AI in the Office of the CFO: The 2026 Mid-Year Report
The remarkable thing about this spring wasn’t any single announcement. It was that five competitors independently arrived at the same thesis.
SAP Sapphire (Orlando, May 11–13) unveiled what SAP calls the Autonomous Enterprise — 50-plus Joule assistants orchestrating 200-plus specialized agents on a single governed data foundation, the Business Data Cloud and Knowledge Graph. The finance headline was the Autonomous Close Assistant, built to compress the financial close from weeks to days. The premise underneath it: agents are only as trustworthy as the governed data they stand on.
