AI-powered enhancements for SAP Build platform: SAP is introducing significant artificial intelligence capabilities to its Build platform, aiming to position it as the primary extension solution for all SAP applications.
- The company unveiled an extensibility wizard that provides developers with direct access to SAP Build from S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, enabling seamless extension of custom fields, business logic, and processes.
- This integration preserves crucial business context, allowing developers to switch between environments without losing important information.
- By the end of 2024, the extensibility wizard will also support the creation of custom SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications.
Joule Studio: A dedicated environment for AI copilot skills: SAP plans to release Joule Studio within SAP Build, offering a specialized workspace for businesses to develop and manage custom skills for its AI copilot, Joule.
- Custom skills will extend conversational AI capabilities to organization-specific workflows, complementing Joule’s out-of-the-box functionalities.
- Customers will have the ability to integrate third-party systems into Joule, creating a fully integrated conversational user experience.
- Joule will also be incorporated into SAP Build Work Zone, providing generative AI support for navigating data from connected business systems.
Enhanced developer tools and AI assistance: SAP is introducing new capabilities to support developers working with various programming languages and platforms.
- Code explanation and documentation search features in SAP Build Code will assist Java and JavaScript developers.
- Developers will be able to automate workflows in SAP Build Process Automation with generative AI assistance.
- Early 2025 will see Joule extended to help ABAP developers generate high-quality code and unit tests compliant with SAP’s ABAP Cloud development model.
- Joule will also be capable of generating explanations for legacy code, facilitating the modernization of legacy codebases and migration to a “clean core” ERP system.
Generative AI hub updates and customization: SAP is expanding the capabilities of its generative AI hub to provide developers with more flexibility and power.
- By the end of 2024, developers will be able to customize pre-trained AI models using a guided process to create their own AI-driven applications.
- New SDK support for ABAP, Java, and JavaScript will enable the integration of advanced AI capabilities into web applications.
- The ABAP AI SDK will allow developers to access generative AI hub capabilities from within custom ABAP applications.
Expansion of large language models: SAP is significantly increasing the number of large language models available in its generative AI hub.
- By the end of 2024, the number of available LLMs will increase to more than 30.
- New additions include Aleph Alpha Pharia-1, Amazon Titan Image Generator, IBM Granite, Mistral Large 2, and OpenAI Dall-E 3.
Looking ahead: Implications for SAP ecosystem: These AI-powered enhancements to the SAP Build platform represent a significant step towards more intelligent and efficient enterprise software development.
- The integration of AI capabilities across various SAP tools and environments could potentially streamline development processes and improve productivity for businesses using SAP solutions.
- As SAP continues to expand its AI offerings, it may lead to increased competition in the enterprise software market, potentially driving innovation and improvements across the industry.
- However, the success of these initiatives will likely depend on factors such as ease of adoption, performance of the AI tools in real-world scenarios, and the ability of businesses to effectively leverage these new capabilities within their existing SAP environments.
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