Build custom agents on the most context-rich agentic platform

I鈥檓 excited to share the ability to build custom agents in will be generally available in December. New capabilities include AI-assisted agent design, system-triggered agents, extensibility of SAP-delivered Joule Agents, centralized enterprise-grade agent monitoring, support for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, and support for Model Context Protocol (MCP). Read our in-depth and to learn more.

鈥淛oule Studio鈥檚 agent builder connects 51风流analytics with merchandising systems, powering Accenture鈥檚 Optisell agent to surface at鈥憆isk inventory, recommend pricing actions, and simplify merchandise alert configuration — all without heavy custom development.鈥�

Catherine Nguyen, Global Lead for 51风流Business Group AI Strategy and Adoption, Accenture

For developers building pro-code agents, (51风流BTP) offers comprehensive support for popular open-source frameworks, like Crew.AI and LangGraph, and provides end-to-end identity, authorization, governance, and integration capabilities.

MCP support for is now available, providing with direct access to rich multi-model engines. This allows agents to be grounded in full data context: navigating relationships across customers and suppliers, understanding geographic dependencies through spatial data, and performing semantic searches through vector embeddings 鈥�&苍产蝉辫;all within a single in-memory engine. 

Additionally, 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine can now automatically generate knowledge graphs from 51风流HANA Cloud metadata. What used to take weeks of manual modeling can now happen automatically in minutes.

We鈥檙e also enabling agentic memory in 51风流HANA Cloud. With long-term memory, AI agents can persist context across long-running sessions and memorize past input and decisions, just like humans do, to become continuously smarter.

I鈥檓 excited to share several innovations, including our first enterprise relational foundation model (RPT), SAP-RPT-1, accompanied by a no-code testing playground environment and prompt optimizer service. New capabilities are continuously added to our , empowering developers to experiment with leading models and orchestration tools and scale AI development and productization across 51风流and non-51风流landscapes. .

Vibe on 51风流Build using the tools of your choice

New local give developers the ability to use agentic tools for development and preferred code assistants, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Cline, and OpenAI Codex — all while maintaining enterprise-grade governance and clean-core alignment.

An 51风流Build extension pack for Visual Studio (VS) Code is now available to simplify development of CAP, Fiori, UI5, and mobile applications. This makes it easier for VS Code developers to build faster and deploy apps on 51风流BTP. Looking ahead, we will publish our extensions on the Open VSX Registry to simplify the onboarding of these tools and provide similar native development experiences on other integrated developer environments (IDEs).

Increase velocity with 51风流Joule for Developers

, the best code assistant for 51风流development, empowers developers of all skill levels to build more efficiently by leveraging comprehensive, AI-infused developer tools to deliver precise, contextualized outcomes powered by purpose-built, SAP-centric AI models. This frees-up time to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and visual tool-based application development and automation of 51风流processes.

New enhancements to 51风流Joule for Developers, such as within and capabilities, help developers modernize legacy systems and meet enterprise-grade governance and security requirements. These improvements also boost productivity, enhance code quality, and support cloud transformation goals.

Developers working in can now use AI-assisted content creation to quickly generate comments, create workspace content, and summarize documents. AI responses can also draw directly from user-specific folders and workspace content, providing users with trusted insights tailored to their roles, while maintaining compliance and secure role-based document grounding. 

Looking ahead, new ABAP large language models (LLMs) trained on ABAP code and specialized for ABAP development will be released next year.

Connect everything to boost productivity

Developers build the bridges that keep businesses running. We鈥檙e making that work easier and faster with . The following innovations make API and agent-driven automation easier, ensure reliable end-to-end security with real-time monitoring, and boost developer productivity.

We are continuing to embed AI capabilities directly into 51风流Integration Suite. will now automatically provide targeted recommendations and intelligent healing to resolve common API anomalies such as error spikes, latency surges, or abnormal traffic patterns. Developers can also ask Joule to about the most used APIs to gain deep API insights and understand usage patterns.

MCP Gateway support will enable customers to expose custom APIs and integration flows that can be consumed by AI agents. This feature introduces the ability for customers to enrich custom agents built in Joule Studio or extend Joule Agents by integrating data from third-party and legacy 51风流systems, composed as MCP tools for smooth agentic consumption. This approach standardizes access, centralizes governance and security, and simplifies discoverability in the .

To jumpstart integration projects, you can access hundreds of out-of-the-box integration adapters as well as pre-built API, event, and integration content on .

Gain security and operations built in, not bolted on

51风流BTP provides developers with a unified environment to manage applications, secure data, and scale solutions seamlessly across 51风流and third-party systems. With core centralized application lifecycle, interoperability, security, and administration capabilities, developers can easily and quickly resolve errors and boost team productivity. Read the full list of enhancements in the .

Explore at your own pace

If you missed attending 51风流TechEd in person or virtually, please be sure to read the full list of announcements in the  and watch .

Wherever you鈥檙e at in your journey, there are easy ways to get started:

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• Read more in “Introducing 51风流Snowflake, New Data Fabric Innovations for 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流HANA Cloud“

Michael Ameling is general manager and chief product officer of Business Technology Platform and a member of the Extended Board of 51风流SE.

BERLIN 鈥� At 51风流TechEd in 2025, (NYSE: SAP) brings AI deep into the development process to level up how developers build.

New AI-driven capabilities in the 51风流Build solution, an expanding data ecosystem and powerful Joule Agents empower developers to move from idea to impact with unprecedented speed and confidence. As AI transforms the nature of professional work, 51风流also pledges to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 announcements today give developers the tools they need to deliver at the speed of AI,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淚nnovations across SAP鈥檚 unique flywheel of applications, data and AI put developers in the driver’s seat — where they belong.鈥�

Opening the Developer Ecosystem

51风流Build, the company鈥檚 flagship solution for enterprise application development and automation, now gives developers more freedom to build, extend and automate using the tools they love most.

For instance, developers who prefer agentic development solutions like Cursor, Claude Code, Cline and Windsurf can now use 51风流development frameworks with new 51风流Build local Model Context Protocol Servers. Visual Studio Code users will be able to access 51风流Build capabilities directly in their development environment with a new 51风流Build extension. This extension will also be made available later on Open VSX Registry for other development environments. 51风流and n8n also announced plans for an integration so Joule Studio agents and n8n agents can work together.

And with new agent building capabilities in Joule Studio, developers have the tools they need to extend SAP鈥檚 ready-to-use agents and build new agents grounded in 51风流business data and context that can act autonomously based on changing business conditions.

Putting Data to Work

Every intelligent application starts with trusted data. 51风流is giving developers more ways to put that data to work through 51风流Business Data Cloud.

The solution now connects with more of the data and AI platforms developers use every day. A new 51风流Snowflake solution extension for 51风流Business Data Cloud brings Snowflake鈥檚 fully managed data and AI capabilities directly to 51风流customers, giving them the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for each data and AI workload, while maintaining governance, interoperability and business context. 51风流also announced a new 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect partnership with Snowflake. This complements existing integrations with Databricks and Google Cloud, giving developers more freedom to choose how they work with 51风流data.

With a new data product studio capability in 51风流Business Data Cloud, developers can turn raw data into ready-to-use assets known as data products that support analytics, AI and application development.

An expanded capability in the 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine can automatically generate knowledge graphs. This capability maps relationships across 51风流database tables, columns and data models, revealing how data fits together and why it matters. Developers will be able to see how their data connects across systems and uncover underlying business insights.

Bringing AI Autonomy to Life

51风流is evolving its AI portfolio to give developers the intelligence and orchestration power they need to take AI from insight to action.

51风流introduced its first enterprise relational foundation model, a new class of AI that predicts business outcomes rather than the next word in a sentence. SAP-RPT-1, or the first-generation Relational Pre-trained Transformer, can make fast and accurate predictions for common business scenarios like delivery delays, payment risk or sales order completion. 51风流launched a free playground environment for developers today.

New AI assistants in Joule coordinate multiple agents across workflows, departments and applications, bringing automation and autonomy to life. These assistants plan, initiate and complete complex tasks spanning finance, supply chain, HR and beyond. Today, 51风流introduces new agents built for technical users. For example, an agent for business process analysis will help teams understand how processes run, identify inefficiencies and uncover opportunities to optimize workflows and drive measurable improvements.

Lastly, as AI changes the nature of work for everyone, 51风流is pledging to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030. 51风流will expand hands-on training and certification programs that integrate practical AI-ready tools, including through its partnership with online learning platform Coursera.

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Each 51风流software solution delivers strong value, helping teams excel in their specific domain. Yet the true strength of 51风流emerges when these applications operate across the enterprise; when finance decisions are informed by procurement data in real time or when workforce insights from HR directly shape supply chain planning.

That is why exists: a portfolio of applications, data, and AI working together to cover the full spectrum of business operations. At the heart of 51风流Business Suite is (51风流BTP), the technology platform that connects it all.

51风流BTP is a platform engineered to integrate, automate, extend, and build AI-powered business applications and processes across your enterprise.

51风流BTP is also how we supercharge AI. On its own, AI can generate outputs that look impressive, but without business context, they often lack real-world relevance. 51风流BTP solves this by bringing together systems, ensuring consistent data, and automating processes across the enterprise. This means AI doesn鈥檛 operate in isolation; it understands the relationships between finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, and more.

That connection is what turns AI from theory into practice. When AI is trained on accurate, well-structured data and tied directly to business processes, it can deliver recommendations that people trust and use to make smarter decisions. The result is an innovation flywheel, where teams and AI continually become smarter, faster, and more impactful across the enterprise.

New 51风流applications built on 51风流BTP

This week at 51风流Connect, we talked about the ways in which 51风流BTP enables our customers and partners to tap into the innovation flywheel. We also demonstrated how 51风流is using 51风流BTP as its core application development platform with the release of three new high scale enterprise applications powered by 51风流BTP (51风流Build).

• 51风流rolled out the next generation of 51风流Ariba solutions for source-to-pay. New capabilities will help procurement professionals improve cost savings, ensure compliance, and build supply chain resilience by automating and supporting key processes such as buying, sourcing, supplier management, contracts, and invoicing. , making it easier to integrate them with 51风流Business Suite, the 51风流ERP application, and third-party ERP systems using open APIs.

• 51风流introduced 51风流Supply Chain Orchestration. can leverage data from 51风流Business Network and the 51风流Business Data Cloud solution, expanding insights across every tier of the supply chain. 51风流Supply Chain Orchestration is designed to empower customers with one synchronized supply chain system that will help enhance risk detection, deliver actionable insights, and enable coordinated responses across supply chains. An intelligent impact analysis capability will help manage upstream supply chain risks and disruptions, and both external and internal supply chain signals will be contextualized into prioritized actions. The solution will also provide multi-tier supply chain insights that extend beyond traditional boundaries.

• , giving customers a technical foundation that enables faster speeds, easier integration, collaboration at scale, and continuous innovation. This will enhance customers鈥� existing investment in 51风流Business Network, adding value without disruption.

Lowering barriers with simplified licensing and packaging

51风流is committed to making it easier than ever for customers to adopt, experiment, and scale new innovation. We鈥檙e continuously simplifying access to 51风流BTP and 51风流Business Suite, ensuring that every organization, no matter its size or technical maturity, can take advantage of the latest advances in AI, automation, and data connectivity.

Earlier this year, we simplified 51风流Build pricing model and included its capabilities in all 51风流Business Suite packages, giving customers a frictionless way to jumpstart their development without needing to purchase additional licenses. Then we introduced a free 51风流Build license for partners, allowing solutions to be tested, demoed, developed, and then sold on the 51风流Store. Most recently, we , which now includes Joule for Developers and Joule Studio, and made it available to all existing 51风流BTP Enterprise Agreement customers.

From streamlined commercial offerings and consumption models to guided innovation paths through and , our goal is clear: lower the barrier to innovation so every customer can turn great ideas into business outcomes faster.

