{"id":1009834,"date":"2026-05-25T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009834"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:16:39","slug":"ceo-of-europes-largest-software-company-sap-to-everyone-saying-ai-killed-software-ai-agents-dont-work-without-brain-and-this-brain-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/ceo-of-europes-largest-software-company-sap-to-everyone-saying-ai-killed-software-ai-agents-dont-work-without-brain-and-this-brain-is\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Europe&#8217;s largest software company SAP to everyone saying &#8216;AI killed software&#8217;: AI Agents don&#8217;t work without brain, and this brain is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Silicon Valley spent the past three months writing software&#8217;s obituary, Christian Klein walked onto a stage in Orlando and pushed back. The SAP CEO used his Sapphire 2026 keynote to take direct aim at the &#8220;SaaSpocalypse&#8221; narrative that has wiped hundreds of billions off enterprise software stocks since February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 100% confident that our SaaS PaaS business will not go away,&#8221; Klein said. &#8220;AI agents don&#8217;t work without a brain. The brain is SAP.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis comments land in the middle of an unusually loud chorus of software skepticism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Silicon Valley spent the past three months writing software&#8217;s obituary, Christian Klein walked onto a stage in Orlando and pushed back. The SAP CEO used his Sapphire 2026 keynote to take direct aim at the &#8220;SaaSpocalypse&#8221; narrative that has wiped hundreds of billions off enterprise software stocks since February. &#8220;I&#8217;m 100% confident that our SaaS PaaS business will not go away,&#8221; Klein said. &#8220;AI agents don&#8217;t work without a brain. The brain is SAP.&#8221; His comments land in the middle of an unusually loud chorus of software skepticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009835,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009834\/revisions\/1009835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}