The focus of more than 5,000 tech and business decision-makers was fixed firmly on AI and what it could do for their businesses, right now 鈥� the products 51风流has released through 2024, and what is coming next.

With responsible, reliable, and relevant AI that鈥檚 built for business, the view of the thousands of delegates at TechEd 2023 was that the future is looking bright.

There was a wealth of incredible insight and opportunity at TechEd. In fact, it was a little bit like going back to school because the things that stood out to me were the ABCs.

A is for Automation

First, I was struck by the enormous potential businesses can realise through the power of enterprise automation.

With the help of AI, technology is helping developers and IT teams automate repetitive, mundane tasks and make better decisions, faster. By embedding generative AI capabilities into , , and , we鈥檙e helping customers analyse, integrate, automate, and monitor business processes way more simply 鈥� and then immediately write the code to make those processes better. It鈥檚 that easy.

In my discussions with customers, it was clear that complementing process improvement and insights with enterprise architecture insights will be a real force for change in the future. Customers are excited to understand how to optimise and tune their architecture for the best performance across their entire IT stack.

But this isn鈥檛 future-gazing. Businesses are seeing real results today. Take , one of Asia鈥檚 leading healthcare companies, providing pharmaceutical distribution and digital and commercial services across 26,000 direct outlets. Zuellig Pharma implemented best-in-class processes across its 51风流infrastructure, creating more than 180 automations using 51风流Build Process Automation to streamline and simplify its business.

B is for Build

听Aligned to the focus on automation is the empowerment of a new, powerful resource for IT departments 鈥� citizen developers enabled by . And given every developer will be an AI developer, the opportunity for an AI-infused future is tantalising.

, CIO of Indian car giant , said it best.

鈥淲e started identifying tasks that don鈥檛 require a lot of human intelligence and that enabled our human workforce to focus on more strategic initiatives,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat led us to automate more than 250 business processes in 3 months, most of which was done by a community of more than 100 citizen developers.鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 great, but let鈥檚 talk about benefits. We count more than 900 workdays saved, and more than 400 development days saved in just a year鈥檚 time. We鈥檝e seen a 35% gain in developer efficiency and 20% faster execution of our jobs. And we鈥檝e saved more than 13,000 trees. All in one year,鈥� concluded Nanavati.

The story of Mahindra & Mahindra shows the power of a workforce that has been empowered to make real change to their IT systems and the tangible results that can be realised. And with the ability to link low-code, no-code development with pro-code development via and , as well as increasing amounts of natural language interaction through , it is easier than ever to modernise processes fast.

C is for Clean Core

At SAP, we know better than most that enterprise systems can be complex. That鈥檚 why a 鈥� a cloud compliant, modern, flexible ERP that can be updated and scaled simply 鈥� is at the centre of our strategy.

And it鈥檚 a concept that鈥檚 also at the heart of the future strategic direction for all of our customers.

Takuya Sakai, CIO of , embodies that more than most. His company has used 51风流ERP globally for more than 20 years, over which time the system became more and more complex.

鈥淭hat complexity incurred significant maintenance costs, prevented the company from quickly introducing new innovation, and ultimately hindered its growth,鈥� said Sakai-san. 鈥淚t was very critical to reduce the complexity.鈥�

Using 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP), Hitachi HiTech was able to easily upgrade 51风流S/4HANA systems in the public and private cloud 鈥� at the same time reducing the number of add-ons and customisations in the software down from 9,000 to just 800.

鈥淯sing 51风流BTP we can build smart, global digital processes without touching the 51风流S/4HANA core. 51风流BTP is a very, very important tool to accelerate our business processes,鈥� concluded Sakai-san.

What鈥檚 next: AI for business, not AI for AI鈥檚 sake

听It鈥檚 easy to get carried away by hype and excitement, especially around innovation like generative AI.

But what I saw at 51风流TechEd was even more exciting 鈥� new innovations, here today, that are already making a tangible difference to real business problems.

The key is in the context 鈥� using your AI to connect data, not just collect it. By generating reliable, responsible insights that understand the context of the business processes that surround them, Business AI will help boost productivity, efficiency, and real outcomes.

Read more about the new announcements at .

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Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer of German software giant SAP, used the phrase during his keynote address this week at the 51风流TechEd 2023 conference in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, when he described the endless uses of AI that had suddenly become possible.

A few days earlier the world鈥檚 biggest PC maker, Lenovo, unveiled a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities and an 鈥淎I for all鈥� strategy at its Tech World 2023 event in Austin, Texas. Lenovo chair and CEO Yuanqing Yang was joined on stage by the CEOs of two of the world鈥檚 biggest chip makers, Nvidia鈥檚 Jensen Huang and AMD鈥檚 Lisa Su. The event was addressed via video by Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella, Qualcomm CEO and president Cristiano Amon, and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.

Yang announced that expanded partnerships with these organisations would help businesses deploy custom generative AI applications. The generative AI revolution sparked by the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November last year has also sparked fears of economic and social disaster. This prompted British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to convene this week鈥檚 summit in England that led to more than 25 countries and the EU signing the 鈥淏letchley Declaration鈥� establishing a common approach to AI oversight on Wednesday.