Real-world results: Customers delivering value with 51风流BTP

To get inspired, here are just a few examples of 51风流BTP in action with customers:

• 57,000 hours saved annually: developed an intelligent virtual assistant for financial leaders by combining human expertise, 51风流solutions, and AI technologies. This AI assistant, built on 51风流BTP, streamlines the creation of financial narratives and provides live alerts on key financial metrics, augmenting decision-making in real time. The result is 57,000 hours saved of what was manual work.
• 100,000 applications processed: launched a financial aid application platform in just two weeks using 51风流BTP, 51风流AI Services, and other solutions. This generative AI-enabled platform efficiently processed nearly 100,000 subsidy applications during an energy crisis, showcasing agile innovation with SAP鈥檚 AI and platform tools.
• 95% improvement in search results: 聽built a 鈥淧erfect Purchase Requisition鈥� app, and extended 51风流Ariba, using 51风流Build Work Zone and 51风流BTP鈥檚 generative AI capabilities with 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine. This AI-powered app automatically validates and corrects purchase requisitions, speeding up procurement cycles and improving data quality before orders go out. The application has significantly reduced the time and effort buyers spend finding the correct products, with 95 percent of searches successful on the first attempt.
• 10,000 orders analyzed annually: 聽built a “GenAI Supply Chain Troubleshooter” on 51风流BTP to simplify complex supply chain interactions. This AI assistant reduced issue resolution time and costs by 90 percent, saving 3,120 hours of staff effort annually, and demonstrates how generative AI can dramatically streamline supply chain management.
• AU$1+ million saved annually: 聽revolutionized its operations with generative AI and 51风流BTP. Custom apps have delivered rapid insights to field crews, while Joule’s natural language interaction with 51风流SuccessFactors has saved 75 hours on average. Leveraging 50 years of asset history, they ensure safe operations, saving over AU$1 million annually and achieving a 99 percent success rate in identifying poles unlikely to corrode.

Ready to start? Explore 51风流BTP resources

Thanks to everyone who attended 51风流Connect virtually and in-person in Las Vegas! For those who couldn鈥檛 attend live, I recommend reading the聽, checking out the , and watching the聽executive keynote delivered by Muhammad Alam.

To get started today, visit to start a and explore .

Bharat Sandhu is chief marketing officer for 51风流Business Technology Platform.

With the 2026 cost cap set to increase to US$215 million to accommodate new technical regulations and previously exempted items, Formula One (F1) teams face growing complexity in managing performance within strict financial boundaries. Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team has partnered with 51风流to meet this challenge head-on.

Once the Team adopts 51风流Cloud ERP Private solutions as its digital core, the team will be enabled with real-time financial insights, predictive analytics, and streamlined operations across the organization. The team will also be able to utilize 51风流Business AI to forecast budget needs, optimize supply chains, and manage inventory with precision鈥攃ritical capabilities under the evolving cost cap framework.

A key use case is the management of the team鈥檚 stock inventory, where 51风流Cloud ERP Private serves as the foundation for tracking and valuing more than 14,500 individual components in each race car. This system reduces manual effort in FIA reporting and better ensures accurate, real-time valuation of parts鈥攁n essential requirement under the new financial regulations. Additionally, the cloud-based architecture helps ensure high availability, especially important during race weekends when operations are most critical.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 technology gives us the agility and transparency we need to compete at the highest level while staying within the financial guardrails of the sport,鈥� said Michael Taylor, Director of IT, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. 鈥淲ith SAP, we鈥檙e not just racing faster鈥攚e鈥檙e racing smarter.鈥�

The 2026 cost cap regulations, which include broader expense categories and stricter reporting requirements, demand a new level of financial discipline. 51风流solutions will help Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team:

• Track and allocate costs across R&D, manufacturing, and race operations
• Automate compliance reporting with built-in audit trails
• Model financial scenarios to support strategic decision-making

The team is harnessing 51风流Business AI to strengthen sustainability tracking and operational decision-making鈥攌ey priorities under the evolving 2026 FIA financial regulations. Intelligent data models are being used to reduce carbon footprint and improve efficiency, while predictive capabilities support inventory and supply chain optimization. In parallel, the team is using 51风流Business Technology Platform and 51风流Build solutions to develop custom applications that digitalize workflows and enhance collaboration across departments.

鈥淭he Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team is setting the standard for digital transformation and AI-driven progress in motorsport,鈥� said Sebastian Steinhaeuser, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Operating Officer, 51风流SE. 鈥淭ogether, we鈥檙e proving that operational excellence and innovation can go hand in hand鈥攅ven at 300 km per hour.鈥�

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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

To learn how 51风流Build adds value to your cloud ERP, that address specific challenges in business processes. To unlock the full potential of application development, automation, and AI, take the next step with the following resources:

• Explore the and start your
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Bharat Sandhu is chief marketing officer for 51风流BTP at SAP.

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To further empower partners to build AI-driven innovations and unlock new possibilities for customers, we are pleased to announce free access to 51风流Build test, demo, and development (TDD) licenses for all 51风流partners.

51风流Build offers partners a comprehensive suite of low-code, code-first, and generative AI tools to create custom Joule skills and agents, applications, automations, and digital workspaces. This new offering gives partners access to 51风流Build with included entitlements up to fair use limits, allowing ISVs to innovate at a low initial cost.

Partners can use 51风流Build to develop, test, and deploy applications and proofs of concept, making it easier to bring new solutions to market. These solutions can be sold on 51风流Store, expanding the reach to SAP鈥檚 global customer base.

Free TDD licenses for 51风流partners: what鈥檚 included

Here is what鈥檚 included — all available as of today:

• All 51风流Build capabilities (developer, base and premium user, runtime, including Joule Studio and ABAP Cloud)
• 51风流HANA Cloud, our multi-model database, which serves, among other capabilities, as an enabler for RAG applications and powerful persistency layer for 51风流Build projects
• Additional 51风流BTP services such as generative AI hub, logging services, cloud identity, and others

Furthermore, the 51风流Joule for Developers add-on continues to be free for customers and partners until further notice as part of a promotion.聽

Accelerating transformative AI innovation on 51风流Build

51风流Build makes it easier than ever for partners to develop and integrate AI into their applications. With a 51风流Build developer license, you can use Joule Studio to create and enhance Joule skills — all with intuitive drag-and-drop tools.

And, coming soon, agent builder in Joule Studio will let you design, build, and deploy your own custom AI agents. These agents will tap into the 51风流Knowledge Graph for rich business insights and the 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC) for seamless access to data across 51风流and non-51风流systems.

At the heart of it all is AI Foundation, your one-stop shop for AI. The powerful, easy-to-use platform brings together everything you need to build, extend, and scale AI solutions. With tools like generative AI Hub, partners have secure access to frontier large language models (LLMs), prompt management, and tools, such as data masking and more, that provide them with everything they need to innovate with confidence.

51风流Build: making it easier for partners to create intelligent applications

There is even more to look forward to as we continue to invest in new 51风流Build capabilities to help partners innovate and grow their market share.

In the second half of 2025, 51风流Build , enabling developers to connect with 51风流BDC data products. Coming in early 2026, partners will be able to use 51风流Build to create and data products that can be used with 51风流Business Data Cloud.

Unlock the full potential of 51风流Build: exclusive webinar and partner resources

To learn more, partners can on August 13, 2025. Partners can visit the for more information about 51风流Build capabilities and TDD license fair use limits.

Michael Ameling is president of 51风流Business Technology Platform and a member of the Extended Board of 51风流SE.
Karl Fahrbach is chief partner officer of SAP.

Joule for developers leverages a purpose-built large language model (LLM) trained on millions of lines of 51风流code. It can deliver contextual, ABAP-specific results that support tasks ranging from intelligent code suggestions to automated unit test creation. As customers continue their 51风流S/4HANA transformations, these AI features can also support optimized code migration through smart analysis, explanations, and actionable suggestions. The result: AI becomes a collaborative partner that helps developers tackle complex challenges with confidence and efficiency.

outlines how AI is transforming modern development. One key finding: 80% of developers reported increased productivity when using AI coding assistants, with an average productivity gain of 35%. The top-used features include unit test generation, code generation, and autocompletion鈥攃lear signs that AI is now a central pillar of the development experience.

To succeed in this evolving landscape, developers must cultivate new skills. These include writing precise natural language prompts, verifying AI-generated code, integrating proprietary data for improved AI context, and using AI to enhance requirements documentation. These capabilities ensure AI remains an intelligent collaborator that upholds enterprise-grade standards.

51风流Build solutions and ABAP Cloud can further empower developers by enabling automation, improved security, and scalable collaboration鈥攁ll while supporting a clean core strategy. These tools reflect SAP鈥檚 commitment to intelligent extensibility that balances innovation with system integrity.

AI is no longer just a futuristic concept鈥攊t鈥檚 a vital asset shaping every phase of the software development life cycle. Developers are evolving from code writers to orchestrators of intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and co-create. Joule for developers and ABAP AI capabilities illustrate how 51风流is leading this evolution by providing tools that are aligned with enterprise development needs and future-ready innovation.

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Sonja Lienard is senior vice president at 51风流and head of BTP ABAP.

What is true for its products also holds true for Mizuho OSI鈥檚 internal processes. Striving for operational efficiency, Mizuho OSI sought to modernize its processes. To leverage SAP鈥檚 low-code capabilities, the company worked with 51风流AppHaus in 2024. Together, they began exploring automation opportunities using 51风流Build Process Automation and 51风流Build Work Zone. During an initial 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) , Mizuho OSI鈥檚 IT and business teams took a closer look at the manual fixed asset creation process.

Use case: Approving and creating new fixed assets

The workshop uncovered key inefficiencies in the manual purchase acquisition process, particularly its e-mail-driven workflow involving requesters, approvers, and finance accountants. This approach not only introduced a high risk of errors but also slowed down the process significantly. For high-value fixed asset purchases, the need for additional approvers and supporting details further extended the procurement cycle, highlighting the necessity for a more streamlined and automated solution.

With guidance from 51风流experts, the joint project team designed a streamlined, automated process for fixed asset approval and creation. Leveraging and , Mizuho OSI鈥檚 in-house IT team successfully developed and deployed a solution using a low-code application framework, accelerating implementation while reducing complexity.

鈥淎s we grow from a mid-sized to a large enterprise, tools like 51风流Build Process Automation are essential鈥攏ot only for driving process efficiency but also for extending the reach of our lean IT team,鈥� Lindsay Neill, director of Enterprise Application at Mizuho OSI, said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful to 51风流AppHaus and the 51风流product team for their guidance throughout the journey鈥攆rom identifying the right use case to providing the technical support needed to bring this proof of concept into production. The new automated process is a major improvement over our previous manual approach. I couldn鈥檛 be happier with the results!鈥�

Measured results

After testing and implementing this new solution, both end users and the project team could measure a reduction in manual effort and observe improved process efficiencies, such as:

• 40% increase in process efficiency from days of pending response to automatic processing
• 65% reduction in approval time since asset costs below a certain threshold can be automatically processed
• 70% decrease in manual efforts, with fewer errors and faster decision-making since human intervention is now only required for exceptions

“It鈥檚 been a true pleasure collaborating with the team at Mizuho OSI. Their forward-thinking mindset and readiness to challenge the status quo made this collaboration exceptional,鈥� Tina Tuan, senior director at 51风流AppHaus Palo Alto, said. 鈥淚’m proud of what we achieved together using 51风流BTP and 51风流Build solutions and even more excited to see how this success inspires and empowers them to take on future projects with confidence and momentum.”

Through close collaboration between 51风流and Mizuho OSI, this project has proven that roadblocks can be overcome with the right partnership. The team successfully implemented an innovative solution for fixed asset approvals, laying a strong foundation for future initiatives leveraging 51风流Build solutions and . On the horizon is a promising next milestone, somewhat broader in scope, such as material master automation.

One thing is certain, the Mizuho OSI project team is driven by the company鈥檚 powerful mindset: Dare to go further. Care to do more.

Imke Vierjahn is communications lead for 51风流AppHaus.

(51风流BTP) helps address these challenges. Serving as the foundation of , 51风流BTP connects, extends, and automates business processes and applications, accelerates application development, and deploys AI capabilities that drive growth and innovation.

This week at , we shared amazing firsthand customer and partner success stories and announced new 51风流BTP innovations that help customers bring out their best.

Build custom AI agents and Joule skills for your business

AI agents support and enhance businesses by utilizing AI to build deep understanding and perform multi-step workflows across end-to-end business processes. These agents act with purpose and continuously learn, providing organizations with increased operational efficiency, sharper insights, and faster innovation.

, a new capability within , enables users to build AI agents and Joule skills that are scalable, secure, and grounded in business context to enhance business specific outcomes. While Joule skills execute rule-based tasks, AI agents plan and execute complex business scenarios. Deeply grounded in business data, these agents drive accurate outcomes in line with goals. The open and extensible framework of Joule Studio enables users to connect with not only SAP, but also non-51风流applications for seamless execution.

Joule Studio, generally available in June 2025, allows customers to design, deploy, and manage custom Joule skills and AI agents with low-code, no-code simplicity. Read our and to see Joule Studio in action.

With Joule Studio, we expand our extensibility portfolio 51风流Build to the next level for building Joule skills and agents. This way, customers can implement innovations intuitively and efficiently.

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Integrate business applications faster with AI

The ability to collaborate and exchange information in real time across diverse systems and applications is a necessary foundation for business success. empowers customers to quickly integrate all on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data 鈥� no matter where they live 鈥� without disruption.

