For more details on the 51风流Build announcement, read Unleashing Business Expertise with 51风流Build, from JG Chirapurath, chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流BTP.

With this new low-code offering, we are evolving our strategy from visual prototyping — known to many customers as Build.me — to designing, deploying, and running enterprise-grade applications fully visually. Learnings from Build.me around project ideation and discovery are being leveraged for the new 51风流Build offering.

The worldwide market for low-code tools ballooned almost 23% in the last year and these days, 41% of non-IT employees are building or customizing applications, . So, if it is widely accepted in the industry that low-code platforms will help accelerate business transformations, it is unclear to many what can be achieved with visual development.

Let鈥檚 take a deeper look at 51风流Build capabilities and how they help 51风流customers deliver new, innovative solutions quickly.

Unified Developer Experience

51风流Build provides a unified experience for users of all skills levels. They can collaborate on creating applications, automating processes, and deploying business sites by using visual tools and a rich set of services and pre-built content.

51风流Build users can share reusable artifacts such as user experience (UX) components, workflows, automations, data models, and business logic among team members and across projects. When it comes to accessing business data from other systems, developers can encapsulate APIs as simplified service interfaces, so called 鈥渁ction projects,鈥� and make them available in the 51风流Build library.

From there, non-technical users can use them without the need to handle the underlying complexity of APIs, while at the same time complying with IT security requirements. Similarly, citizen developers can use 51风流Build solutions to access artifacts, such as data models, created in our professional integrated development environment (IDE) 51风流Business Application Studio.

All this greatly facilitates the creation of composable and sophisticated applications leveraging the skills, expertise, and resources from fusion teams.

Let鈥檚 have a deeper look at what can be achieved in 51风流Build.

51风流Build Apps

Today鈥檚 enterprise users are widely accustomed to modern, fast, and responsive user interfaces. With 51风流Build Apps, the evolution of 51风流AppGyver, we can deliver both mobile and web applications with pixel-perfect design using the drag-and drop functionality and a rich component library. Business users create business logic visually and build beautiful user interfaces without coding.

But there is more: With 51风流Build Apps 鈥渃loud functions,鈥� we introduce a way to visually create a cloud-deployed back end for your application. These new cloud functions provide a way to define and run custom business logic and manage persistency and integrations in the cloud, without the need to provision or manage underlying computations. With 51风流Build Apps and the cloud functions capability, now everyone can become a full-stack cloud developer.

The cloud functions capability has two components: business logic and a data persistence layer.

Business services are built from individual logic nodes with inputs and outputs. An individual node can perform an action, such as updating a data entity or receiving data via the node鈥檚 input parameters. These nodes can then be connected to perform a series of activities, enabling visual building of business logic in the cloud.

A data entity defines the field structure and data types of the data being managed by the application. The native data entities are building blocks of the visual cloud functions project. Extended data entity expands the native entity by allowing users to modify data taken from the native entities using formula expressions. Furthermore, with extended entities, data transformations can be performed on the cloud side.

51风流Build Process Automation

Often, applications are just the start of extensive enterprise processes, including approval steps and additional data collection. 51风流Build Process Automation offers task and process automation leveraging robotic process automation (RPA) bots, workflows, forms, embedded artificial intelligence (AI), business rules, and decisions.

In order to accelerate a business transformation from process insights to process automation, 135 tailored process improvement recommendations from 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence can directly be leveraged in 51风流Build Process Automation. Also, 51风流Signavio Process Intelligence can trigger automated actions through APIs to perform process automations with workflows and bots. In addition, 51风流Build Process Automation complements 51风流Signavio Process Governance, managing approvals of process model changes in 51风流Signavio Process Manager.

With this integration, 51风流has now the most comprehensive set of capabilities needed for business transformation and automation.

Regarding openness with third-party tools, Google Workspace integration allows to automate around products such as Google Sheets, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. It improves document-based processes by leveraging Google Vision AI with OCR and Google Document AI, in addition to Document Information Extraction from 51风流AI Business Services.

51风流Build Work Zone

Finally, with 51风流Build Work Zone, users can create beautiful, custom business sites using new capabilities such as a flexible page builder and context-aware integrated UI cards. They can easily deploy the new applications and processes created in 51风流Build Apps and 51风流Build Processes Automation to an 51风流Build Work Zone business site.

