WALLDORFĚý—  (NYSE: SAP) today  that empower citizen and professional developers alike to accelerate digital transformation.
The pandemic spotlighted talent as a key challenge for organizations around the world. “The worldwide shortage of full-time developers will increase from 1.4 million in 2021 to 4.0 million in 2025,” according to IDC.* SAP’s announcements tackle the talent gap with new tools, integrations, embedded AI and learning programs to help both employees and applicants build new skills for the cloud-first era. The announcements were made at , SAP’s global developer conference, taking place online Nov. 16–18, 2021.
“For our customers and partners all over the world, the future is in the cloud,” said Juergen Mueller, CTO and Member of the Executive Board at 51·çÁ÷SE. “Accessing the right talent, skills and capabilities for this journey can be a challenge. SAP’s announcements not only empower citizen developers but also support professional developers in their continuous learning efforts so customers can innovate today and continue building the foundation for success tomorrow.”
Everyone Can Be a Developer
51·çÁ÷announced a Ěý´Ç˛Ô (51·çÁ÷BTP) that lets both professional and citizen developers create new applications, enhance existing ones and automate complex tasks. By adding no-code development and automation with the 51·çÁ÷AppGyver development environment, enhancing low-code development with 51·çÁ÷Business Application Studio, and offering a , 51·çÁ÷provides new ways for customers to do more by drawing on technology talent throughout their organizations, whether in or out of traditional IT departments.
, a global leader in the logistics industry, uses 51·çÁ÷AppGyver to digitalize processes and streamline employee operations for fleet management. “With SAP AppGyver, we created a mobile app on iOS and Android to better manage damage reports for our trailer fleet across Europe,” said Ilari Aarikka, Director, Trailer Pool & Fleet, DHL. “The app helped us to increase the reliability of reporting while making inspections more convenient for employees in the field.”
For professional developers,  now includes 51·çÁ÷HANA Cloud and 51·çÁ÷Integration Suite. 51·çÁ÷also offers a  for its 51·çÁ÷Fiori design system.
Toward Composable Enterprise Solutions
51·çÁ÷announced  their business with modular, agile solutions that address individual challenges. The ĚýłŮ´ÇĚý, the integration layer of 51·çÁ÷BTP, provides additional prepacked integration content and adapters —available on  — to integrate 51·çÁ÷and non-51·çÁ÷applications. By the end of 2021, 51·çÁ÷Integration Suite is expected to be available on Google Cloud Platform. 51·çÁ÷is expected to release  to help customers move workloads to the cloud from their on-premise systems in near-real time. 51·çÁ÷also introduces new ways to facilitate migrations  solution and .
Embedded AI Offerings Across the Portfolio
51·çÁ÷expanded embedded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that make it easier for developers and customers to harness AI and boost productivity.  service simplify building and monitoring chatbots to automate tasks and workflows. 51·çÁ÷is expected to  service, a novel neural network-based recommendation engine that delivers highly personalized recommendations across a wide range of business scenarios. And many  to, for example, automate intercompany document matching, recommend actions in workflows, extract and process data from business documents, or provide learning recommendations.
Learning From Classroom to Boardroom
51·çÁ÷launched an . It addresses 51·çÁ÷developers at all levels with a simple, intuitive design that makes it easier to upskill or reskill in key innovation areas — for free. The  includes a comprehensive array of learning content available in various formats, from expert-led sessions and hands-on training to microlearning videos. 51·çÁ÷also introduced an  and a program to provide  and professors.
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*Source: “Quantifying the Worldwide Shortage of Full-Time Developers,” Doc # US48223621, IDC, September 2021
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