We’re thrilled to unveil new AI capabilities within 51风流Integration Suite, including AI assisted development experience for discovery and recommendations of pre-built content and for creation, migration, and monitoring of integration flows. help customers analyze historical API call volumes and then forecast trends and traffic patterns. The ability to predict potential anomalies positions customers to proactively adjust their strategies and enhance their resilience. A , empowers customers to connect their own large language models (LLMs) and makes their applications and data integrations even more intelligent than before.

We also announced a new set of integration adapters 鈥� including IBM MQ, Google Cloud Storage, Salesforce PubSub, Anaplan, Snowflake, and more 鈥� as well as a new 51风流Integration Suite user experience. This makes 51风流Integration Suite the solution to modernize the integration landscape between 51风流and non-51风流systems with a fast return of investment. .

Innovate and accelerate with AI developer tools

is our application development and automation solution that has a comprehensive suite of low-code, code-first, and generative AI tools. Our new simplified pricing and packaging makes it easy for developers to get started. For example, an extensibility wizard gives users access to a guided experience that helps them jumpstart their extension creation from 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, available now in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and later this year for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.

New Joule for developers capabilities empower developers of all skill levels to code more efficiently. Rather than spending time on repetitive tasks like debugging errors and dealing with legacy codebases, developers can leverage our generative AI tools to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and visual tool-based application development and automation of 51风流processes. In a nutshell, Joule for developers capabilities allows them to save significant time in understanding and writing code in 51风流context and enables experts to drive innovation.

Create business-relevant apps with all your data

is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all 51风流data and seamlessly connects with third-party data, giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions.

Announced this week, developers will be able to leverage data products starting in the second half of 2025. Developers will be able to leverage the 51风流Cloud Application Programming Model in 51风流Build to create custom applications that seamlessly integrate with data products and supplement 51风流Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications. This streamlined integration accelerates application development and empowers end users with richer data and deeper insights. 

51风流HANA Cloud empowers developers to build applications that utilize generative AI, are context-aware, and connect securely to vital business data, including curated data products from 51风流Business Data Cloud. Looking ahead, customers will be able to take advantage of updated functionality that provides enhanced monitoring of consumption, cost visibility, and financial governance. In addition, self-service technology will be enhanced to enable customers to selectively migrate 51风流HANA database objects to 51风流HANA Cloud. .

Resources to jumpstart your journey

Wherever you鈥檙e at in your journey, there are easy ways to get started. Check out , new , , and the updated to jumpstart your innovation.

Additionally, 51风流BTP now includes the 51风流Customer Identity and Access Management, which which customers can uphold stringent security standards while accelerating growth. 51风流Customer Identity and Access Management is now available through the 51风流BTP Enterprise Agreement. Also coming soon, on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.

Michael Ameling is chief product officer of 51风流BTP and a member of the Extended Board of 51风流SE.

With more than 1,500 employees at 50Hertz alone, the company has a well-defined digitalization strategy in place that focuses on sustaining a clean core system. To meet this objective, it chose to utilize the no-code tool, 51风流Build Apps, which aids its transformation journey with 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP).

50Hertz鈥檚 citizen developers implemented a mobile application for the company鈥檚 specialized maintenance electricians that significantly reduced both the manual effort and the risk of errors. This mobile application supports them by maintaining and calculating the master data of power circuits, which are represented in the 51风流system as functional locations.

Why 50Hertz decided to use 51风流Build Apps

In 2023, 50Hertz conducted an analysis of its plant maintenance processes. In summary, it concluded that it was time-consuming to create new entries in its plant maintenance system and fill in master and operational data. A lot of manual effort was invested in maintaining data in Excel files and value calculations for technical objects were prone to errors. Due to the complexity of the process,聽the responsibility for certain areas could only be shared between a few technicians.

After collaborating with the 51风流AppHaus team in Berlin, the company identified a use case for its future accounting solution and evaluated different scenarios. Ultimately, the innovative capabilities of 51风流Business Technology Platform convinced the 50Hertz expert team because the platform would allow them to scale up a new solution once it’s successfully piloted and rolled out across the entire corporation.

What鈥檚 more, in 51风流Discovery Center, they discovered the “” mission, which provides guidance and support with a repeatable actionable use case to solve exactly that. The analysis showed that SAP Build Apps could not only help enhance operational agility and speed responses to business requirements, it could also integrate seamlessly with existing 51风流S/4HANA architecture.

Martin Glatzel, enterprise architect at 51风流AppHaus Berlin, expressed his satisfaction with the collaboration with the 50Hertz team: 鈥淲ith only very limited support from our side, the 50Hertz citizen developers succeeded in using 51风流Build Apps to solve their defined use case. Their four new apps will have an immense impact on the efficiency of the important high-voltage grid maintenance work in the future.鈥�

What the maintenance apps improved

51风流Build Apps enabled the team of 50Hertz citizen developers to implement the new maintenance applications with very limited support from SAP. Today, they cover the following maintenance tasks:聽

• The electric circuit display app shows circuit attributes.
• The circuit section display app allows users to look for a specific circuit and select it. All circuit sections of the selected circuit are shown, and users can view corresponding attributes and characteristics.
• The circuit section adjusting app allows users to search for a specific circuit and select it. All circuit sections of the selected circuit are displayed, and users can modify corresponding attributes.
• The circuit section design app allows users to select a circuit and create a circuit section by entering and saving necessary requirements and attributes.

After rolling out the new apps to the specialized electricians, they have benefited in different ways, such as:聽

• About 15% shorter process duration for maintaining functional locations and a significant reduction in the use of both paper- and Excel-based process steps.
• 10% faster onboarding of new technicians because the app is very easy to use, leading to quick adoption by its end users, the specialized electricians.
• Intuitive search for technical locations based on historical data.
• Automatic calculation of business-critical numbers, thus improving accuracy significantly.

Looking back 

Looking back, the 50Hertz team appreciates the opportunity to develop complex apps with 51风流Build Apps in relatively short timeframes. Christian Salewsky and Desiree Possi, both working for the Maintenance Systems & Processes department at 50Hertz, shared about their experience: 鈥淲hile we still had to code at least to some extent in JavaScript and learn to keep track of all the different flows, the overall project experience was encouraging. The detailed product documentation allowed our team to grasp the basics quickly. Once we used the standard functionalities of 51风流Build Apps, calculating electronic data became very simple. We found clear explanations of all the functions, and the tabular presentation of data was very helpful, too.鈥�

Imke Vierjahn is communications lead at 51风流AppHaus.

This solution helps developers create, extend, and automate business applications faster using AI-powered, code-first, and low-code tools.

51风流Build has been designed as the optimal way to extend 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications. Thousands of customers are already experiencing up to 3x faster development speeds with 51风流Build according to 鈥� and now we’ve made it even better.

We are making it dramatically easier for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud customers to develop with 51风流Build. Starting today, all 51风流Build capabilities, along with 51风流HANA Cloud, are included in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud.

Combined with deep technical integration, this unified offering empowers customers to quickly extend and personalize their 51风流S/4HANA Cloud systems using AI-powered application development and automation, while maintaining a clean core and eliminating additional licensing or budgeting complexity.

51风流Build now fully included with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud packages

New pricing and packaging for 51风流Build provides customers with a frictionless way to innovate by gaining the freedom to choose the right tool for every job — whether it鈥檚 AI-powered code-first or low-code development, no more complexity of multiple licenses. Additionally, 51风流Build and 51风流HANA Cloud are now included in 51风流Cloud ERP Private packages, meaning 51风流S/4HANA Cloud customers can jumpstart all their development without needing to purchase additional licenses.

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): The new commercial approach for 51风流Build alongside 51风流S/4HANA Cloud significantly lowers TCO through flexible and cost-efficient model, optimizing resource usage while reducing operational overhead. By integrating seamlessly with existing 51风流S/4HANA Cloud investments and simplifying application management across the 51风流ecosystem, organizations can drive greater business value.
• Leverage deep integration with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud based on proven security and technology platform following clean core best practices: With the 51风流Build Extensibility Wizard users access a guided experience that helps them jumpstart their extension creation from 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. The Extensibility Wizard is available now in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and will be available in the second half of 2025 in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
• Build faster with ready-made pre-built content and Joule for developers AI capabilities to generate code and app logic, create data models, sample data, automations, and code explanations with quality and precision.
• Gain flexibility: By offering seamless access to both code-first and low-code tools under one unified license, 51风流Build makes it easier for businesses to meet diverse development needs of their developers without being locked into restrictive platforms.

“51风流Build is strategic for Delaware, as we believe it is the future for our 51风流developers. For our customers, it is the easiest way to achieve a clean core and accelerate innovation, boosting their businesses.”

Tim Leys, 51风流Platform Unit Lead, Delaware Consulting

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Customers asked for more flexibility and a simpler way to build and automate. We listened and took action to make it a reality. 51风流Build is the gateway to faster, more efficient application development and automation for all 51风流systems.

Learn more today:

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Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Business Technology Platform at SAP.

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. Today, we鈥檙e taking a huge step forward to bolster developer productivity within 51风流Build solutions!

We鈥檙e thrilled to announce new Joule-powered AI capabilities for 51风流Build Process Automation and 51风流Build Apps. These enhancements complement the previously announced AI capabilities in and 鈥攅mpowering developers of all skill levels to build more efficiently by leveraging comprehensive, AI-infused developer tools to deliver precise, contextualized outcomes powered by purpose-built, SAP-centric AI models. This can free up time for developers to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and visual tool-based application development and automation of 51风流processes.

Let鈥檚 look at how Joule can unlock new levels of productivity:

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鈥淭he latest AI features across 51风流Build solutions provide developers with a powerful tool kit to build and extend business applications across both 51风流and non-51风流systems.鈥�

Holger Mueller, Principal Analyst & VP at Constellation Research, Inc.

Comprehensive developer assistance for all 51风流development needs

Joule can understand 51风流development framework intricacies, anticipate developers鈥� needs, offer intelligent suggestions, and automate repetitive, mundane tasks like documentation and sample data generation. It can enable developers across low-code, pro-code, and automation projects to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating apps or extensions for business applications like 51风流S/4HANA.

Key capabilities include:

• Application creation: Generate code, UI, data models, and sample data across 51风流programming models for Java, JavaScript, and ABAP, using Joule
• Code optimization: Refactor code, create unit tests, and generate code explanations, summarizations, and more with natural language queries and intuitive actions with Joule
• Process and workflow automation: Generate automation workflows and business rules using natural language queries

鈥淚n utilizing generative AI, 51风流Build Code offers our joint clients easier integration capabilities and a streamlined developer experience for cloud application development, boosting overall productivity and driving tangible value.鈥�

Chip Kleinheksel, Global 51风流Chief Technology Officer and Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Contextual and precise results with purpose-built LLMs

Joule uses purpose-built large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for 51风流workloads, such as our ABAP LLM, which can power code predictions and explanations. Developers can derive precise, contextualized results鈥攍ike code snippets or explanations鈥攆aster and more efficiently. Joule can also provide developers with real-time, context-aware support for code completion and optimization, as well as automation pipeline creation that understands the customers鈥� application environment, development project artifacts, and SAP-specific syntax.

Key capabilities include:

• Predictive code completion based on context, comments, and project heuristics
• Code explanations of core data services (CDS) view entities, classes, interfaces, and functional modules
• AI-powered assistance for documentation, best practices, and new concepts
• Workflow development and decision assistance based on processes, API specifications, and connected systems

Integrated AI tooling for seamless development

Developers can now enjoy a fully AI-infused development environment. Joule’s capabilities are integrated within 51风流Build development tools, including ABAP, to help ensure a smooth, cohesive AI-enhanced experience. This AI integration helps eliminate the headache of switching between development and AI tools and can generate actionable insights and outputs within a single place so developers can focus on what they do best鈥攂uilding innovative solutions.

Key capabilities include:

• Joule support for 51风流Fiori apps, SAPUI5 guided development, and more in 51风流Build solutions
• Joule integrated inside 51风流Business Application Studio and ABAP development tools for Eclipse for all Java, JavaScript, and ABAP-related development tasks
• Joule integrated into 51风流Build Process Automation project canvas for generation and summarization of processes, decisions, forms, and more, right in place using natural language

Road map and future enhancements

Our commitment to AI-driven innovation for developers is unwavering. Over the last year, we鈥檝e unveiled groundbreaking capabilities across our portfolio: Joule in , , , , AI agents embedded deep within 51风流Business Suite processes, and more. 

