{"id":22613,"date":"2025-11-06T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=22613"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:58:08","slug":"2026-and-the-ai-flywheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/2026-and-the-ai-flywheel.html","title":{"rendered":"2026 and the AI Flywheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-flywheel-2026.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-flywheel-2026.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-flywheel-2026.jpeg?resize=608%2C608&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-flywheel-2026.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-flywheel-2026.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2026 is the year when the business value of AI will really take off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer only about AI filling frustrating gaps between existing systems, it&#8217;s about AI that &#8220;just works&#8221;, seamlessly embedded in existing workflows, accelerating every aspect of the business.<br><br>It&#8217;s never been easier to spin up AI prototypes, but it&#8217;s never been harder to put them into production. GenAI is amazingly flexible, but it&#8217;s also amazingly flexible with its answers, and so needs more robust frameworks, grounding, and guardrails than most organizations realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first generation of AI in business was mostly hand-built, like the first automobiles. But now we&#8217;ve moved to modern assembly lines, designed to make it easier and faster to create new business AI use cases, with higher quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/from-hand-built-to-assembly-line-Large.jpeg?resize=1024%2C575&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/from-hand-built-to-assembly-line-Large.jpeg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/from-hand-built-to-assembly-line-Large.jpeg?resize=608%2C342&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/from-hand-built-to-assembly-line-Large.jpeg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/from-hand-built-to-assembly-line-Large.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes a while to spin up an enterprise-business flywheel, but now we&#8217;re seeing the acceleration of implemented AI business cases, all underpinned by a enterprise-ready AI foundation built on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/products\/technology-platform.html\">SAP Business Technology Platform<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It provides everything you need to build, run, and integrate AI agents and custom AI solutions at scale, including orchestration, knowledge graph, prompt optimization, fine-tuning, data anonymization, large choice of models, output filters and more. It&#8217;s robust because it&#8217;s the platform that SAP uses to provide the mission-critical AI directly in the Business Suite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the latest version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/topics\/innovation-guide\/h2\">SAP Innovation Guide<\/a>, now updated after this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/events\/teched.html\">SAP TechEd event<\/a> &#8212; I guarantee you&#8217;ll see things you didn&#8217;t realize were now possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 is the year when the business value of AI will really take off. 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