51·çÁ÷

51·çÁ÷Business Technology Platform (51·çÁ÷BTP) allows our customers to achieve business agility, specifically with the help of our new unified low-code/no-code offering. With our low-code and no-code capabilities, we enable everyone to deliver innovation faster and confidently across all lines of business and industries.

51·çÁ÷provides:

  • An integrated suite of end-to-end business applications to run your business across all industries and lines of business
  • A comprehensive business-centric platform, with a unified programming model and unified design system, bringing IT and business together to modernize processes and enable rapid innovation – now

The low-code/no-code offering services in 51·çÁ÷BTP empower IT and citizen developers alike to quickly build enterprise-ready apps, automations, workflows, and chatbots no matter their skill level or coding expertise. Our customers can build enterprise apps fast with SAP’s unified development experience and an ever-growing array of pre-built business content for any line of business, all natively integrated with your 51·çÁ÷applications.

Examples include to automate tasks in any line of business – be it finance, sourcing and procurement, manufacturing, sales, and services – and almost for the 51·çÁ÷Workflow Management service.

Another example is 51·çÁ÷SuccessFactors Work Zone, which offers a prepackaged experience specifically to address the needs of HR organizations based on 51·çÁ÷Work Zone, with additional functionality such as workflow and mobile services. It has been recognized recently as a Top HR Product by and the . Additionally, 51·çÁ÷Business Application Studio comes with pre-built components, wizards, and sample apps.

51·çÁ÷unifies the developer experience with low-code and no-code enhancements on 51·çÁ÷BTP to help:

  • Maximize speed and agility and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through accelerated delivery
  • Bridge the gap and increase adoption through co-development between business and IT
  • Enhance return on investment (ROI) by leveraging existing investments through seamless integrations
  • Accelerate time to value by implementing best practices with pre-built content packages

Our low-code/no-code offering covers three areas:

Diagram explaining the new low-code/no-code offeringFor process automation, we offer 51·çÁ÷Workflow Management and 51·çÁ÷Intelligent RPA, enabling citizen developers to easily build workflows and to automate tasks. On top of that, 51·çÁ÷Process Automation can bring no-code process automation to the next level. 51·çÁ÷Process Automation is currently available for co-innovation partners, with general availability planned for the first quarter of 2022.

For low-code/no-code application composition, we launched 51·çÁ÷AppGyver and new functionalities in 51·çÁ÷Business Application Studio to enable the entire developer continuum to accelerate application development. 51·çÁ÷AppGyver allows citizen developers to build highly sophisticated standalone applications or extensions without writing a single line of code. With 51·çÁ÷Business Application Studio, we also deliver a simplified application development journey to the professional developer with a low-code perspective.

In the area of digital experience, we are offering 51·çÁ÷Work Zone, 51·çÁ÷Launchpad, and 51·çÁ÷Mobile Start to help drive employee productivity and make newly built apps available to everyone in the company.

What Else Is New at 51·çÁ÷TechEd?

Let’s go into some specifics for each of the areas in our new unified low-code/no-code offering:

  • 51·çÁ÷Business Application Studio has seen a dramatic improvement in development productivity through the low-code/no-code experience now available.
  • We’ve also fully integrated the acquisition in the no-code space. 51·çÁ÷AppGyver is now part of CPEA, available to all our customers as well as planned through the free tier model in the first quarter of 2022.
  • We’ve made significant improvements in our SAPUI5 technology performance, which can be of immediate benefit to 51·çÁ÷S/4HANA and any other 51·çÁ÷product built on top of the technology within 51·çÁ÷BTP.
  • Launching 51·çÁ÷Process Automation brings an elevated user experience for citizen automation in a no-code development environment. To make citizen developers fully productive, the new solution provides end-to-end automation capabilities leveraging advanced workflow management and embedded RPA functionality in a simple drag-and-drop user interface.
  • Last but not least, we’ve delivered artificial intelligence (AI) into our workflow engine, so that the AI system monitors the context with which you approve or not on a given workflow, building up the relevant models of your approval process flow. Your workflow becomes more and more intelligent over time, out of the box.

I invite you to attend 51·çÁ÷TechEd sessions to learn more about our low-code/no-code offering and how 51·çÁ÷BTP is now accessible to anyone. You’ll find a selection of personally recommended sessions below. Let’s explore together how 51·çÁ÷BTP can help you rapidly integrate, automate, and extend business processes for security and performance at scale across your organization.

Recommended Sessions

Michael Weingartner is president of 51·çÁ÷Business Technology Platform Core at SAP.