Over decades, our customers have built powerful digital foundations on 51风流to run end-to-end business processes across their enterprises鈥攐ften extending and customizing these systems to support their unique business needs. Now, many are entering the next phase of transformation: modernizing their 51风流landscapes to unlock the full potential of AI.

As companies move to cloud-based 51风流environments and clean-core architectures, they are preparing to embed intelligence directly into business processes. This enables new forms of automation, with AI agents that operate across enterprise systems and execute increasingly complex tasks.

Modernizing these systems while introducing AI at scale is a significant undertaking. It requires technologies that integrate with existing applications, operate reliably within mission-critical workflows, and meet the governance standards enterprises demand.

That鈥檚 why, over the past few years, we have partnered with to combine advanced AI technology with deep business context. Our goal is to help organizations accelerate modernization and apply AI across the applications and processes key to their success. This collaboration will be showcased at NVIDIA GTC.

Building the foundation for enterprise-grade AI

Through our collaboration with NVIDIA, we are accelerating the entire life cycle of enterprise AI鈥攆rom model development to high-performance runtime execution鈥攁nd powering AI scenarios across our portfolio. ,  which consists of open libraries such as and , helps accelerate large-scale model training across distributed RL environments. It enables teams to build and refine enterprise-grade AI models faster.

Models are hosted through  and , where our customers and partners leverage those best suited to their use cases. microservices optimize inference performance, and we have observed up to a 20% improvement compared to another popular open source serving engine. Enabled by NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA NIM, the increased performance allows organizations to combine advanced AI models with trusted 51风流business data and processes to ensure that AI operates within the workflows that drive business operations.

Modernizing the business logic that runs the enterprise

AI models trained on 51风流knowledge and accelerated using NVIDIA technologies are already helping customers tackle some of their most pressing modernization challenges. For example, evolving business logic embedded in the 51风流systems that run their operations.

For decades, organizations have extended 51风流applications with custom ABAP code that reflects how their businesses operate. That logic captures years of operational knowledge across finance, supply chain, service processes, and more. But modernizing these environments for the cloud and preparing them for the next generation of AI-driven innovation can be complex.

To help accelerate this journey, 51风流developed . a foundation model trained exclusively on real-world ABAP code and the business logic used across 51风流environments. The solution incorporates specialized models for code-related tasks, including StarCoder2 for code completion, and Codestral for deeper code understanding and explanations. These models are served through NVIDIA NIM microservices to deliver high-performance inference.

brings these capabilities into the developer experience, helping teams analyze existing ABAP code, understand how customizations interact with core business processes, and generate new code when needed. By making decades of embedded business logic easier to interpret and update, we help organizations accelerate modernization and preserves the knowledge that makes their operations unique.

Connecting AI to business operations

The collaboration between 51风流and NVIDIA also explores how AI can operate within enterprise workflows to help organizations apply intelligence across both physical operations and complex planning environments. One emerging area is embodied AI, in which intelligence extends beyond software systems into the physical world. By combining AI reasoning with sensors, robotics, and enterprise data, organizations can connect real-world observations directly with digital business processes.

For example, predictive maintenance alerts from can trigger robotic inspections that analyze equipment using thermal, visual, and acoustic signals. These signals are evaluated alongside asset histories and maintenance records to identify potential issues. then orchestrates follow-up actions through , prioritizing work orders and guiding technicians with the right operational context. By linking physical-world insights with enterprise workflows, organizations can turn physical-world signals into coordinated enterprise actions.

The same principle applies to complex planning environments. Supply chains today must manage a constantly shifting web of constraints, from supplier availability and transportation disruptions to evolving customer demands. With NVIDIA, we are exploring technologies, such as NVIDIA Metropolis and NVIDIA Cosmos, to bring the latest AI advancements into warehouse management, safety, and asset inspection.

Together, we are also bringing new capabilities to  that combine agent-based reasoning with the  GPU-accelerated optimization engine. This enables planners to simulate complex supply chain scenarios and evaluate alternatives with more speed and accuracy. By integrating advanced optimization with SAP鈥檚 supply chain planning capabilities, organizations can dynamically model constraints, adapt plans as conditions change, and make more confident decisions in increasingly complex environments.

Collaboration with large-scale 51风流customers helps identify real operational bottlenecks, paving the way for AI-driven solutions. . The Taiwan-based global electronics manufacturer and manufacturing solutions provider will work with 51风流to develop AI-powered innovations for manufacturing and supply chain operations.

By combining SAP鈥檚 enterprise applications and business context and Foxconn鈥檚 manufacturing expertise, organizations can enhance operational efficiency, increase resilience, and advance decision-making across complex production and supply networks.

Experience agentic AI at NVIDIA GTC

51风流is enabling Joule Agents across its application portfolio, helping organizations automate tasks and coordinate complex workflows within business processes. At NVIDIA GTC, visitors will see how these capabilities are extended using  on to build agents tailored to specific enterprise scenarios.

And because SAP鈥檚 AI architecture is model-agnostic, organizations can bring their own models into these workflows, in addition to those deployed through 51风流AI Core. The hands-on experience at NVIDIA GTC will demonstrate how organizations can build AI-driven workflows that operate directly within the enterprise systems that run their business.

It all happens at , taking place March 16-19, 2026. Join us to see how 51风流and NVIDIA are helping organizations modernize enterprise systems, accelerate AI adoption, and move toward the AI-native enterprise:

• Attend our session: on Tuesday, March 17, from 2:00-2:40 p.m.
• Visit the 51风流booth, #2001, to explore agentic AI in action, participate in hands-on vibe-coding with Joule Studio, and witness next-generation enterprise automation

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Brenda Bown is chief marketing officer for 51风流Business AI.

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.

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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� 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:

• Visit to start a
• Explore and new 
• Register for our upcoming on December 9
• 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.