SAP Build, SAP’s platform for developing custom applications, is set to receive significant AI enhancements by the end of the year. These improvements will facilitate the creation and management of autonomous agents, providing developers with a robust environment to build and extend AI capabilities across various SAP applications. At the TechEd event this week, SAP announced that its Joule Studio will be integrated into SAP Build, offering developers a dedicated space for creating custom skills for SAP’s AI copilot, Joule.
This integration is intended to make SAP Build a singular extension solution for all SAP applications, according to Michael Aneling, SAP’s Chief Product Officer for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). A new extensibility wizard, now available, enables developers to access SAP Build directly from S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This feature allows the extension of custom fields, business logic, and processes within both S/4HANA Cloud ABAP and SAP BTP environments.
A critical aspect of this integration is the preservation of business context, which enables seamless transitions between S/4HANA and SAP Build without losing crucial information. By year-end, the extensibility wizard will support the creation of custom SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications. SAP will also release Joule Studio in SAP Build, providing businesses with a comprehensive environment to deploy, monitor, and manage custom skills for Joule.
These skills will enhance Joule’s out-of-the-box capabilities, extending conversational AI functionalities to organization-specific workflows. SAP Build will soon support third-party AI integrations, offering an entirely integrated conversational user experience.
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Joule will additionally be integrated into SAP Build Work Zone, a low-code tool for creating websites, assisting users in navigating data from interconnected business systems. These functionalities will be accessible via SAP Build Work Zone standard edition, the SAP Start site, and the SAP Mobile Start app. New capabilities such as code explanations and documentation search in SAP Build Code aim to assist Java and JavaScript developers.
These features, supported by generative AI, will also help automate workflows within SAP Build Process Automation. Early next year, SAP plans to enhance Joule further to support developers using ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming), SAP’s high-level programming language. Joule will generate high-quality code and unit tests compliant with SAP’s ABAP Cloud development model and offer explanations for legacy code to facilitate modernization and migration to a “clean core” ERP system.
By the end of 2024, developers will be able to customize pre-trained AI models through a guided process to create AI-driven applications. New software development kit (SDK) support for ABAP, Java, and JavaScript will enable the embedding of intelligent features like chatbots and content generators into web applications. The ABAP AI SDK will let developers integrate generative AI hub capabilities directly into custom ABAP applications.
SAP is also expanding its generative AI hub, adding several large language models (LLMs) to raise the total number to more than 30. Notable additions include Aleph Alpha Pharia-1, Amazon Titan, Image Generator, IBM Granite, Mistral Large 2, and OpenAI Dall-E 3.
