Celonis vs SAP

Ahron Raises €2.2M for AI-Driven HR Automation

Munich-based HR tech startup Ahron has raised €2.2 million in a funding round led by Cusp Capital, with participation from angel investors including Sabine Kohleisen, former HR board member at Mercedes-Benz Group. Founded in late 2025 by Carl Hoffmann and Rado Pavlov, Ahron is developing an AI agent-based platform that automates HR processes across existing enterprise systems, addressing the fragmentation of HR software. The platform leverages Celonis's Process Intelligence to create digital twins of HR processes and includes a central control layer for defining policies and guardrails. Since the start of the year, Ahron has generated over €1 million in annual recurring revenue and secured customers in the US and Europe. The new funding will support product development, particularly the central control layer, and international expansion.

• Ahron raised €2.2 million in a funding round led by Cusp Capital.
• The funding round included participation from superangels and HR-sector business angels, including Sabine Kohleisen.
• Ahron was founded in late 2025 by Carl Hoffmann and Rado Pavlov.

Schwarz Digits Adds Celonis, Snowflake to STACKIT Cloud

Schwarz Digits is expanding its STACKIT cloud platform by integrating Celonis and Snowflake to create an open data and AI ecosystem for enterprises and public institutions. Celonis will run as a single-tenant solution on STACKIT, offering process intelligence and the Celonis Context Model on sovereign infrastructure. Snowflake will be integrated in phases, starting with customer data stored in the open Apache Iceberg format and integration with STACKIT's key management system. The long-term goal is to operate the AI Data Platform natively on STACKIT, ensuring data storage and processing remain on European infrastructure, addressing data protection, compliance, and sovereignty requirements. This move positions STACKIT as a counter-model to closed platform ecosystems, allowing customers to combine various AI and data services.

• Schwarz Digits integrates Celonis and Snowflake into its STACKIT cloud platform.
• Celonis will operate as a single-tenant solution on STACKIT.
• Snowflake integration initially stores customer data in Apache Iceberg format on STACKIT.

n8n Still Relevant Despite Claude Code Rise

In a podcast episode, n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser discusses why n8n remains essential despite the rise of agentic coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code. He argues that n8n, as an orchestration layer, provides reliability, auditability, and team collaboration features that Claude Code lacks. The company has evolved from personal automation to business-critical workflows, with 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers. SAP's investment at a $5.2B valuation and embedding n8n into Joule Studio highlight its enterprise relevance. Oberhauser recommends using Claude Code for rapid prototyping and n8n for production workflows requiring approvals, logging, and team hand-offs. He also shares insights into n8n's hiring approach, emphasizing technical depth and builder mentality.

• SAP invested in n8n at a $5.2B valuation in May 2025.
• n8n has 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers.
• Claude Code surpassed n8n in search interest by the holidays of 2025.

SAP and NVIDIA OpenShell: Working Toward Governance and Security for Auditable AI Agents in Enterprise Systems

The two companies are helping shape and strengthen the execution layer for enterprise agentic AI.

6-K Financial Filing Analysis for SAP (2026-07-28)

SAP SE filed Form 6-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 28, 2026, furnishing its Q2 2026 Quarterly Statement and H1 2026 Half-Year Report originally filed with Deutsche Börse AG on July 24, 2026. The submission serves as a regulatory cross-filing to fulfill reporting requirements under NYSE Sections 103.00 and 203.03. The underlying exhibits provide standard quarterly and half-year financial results alongside non-IFRS performance disclosures for the period ended June 30, 2026.

• Furnished Q2 2026 Quarterly Statement and H1 2026 Half-Year Report for the period ended June 30, 2026 (originally filed with Deutsche Börse on July 24, 2026).
• Filed pursuant to U.S. SEC foreign private issuer requirements and NYSE Sections 103.00 and 203.03 compliance.
• Formally signed and submitted on July 28, 2026, by Chief Accounting Officer Dr. Christopher Sessar and Head of External Reporting Dr. Julia Zicke.