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Kickstart SAP TechEd 2024 with Autonomous Finance and Maximize Your Business Efficiency

2024-10-08T09:19:01.092000+02:00

SAP TechEd 2024 is here! As we kick off for this pivotal event in the SAP calendar, anticipation is building around the revolutionary talks and groundbreaking ideas set to be unveiled. For this year’s fully virtual TechEd, I’m excited to share the new SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) use case, Autonomous Finance.

What is Autonomous Finance?

So, what exactly is autonomous finance, and why is it becoming a game-changer in the world of oCFO? Gartner states that autonomous finance is a “finance function where processes and activities are partly governed and majority operated by self-learning software agents that optimize front-, middle- and back-office operations." Powered by technologies like AI, machine learning, and automation, it will affect all parts of the finance function under the office of the CFO.

So why should businesses be excited about autonomous finance? Let's examine some of its compelling advantages.

Autonomy in finance drastically reduces human intervention, which translates into significant cost reductions for organizations.
It also speeds up operations and boosts productivity.
AI-driven analytics can provide deep, actionable insights from financial data, empowering businesses to make smarter, strategic decisions.

Take a look at this infographic on the trusted path to autonomous finance.

Customer Success Stories

Several SAP customers are already tapping into the potential of Autonomous Finance to propel their businesses forward:

Connect departments: Endress+Hauser significantly boosted overall efficiency and simplified operations by utilizing SAP Integration Suite’s tools to standardize their data sources. Thanks to the suite’s APIs and capabilities, Endress+Hauser's customers can now effortlessly place equipment orders directly from their ERP systems. This, in turn, automatically generates a production order within Endress Hauser’s ERP system and forwards it to the production facility.

Aligned priority use case: Deliver Connected Experiences - Accelerate integration and increase productivity

Analyze: ARAG adopted SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud to create a unified and efficient analytics solution, enabling easy data accessibility. The combination of these technologies enabled ARAG to make all their data more accessible across different countries and teams, which paved the way for faster gaining of meaningful insights.

Aligned priority use case 1: Integrate hyperscaler data with SAP Datasphere - Deliver insights using live data from SAP and hyperscalers
Aligned priority use case 2: Accelerate Financial Planning and Analysis - Enhance SAP S/4HANA with planning and analysis

Automate processes: Orbico's IT team implemented SAP Build Process Automation to automate specific processes and tasks, thereby reducing project times and costs. The team launched over 40 process automation projects within a year, including a bot that automated invoice processing from PDFs into SAP S/4HANA, recognizing invoices from 20 vendors.

Aligned priority use case: Increase efficiency and accuracy while reducing costs - Automate processes to empower finance professionals

Embed intelligence: To Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team, efficiency is key to success. Formula One has cost caps that limit each team’s spending on cars per season with severe penalties for overshoots, making financial management one of their biggest challenges. Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Team will leverage SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP Business AI to optimize resource management and cost forecasting.

Aligned priority use case: Enhance customer support using the power of generative AI - Improve operations and decision-making with the power of generative AI

How to get started

SAP Discovery Center is an incredible asset to any business. If you’re in search of ways to start deriving value with SAP Business Technology Platform for your business, this is the place to start. It empowers users to easily uncover, find, and embark on SAP Business Technology Platform use cases.

Why SAP Discovery Center?

SAP Discovery Center offers a catalogue of hundreds of detailed and comprehensive missions. These missions cover numerous aspects of business to inspire you on your SAP BTP journey. For example, when you’re ready to embark on the Autonomous Finance journey, these Discovery Center Missions will help you to take each step and make it best suited to your business needs.
It provides guidance on how to use the wide range of services offered by SAP. This step-by-step guidance means you can use SAP’s powerful suite of tools to the best of your abilities and utilize the Free Tier and/or Free Trial.
It encourages learning and exploration. With SAP Discovery Center, you not only understand how a host of innovative technologies could potentially benefit your business but also how to implement them efficiently for the best results with the provided reference architecture.
The collaborative feature of SAP Discovery Center is very important. Knowledge and experiences are shared, thus enhancing productivity and enabling synergy. You can see which existing SAP customers have already implemented the use case of your interest and connect with SAP experts if you have any questions on the Mission.

Using SAP Discovery Center means you’re leveraging not just a tool but a collaborative platform that guides innovation, encourages learning, and boosts efficiency. Make sure you're tuned in for the XP180 | Get started with SAP BTP: Discover and accelerate with SAP Discovery Center session by Nis Boy Naeve and Ingo Deck from SAP Discovery Center team to learn more.

What else can I do with SAP Business Technology Platform?

If you are interested in understanding further what SAP Business Technology Platform can do for your business, check out our comprehensive use case one-pager. The document is designed to provide a clear outline of how SAP BTP can be utilized to enhance your business operations, per your department. Grasping the use cases will allow your business to leverage SAP BTP effectively to drive business performance and inform your strategy, discover new potential, and maximize your technology investment with our SAP BTP use case one-pager. Don’t forget to also check out SAP Business Technology Platform use cases on the website.