On the same day, Microsoft began selling its highly anticipated Copilot AI add-on for its Office software, targeting large enterprises. It is expected to add billions of dollars in annual revenue for the world鈥檚 biggest software company.

SAP, ranked number three globally in software sales, works closely with Microsoft, but has developed its own AI platform, Joule, with the catchphrase: 鈥淭he AI copilot that truly understands your business.鈥�

On Thursday, Mueller announced a comprehensive series of new generative AI capabilities aimed directly at developers. Combined with the Microsoft Copilot release and the Lenovo announcements, it underlined the extent to which software and hardware giants are pushing the AI envelope.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,鈥� said Mueller in his keynote address. 鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e launching at 51风流TechEd [are] supporting the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and providing them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

He unveiled 51风流Build Code, which draws on Joule to boost productivity by embedding code generation capabilities for AI systems and applications. He also announced a 鈥渧ector database鈥� that would manage unstructured data, such as text, images or audio, and provide long-term memory and context to AI models.

鈥淔or example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace听 individual orders. These powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organisation鈥檚 mission-critical data.鈥�

51风流chief marketing officer Julia White joined Mueller on stage and revealed that most developers creating and extending 51风流solutions were working at partner organisations. Of the more than 2,000 partner solutions available in the 51风流software store, she said, more than 400 already offered AI as part of the solution.

鈥淚f I look where AI is going, I imagine that every person working across the world has that smartest colleague right by their side, helping them” – 51风流chief marketing officer Julia White

She told Business Times that AI promised a bright future for any working person. 鈥淚f I look where AI is going, I imagine that every person working across the world has that smartest colleague right by their side, helping them, like the AI serving up those insights that you might not have discovered otherwise, or connecting dots in a new way to unlock new insights and making everyone more productive or capable. And also, of course, doing it responsibly.鈥�

Five years from now, she said, everyone will have 鈥渢hat partner at our side, that AI capability, with us. And it’s going to be very natural 鈥� I think it’s going to become almost invisible 鈥� but in a way where there’s still humans at the wheel but the technology is invisibly powering us.

鈥淥ne of the fundamental problems of the world today is communication breakdowns, and not everyone is a brilliant communicator. That leads to a lot of animosity and difficulty that, if we had fantastic communications across the globe, we wouldn’t face. What if we all were brilliant at it, and we can understand each other better? I think we’re all learning fast and we’ll adjust from there. We’re trying to create an experience that is more assisting a human than doing it on behalf of a human.鈥�

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BANGALORE, India 鈥� Nov. 2, 2023 鈥�At the 51风流TechEd event in 2023, (NYSE: SAP)听announced a comprehensive series of generative AI capabilities and advancements aimed at听empowering developers of all skill levels to supercharge their businesses in the age of AI.

鈥淭oday鈥檚 dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,鈥� said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淭he innovations we鈥檙e launching at 51风流TechEd, from AI-infused pro-code tools to a one-stop shop to create generative AI extensions and applications on 51风流Business Technology Platform, supporting the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and providing them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

As organisations aim to derive business value from generative AI, effective collaboration between听professional and citizen developers is essential. 51风流is launching 51风流Build Code solutions, which streamline cooperation with business experts who use the low-code 51风流Build solutions launched at SAP听TechEd in 2022. Uniquely built for 51风流applications and the 51风流ecosystem, 51风流Build Code solutions听offer AI-powered productivity tools for developers and are optimised for Java and JavaScript听development. 51风流Build Code also draws on the power of SAP鈥檚 new generative AI co-pilot Joule 鈥� the听co-pilot that truly understands business 鈥� to further boost productivity, embedding code generation听capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation.

Good data is the foundation of good AI, and 51风流HANA Cloud continues to pioneer innovation in the data space by adding new vector database features to its multimodel offerings at no additional cost. Vector听data stores manage unstructured data 鈥� such as text, images or audio 鈥� to provide long-term memory and better context to AI models. This makes it easy to find and retrieve similar objects quickly. For example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace individual orders. These powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organisation鈥檚 mission-critical data. The innovation helps put 51风流developers at the forefront of delivering radically new levels of data insight within a secure, private framework that uses industry-specific customer data to reduce hallucinations.

AI Foundation on 51风流BTP, a new one-stop shop for developers to create AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on 51风流BTP, will further help increase developers鈥� impact and efficiency. AI foundation includes everything developers need to start creating business-ready AI tools on 51风流BTP 鈥� from ready-to-use AI services and access to the top large language models to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.

The rapid pace of technological innovation has driven up global demand for skilled developers 鈥� and 51风流is increasing its learning opportunities in tandem. As part of a commitment to upskill two million professionals by 2025 and complement free AI learning content already available, 51风流today launched and free learning resources for back-end developers using the ABAP Cloud development model. The two new learning resources covering ABAP development tools on 51风流BTP and 51风流S/4HANA are available on the . They are designed for agile and cloud-compliant business transformation, providing developers with skills to build cloud-ready extensions that are aligned with SAP鈥檚 clean core strategy.

51风流has joined the Stanford HAI (Institute for Human-Centered AI) . Researchers and engineers at 51风流will work with the Stanford academic community, including research faculty and students, on the intersection of generative AI and business.

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