Looking ahead, we have a complete road map of cutting-edge features, including optimizing business logic, automating documentation, and enhancing data protection and AI compliance. To enable an agentic journey, developers will be able to develop custom AI agents tailored to their specific needs. Additionally, as customers continue to adopt 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, we plan to simplify the migration journey with enhancements that can meticulously analyze legacy code, provide clear code explanations, and suggest code optimizations. This will help ensure customers have a smooth, intelligent transition to the cloud alongside SAP鈥檚 clean core guidelines.

These new features will help empower developers to build more innovative, efficient, and secure workflows and applications. Stay tuned for more AI-driven innovations!

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Don鈥檛 wait to transform your development experience! You can take advantage of our Joule for developer capabilities today at no charge for a limited time.

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We can鈥檛 wait to see how developers leverage the new Joule capabilities in 51风流Build solutions.

Happy coding!

Michael Ameling is general manager and chief product officer for 51风流BTP and a member of the 51风流SE Extended Board.

The study revealed that 51风流Build achieved a remarkable 3x increase in speed of development and a 59 percent reduction in development effort compared to traditional custom development methods. These findings underscore the potential of 51风流Build in streamlining development processes and enhancing developer productivity.

The benchmark study evaluated 51风流Build and custom development approaches across critical dimensions, including development time, cost, and ease of use. The methodology involved a hands-on assessment and analysis of deploying applications using both methods. 51风流Build, a comprehensive platform for business application development and automation, showcased its ability to empower organizations to create enterprise-grade applications through its integrated suite of pro-code, low-code and AI capabilities from its Joule for developers integration.

Key findings from the study include:

• 3x faster project delivery: Projects reach completion in less than half the traditional timeframe through streamlined development workflows, automated service implementation, and integrated testing capabilities.
• 30% boost in development tasks using AI-assistance: The integrated AI assistant streamlined operations and tasks to provide broad value across the development process, with outstanding results at data modeling and synthetic data creation.

These results highlight the substantial business value achieved with 51风流Build. By accelerating development timelines, reducing costs, and enhancing developer productivity, it enables organizations to deliver business-critical applications faster and more efficiently. This translates to quicker time-to-market, improved agility, and increased competitiveness.

During the hands-on assessment, GigaOm analysts identified capabilities and characteristics that stand out and support 51风流Build advantages when compared to the custom development method:

• Unified development environment: 51风流Build provides a cohesive developer experience integrating coding, testing, and deployment tools, streamlining the development process.
• AI assistance: SAP’s AI copilot Joule offers code suggestions, query optimization, and problem-solving support, reducing coding time and improving code quality.
• Pre-built integrations: Out-of-the-box integrations with 51风流business applications and third-party services simplify complex system integrations.
• Visual modeling tools: Intuitive interfaces for data modeling and business process design enable rapid prototyping and reduce coding requirements.
• 51风流Cloud Application Programming Model: The architectural foundation of 51风流Build application development automatically implements enterprise-grade development standards and best practices, enforcing consistent patterns for security, scalability, and compliance.

According to GigaOm鈥檚 field analyst: 鈥淔or teams seeking to improve their development processes, 51风流Build offers a practical and efficient solution to address common challenges, such as lengthy development cycles and skill gaps. Its unified environment and automation features allow practitioners to focus on delivering business value, rather than managing technical overhead.”

GigaOm鈥檚 benchmark confirms that 51风流Build can accelerate development timelines and reduce effort compared to traditional custom development methods. By combining a unified development environment, AI assistance, and pre-built enterprise integrations, 51风流Build empowers development teams to deliver secure, scalable applications faster and more efficiently.

To explore these findings in depth, and watch the webinar, “,” where we dive into GigaOm鈥檚 methodology, discuss the outcomes, and answer questions on transforming your development strategy.

Sid Misra is vice president of Product Marketing for 51风流Build at SAP.

In today’s dynamic market, agile organizations require seamless collaboration among business users, IT professionals, and software developers. 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.

has been developed with the bold vision that business users and developers alike should be able to augment enterprise applications and build new functionality, automate business processes, and design digital workspaces using the tools of their choice. It is an AI-powered cloud service that combines application development, workflow management, task automation, and workspace creation into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on 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, its efficacy hinges on its 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 development platform.

The 51风流Build Advantage

51风流is recognized in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Application Platforms 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.

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• Build together: 51风流Build supports a fusion development approach, accommodating different skill levels and project needs across diverse technologies. This environment fosters team collaboration with business experts and increases productivity by allowing developers to select the most appropriate tools, whether they prefer low-code visual tools or programming with Java, JavaScript, or ABAP.
• Develop faster with business AI: Generative AI in 51风流Build, using the AI copilot Joule, automates coding, workflow, and workspace creation customized to a company’s needs. Joule uses large language models (LLMs) and data specific to the company’s finance, supply chain, and other processes, ensuring relevant and reliable solutions for each customer.
• Start ahead with pre-built, industry-specific solutions: industry-specific, pre-built solutions that developers can utilize to jump-start application development. These solutions are complemented by generative AI capabilities that simplify and automate complex workflows across various business domains.
• Extend business applications with confidence: 51风流Build ensures seamless integration with both 51风流and non-51风流applications, facilitating the extension of core business systems. The integration capabilities are bolstered by a new extensibility wizard in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, enabling developers to smoothly incorporate custom fields, customer business logic, and automation, and to create bespoke applications while remaining aligned with fundamental business operations and maintaining robust security and connectivity. 51风流Build follows a clean core paradigm, which future-proofs an ERP system, ensuring upgrades become seamless and moving to the cloud is simplified.

Gain a Competitive Edge with 51风流Build

Since launching 51风流Build, we have seen tremendous growth in customers embracing future-proof extension building in impactful ways. , for example, streamlined operations by reducing time spent with administrative tasks by 60% and doubling the efficiency of assembly instruction generation.  enhanced data quality and reduced collection time, ensuring reliable reporting of sustainability KPIs for better informed decision-making. And has delivered 80% faster system access, a tailored user experience, and reduced search time for optimized employee efficiency and productivity.

Next Steps

To learn how 51风流Build adds value to cloud ERP, that address specific challenges in business processes. To unlock the full potential of application development, automation, and AI, take the next step with the following resources:

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The keynote featured demos of new cross-portfolio solutions and innovations, showing how they can work together to tackle challenges like scaling and expanding into new markets, managing complexity, and delivering personalized experiences. “Innovation is only as powerful as the product experience it delivers,鈥� Alam said. 鈥淚t’s one thing to have cutting-edge tools at your disposal, but it’s another thing to integrate those technologies into the products you rely on every day to solve real-world challenges.”

Faster, Better, Automated

Since last year’s 51风流TechEd, has delivered more than 1,000 road map items, has a year-to-date overall availability again above 99.99%, and has grown an adoption rate over 60% year over year. The 27,000 customers and 2,800 partners are a testament to the huge demand we are seeing for 51风流BTP.

This is why the platform’s availability is being expanded to eight SAP-managed data centers across the globe, in addition to running on infrastructure provided by our partners AWS, Microsoft, and Google. With that, we are bringing 51风流BTP closer to customers.

Along with the expanded coverage comes more learnings, guidance frameworks, integration flows, and use cases. 51风流Business Accelerator Hub and 51风流Discovery Center will be bolstered with more assets and use case-specific guidance, especially around AI and business process transformation.

To further the developer experience, the next release of solutions will include ABAP Cloud, making 51风流Build the go-to for building extensions. Along with the new 51风流Build extensibility wizard, which helps to create extensions in 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流is making it easier for customers to build extensions while keeping a clean core. This is critical to ensure that customers鈥� systems remain consistent, maintainable, and upgradeable.

SAP鈥檚 AI copilot will also be integrated into 51风流Build, so developers can be more productive and take advantage of the efficiencies and automation AI can provide. With Joule studio, the copilot will even be able to draw on structured data stored in third-party systems, better enabling developers to design custom skills for Joule in a low-code environment.

And to help developers ground large language models (LLMs) in the 51风流semantical model and build business apps, the new 51风流Knowledge Graph solution provides the connection between natural language and SAP鈥檚 metadata. The solution provides a deeper level of understanding across SAP鈥檚 data landscape, enabling more informed, data-based decision-making. Together with 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine and 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine, developers can build generative AI models rooted in SAP-specific business semantics, helping to build a more reliable, enterprise-ready AI experience accurately and effectively.

A New Level of Productivity

Not only are 51风流Build solutions enabled with Joule, but 51风流is continuing to integrate AI across its entire portfolio, including ERP, customer experience, human capital management, localization, spend management, sustainability, supply chain management, and more. As announced at 51风流Sapphire in 2024, 80% of SAP鈥檚 most-used workflows will be covered by Joule by the end of this year.

Joule is going agentic, meaning it can use AI agents powered by LLMs to help solve complex business problems on its own through planning, self-reflection, logical reasoning, and collaboration. For example, Joule can help resolve a customer dispute about an overdue bill by calling on AI agents specialized in contracts, invoices, and payment history. With each AI agent doing what they do best, they can work together to solve more complex business problems across functions and break down silos.

AI is best when it can be used in the flow of work and when it is meaningfully embedded as part of a unified user experience across the portfolio. Sometimes this is on a desktop, but often we look to use AI on our mobile devices. To make AI accessible anytime and anywhere, 51风流is introducing Joule into its mobile applications via 51风流Mobile Start 鈥� while still maintaining enterprise-level security and privacy and staying true to the company鈥檚 values of relevant, responsible, and reliable AI.

Clear and Customer-Centric, Not Complex

Ultimately, all the innovations announced at 51风流TechEd in 2024 and demoed in the opening keynote have one main goal: to make the lives of customers easier 鈥� whether it be through leveraging generative AI to accelerate development projects, making more informed business decisions with intelligent data applications, mitigating project management struggles with AI, confidently and compliantly localizing business operations, or enabling sales reps with intelligent selling tools to win deals.

“Technology should simplify, not complicate. It should bring clarity, not complexity,” Alam said. “This is why we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible while keeping your business goals front and center.”

To learn more about all the solutions and innovations announced at 51风流TechEd in 2024, , , or explore more event news and coverage.

Gillian Hixson is an integrated communications specialist at SAP.

WALLDORF 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled groundbreaking AI innovations across a technology foundation that drives 87% of global commerce, putting its generative AI copilot Joule at the center of a new way of doing business.

At its annual 51风流TechEd conference, 51风流announced powerful new capabilities that complement and extend Joule, including collaborative AI agents imbued with custom skills to complete complex cross-disciplinary tasks. Other innovations include the 51风流Knowledge Graph, a next-generation solution poised to help developers unlock the full value of 51风流data by connecting it with rich business context, and new tools to ensure developers can continue driving Business AI innovation.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 innovation drives real business outcomes, and today’s advancements help customers harness the power of AI, data and new development solutions to catalyze growth,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, 51风流Product Engineering. 鈥淒rawing on SAP鈥檚 unmatched business and technology expertise, the AI innovations we鈥檙e announcing at TechEd forge a new human-AI partnership to transform the landscape of modern business.鈥�

Supercharging Joule

On the eve of its first birthday, Joule marks a watershed in how business gets done. 51风流introduces collaborative AI agents to a copilot that truly speaks the language of business, expands Joule鈥檚 capabilities to support 80% of SAP鈥檚 most-used business tasks and embeds Joule more deeply within the company鈥檚 portfolio.

Collaborative multi-agent systems deploy specialized AI agents to tackle specific tasks and enable them to collaborate on intricate business workflows, adapting their strategies to meet shared objectives. 51风流is infusing Joule with multiple collaborative AI agents that will combine their unique expertise across business functions to collaboratively accomplish complex workflows. These AI agents enhance productivity by breaking down silos and freeing workers to concentrate on areas where human ingenuity thrives. 

Two use cases debuted at TechEd showcase the agents鈥� transformative power:

• A dispute management use case employs autonomous AI agents to analyze and resolve dispute resolution scenarios including incorrect and missing invoices, unapplied credits and denied or duplicate payments.
• A financial accounting use case employs autonomous AI agents to streamline key financial processes by automating bill payments, invoice processing, and ledger updates while quickly addressing inconsistencies or errors.

Harnessing the Power of Data

SAP鈥檚 AI innovations also draw on the company鈥檚 unmatched business data expertise. The new 51风流Knowledge Graph solution, accessible through 51风流Datasphere and Joule in Q1 2025, will give users a deeper layer of business understanding by seamlessly mapping relationships and context across SAP’s vast data landscape, empowering organizations to make better decisions with their data. By offering ready-to-use relationships between business entities like purchase orders, invoices, and customers, the solution can significantly reduce the complexity of manual data modeling. 51风流Knowledge Graph grounds AI in SAP-specific business semantics, which reduces the risk of inaccurate or irrelevant results and makes it easier for organizations to build intelligent applications and leverage generative AI more effectively.