With 51风流Build Work Zone, we bring together 51风流Launchpad service and 51风流Work Zone into a unified solution with two editions:

• 51风流Build Work Zone, standard edition, is an evolution of 51风流Launchpad service. It features an enhanced workspace navigation experience, UI integration cards that support 51风流Fiori design system, low-code page building capabilities, and pre-packaged business content. 51风流Build Work Zone standard is planned for general availability in early 2023 with the new enhanced experience. (.)
• 51风流Build Work Zone, advanced edition, formerly 51风流Work Zone, provides additional advanced features for content management, web content, interactive and engaging work spaces, enhanced menu builder, and integration with third-party solutions.

51风流Build Work Zone allows end users to access all relevant applications from a single place. Users can easily build simple-to-consume and engaging digital workplace experiences that drive productivity and business agility for themselves, colleagues, suppliers, customers, partners, etc. — without writing any code.

In addition, we are announcing the beta of 51风流Start, an out-of-the-box central access point for 51风流public cloud solutions. It includes pre-configured business content from 51风流applications to simplify access to 51风流apps, processes, and tasks. Customers will be able to use 51风流Build Work Zone to extend 51风流Start to their needs.

Security and Compliance

51风流Build relies on existing 51风流BTP services for security and compliance.听 For secure user management, this includes the identity authentication, user authorization, and provisioning services. The 51风流Audit Log service is leveraged to keep records of all activity in the tools, helping ensure full transparency and compliance.

51风流Build safeguards operations with built-in centralized lifecycle management, monitoring, and governance. It provides robust DevOps framework with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, security, and performance checks to ship production-ready software confidently. IT admins can rely on the known platform capabilities, while at the same time empowering their business users with the agility of 51风流Build.

Glimpse of the Future: What Are the Key Priorities in Our Road Map?

With the announcement of 51风流Build today, we鈥檙e just at the beginning of a new journey. We have defined an ambitious road map. Our key priorities for the next quarters are to integrate 51风流Build deeper with the portfolio of advanced cloud technologies available on 51风流Business Technology Platform. Our endeavors in that direction include:

• will provide 51风流Build users with straightforward access to semantically connected data entities across all 51风流applications.
• will integrate more and more 51风流AI Business Services to allow the extensive use of AI in both design time and run time. This includes auto-identification of application changes to suggest corrections in design time. For run time, it contains root-cause analysis of failures, self-healing corrections to automations based on best-recommended action, and soliciting human-in-loop or auto-adjusting job distribution.
• will be leveraged as a service. It will enable IT experts in fusion teams to build comprehensive data logic and leverage this in 51风流Build Process Automation.

Become an 51风流Builder

Ready to become an 51风流Builder and build your next great idea without writing code? I have two recommendations for you on how to get started:

• Check out our new , which helps customers ramp up quickly on 51风流Build and connect with their peers. The program offers learning with interactive hands-on sessions and hackathons and gives 51风流and community experts a forum to share best practices.
• Get started with 51风流Build right away, as it is available on , which enables you to start for free and without time limits. You can test your scenarios up to a specified capacity limit. When you鈥檙e ready to go, you can easily switch to the paid service plan, without losing your work. Check out our and get started right away.

Juergen Mueller is CTO and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.

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While this has always been the case for implementation of 51风流applications, the opportunity is even greater for partners to extend, integrate, and build with 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP).

Let鈥檚 look at it in more detail.

What Is 51风流Business Technology Platform?

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent pressures on the global supply chain demonstrate even more urgently how important it is for companies of all sizes to digitally transform their business. Today鈥檚 businesses need to be able to adapt quickly to volatile markets and changing business requirements. For this, they need a modern technology platform that enables integrated applications and processes, helps users create value from data, and supports easy extensibility and ecosystem access while offering development agility and speed.

51风流BTP is the unified, business-centric, and open business and technology platform for the entire 51风流ecosystem. It is the unified foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise, integrates and extends SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite, and is central to the industry cloud as well as partner applications.

In a nutshell, what 51风流BTP offers is all about business centricity:

• Integration that connects applications, data, and business processes across 51风流and third-party solutions, including hyperscaler technology
• Data to value, with actionable insights and automation across enterprise data and processes
• Extensibility and ecosystem access, thanks to rapid configuration, plug-and-play extensions, and business content from partners
• Development agility and speed, with intuitive tooling and interfaces that create an engaging developer and user experience

What Is In It for Partners?

