Agentic AI and S/4HANA migration: Key takeaways from Manifest 2026

At Manifest 2026, one message dominated: production-ready agentic AI is here, but only clean, connected data can unlock its full potential.

This was my first time attending Manifest, and I couldn’t have picked a better year to join the conversation. The energy in Las Vegas made one thing clear: the era of AI experimentation is over. We have officially entered the age of production-ready agentic AI.

But as I heard repeatedly across the sessions, the bottleneck isn’t the technology. It is the data. For the IT architect caught between an aggressive AI push and a looming S/4HANA migration, the siloed and “bad data” dilemma is the ultimate challenge.

Everyone is talking about AI insights, but are those insights actually clean? Apply advanced AI to inconsistent or siloed data and you produce unreliable results that destroy customer trust.

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