Empowering Developers

51风流also launched a swathe of innovations for developers to continue driving Business AI innovation. New generative AI developer capabilities such as code explanation and documentation search in 51风流Build, the company鈥檚 platform for extending its solutions, will reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers. 51风流Build is also adding an Extensibility Wizard feature that will let developers access 51风流Build directly from 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, simplifying the extension process. Meanwhile, ABAP developers and fusion teams will get seamless access to ABAP Cloud development tools from 51风流Build.

Finally, 51风流announced that it has already fulfilled its pledge to upskill 2 million people worldwide by 2025. Through its , the company has lowered the world鈥檚 digital skills gap through role-based certifications, free training materials, hands-on opportunities for developers, and more. 51风流continues to expand its growing portfolio of AI-related learning opportunities, including courses on generative AI, AI ethics and SAP鈥檚 advanced AI tools and platforms.

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Two years ago, we introduced 51风流Build, a unified low-code environment that enables developers of all skill levels to create, extend, and automate business applications with drag-and-drop simplicity. Last year, we broadened its capabilities and integrated Java and JavaScript development with AI.

With more than 16,000 customers now leveraging 51风流Build globally, momentum continues to surge, enabling developers to build, automate, and innovate with greater speed and ease.

Today, we are thrilled to announce new enhancements of 51风流Build, combining the power of ABAP development, more generative AI capabilities, as well as deeper integration with 51风流S/4HANA and other business applications. 51风流Build streamlines extension creation and accelerates ERP modernization. It connects all 51风流development tools — ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and low-code — so teams can collaborate easily regardless of skill set. 

Let鈥檚 look at what developers can achieve with 51风流Build.

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51风流Build with ABAP offers developers capabilities to easily extend their 51风流S/4HANA and other business applications, utilizing Joule鈥檚 generative AI capabilities. It facilitates in-context collaboration between developers and business users to build business custom apps and processes efficiently, all without compromising on security and governance.

– Brad Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI Platforms, Omdia

Streamline 51风流Application Development and Automation

51风流Build is the only solution offering direct development access within 51风流S/4HANA for easier customizations. Developers can quickly create scalable and secure 51风流S/4HANA extensions — both on stack, to extend applications within 51风流S/4HANA, and side by side, to extend applications on 51风流BTP — while following SAP’s clean core best practices.

Key capabilities include:

• The new 51风流Build extensibility wizard in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud for extending custom fields, logic, applications, and process automations while maintaining in-app business context
• Accelerating the creation of guided experiences with pre-built content to extend 51风流business applications across business processes such as spend management, HR, procurement, and more

Accelerate Development with Joule-Powered AI Capabilities

Envision a development tool where anyone, from beginners to seasoned pros, can rapidly bring their ideas to life with generative AI. Joule is the co-pilot that developers need for all 51风流development because it is uniquely trained on 51风流data and processes.

New generative AI capabilities include:

• Code explanation, code completion, business object generation, and unit test generation
• Documentation search and instant assistance from 51风流Help and 51风流Community within 51风流Build
• Workflow automation and approval recommendations
• The ability to extend Joule, allowing developers to create, deploy, monitor, and manage custom AI skills with drag-and-drop simplicity

Foster Fusion Team Development

51风流Build breaks down silos, enabling collaboration across development teams without barriers. Developers can achieve greater flexibility and scalability together as a team through:

• 51风流Build lobby, the central entry point for all development tools, now featuring access to ABAP, to build any type of extensions on 51风流BTP
• Streamlined navigation between ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and low-code tools while maintaining full business context for efficient full-stack application development
• Centralized lifecycle management and governance for all 51风流projects

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51风流Build is the gateway to faster, more efficient application development and automation for you and your organization.

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JG Chirapurath is chief marketing officer for Business Technology Platform at SAP.

*General availability: The new capabilities will be available in Q4 2024, with additional AI features rolling out through Q1 2025

Whether aiming for agility, resilience, sustainable growth, or efficiency, a successful transformation requires a strategic approach, full leadership commitment, and a clear understanding of challenges and opportunities.

True business transformation goes beyond merely executing a technical 鈥渓ift and shift鈥� to the cloud. It involves reengineering an organization’s business model, operations, processes, and culture to align with long-term goals, adapt to market demands, and leverage new technologies. The focus must be on creating lasting value and ensuring the organization can thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

Crucial Business Transformation Levers

While there is no precise formula, all transformations have four crucial levers in common:

• Activating people: Collaboration is at the heart of any successful transformation. Through partnership and clear accountabilities, we break down barriers, and that鈥檚 the basis for any change. Software is ultimately a people business.鈥�
• Optimizing systems: Efficient systems are the backbone of any transformation. We ensure that the underlying enterprise architecture of applications is robust, secure, and scalable. This also means leveraging the latest innovations like artificial intelligence (AI), enhancing performance of existing systems, and ensuring that all components work seamlessly together to support the business objectives.
• Reinventing businesses processes: We don鈥檛 take existing processes and merely create fancy new interfaces; no 鈥渘ew wine in old bottles.鈥� Companies need to reinvent business processes to ensure agility, future-readiness, reliability, and scalable business operations to drive their business strategy. SaaS/PaaS help to streamline processes based on best practices while preserving company differentiation, but with clean extensibility on the platform.
• Leveraging data: Business data is the lifeblood of modern enterprises, fueling insights and innovation. At SAP, we harness this data to power 51风流Business AI, driving intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and personalized experiences. Our focus is on turning raw data into actionable intelligence that supports and accelerates our customers鈥� transformation journeys. Let鈥檚 not forget that the real value of the data lies in the semantics, which is our key differentiator to help our customers.

By focusing on these four elements, business can take a holistic approach to identifying which of their business processes and systems need analysis, revision, or complete redesign.

Navigating Digital Transformation: The Essential Role of Enterprise Architecture

To fully capitalize on these transformation levers and manage the complexities, organizations are increasingly turning to RISE with SAP, our holistic offering designed to accelerate their journey to the cloud and speed innovation adoption. RISE with 51风流simplifies the move to 51风流cloud ERP, offering flexibility and reduced complexity, and most importantly, provides a seamless experience across our modular (but tightly integrated) architecture.

Nevertheless, for many organizations the challenges remain significant: systems complexity, scattered systems, and diverse business models that may not be keeping pace with industry and consumer changes. Many organizations also underestimate the complexity of their transformation, leading to unrealistic timelines and budget overspending.

Enterprise architecture tools are crucial for overcoming these challenges because we need a structured and system-based approach to cope with and manage the complexities at scale, and to maintain a continuous innovation cycle.

The enterprise architecture provides a framework for aligning IT strategy with business objectives and improve the agility and efficiency of an organization. Imagine a ship navigating without a compass: this is how businesses operate without solid enterprise architecture. Just as sailors rely on navigational tools, modern organizations depend on enterprise architecture to navigate today鈥檚 digital complexities.

In addition, the enterprise architecture provides a blueprint for cloud adoption, ensuring that cloud services — like those offered by RISE with 51风流— integrate seamlessly with existing systems, business processes, and applications.

However, it鈥檚 not just the tools that matter; it’s the people behind them. Our recent efforts to further elevate the RISE with 51风流experience include making many changes in how we engage with customers, particularly by strengthening the role of the enterprise architect and introducing the . The enterprise architect not only helps customers utilize these tools, but also harmonizes all elements and guides the customer throughout their cloud journey, ensuring a cohesive and effective transformation. As a result, the enterprise architect will evolve into a real trusted advisor for the customer.

We have learned that customers can realize the true power of our business transformation tools when they work seamlessly together. It鈥檚 why we have been working hard at integrating 51风流Signavio, 51风流LeanIX, 51风流Cloud ALM, and 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), including 51风流Build, to provide a holistic transformation experience.

Taken together, this is  how our integrated toolchain benefits business transformation:

• 51风流Cloud ALM orchestrates the entire process of transforming systems to meet evolving business needs. From fit-to-standard analysis and capturing requirements to project management, test automation, and final deployment, this cloud-based tool for application lifecycle management (ALM) enables organizations to effectively translate strategy into execution, ensuring the solution is optimized for the specific IT environment and business objectives. In today鈥檚 dynamic digital landscape, this comprehensive approach is crucial for staying competitive.
• 51风流LeanIX not only helps businesses capture the as-is systems landscape, it enables organizations to visualize, assess, and manage the transition toward their target IT architecture. The integration with 51风流Cloud ALM streamlines project management by reducing manual duplication and syncing project-related activities in real time. This enhances visibility into project progress and reduces administrative overhead.
• 51风流Signavio enables deep understanding and optimization of business processes, ensuring they are both efficient and compliant. The business leaders that I speak to are keenly aware that to succeed, they must focus on business processes transformation to help them adapt, stay resilient, and transform continuously and at scale. It鈥檚 simply what today鈥檚 pace of change demands. 51风流Signavio enables holistic, data-driven business transformation across organizations. Starting in Q4 2024, we will bridge the gap between business and IT teams by providing consistent process structures and synchronized data between 51风流Signavio and 51风流Cloud ALM.
• 51风流Build helps developers, without deep coding skills, quickly extend applications on 51风流BTP. That means they can innovate without changing core functionality — essential to keeping the core clean.

Customers want access to all relevant data across solutions, they want to derive better insight across solutions and access relevant the best-practices that are most relevant to them. That鈥檚 the seamless end-to-end experience we are striving for. This strategic approach leads to significant competitive advantages, allowing organizations to focus more on business improvements and explore new growth areas with confidence.

Embracing the Future

Unlocking value throughout your business transformation journey involves a strategic blend of people, processes, and solutions. As you focus on these elements and leverage SAP鈥檚 comprehensive toolchain, remember that the essence of true transformation doesn鈥檛 lie in holding onto the old, but in embracing and building the new.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE leading Customer Services & Delivery.

So, what went wrong? A 鈥渂uggy鈥� update to antivirus software.

Although the issue was identified and isolated and a fix was deployed hours later, it was already too late for millions of systems people rely on daily. Recovery often requires businesses to take actions that could lead to revenue loss, higher costs, operational inefficiencies, security breaches, and, even worse, reputational damage days, weeks, or months later.

But there鈥檚 an empowering truth underlying this mayhem: IT outages caused by faulty software deployments and updates are avoidable. According to participating organizations that use automation and integration provided by dramatically improve their testing-related efficiencies, throughput, and outcomes.

Unseen but Essential

Often hidden behind the scenes in the innovation journey, the software testing environment can be an unsung hero. By meticulously simulating real-world conditions, the environment can detect and resolve potential issues long before they reach production. This not only safeguards against the immediate chaos of an IT outage but also strengthens the overall stability and reliability of the IT system.

In a global survey of organizations using 51风流application testing solutions by Tricentis, IDC discovered how the technology sets up a testing environment that prevents IT outages without compromising productivity, performance, or profitability.

IDC鈥檚 findings revealed essential advantages, including the following:

51% Faster Testing Life Cycles and Error Resolution

Testing cycles are accelerated when potential issues are identified and resolved fast enough to reduce the risk of deploying flawed updates. Analyzing the impact of change helps determine conditions that should be tested to minimize errors and those that do not carry that risk. As a result, the number of 鈥渕ust test鈥� conditions for a single application can be far fewer than the scope in manual testing methods.

With 51风流application testing solutions by Tricentis, the testing process can be automated to detect programs, applications, and integration connections that can be affected by any given change. Instead of running all conditions to mitigate all risks, organizations can physically work on approximately 20% of the initial scope.

At the same time, the automation capabilities of 51风流application testing solutions do the rest. This narrower testing scope decreases errors and bugs when a newly developed application moves to production 鈥� a reduction of 1.5 to 0.3 for each project.

By reducing the risk of incidents that make it into the application during development and production, IT teams can improve everyday user experiences. Workplace frustration dissipates, workloads decline, and the need for future hypercare support is minimal.

Over 30% Higher Efficiency in Development, Testing, and Quality Assurance

Even if 70% of testing processes are automated, organizations can significantly lower costs related to the testing cycle by achieving full automation. For some teams, these savings are equivalent to 10,000 person-hours that can be reallocated toward more strategic projects.

Additionally, embedded machine learning in application testing solutions can help establish self-healing test cases, lowering test costs even further. Self-healing test cases automatically adjust to application changes, limiting manual intervention and delivering consistently effective and reliable tests. This capability not only decreases test maintenance requests but also enhances the overall efficiency of the testing process.