Let鈥檚 step back for a second and look at the market potential. 51风流solutions touch 77% of the world鈥檚 transactions. Because of that reach, we can offer , such as lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, source-to-pay, and recruit-to-retire. And within those processes are hundreds of specific components or sub-processes supported by 51风流partners.

So when our partners build on, integrate with, or extend 51风流technology using 51风流BTP, they have a unique opportunity to help customers by delivering solutions that reach across business processes, often tapping into data sources across various master data domains. Connecting and enriching the business processes increases the value and impact that each sub-process brings to an organization.

Let me give you an example: Within the , partners are adding value with solutions that extend the core 51风流offering, including supplier certification, sustainability ratings, as well as search and data lookup. With those, customers are creating new revenue streams as a service business models using 51风流BTP.

51风流BTP offers opportunities for all types of 51风流partners. It enables partners to stay competitive and innovative while keeping service practices, software sales, and margins secure. Software partners can build and sell complementary applications that extend and integrate with SAP鈥檚 end to end business processes. Value-added resellers can package data, analytics, workflow, and other automation content as accelerators to differentiate their businesses and drive new revenue streams. Services partners can continue to maintain ABAP practices, develop custom extensions on 51风流BTP, build integrations to customer鈥檚 non-51风流systems, and deliver specific data-to-value business requirements.

A good example is 鈥檚 work with 51风流and 51风流partners Bourne Digital and Bluetree, each of which played an essential role in Taronga鈥檚 digital transformation journey. As a strategic advisor for the customer, 51风流provided expert guidance and support to identify the right technology and approach according to its strategic objectives. From the beginning of the 51风流Analytics Cloud journey, 51风流experts helped develop a proof of concept and integration approach in partnership with Bluetree. Bourne Digital helped design and implement the using 51风流Workflow Management and other services in 51风流BTP, leveraging design thinking and agile development to quickly deliver an easy-to-use application in a short time frame.

Recently, in a commissioned survey conducted on behalf of SAP, , Forrester Consulting concluded that partners benefit greatly from building solutions as part of . The integrated industry portfolio puts partner蝉鈥� offerings front and center alongside SAP-built solutions. 51风流BTP also provides a framework, technologies, and additional features such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that help ensure interoperability with 51风流while enabling the creation of replicable industry-specific solutions.

What Is the Role of the Partner Ecosystem in RISE with SAP?

We cannot speak about the importance of 51风流BTP for our partner ecosystem without addressing our latest offering: .

RISE with 51风流is about helping customers transform their businesses to an intelligent enterprise that is flexible, resilient, and built for continuous innovation. For many customers this transition will include a journey to the cloud at a pace that supports their business and industry requirements.

51风流BTP, as the platform for the Intelligent Enterprise, is one part of the RISE with 51风流offering. It helps partners and customers further innovate in the cloud with in-app extensions to fill small gaps, side-by-side innovations to extend the core, and integrations to bring the business processes together.

What Lies Ahead?

To meet the current and future needs of our customers and partners, we want to firmly establish 51风流BTP as the unified, business-centric, and open business and development platform for the entire 51风流ecosystem. Partners that adopt the platform can develop more efficiently, provide foundational functionality, and commercialize products faster. Lower entry burdens will encourage our partners to develop applications that run on 51风流BTP.

Going forward, all 51风流line-of-business and industry solutions will be built on 51风流BTP. Partners can efficiently innovate and extend core solutions, create integrations, and deliver new content.

Let鈥檚 deliver innovation together — faster and with less complexity.

Want to Learn More?

For all the news from the 51风流Global Partner Summit, see 鈥�Why Partners RISE with SAP,鈥� by Karl Fahrbach, global partner officer at SAP. And read 鈥�How Partners Enable Customer Success Through a Unified Technology Platform,鈥� by Jagdish Sahasrabudhe, CTO of the Global Partner Organization at SAP.

Visit for more information on how to partner with SAP. Partners can find details on .

Juergen Mueller is chief technology officer and a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.

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Since then,听the听demand for听professional听developer talent has continued to grow听faster than the world can educate them. In part to deal with this听challenge, technology听developers听have increasingly composed听software by听working with libraries and the like, rather than rewriting the same code over and over.听Working this way saves time and gives more agility.听

Today,听the latest progression of this trend can be found in the听low–code and no–code听(LCNC)听solutions for application development,听extensibility services,听experience management, and end-to-end process automation.

