Nova Intelligence, the frontier AI platform for SAP teams, today announced a strategic investment from SAP, made through its independent investment arm, the SAP.iO Fund. The investment will accelerate Nova's mission to help enterprises work faster, spend less, and reduce risk across their SAP landscapes — and serves as a powerful endorsement of Nova's approach to one of the largest and most important opportunities in enterprise software today.
SAP runs the world's largest enterprises, powering the most important business processes — finance, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, sales, and more. These environments are deeply customized and expensive to change, which is why every dollar spent on SAP software drives multiple dollars in services. With a mandatory migration to S/4HANA by 2030 putting SAP teams under enormous pressure, the demand for a faster, smarter way to work has never been greater.
Nova helps everyone on the SAP team — from ABAP developers to functional analysts — work dramatically faster across the full SAP lifecycle: functional design, fit-to-standard analysis, modernization, coding, testing, documentation, production issue resolution, and more. The platform adapts to each organization's unique guidelines and workflows, and as teams use it, their institutional knowledge accumulates inside the platform rather than walking out the door with senior staff or external consultants.
S/4HANA transformation and Clean Core are top of mind for many customers today, and Nova accelerates that work end to end — but the platform is designed for everything an SAP team does, every day.
Nova's founding team unites world-class AI research with the deepest possible SAP expertise. CEO Emma Qian was previously a research engineer at Google DeepMind and Meta AI Research. CTO Sam Yang is a repeat founder, most recently of Bloom, which grew to over two million users. Chief Scientist Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier is co-inventor of SAP HANA and a key driver behind S/4HANA; prior to Nova, Alexander was CTO of Accenture's SAP Business Group, where he oversaw many of the largest and most complex SAP transformations in the world.
SAP.iO's investment reflects SAP's commitment to backing innovation that helps customers maximize the value of their SAP investments. Nova's approach aligns directly with SAP's vision for how modern enterprises should run.
"This investment is an important milestone for Nova," said Emma Qian, CEO of Nova Intelligence. "SAP's support gives us a strong foundation to deliver real speed, quality, and cost savings to SAP customers around the world."