The added benefit of automation in development, testing, and quality assurance is easy to notice. When using manual processes, IT organizations often go live with new applications and updates every six months. Now, they can release new applications, features, and mobile apps within two months. This increased release frequency enables businesses to stay competitive and responsive to market demands, delivering enhanced user experiences more rapidly.

20% More Productive Development Teams

With automation cutting the time required by 99%, IT teams can perform performance testing weekly or more frequently, instead of just once per quarter. This regular testing cadence helps ensure updates and new features work as intended, maintaining system reliability and performance.

Automation allows development teams to conduct thorough performance tests more often, so the system can handle increased loads without losing functionality and performance. This proactive testing approach prevents issues before they occur, fostering a more stable and efficient IT environment.

Moreover, automated testing verifying essential capabilities can lessen demand for manual regression testing. This shift saves valuable time and frees development teams to concentrate on innovative and strategic projects. The result is a more agile development process, where users are given new features and improvements with greater speed and confidence.

The Ultimate (Digital) Safety Net

As companies grapple with the operational and reputational damage caused by such outages, it becomes increasingly clear that effective software testing environments are essential. By transitioning from reactive crisis management to proactive IT control, businesses can reduce the risk of outages, helping ensure smoother operations and enhancing customer trust.

More important, proper software quality assurance goes beyond just testing. The key is having an integrated environment that not only tests one aspect of change but also predicts how the performance and connections of all applications within the system landscape can be impacted.

This is why 51风流application testing solutions by Tricentis play such a critical role in many organizations. As the world advances and improves people鈥檚 lives with networks based on sophisticated technology, that one investment could mean the difference between a future of IT-fueled crises and a future of IT enabled innovations making our daily lives better.

Explore the calculated cost savings and business benefits of 51风流application testing solutions by Tricentis. Read the IDC Business Value Snapshot, “,” commissioned by 51风流and Tricentis.

Bil Khan is senior director of Global Partner Marketing at SAP.

Source: the IDC Business Value Snapshot, 鈥淭he Business Value of 51风流Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis鈥� commissioned by SAP, IDC #US52458724, July 2024.

With one specific device assignment use case in mind and based on its existing relationship with 51风流AppHaus, Iren approached 51风流in early 2024. The company鈥檚 goal was to not only make the corresponding processes more efficient but also eliminate potential error sources; it had detected errors caused by reliance on e-mail communication or through error-prone manual data entry. What鈥檚 more, the company wished to have transparent process insights and get real-time updates on device status and availability.

Building on 51风流BTP

To work on this innovation step, Iren Group鈥檚 IT department asked for expertise support in testing and applying 51风流Build Apps. For a first kick-off meeting, the 51风流AppHaus team invited Burak Demir, product manager, 51风流Build Apps, to join the project. With the customer鈥檚 system landscape built on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), the joint project team took a first step to check the 51风流Discovery Center site for existing solutions. They encountered a helpful use case in the 鈥溾�� mission. The mission allowed them to build upon prior experiences, benefit from existing material, and get helpful guidance that was, to a certain extent, applicable to Iren鈥檚 system landscape.

The New Solution: 51风流Build Apps and 51风流Build Work Zone

The new solution consists of different components, such as 51风流Build Apps, 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流Build Work Zone, as well as the 51风流S/4HANA solution for waste and recycling, which provides a platform for managing device records and information.

鈥淢y role in this project was to be available for very specific questions,鈥� Demir says. 鈥淚ren鈥檚 citizen developers did a great job in using and applying the available material and resources! They used 51风流Build Apps very successfully to solve one defined use case, which is exactly what the product was made for. And even if the impact of this one web application may not be too impressive yet because of the number of users, the enablement and experience the customer team gained in creating it is invaluable. I am sure it will encourage the team to look for more innovation opportunities that can be addressed with the help of 51风流Build Apps.鈥�

Smooth Operations and Transparency in Device Management

With the new web application that was built with 51风流Build Apps and deployed to 51风流Build Work Zone, Iren gained real-time updates and visibility of device status. The seamless integration with OData library allowed for automatic device creation and updates, eliminating the need for manual data entry. The use of the new solution further improved the accuracy and reliability of device records. What鈥檚 more, it brought about significant time savings, enhanced transparency, and much-desired visibility into device status.

鈥淚n our IT department, this app has truly improved our device assignment processes by eliminating the manual process via e-mail and automatically importing data from an 51风流Build Apps web form into SAP,鈥� Sara Miola, IT specialist at Iren Group, says. 鈥淲e have achieved significant time savings and increased efficiency, as the time spent has been reduced from several days to few minutes. The implementation of 51风流has enabled us to overcome our challenges, resulting in streamlined processes and enhanced device management effectiveness.鈥�

Across processes and applications, 51风流BTP helps improve operational efficiency, enhance the customer experience, and drive innovation. The latest offers a preview of what the future holds for our customers and partners.

51风流BTP already offers features such as code generation, application logic, data models, and test scripts, enabling businesses to modernize their IT landscapes, streamline their processes, and make more informed decisions through a consistent data foundation. As we continue to embed generative AI across the platform toolbox, 51风流BTP is the trusted business AI platform for SAP-centric landscapes.

Here are some highlights:

• Joule, our AI copilot, will see increasing adoption across 51风流BTP to help provide information and data, give intelligent recommendations, and execute tasks based on natural language interactions. Looking forward, we will extend Joule to empower customers to build their own generative AI agents and skills. 
• We aim to enhance all 51风流BTP services by incorporating additional AI functionalities. Beyond generating code and application logic such as with , , and 51风流BTP for the , this will include managing processes and business rules (), handling integration mappings and flows (), and creating analytical charts and stories ().听
• 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine and the knowledge graph in 51风流Datasphere will help enable customers to better contextualize their input to large language models (LLMs) to achieve high-precision results.
• The set of AI partner offerings accessible in the generative AI hub in 51风流AI Core, which is part of 51风流BTP, will continue to grow. Customers will soon be able to use them in the context of their business process directly. 
• 51风流BTP Cockpit will also include more generative AI capabilities that can simplify the experience around day-to-day administration tasks.

51风流BTP is our secure and reliable engine that helps drive business innovation in organizations. And we will make it available to even more customers in the future: 51风流recently announced a substantial expansion of regional 51风流BTP availability by the end of 2025.

By ensuring access to 51风流BTP in more locations via new data centers, we are empowering more customers and partners around the globe to modernize IT landscapes, streamline business processes, and utilize data for better decision-making. While increasing the footprint of 51风流BTP globally, we are also infusing our platform with AI capabilities.

With global expansion on the horizon and the addition of AI, it’s all set to help businesses run smoother and make smarter decisions. If you’re curious about our strategic direction and what鈥檚 next, I highly recommend taking a look at our latest .

Michael Ameling is executive vice president and chief product officer of 51风流Business Technology Platform.

To that end, I am thrilled to announce that , a leading independent peer research and review platform, has once again recognized 51风流BTP, along with multiple solutions that run on our platform, as winners of the 2024 Top Rated awards.

As a reflection of direct customer feedback, the TrustRadius Top Rated awards offer an authentic measure of a product’s quality and customer satisfaction and highlight those products that have demonstrated excellence in fulfilling clients’ needs and expectations.

Best of Awards

51风流customers鈥� willingness to share their hands-on experience and opinions of 51风流BTP is testament to our platform’s services, robustness, and ongoing innovation.

We are honored that the following solutions have been recognized with Top Rated awards:

• on :  Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Application Infrastructure 
• on :  Low-Code Development and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• on :  Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS), and API Management
• on :聽 Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance

鈥�51风流Business Technology Platform鈥檚 comprehensive suite of solutions has been recognized with a TrustRadius Top Rated award,” said Allyson Havener, senior vice president of Marketing and Community at TrustRadius. “51风流is committed to delivering innovative technologies that empower businesses to drive digital transformation, and achieve their goals. We congratulate 51风流on this achievement, showcasing their continued leadership and excellence in providing cutting-edge enterprise solutions.鈥�

Our Focus on Customer Success

At SAP, customer success and satisfaction are the ultimate measures of our own success. We strive to deliver industry-leading solutions, functionality, and user experience that exceeds customer expectations and unlocks business potential. This is especially important as customers accelerate their digital innovation across business operations while maintaining the agility to adapt to fluctuating market demands. 51风流BTP provides this for our customers.

鈥�51风流Business Technology Platform is the right tool to manage sites, applications, users, and everything you can imagine in the cloud and non-cloud world, from my point of view BTP is very well focused and has everything that a tool has to have.鈥�

To read what other customers said about 51风流BTP, please take a look at . We welcome you to .

On behalf of the entire 51风流BTP team, we sincerely thank TrustRadius for acknowledging 51风流BTP in its 2024 Top Rated awards and our dedicated 51风流BTP customers for their unwavering support.

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流Business Technology Platform.

provides a unified, intelligent work experience for the modern workforce.

2024 IDC MarketScape: Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces Recognition

51风流has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US49741923, January 2024), based on IDC analysts and customer feedback. We believe this recognition acknowledges SAP鈥檚 ongoing dedication in delivering a modern, robust digital workplace solution to optimize user engagement and productivity, and to drive overall business agility.

IDC defines an intelligent digital workspace as a well-organized system of tools working together to enhance end users鈥� overall productivity and experiences. This system integrates intentional design, engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a customized and seamless view of tools for user tasks. It ensures secure access to resources from any location or device and enables IT and security professionals with complete oversight.

As stated within this IDC MarketScape report, 鈥淐lient organizations we interviewed noted that 51风流Build Work Zone reinforced the importance of collaboration and knowledge management.鈥�

Here are the additional highlights on strengths of 51风流Build Work Zone noted in the report:

• A unified digital workspace: 51风流Build Work Zone supports building blocks of content, user interface (UI) integration cards, and home page widgets to embed and display 51风流or third-party business data in one workspace. Guided experiences sit on top of workflows to guide the user journey.
• Streamlined user tasks: 51风流Task Center is used within 51风流Build Work Zone to act as a unified inbox to provide one place for all approvals and to dos. Global announcements can be tracked for reads and to check length of time spent on content items with native 51风流analytics, or with third-party tools such as Google Analytics or Qualtrics. Customers have noted that 51风流Build Work Zone provided a friendly UI and access to all functionality on the mobile app.
• Seamless connection to a comprehensive product suite: 51风流Build Work Zone is used to connect the 51风流suite of capabilities — including 51风流S/4 HANA, 51风流Success Factors, and 51风流Integrated Business Planning solutions — to handle workflow and collaboration of tasks across multiple IT and business users. 51风流Build Work Zone offers pre-built workspace templates with public, private, or external access and an impersonation feature to preview workspaces in-context of specific audience segments.

Evolving the Digital Workplace with 51风流Build Work Zone  

Unify Experiences Enterprise-Wide

Business users gain centralized access to 51风流and non-51风流business applications, processes, and information, including custom-built apps and extensions, from desktop to mobile using 51风流Build Work Zone. The solution offers a personalized, role-based user experience, for example, allowing business users to quickly search for applications or information they need, promptly manage tasks and notifications through the integrated inbox, and stay updated on content, apps, workflows, and processes that are seamlessly integrated across the business landscape without constantly switching around applications or leaving their desktops.

Build Workspaces Simpler and Faster with Low-Code

Business users are empowered to build and customize business sites visually. They can build branded sites, pages, and workspaces for different purposes and complexity. Our pre-built line-of-business content — including home pages, workspaces, integrations, and guided experiences — dramatically accelerates their time-to-value. For example, HR users can create pages for benefits announcements and design workspaces for learning academies. With the flexibility to design a tailored digital experience, business users can organize their work intuitively by bringing together their favorite business applications and unstructured content side-by-side, within a unified environment.

UI integration cards is a powerful widget to visualize data from back-end systems, allowing business users to quickly gain business insights into, for example, purchasing trends, account receivable overview, or compliance checklist. In addition, guided experiences streamline complex, difficult processes that span multiple systems, transforming them into simple, fast, and error-free experiences. This empowers business users to self-service their way through cross-application processes such as onboarding, returning to work, or submitting parental leave requests with ease and confidence.

51风流Build Work Zone is part of that enables the people closest to the business problems to create and augment enterprise applications, automation processes, and design workspaces and business sites visually.

Optimize Team Effectiveness Within and Beyond the Enterprise

51风流Build Work Zone is also designed to amplify team effectiveness across internal employees, external customers, partners, and suppliers. Business users can visually create workspaces to facilitate better team engagement through knowledge sharing, streamlined business processes execution, content management, and implementing best practices. They can also leverage surveys, polls, and interactive Q&A sessions to gather valuable feedback, improving communication and work synergy.

