SAP and Cohere offer sovereign AI for regulated industries
SAP has made Cohere’s North agentic AI platform generally available on SAP Business AI Platform. The solution is aimed at organizations that need to deploy artificial intelligence while meeting strict sovereignty, data residency and compliance requirements.
- SAP has made the Cohere North platform generally available on SAP Business AI Platform.
- North supports the creation of AI agents and workflow automations.
- The solution can access data stored in SAP S/4HANA and other SAP systems.
- The service targets sovereignty, data residency and compliance requirements.
- SAP Sovereign Cloud offers data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty.
Data flows are critical for regulated organizations
According to SAP’s November 3 announcement, the data needed to generate an AI system’s response may pass through multiple applications, providers and regions. This is particularly important for organizations that handle sensitive or regulated data.
Sovereign capabilities are designed to keep data within authorized geographic boundaries, limit access to it, and meet data residency and regulatory requirements. SAP and Cohere’s collaboration targets this challenge for regulated industries and the public sector.
North manages AI agents and workflows
Cohere North is an enterprise AI agent platform that enables organizations to create AI agents and workflow automations. These can be used in areas including finance, sales, human resources, IT and customer service.
Examples cited by the source include forecasting, customer relationship management, meeting preparation, IT service automation and customer service improvements. The platform provides access to organizational knowledge and data, including information stored in SAP S/4HANA or other SAP solutions.
North offers built-in governance, security and observability features. According to SAP, models, AI agents and workflows can be deeply customized while organizations retain control over their deployments.
SAP connects North to its own environment as a managed service
The combination of SAP Business AI Platform and North can reduce operational burdens, according to SAP. SAP can also provide end-to-end hosting, operation and support for the solution.
The company’s APIs, solutions and knowledge sources can help North users build AI agents based on their own business environments, policies and enterprise data. The managed handover model connects North’s capabilities to SAP environments, meaning customers need to manage less separate infrastructure, operations, support and business relationships.
SAP describes this as an enterprise-ready, managed and sovereign AI service. North’s general availability further expands SAP’s sovereign solutions, which can be tailored to customer needs.
SAP offers multiple levels of sovereignty
For customers with the strictest requirements, SAP Sovereign Cloud offers data, operational, technical and legal sovereignty. SAP’s sovereign AI solutions also include EU AI Cloud and Industrial AI Cloud.
According to the company, this approach can provide a foundation for AI adoption in regulated industries and the public sector, enabling sovereignty, compliance and business value to be addressed together from the outset. North is now generally available on SAP Business AI Platform for customers with these requirements.
