New SAP survey reveals 70% of Saudi enterprises view AI as essential to future technique, with majority anticipating important returns on AI investments inside two years
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – October 27, 2025 – SAP will host its annual SAP NOW AI Tour at The Area Riyadh on November 3, bringing collectively enterprise leaders, know-how specialists, and public sector stakeholders to discover how synthetic intelligence (AI) can speed up Saudi Arabia’s financial transformation. Because the Kingdom advances its Imaginative and prescient 2030 agenda and Nationwide Technique for Knowledge & AI, the occasion will give attention to sensible pathways for organizations to harness AI to drive competitiveness, progress, and scalability.
A brand new YouGov survey of senior IT decision-makers commissioned by SAP reveals sturdy confidence within the Kingdom’s AI outlook. Seventy % of Saudi enterprises stated AI is essential to shaping their future technique, whereas practically all (97%) expressed confidence in utilizing AI-driven insights for essential enterprise choices. Greater than half (51%) count on important returns from AI investments inside the subsequent one to 2 years, and 81% are already deploying industry-specific AI options.
“AI is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of business strategy in Saudi Arabia, with organizations showing remarkable confidence in its potential,” stated Mohammed Alromaizan, Vice President of SAP Saudi Arabia. “SAP NOW Riyadh will highlight how enterprises can translate this momentum into measurable outcomes, from greater customer satisfaction and revenue growth to more resilient supply chains and enhanced decision-making, in full alignment with the Kingdom’s long-term ambitions.”
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The occasion follows quick on the heels of SAP’s announcement that Saudi Arabia will change into the primary nation to host the complete SAP Enterprise Community for the general public sector, making certain knowledge stays in-country whereas connecting authorities consumers with international suppliers. The platform, which facilitates greater than USD 6.1 trillion in commerce annually, is hosted on Google Cloud and shall be prolonged to the non-public sector in early 2026.
Round 1,000 enterprise executives are anticipated to attend the SAP NOW AI Tour, which has Google because the Platinum sponsor. The agenda will span a number of sectors, with highlights together with how AI can help sustainability, manufacturing, human assets, and procurement. Clients will showcase their success tales, whereas SAP specialists together with Augusta Spinelli, Regional President for Europe, Center East and Africa; Ahmed AlFaifi, Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Center East and Africa (North); and Jesper Schleimann, Head of Enterprise AI, EMEA at SAP, will present broad Saudi and regional views on the evolution of enterprise AI, together with the emergence of agentic AI — a functionality that allows autonomous decision-making and job execution to spice up enterprise agility.
SAP may also show its collaboration with Databricks by the SAP Enterprise Knowledge Cloud, displaying how Saudi organizations can unlock the worth of structured and unstructured knowledge to refine predictive analytics and make higher enterprise choices. Regardless of speedy progress in enterprise knowledge volumes, {industry} specialists say as much as 90% of enterprise knowledge globally stays unstructured and underutilized, underscoring the necessity for sturdy AI-driven methods.
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Gold sponsors of SAP NOW embrace Ejada Programs Firm, AWS, PwC, Arabian Web and Communications Providers Firm (Options by stc) and Deloitte.
The SAP NOW AI Tour Riyadh is a full-day occasion going down at The Area, Riyadh on November 3, 2025. For extra data or to register, go to the SAP MENA web site.
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