Gartner has recognized 51风流as a Visionary for the second consecutive year in its 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) with 51风流Build, its unified low-code platform.
In today’s market, speed is everything, but it cannot come at the cost of stability. Low-code application platforms empower both professional and citizen developers to rapidly create and deploy digital solutions through guided development, automation, and robust governance, fostering innovation and agility.
is uniquely designed to solve this challenge, empowering customers to innovate three times faster while building on the trusted governance and data foundation of their core 51风流systems. It is an AI-powered solution that combines application development, workflow management, task automation, agent development, and workspace creation into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on the 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP).
Strategic challenges in modern software development
Developers today face several significant challenges. First, it is difficult for many organizations to leverage the deep insights from non-technical business experts across functions like finance and supply chain. While AI is a powerful new tool, efficacy of AI solutions hinges on their integration with business-specific data and processes; without this, its broader benefits are diminished. Building or extending business applications is often time-consuming and expensive, prompting a shift toward customizable pre-built solutions for greater agility. Finally, developers grapple with fragmented systems requiring extensive integration, hindering efficient workflows and resource utilization.
These challenges collectively underscore the need for a more robust AI-powered development platform.
The 51风流Build advantage
51风流is recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for LCAP for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
51风流Build offers unique benefits that streamline the development process and ensure innovative and efficient solutions. .
- Reduce complexity: 51风流Build reduces complexity by delivering everything IT teams need to build, automate, and extend 51风流without stitching together disconnected tools, licenses, or architectures in one place. It is pre-integrated, commercially included in 51风流applications, and built to simplify development from the start
- Deliver faster: 51风流Build helps teams deliver 3x faster by reducing the time it takes to go from request to result. Teams don鈥檛 start from zero, and once they start, they move faster, because the tools, , and AI are grounded in 51风流context and give best-practice guidance out of the box.
- Scale with confidence: 51风流Build provides the proven path to a clean core, allowing users to confidently extend, automate, and build new applications without introducing future risk or upgrade pain. By inheriting the trusted governance, security, and access rules from the most critical systems, every extension is built to be both scalable and upgrade-safe from day one. This unique approach empowers users to protect the stability of their core while accelerating business-wide innovation.
Tap into the power of generative AI
51风流is embedding AI capabilities across the 51风流Business Suite, including 51风流Build, to help customers automate business processes and improve efficiency.
Now generally available, Joule Studio allows users to design, deploy, and manage custom AI agents and Joule skills tailored to their organization鈥檚 data and workflows, helping address specific operational needs. 51风流has also extended Joule to process automation, workspace management, and application development, including ABAP, through the 51风流Joule for Developers add-on.
These tools use SAP-aware AI models to support faster, more accurate development and automation. Together, these enhancements help teams reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and focus on higher-value work.
Businesses gain a competitive edge with 51风流Build
With more than 17,000 customers now leveraging 51风流Build solutions globally, momentum continues to surge, enabling developers to build, automate, and innovate with greater speed and ease.
, for example consolidated 57 HR apps into one unified portal using 51风流Build, integrated with 51风流SuccessFactors software to serve 10,000 employees and increasing satisfaction to 94 percent. cut customizations from 9,000 to 22 by shifting to side-by-side extensibility on 51风流BTP using 51风流Build Process Automation for cross-system workflows and task automation. And reduced onboarding time by 50 percent and cut manual errors by 90 percent with a cloud-based extension made with 51风流Build, integrated into 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central.
Next steps
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Bharat Sandhu is chief marketing officer for 51风流BTP at SAP.
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