You can read further on the SAP Business Technology Platform Priority Use Case One-Pager on this blog article.

Get ready for SAP TechEd 2024

I hope this got you excited about SAP TechEd 2024. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative event, and make sure to register for the keynote session with Muhammad Alam. Register now to secure your spot, and add the following recommended sessions to your agenda.

We look forward to connecting with you!

🚀Fire of Innovations: Highlights from SAP TechEd 2024 📢

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The SAP TechEd 2024 event, themed “Fire of Innovations,” has once again set the stage for groundbreaking advancements in enterprise technology. Held virtually on October 8-9, this year’s conference showcased a plethora of new tools, updates, and strategies designed to empower businesses and developers alike. Here’s a deep dive into some of the most exciting announcements and innovations from the event.

1. Joule: The AI Copilot Revolution

One of the standout highlights was the unveiling of new capabilities for Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot. Joule has been supercharged with collaborative AI agents that can perform complex, cross-disciplinary tasks. These agents are designed to break down silos within organizations, enhancing productivity and allowing human workers to focus on more creative and strategic activities.

For instance, in dispute management, autonomous AI agents can now analyze and resolve issues such as incorrect invoices or duplicate payments. In financial accounting, these agents streamline processes like bill payments and ledger updates, quickly addressing any inconsistencies.

2. SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Enhancements

SAP continues to expand its Business Technology Platform (BTP), which is central to its cloud strategy. This year, SAP announced the expansion of BTP coverage through eight new SAP-managed data centers. Additionally, the SAP Discovery Center now offers a Quick-Account-Setup feature, enabling businesses to deploy specific use cases with just a click.

The integration of ABAP Cloud into SAP Build was another significant update. This integration allows developers to create and maintain ABAP Cloud projects directly from the SAP Build lobby, ensuring a seamless and efficient development process.

3. Innovations in SAP Build

SAP Build has been strengthened to support a “Clean Core” strategy, which is crucial for maintaining system consistency and upgradeability. The SAP Build Extensibility Wizard, introduced for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition, helps both key users and developers create on-stack and side-by-side extensions in an embedded experience.

4. Harnessing the Power of Data with SAP Knowledge Graph

SAP introduced the SAP Knowledge Graph, a next-generation solution that connects SAP data with rich business context. This tool is poised to help developers unlock the full value of SAP data, driving more informed decision-making and innovation.

5. Global Reach and Accessibility

This year’s SAP TechEd was a truly global event, with a free two-day virtual format that included keynotes, technical sessions, and developer enablement activities. The event was designed to be accessible to a worldwide audience, ensuring that everyone could benefit from the latest SAP innovations.

Conclusion

SAP TechEd 2024 has once again demonstrated SAP’s commitment to driving innovation and empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology. From AI advancements with Joule to enhancements in SAP BTP and SAP Build, the “Fire of Innovations” theme truly encapsulates the transformative potential of these new tools and strategies. As businesses continue to navigate the complexities of the digital age, SAP’s innovations provide a robust foundation for growth and success.

Stay tuned for more updates and insights from SAP TechEd as we continue to explore the future of enterprise technology.

Feel free to share your thoughts or ask any questions about the event! What innovation are you most excited about?

SAP Developer News: TechEd Day 1

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Description

SAP TechEd General

News Guide: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide.html
TechEd Watch Live: https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html

Build Code Enhancements for Developers

Application Development and Automation News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/application-development-and-automation.html
SAP Build Extensibility Wizard: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-build-extensibility-wizard-for-sap-s-4hana-cloud-public-edition/ba-p/13867427
SAP Build Code Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241008&search.offeringsproducts=1698907352855001TA5c

AI Innovations – Part 1

Artificial Intelligence News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/ai.html
AI Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search.track=1692371026432002VTW0

AI Innovations – Part 2

Artificial Intelligence News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/ai.html
AI Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search.track=1692371026432002VTW0

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro
0:10 TechEd Intro
1:09 Build Code Enhancements for Developers
3:30 AI Innovations – Part 1
4:33 AI Innovations – Part 2

Transcript

[Intro] Well, a developer in his houseboat, innovating cutting-edge tech from the high seas. He could have kept his anchors away, but he didn't.

[DJ] So while the crew were at lunch we've snuck into the studios to record this item on the couch. So we're at TechEd as we can see here I've got some a card here and one of the items announced at TechEd as you may know is that there are new capabilities that have been added and will be added to SAP Build the complete solution for building end-to-end extensions on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and on other line of business applications. There are three here written down that I want to highlight.

