Summary
Connect SAP to Cursor with ready MCP connectors: S/4HANA on-premise via HANA SQL or OData, S/4HANA Cloud, Business One, ECC and Concur. Pick your system, no code.
TL;DR: Cursor reaches SAP through an MCP connector in AnythingMCP. Which connector depends on your SAP system: S/4HANA on-premise or Private Cloud reads the HANA database with SAP's own data dictionary (or the Gateway OData services), S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition uses SAP's released APIs, and Business One, ECC and Concur have their own routes. You install the connector, enter the credentials and add the MCP server to Cursor. The same server works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.
Which SAP do you run?
Read the HANA database with SQL, guided by SAP's own data dictionary. Read-only, 10 tools, verified on S/4HANA 2025.
Connect S/4HANA via HANA →The Gateway's OData V2/V4 services become MCP tools, with SAP's authorization checks on every call.
OData to MCP →SAP's released OData APIs through a BTP communication arrangement: business partners, orders, billing, journal entries.
Connect S/4HANA Cloud →The Service Layer (OData v4): business partners, items, quotations, orders, deliveries, invoices. It can also create sales orders.
Connect Business One →Expense reports, approvals, attendees and itineraries, with OAuth 2.0.
Connect Concur →Not sure which one fits your S/4HANA? It comes down to what you can reach:
What people ask Cursor about SAP
These are the questions the connectors are built for. Each one runs against your own system, with the rights of the user you configured.
| Question | Route |
|---|---|
| "What was our gross margin by month in 2025, per company code?" | HANA SQL |
| "Which customers have invoices more than 60 days overdue, and how much?" | HANA SQL, OData |
| "What is our DSO this quarter compared to last?" | HANA SQL |
| "Top 10 customers by net sales in the last 12 months." | HANA SQL, OData, S/4HANA Cloud |
| "Which purchase orders are still open and past their delivery date?" | OData, S/4HANA Cloud |
| "Show stock value by plant and material group." | HANA SQL |
The HANA guide shows three of them end to end: the tools Cursor calls, the SAP tables it reads and the SQL it runs.
How it works
- Roles and tool access
- Read-only by default
- Audit log
S/4HANA on-premise, Private Cloud and ECC sit inside your network or SAP's private cloud landing zone, so AnythingMCP runs there too: one Docker Compose file on a host that reaches SAP. Cursor runs on your computer and reaches the MCP endpoint inside your network; the SAP system is never published. SAP Business One, S/4HANA Cloud and Concur are reachable over the internet, so they also work from AnythingMCP Cloud.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d # then add the SAP host to SSRF_ALLOWED_HOSTS in .env
Then install the connector from Connectors → Marketplace, and add the MCP server to Cursor: in ~/.cursor/mcp.json, add an entry under mcpServers with the URL shown under MCP Servers and the header X-API-Key: <key>.
HANA SQL or OData?
Both routes reach S/4HANA on-premise and Private Cloud, and both can run side by side.
| HANA SQL | OData | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads | Any table or CDS view the database user may read | The Gateway services the SAP user may call |
| SAP authorizations | Not applied: the database grants are the boundary | Checked by SAP on every call |
| Good at | Totals over millions of rows, finance and cross-module analysis | Published APIs, business objects, SAP's own checks |
| Works with | S/4HANA on HANA | S/4HANA, ECC, BW |
| You need | A HANA database user and a licence that allows third-party SQL | A technical SAP user and active Gateway services |
Direct connection, Joule or a generic HANA server?
Three ways to put an AI model in front of SAP data.
| Direct connection (AnythingMCP) | SAP Joule with Claude | Generic HANA MCP servers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works on-premise and on Private Cloud today | Yes | Depends on your SAP product, edition and release | Yes, with database access |
| Delivered and licensed by | You (open source, AGPL-3.0) | SAP, on the SAP Business AI platform | The project you pick |
| Understands SAP tables | Yes: SAP's data dictionary and CDS views as tools | SAP-managed | No: raw table and column names |
| Read-only guardrails | Yes: single SELECT, 1,000 rows, timeout, denied tables | SAP-managed | Varies |
| Works in any MCP client | Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor | Inside SAP's applications | Usually |
Joule is SAP's own assistant, and SAP and Anthropic have announced Claude inside it. The direct route is for teams that want Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot on their SAP data now, on systems they run themselves.
FAQ
How do I connect SAP to Cursor? Install the AnythingMCP connector for your SAP system (S/4HANA via HANA SQL or OData, S/4HANA Cloud, Business One or Concur), enter the credentials and add the MCP server URL to Cursor. For S/4HANA on-premise and Private Cloud, run AnythingMCP inside the network that reaches SAP.
How do I connect SAP Business One to Cursor? Install the SAP Business One connector, enter the Service Layer URL, the company database, a user and its password, and add the MCP server to Cursor. It has 12 tools for business partners, items, quotations, orders, deliveries and invoices, and it can create sales orders. Step by step: Connect SAP Business One to Cursor.
How do I connect SAP HANA to ChatGPT? The same way as to Cursor: install the SAP S/4HANA (HANA SQL) connector in a self-hosted AnythingMCP and add its MCP server to ChatGPT as a connector (developer mode, paid plans). The tools and their read-only limits are identical in both. See SAP to ChatGPT.
Is there an SAP MCP server? Yes. AnythingMCP ships SAP S/4HANA (HANA SQL, 10 tools), S/4HANA (OData), S/4HANA Cloud (15 tools), Business One (12 tools) and Concur (10 tools) as ready MCP connectors, open source and self-hosted. The sap-mcp-server repository lists them; sap-hana-mcp-server is the HANA one on its own.
Does it work with SAP ECC?
Yes, through ECC's SAP Gateway OData services: create an OData connector and import the services you want from $metadata. The HANA SQL route needs S/4HANA, because it reads S/4HANA's tables and CDS views.
Can Cursor change data in SAP? Only where the connector allows it. SAP Business One can create sales orders and Concur can act on expense reports; the S/4HANA connectors only read. Give each MCP role the tools it needs and nothing more.
Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.
Next steps
- Connect SAP S/4HANA to Cursor via SAP HANA
- OData to MCP: SAP Gateway, S/4HANA and ECC
- SAP HANA MCP server: tools, security, self-hosting
- Connect SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Cursor
- Connect SAP Business One to Cursor
- Connect SAP Concur to Cursor
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
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