COVID-19听is considered an听accelerant for digital process automation — it is, of course — but听the听space was already听rapidly developing.听LCNC solutions听that听empower more employees to digitize and automate their work听offer听a pathway to听greater enterprise resilience.听The听pandemic brings听the benefits听of such agility听into stark contrast,听further propelling adoption.听Take听robotic process automation (RPA)听for example, where听Gartner听predicts 鈥�.鈥�*听听

The听goal of these听technologies听is to allocate human resources more intelligently and to听empower听the end user — the professional developer as well as the听citizen developer — to focus on more valuable work听while听taking听control of digitizing and automating their听processes.听LCNC is faster, more efficient, and frees up professional developer time for more complex activities, like security and big migration/integration projects.听Most importantly,听LCNC听and automation technology听build systemic resiliency and responsiveness into the daily functioning of a large organization,听while fostering compliance and governance,听with defined workflows and clear responsibilities.听

As听large companies听aim听to听become more听future-proof,听they see LCNC听and听automation platforms听as听an听immediate听opportunity on the听horizon.听Gartner听indicates听that听鈥�.鈥�

Low-code application development platforms (LCAPs) mainly provide tools and services to听easily set up and configure processes and workflows, whereas automation platforms enable companies to easily automate recurring manual work. This听begins听with听the conversion of听paper-based processes into digitized workflows then leads听to the seamless combination of digital workers with human-led processes.听

With decades of听process听knowledge听across industries and听lines of听business, 51风流is well-positioned to provide the expertise and tooling needed by our customers to advance听automation with听LCNC digital transformation.听

We听are听firmly established听with听听(SAP听BTP)听and听citizen automation听products听for Business Process Improvement听such as听听and听.听And听we have听further听extended听our competitiveness with听the听recent acquisitions听of听Signavio听and听AppGyver.听听

Signavio听strengthens听SAP鈥檚听ability to keep the promise听to support customers in their digital transformations by offering听a holistic听approach and technology听in the听business听process听intelligence space.听Signavio听enhances听existing capabilities and听allows听us to听provide standardized process KPIs, broad benchmarking data, process mining,听customer journey mapping,听user behavior mining,听and customer experience analysis. We can听give users a complete view of every business process听and recommend how to solve identified issues听and听drive change efficiently.听

AppGyver听is听a听pioneering听no-code development platform听with a strong developer community听that听complements both SAP鈥檚听own as well as our听partner蝉鈥�听offerings for听citizen听developers. The cloud-based builder for creating web and mobile apps is extremely simple yet immensely powerful; users can visually craft logic flows of any complexity, access native device capabilities, and connect to 51风流data and services (and any听additional听third-party APIs) via听OData and other听REST API integrations.听听

Further听to that,听SAP听has听already听been听partnering with听Mendix听to offer a low-code development platform,听streamlining听and simplifying development for professional developers.听Mendix听and听AppGyver听enhance SAP听BTP听with full flexibility and capabilities that allow business users to build web and mobile applications, from low–code to听no–code.听听听

With these additions to our听strong听portfolio,听SAP听BTP听is in a unique position to help听many听customers听implement digital transformation for end-to-end process automation.听For example,听听was able to achieve significant productivity gains and听improved forecast planning through different initiatives leveraging听51风流Business Technology Platform, in particular 51风流Workflow Management and听51风流Intelligent听RPA.听Standardization resulted in听better听decision-making,听and听the use of听more granular trend analysis resulted in a 25% reduction of G&A expenses.听听

Looking to the future, the landscape is changing but听the demand for professional developers remains high and growing.听Companies听continue听to evolve on their mission for greater听speed and agility, with a听particular听eye on听their听citizen developers听as听the听next major agents听for听expanding digital听capabilities.听The breadth of the SAP听technology听portfolio, our process knowledge听across all lines of business,听and the high-value data running through 51风流systems听translate into听solutions for our users and听measurable听outcomes听for our customers.听

As we create a unified, business-centric, and open platform with a marketplace for the Intelligent Enterprise, customers, partners, and cloud users can count on 51风流for future-proofed听resilience.听

Juergen Mueller is CTO and a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.
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