference these valuable links for more on SAP’s CX Customer Service Solutions:
SAP Service Cloud V2 Certification Course
SAP Sales & Service Cloud Innovation Spotlight Webinar
To learn more about our Q1/2026 innovations across SAP’s CX solutions check out the blog!
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Finally, an enormous thank you to this expanding community, for your active participation and collaboration; as we all benefit – SAP employees, partners and customers – from sharing our experiences and information on SAP ESM.