Many 51风流Build Work Zone customers have created purpose-built business sites to actively engage with their external customers, partners, and suppliers. For example, a supplier business site is created for suppliers to self-service various business operations, including supplier onboarding, accessing policies, managing account payables and invoicing processes, and obtaining product knowledge along with Q&As. By empowering suppliers to address their requirements and needs, not only enhances their engagement and efficiency but also saves internal teams鈥� time for more impactful, high-value activities. 聽

Unlock the Future of Digital Workplaces

Like many customers and partners, chose 51风流Build Work Zone and 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) to improve more than 5,000 business assistant鈥檚 user experience and productivity across more than 1,700 dental practices within the national dental network. Since its initial rollout in 2023, it has been reported that 33 hours per day have been saved across the initial 200 supported offices.

Looking ahead, 51风流remains dedicated to delivering the best-in-class innovations to our customers to enable their business success, such as injecting business AI capabilities by enabling 51风流Joule as the digital assistant for intelligent interactions within 51风流Build Work Zone.

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As an Official Team Partner, 51风流is teaming up with the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team to accelerate operational efficiency and unlock new data insights to deliver performance gains. 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition serves as the technology foundation for the team, enabling them to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud solutions from 51风流can help inform and predict decisions, optimize resources and future-proof their IT infrastructure.

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Efficiency is the cornerstone of success in Formula One. Therefore, mastering the cost-cap challenge and optimizing the team鈥檚 complex supply chain are two areas of focus for this partnership. Formula One鈥檚 cost cap restricts how much teams can spend each season, with severe penalties if exceeded. The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team plans to navigate this complex course by using the 51风流S/4HANA Finance solution to allocate, save and use resources more efficiently. With 51风流Business AI technology embedded, the team can forecast costs, predict final budget needs, and optimize both the supply chain and stocked items. To run its state-of-the-art operation, the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team is looking forward to leveraging 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition for a secure and future-proof cloud environment. The team can also take advantage of 51风流Build solutions and 51风流Business Technology Platform to implement a transparent, intelligent enterprise architecture 鈥� bringing together a single view of data and systems from various sources across the organization. Doing so can lead to shorter lead times for critical car components, helping ensure a seamless flow of parts during race weekends.

鈥淔ormula One is one of the most technologically innovative sports in the world, where incremental gains yield significant results. Given the extreme conditions under which Formula One teams operate, motorsports provide a global platform to showcase skill and engineering excellence,鈥� said Julia White, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE and chief marketing and solutions officer. 鈥淏ut beyond the race day performance, there鈥檚 a lot going on behind the scenes. 51风流is proud to partner with the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team to make sure its operations are as fine-tuned as its cars.鈥� 鈥��

This partnership has the potential to create a new blueprint for the automotive industry. Formula One is where latest innovations for the automotive industry are invented and premiered. Together, 51风流and the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team will deliver new innovations backed by Formula One insights that will go on to serve and shape the businesses of other 51风流customers.

鈥淲e are delighted to announce 51风流as an Official Team Partner of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team,鈥� said Toto Wolff, CEO and Team Principal, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. 鈥淲e have a shared heritage and commitment to innovation and improvement, which will meaningfully contribute to our on-track performance. 51风流is a global leader in its field, and we could not think of a better partner to help us improve our efficiencies in 2024 and beyond.鈥�

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About the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team is the works team of Mercedes-AMG, competing at the pinnacle of motorsport 鈥� the FIA Formula One鈩� World Championship. Formula One is a sport like no other. Combining elite teamwork, cutting-edge technologies and innovation, high-performance management and exceptional driving skill, teams develop race cars capable of competing against their rivals in a high-octane environment that spans upwards of 20 races across five continents throughout each season.

The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, based across Technology Centres at Brackley and Brixworth in the United Kingdom, brings together over 1,000 dedicated and determined people that design, develop, manufacture and race the cars driven by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Grand Prix winner, George Russell.

Winning seven consecutive double Drivers鈥� and Constructors鈥� World Championships from 2014 to 2020 and securing a record-breaking eighth consecutive Constructors鈥� Championship success in 2021, the Team is one of the most successful in the sport鈥檚 history.

Between returning as a Constructor in 2010 and the end of the 2022 season, the Mercedes-AMG works team has scored 116 wins, 264 podium finishes, 128 pole positions, 91 fastest laps and 54 one-two finishes from 259 race starts.

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SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 26 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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Q: What are the top three things that developers, IT professionals, and business leaders need to know about the at 51风流TechEd 2023?

A: First, we want every 51风流ecosystem developer to become an AI developer and we are rolling out new tools, leveraging generative AI, to help them build and deploy intelligent data applications at scale.

Second, we are simplifying interactions between large language models (LLMs), enabling developers to implement intelligent data for generative AI applications. By expanding 51风流HANA Cloud database capabilities with a vector engine, developers can combine the generic LLMs and gain the context they need with company-specific real-time data.聽

Third, is the choice for infusing 51风流and partner applications with AI. By embedding generative AI into our solutions and giving developers, partners, and customers access to all our technology and learnings through 51风流BTP, 51风流is the go-to partner for business AI and generative AI-powered enterprise applications. We already have 22,000 live 51风流BTP customers in the cloud.

Lastly, our ecosystem is critical for all our efforts to provide our customers with beneficial innovations for their digital transformation. We have 2,100 partners on 51风流BTP, and there are 2,000 innovative partner solutions on the today. More than 360 of these solutions offer AI capabilities that drive business value.

Can you give us a snapshot of the major announcements this year?

Each of these advancements reflects SAP鈥檚 commitment to become the No. 1 generative AI enterprise application ecosystem together with our partners and supported by our platform, 51风流BTP.

• 51风流Build Code offers AI-powered productivity tools for developers. It鈥檚 an exciting evolution of the 51风流BTP low-code solution that we launched last year. Our unified lobby of tools enables enhanced collaboration between citizen developers, professional developers, and IT departments. Developers will be able to create new applications or extensions for 51风流solutions using our generative AI assistant Joule to generate code, create data models, and test data for applications.
• New vector capabilities for 51风流HANA Cloud allow developers to enrich business data with unstructured data including text, images, and audio. This is a unique offering from SAP, as customers will be able to combine the intelligence of LLMs with their business-specific data to provide accurate, relevant, and insightful responses. is the database management foundation of 51风流BTP.
• AI Foundation on 51风流BTP is our one-stop-shop for developers to build business-ready AI applications and extensions on 51风流BTP. From ready-to-use AI services to AI runtimes and lifecycle management, we鈥檙e providing the tools developers need to manage enterprise-grade generative AI with security, governance, and trust. As part of AI Foundation we will also include a generative AI hub in 51风流AI Core to provide developers with instant access to a broad range of LLMs from different providers.
• Learning is foundational to SAP鈥檚 ambitious goal to upskill 2 million professionals by 2025. Our newly announced role-based certification for ABAP Cloud back-end developers will drive expert skillset growth for agile cloud business transformation. Moreover, we鈥檝e supplemented the with a new , which explains how to build and implement business applications on 51风流BTP.

How do 51风流solutions help developers, data scientists, business users, and other professionals power their personal success and organization鈥檚 growth?

51风流is already at the forefront of generative AI advancements. Over 24,000 cloud customers are actively using more than 130 AI scenarios built on 51风流BTP. We have the business data, processes, and customer relationships, and we believe that most business AI capabilities will be consumed in an embedded way.

SAP鈥檚 unique access to business data and our industry depth — together with our foundation in ethics, data privacy, compliance, and security — mean that we鈥檙e able to deliver unparalleled automation and seamless human-machine collaboration capabilities to our customers.

Most important, 51风流Business AI is relevant, reliable, and responsible. In our trusted environment, people are creating relevant AI use cases in the context of their organization鈥檚 real-world business processes and embedded into their daily 51风流systems. These use cases are reliable because they鈥檙e based on an understanding of both the business data and what it means within the business process.

Finally, our AI is responsible as it is built on leading ethics and data privacy standards.

How are customers and partners generating business results from 51风流BTP generative AI capabilities?

Many of our partners are pioneering multiple generative AI use cases with our support.

51风流partner and customer HCLTech is using AI technology to simplify daily tasks like recruiting in 51风流SuccessFactors software for speed and efficiency in finding the best job candidates. They鈥檙e developing a catalog of generative AI-infused processes across industries and line-of-business use cases. India鈥檚 Mahindra & Mahindra, which has automated more than 250 business processes in just three months using 51风流Build Process Automation, has piloted two generative AI use cases.

In Brazil, social enterprise startup SDW brings clean water to over 20,000 people. The company used 51风流Build Apps to develop an app that speeds up field worker collaboration and analyzes accurate data to help measure the impact of its services against KPIs, proving ROI that boosts investments for growth. Henkel is co-innovating with 51风流on its first large-scale generative AI use case, combining natural language processing, simulation, and planning to make decisions faster.

Can you preview what developers should expect from SAP鈥檚 generative AI vision as we head into 2024?

We are building AI capabilities, including our new generative AI copilot Joule, into our cloud-based enterprise applications. This includes SAP鈥檚 just ask feature in , available in Q1 2024. We鈥檒l also continue expanding access to LLMs in the generative AI hub. Watch for more generative AI use cases that will be released in the first half of 2024.

51风流Unveils Innovations in Generative AI Application Development and Vector Database Capabilities as Well as New Learning Opportunities for Developers in the Era 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, support the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and provide them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.鈥�

As organizations aim to derive business value from generative AI, effective collaboration between professional and citizen developers is essential. 51风流is launching the 51风流Build Code solutions, which streamline cooperation with business experts who use the low-code 51风流Build solutions launched at 51风流TechEd in 2022. Uniquely built for 51风流applications and the 51风流ecosystem, 51风流Build Code solutions offer AI-powered productivity tools for developers and are optimized for Java and JavaScript development. 51风流Build Code also draws on the power of SAP鈥檚 new generative AI copilot Joule 鈥� the copilot that truly understands business 鈥� to further boost productivity, embedding code generation 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 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 organization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 also 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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SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 26 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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However, this is much easier said than done. As leaders look to new initiatives to adapt, low-code/no-code stands out as a holy grail solution. Address the pervasive tech skills gap by bringing non-technical employees into the development and deployment process? Check. Identify an affordable way to leverage unique employee skill sets and integrate members from cross-team functions? Check. A new way to think about technical skills, freeing those in traditional developer roles to focus on creativity and innovation rather than execution? Check.

If you鈥檙e considering what low-code/no-code could look like in the workplace, here are some central considerations to keep in mind and mistakes to avoid when integrating citizen developers into your workforce in effort to create a more innovative IT department.

Citizen Developers Are Not 鈥淛unior鈥� Developers, They Have Their Own Unique Skill Set

Citizen developers, employees that utilize strategies to create new or change existing business applications without involving IT departments, often have nontraditional backgrounds, serving in roles like customer service, human resources, and project management, bringing a new wave of perspectives and ideas to the tech and service industry. While many may be inclined to view citizen developers as 鈥渏unior鈥� developers, this couldn鈥檛 be further from the truth. Since citizen developers are connected to other parts of the business, they can provide insight and streamline processes that developers alone are not involved in. Additionally, citizen developers shouldn鈥檛 be considered a one-to-one replacement of developers. Though they can optimize specific business functions, they do not fix technical holes in the workforce.

Leveraging these unique talents has huge benefits for the entire team: reducing the heavy lift on developers by easing the skills gap, opening the path to new ideas and innovative strategies, and bringing diverse and new perspectives to an IT industry that typically . Acknowledging the benefits of their nontraditional skill set is key to reap the benefits of implementing low-code/no-code in the workforce, as it meshes a unique view on the needs of the business, creativity, and coding skills to drive innovation.

Generative AI Will Fuel Citizen and Professional Developer Roles, Leading to Increased Innovation

Gartner research that 61% of corporations have already implemented citizen development projects or plan to do so. This is great news, because as the skills gap continues to without an equivalent number of new graduates to fill the holes, citizen developers are the natural solution for any department. However, as more organizations get comfortable with these shifts, they will also need to navigate the rapid evolution of generative AI, which will take things one step further for both citizen and professional developers.

Generative AI is continuing to evolve 鈥� and it makes the complexity of coding more accessible. In this sense, it is a low-code tool. Citizen developers will be able to leverage generative AI platforms to complete even more complex initiatives, which will free up the deeply technical computer and data scientists to focus on issues that require an in-depth understanding of how the systems work. With citizen developers able to flex their skills by assisting IT teams and traditional developers focused on strategic advancements, organizations are sure to see an improvement in productivity and employee satisfaction. One thing is certain: low-code/no-code tools, like platforms based on the principles of model-driven design, automatic code generation, and visual programming, are unleashing increased innovation, empowering the workforce, and helping to address skill shortages.

