A sales order isn't one record. When AI creates the header but the line item fails, someone has to find and delete the orphan by hand. Atomic writes remove the entire failure class.
Every generic 'connect AI to your API' demo dies on its first real SAP Gateway service. Here are the four quirks that kill it — and what handling them properly actually involves.
The moment AI writes to a system of record, it enters audit scope. Most AI pilots have no answer to the change-accountability question. Here is what a defensible one looks like.
All-or-nothing access is why AI-to-ERP projects either stall in read-only purgatory or terrify compliance. The working model splits the problem: reads flow freely, writes wait for a named human.
Giving an AI a credential is the fastest way to let it act — and the fastest way to lose control of what it does. Here is the difference a governed layer makes.