July 2026 Summary

A round-up of what the utility community has been working on through July 2026 — webinars and recordings, recent Utility Voice articles, a new space for enterprise architects, and the October conference in San Antonio. Each item links to its source. Integrated Tool Chain for Utilities — a webinar on accelerating transformation using SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX and SAP Cloud ALM together, with SAP’s agent-led toolchain. Watch the session here. EAM customer influence, votes needed — a call to join peers in SAP Customer Influence supporting EAM in S/4 for utilities, plus related complex work maintenance and WAM functions. Still open — add your vote here (you will need your SAP S-user login). A consolidated community portalutility.community now handles both topic discussions and document collaboration, with topic-based subscriptions so you only get what you care about. You can choose your topics here. Where we actually agree on Autonomous Enterprise — after four articles on governance, security, trustworthy data, and whether the customer your call-centre agents see is the right one, I laid SAP’s leadership material and a DSAG utilities survey side by side to find the common ground. Read it here. Autonomous Enterprise: Autonomous Enterprise Enterprise Architecture Training – 13 hours SAP Utility Voice:  Important Updates to the API Policy and the Audits you need to do now. SAP Utility Voice:  Strategic Agreements – What we all agree on. SAP Utility Voice: The customer an agent sees. SAP Utility Voice:  The Data an agent reads. ASUG Utility Voice: Who secures the Autonomous Enterprise ASUG Utility Voice:  A call to action for Utilities to influence SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise Digital consultants are here — a session with SAP and Resulting IT on what AI consultants can realistically do to cut cost and move faster, and how they work alongside your internal and external workforce. This ran on 4 August. Get it here on demand. SAP’s API governance change — SAP revised its API governance policy and published a 19-page FAQ. The short version: policy first, enforcement next, and MCP is how API access gets bundled through a central client/server interface. Worth understanding before it affects your integrations. Read it here. User groups driving change — a joint webinar with Kathleen Hänsch, DSAG’s utility working group lead and Head of IT Operations at Stadtwerke Magdeburg, on how community pressure actually moves SAP. TAC-Insight has invited us to speak on community at the 2027 Seville conference. Watch the recording here. DSAG/SAP utility Community Joint Session: Webinar Recording on You Tube Slides for Webinar A new Enterprise Architect team site — a utilities-only space for architects to share artifacts, discussions and webinars. Have a look here, request access, and I will let you in. SAP for Utilities, 6–9 October, San Antonio — six months of volunteer work went into vetting submissions and building the workshops and roadmap sessions. Registration is open, the Tuesday workshops fill up, and the agenda now has filters by track, session type, product and role. Two other things worth bookmarking: our webinar library, which now runs to two years of sessions, and the weekly DER digest if distributed energy is your patch. If you would like any of the recordings, or if something here is useful and you want to talk about it, email me at marc@utility.community. Marc Rosson Utility.Community 425-297-0133