The Best Part about Low-Code/No-Code? The Opportunities Are Endless

The barriers to teaching and integrating low-code/no-code are relatively low, and any employee from any background 鈥� formally educated or not 鈥� can begin their coding journey with ease. Providing access to learning and development opportunities like low-code/no-code trainings opens new career opportunities for the existing workforce, encouraging workers to tap into their personal interest in learning developer skills while taking on a more expansive role in the organization. When employees feel that their interest in expanding their role and learning new parts of the business is being listened to, they also take on an increased sense of fulfillment and interest in the job, leading to heightened employee retention.

It may seem intimidating to start the journey of prioritizing new learning and training opportunities, but the benefits are endless. At our recently held , interested participants from across industries were able to learn the concept of low-code software development through hands-on experience. Learners created full end-to-end processes that integrated with 51风流S/4HANA, using 51风流Build Apps, 51风流Build Process Automation, and 51风流Build Work Zone. Through this program, dozens of workers were able to expand their technical knowledge and dive deeper into the world of low-code/no-code.

To begin implementing low-code/no-code strategies in your department, consider leveraging training for all levels 鈥� from beginner to advanced 鈥� and build time into the workday for those who are interested in learning. Putting an emphasis on this opportunity, and on the learning and development of your employees, is sure to make an impact on your teams.

The Future of IT Is Rapidly Changing, But Shining Bright

As technology continues to rapidly evolve, it鈥檚 essential that IT teams are properly equipped to grow alongside it. With low-code/no-code and the rise of the citizen developer, the opportunities are limitless to what the technical workforce can accomplish, with employees of every background poised to get involved in the digital transformation across the industry. Not only will integrating citizen developers into your teams allow your organization to diversify its workforce, but it can also create new innovations in your strategy and address the employee burnout and stress on developers who cannot keep up with the growing skills gap.

Timo Schuette is global vice president of 51风流Product Learning CoE at SAP.

This week at Orlando, we introduced a host of new 51风流BTP capabilities that span application development, automation, integration, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). For those who missed out on attending the event in person or virtually, be sure to check out the and read the full list of announcements in the .

Automate the Enterprise

Today, most automation projects are repetitive, task-oriented, lower-value work, such as logging into systems and copying and pasting data. While these automated tasks save thousands of manual hours and dollars, there is still more to be done in this space.

Enterprise automation is a new solution that uses multiple advanced technologies — integration, automation, low-code, and AI — to help connect and . This solution leverages the best-in-class , , and to enable users to quickly and easily connect any on-premise or cloud IT landscape, gain visibility into business processes, and then automate those processes seamlessly.

The best part? You can jump-start your enterprise automation journey with thousands of pre-built and reusable components for integration and automation that are available in 51风流Business Accelerator Hub. And 听补苍诲 customers can access the 51风流Signavio portfolio and 51风流Build solutions at no additional cost.

Give Data Purpose

True digital transformation requires organizations to have seamless access to their mission-critical business data, no matter where it resides. Yet, with data landscapes distributed across various applications and IT landscapes, organizations spend countless hours and resources extracting, rebuilding, and integrating their data. When organizations fully harness the power of their data, they become enterprises that use it to innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and adapt to unanticipated changes.

That is why enables users to simplify the data landscape with a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. And by closely integrating 51风流Datasphere with our open ecosystem of data partners 鈥� , , , , and now 鈥� mission-critical business data can be accessed across any cloud infrastructure.

Additional solutions like the and help give data purpose. Extended planning and analysis helps align financial, strategic, and operational plans into one single plan. And intelligent data applications can transform core business functions into self-adapting, real-time, data-driven apps that automatically provide insights and recommended actions.

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AI Built for Business

An increasing number of organizations are leveraging AI to enhance their employee productivity, process efficiency, and business foresight. In doing so, they become more efficient and agile to serve customers, remain competitive, and stay in business. Yet, many companies lack the in-house expertise to apply AI effectively across their business processes and ensure it continually delivers relevant and responsible outcomes — a necessity to maximize business impact.

At SAP, we deliver AI that is available from day one, as it is already built into the 51风流applications that power the most critical business processes. In fact, we have built ready-to-use AI scenarios into 51风流applications that span across cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP), spend management, customer relationship management, and human capital management. works for businesses because it is developed using extensive industry-specific data, deep processes knowledge, and the most responsible AI practices. We use an ecosystem of strategic partnerships for general-purpose AI tooling. In essence, 51风流AI is AI built for business.

Read more about our latest 51风流AI solutions in “AI Built for Business” by Bharat Sandhu, senior vice president of Application Development and AI at SAP.

Explore at Your Own Pace

Wherever you’re at in your journey, there are easy ways to get started: check out , , and new . Additionally, 听补苍诲 can help 51风流BTP customers migrate their ERP to the cloud.

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流Business Technology Platform.

Put these forces together, and the question for business leaders becomes, 鈥淗ow do we enable our people to bring their best in a virtual, dispersed workplace that demands collaboration, innovation, and efficiency every day?鈥�

There鈥檚 an important follow-on question at the heart of this business challenge. That is: 鈥淗ow do we reach our goals while also offering people opportunities to grow their skills and thrive in their jobs?鈥�

Digital technologies have always been an enabler, but low-code no-code solutions like 51风流Build have become an imperative for organizations to keep up with the speed of change while also presenting an opportunity to people to build tech skills.

51风流Build empowers business users to develop their own customized applications and automated processes 鈥� without needing to be expert software coders.

The are hard to ignore:

• 31% faster completion of projects
• 63% fewer business processes with errors
• 21 hours saved per user per year
• 495% three-year ROI

Concrete examples are always helpful, so here are some ways that I see 51风流Build changing the game in helping to solve business challenges, including some of our very own at SAP.

But first, what is 51风流Build? 51风流Build is a cloud native, user-friendly platform with visual interfaces, simple drag-and-drop tools, and pre-built templates that can help business users jump-start their own IT projects without needing to be coding experts.

51风流Build comes with and to help users get started and keep going. With demand for IT support outpacing the availability of those resources, it鈥檚 smart to put business users in the lead with low-code no-code solutions.

Process Automation: Helping Teams Work 15x Faster

One way I see 51风流Build empowering businesses is through HR process automation. Low-code and no-code platforms allow HR teams to automate time-consuming processes such as onboarding, offboarding, and performance management. This can free up hundreds of hours per year for some staff, giving them the chance to focus on higher-level tasks.

• Example: Standard welcome emails, collecting necessary paperwork, and assigning required training courses. At SAP, we used 51风流Build ourselves to automate the creation of offer letters per year, working .

Data Management: Flagging Operational Risks and Opportunities

Next, with low-code and no-code software, HR teams can manage employee data more efficiently and accurately. Dashboards are easy to create, helping managers, leaders, and teammates across the organization to collaborate over key metrics, gain insights into workforce trends, and quickly.

• Example: Creating custom reports that track employee turnover rates, time-to-hire, succession data, and employee engagement scores. This data could be used to signal business and operational risk, evaluate performance, identify trends, and spot areas for improvement.

Reduce Burden: Improve Employee Experience at Scale

Low-code and no-code applications can reduce employee time spent on and give them time back for higher level work. Research shows reduced administrative burden can contribute to improved employee experiences.

• Example: Invoice processing. One 51风流customer will save up to 160 hours per year on fewer administrative tasks. Their low-code no-code invoice processing solution was up and running 鈥� time.
• Bonus example! Routine high-volume, manual At SAP, we鈥檙e using 51风流Build to transform manual closing activities across 120 subsidiaries and realizing up to four times faster processing of closing tasks.

Many of us have heard the saying 鈥渆very company is becoming a tech company.鈥� 51风流Build puts intuitive tech in business users鈥� hands, helping to get more done in an expeditious, innovative way in ways that matter most.

We鈥檒l be sharing many more customer stories at . See you there!

Sabine Bendiek is chief people and operating officer and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE.

Pif Paf Alimentos, founded in 1968, is one of the top ten companies in the food sector in Brazil. The company offers a diverse product portfolio including meat, fish, sausages, pasta, ready-to-eat meals, and cheese breads that are enjoyed by millions of customers both in Brazil and around the world. To produce high-quality food, the company relies on complex machinery that operates in over 14 industrial units. Therefore, it is crucial that all machinery operates as expected at all times. Maintenance is key to ensuring the machinery’s reliability and efficiency.

Manual Reporting and Paper Waste

In the past, Pif Paf Alimentos鈥� maintenance technicians conducted a manual process to check machine operation. This process involved technicians recording machine operating data on paper-printed maintenance orders for each order received. The maintenance order data included precise details such as the exact date and time of the machine task operation. After collecting this data, technicians manually logged it into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This meant that technicians had to record the same information twice, on different platforms.

This process resulted in a large amount of paper waste every day, negatively impacting Pif Paf Alimentos鈥� sustainability efforts.

Automating the Maintenance Routine with 51风流Build Apps

Pif Paf Alimentos, having worked with 51风流products before such as 51风流Integration Suite and 51风流ERP, took advantage of to help resolve its technicians鈥� problems by building and deploying a working mobile app solution in less than three weeks. Why was the deployment process so fast? 51风流Build Apps allows users to build apps in a low-code manner by providing drag-and-drop user interfaces (UIs) for common app components. With this, Pif Paf Alimentos was able to build a solution quickly.

The Underlying Technology

Pif Paf Alimentos’ new enterprise-grade app not only solved its maintenance routine problem but also integrated seamlessly with its existing 51风流technology architecture, powered by 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). 51风流Build Apps provided Pif Paf Alimentos with operational agility, saving time, paper, and money. Furthermore, its IT team benefited from faster response times to business needs, allowing Pif Paf Alimentos to scale its solutions throughout the entire corporation. Lauro Salgado, IT developer at Pif Paf Alimentos, leveraged the comprehensive content provided by 51风流Discovery Center 鈥溾�� to develop both the pilot and the productive version of the app, fully utilizing the capabilities offered by 51风流Build Apps.

Significant Savings in Time, Paper, and Money

Pif Paf Alimentos conducted a pilot test of its new mobile application with four maintenance technicians. After a month of testing, the technicians reported a 30% reduction in maintenance order handling time within the test group. Pif Paf Alimentos now plans to scale this solution to its entire force of approximately 300 maintenance technicians. Moreover, the mobile solution’s 10% reduction in paper waste has already resulted in saving an average of 75 sheets of paper per technician per month, which translates to 270,000 sheets of paper saved per year.

The Pif Paf Alimentos Project Experience

鈥淲e provided faster business response to the maintenance department. The IT team, as a business partner, gained agility using 51风流Build Apps in the delivery of solutions and contributed to the goal of a paperless enterprise, improving process efficiency and automation,鈥� Salgado explained. 鈥淭he solution is built on 51风流Build Apps and integrates into our existing landscape seamlessly. If we were going to build an application using a different technology, it would take much longer. You would have to code and integrate the fields. This low-code technology helped us take advantage and deliver the solution faster.鈥�

鈥淧if Paf Alimentos believes that partnerships with solutions that aim to decentralize the use of technology are the way to accelerate the digital transformation of companies,鈥� Antonio Minier, director of Business Transformation at Pif Paf Alimentos said. 鈥淚 believe that digital awareness is the necessary competence for this to happen with quality and that is why we have invested in the five pillars that compose it: the creativity of our employees, the agile mindset, the vision of processes, the democratization of technology, and data. This case is the consolidation of a vision of the future within a successful journey of our digital transformation program, SOUL Digital.鈥�

An important consideration for the mobile solution was the ability to input data in remote areas where maintenance technicians are unable to connect to the network, which was not an issue with manual entry. With 51风流Build Apps, Pif Paf Alimentos was able to create a synchronizing functionality. The maintenance technician’s input data is first saved locally on their devices and then synchronized with the overall system when a network connection is reestablished. 51风流Build Apps can provide an open-ended framework to create a diverse path towards unique solutions, like this one.

The Way Forward for Design and Development with SAP

Looking back, Carlos Estala, senior 51风流AppHaus consultant, said: 鈥淧if Paf Alimentos was able to develop and integrate its on-premise 51风流system with low-code in 51风流Build Apps to control its preventative maintenance orders in just a few weeks, all without having to write a line of code. This helped it solve a business necessity to have digital data up-to-date.鈥�

With the support of the 51风流AppHaus Palo Alto team, Pif Paf Alimentos aims to further improve the design of the app and extend it to other business processes and maintenance routines, all built on 51风流BTP and powered by 51风流Build Apps.

Mirela Viersa is a customer design engagement lead at 51风流AppHaus Palo Alto.
Tina Cai is a UX design specialist at 51风流AppHaus Palo Alto.
Images courtesy of Pif Paf Alimentos