There's a new extension wizard and it allows you to jump directly from SAP S/4 HANA Cloud public edition straight to SAP Build. Why is that important? Because there's a lot of context within the context of the application and that context objects events and so on business data is super important not to lose that so this new extension wizard which is available for building side-by-side and on stack extensions allows that jump including the context there are new generative AI capabilities with dual coming in this quarter for example alongside the already existing code generation facilities, there are or there will be code explanation facilities and also document search. I think they're great complements to what already exists.

On the low code arena, there are also dual enhancements to help with the creation of UIs and workflow automation.

And last but not least, there's now direct access or there will be, by the end of this year, direct access from SAP Build to ABAP development environments in the cloud and on BTP. So basically the whole idea is that this is one step closer to a more unified development environment. You can jump from the lobby to SAP Build Code, SAP Build Apps and now to specific ABAP development environments and this helps enormously with success for teams especially in fusion development contexts. Anyway check out the announcements from SAP TechEd for more details on these new SAP build capabilities.

[Nora] There's a lot happening with AI at TechEd at the moment and you've heard a lot of news and I'm just going to try to put as much as possible into the next couple of minutes. So there has been a lot of rumor on the SAP Foundation model for a while now and it's getting real and if you want to know more about the SAP Foundation model you should definitely check out the session AI 102 on Wednesday. SAP Foundation Model and Knowledge Graph, where you can learn about the SAP Foundation Model and how it can actually interpret structured data and fill in missing data points. Then we also have a lot of new features in the Generative AI Hub on SAP AI Core. Mainly we have new models coming up, so we will have the IBM Granite model series. We will also have the Dali 3 model and the Amazon Titan image generator model. Those will all be available until the end of 2024. We also have other new features of Generative AI Hub, for example, the orchestration capability, including prompt templates and data masking. And then we also have some new features with Joule and Kevin is going to tell you more about that.

[Kevin] SAP is going to expand and elevate Joule's capabilities to drive business innovation by providing SAP Joule Studio to create custom skills for Joule, but it also will integrate Joule with SAP HANA Cloud to help you generate code for SAP HANA Cloud and help you work easier with SAP HANA Cloud as well. The SAP Cloud SDK for AI was available for Python already, but now we got that for Java, JavaScript, and ABAP, helping you to integrate the capabilities of SAP Generative AI Hub of SAP AI Core directly into your business enterprise applications.

SAP TechEd 2024 - Summary

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SAP TechEd 2024 delivered an inspiring keynote with a strong focus on how technology drives real-world business innovations. This session brought to light the latest advances in AI, cloud solutions, and SAP's vision for the future of enterprise software.

The keynote opened with a thought-provoking introduction about the human brain, its complexities, and how innovation emerges from millions of connections forming new ideas. This metaphor seamlessly tied into SAP's philosophy of turning ideas into tangible solutions—where concepts become tools for solving real business problems.

Innovation at the Heart of SAP’s Strategy

One of the central themes was the growing importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in SAP’s offerings. AI is now deeply integrated into SAP’s cloud-driven portfolio, designed to simplify customers' lives and meet evolving business needs. Senior AI Scientists at SAP are working on harnessing AI to make business software smarter and more intuitive. The keynote also emphasized SAP's efforts to ensure that its software is configurable, extensible, and unified, providing a seamless suite-like experience across its platforms.

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

A significant highlight was SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP), which has seen rapid growth in customer adoption. BTP is the cornerstone for SAP’s cloud and AI-driven future, empowering businesses with application development, automation, data analytics, and AI capabilities all within one unified platform. The keynote highlighted that over 27,000 live customers and 2,800 partners are leveraging SAP BTP to drive innovation.

The announcement of new BTP regions running on infrastructure from partners like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, along with SAP-managed data centers, shows SAP’s commitment to providing broader regional coverage and reliable service. This expansion aims to help businesses operate globally while maintaining efficiency, security, and compliance.

Enhancements in Application Development and Automation

SAP unveiled its Clean Core Strategy, which allows businesses to build custom extensions in a way that keeps the core ERP system maintainable and upgradeable. With SAP’s low-code environment, developers can create AI-powered applications with ease, while ABAP Cloud now supports both on-stack and side-by-side development, giving businesses more flexibility in their customizations.

One exciting feature introduced was the SAP Build Extensibility Wizard, a tool designed to streamline the process of creating custom fields and extensions, allowing users to enhance SAP applications with minimal coding.

SAP Build and GenAI

In keeping with the AI theme, SAP showcased the GenAI capabilities within SAP Build. With Joule, an AI assistant, developers can create complex data models, build extensions, and generate applications through natural language prompts. This AI-driven approach reduces manual coding and helps users integrate advanced functionalities like time series forecasting and predictive analytics into their business processes.

Data and Analytics Innovations

The keynote further highlighted innovations in data and analytics, specifically focusing on SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Datasphere. The HANA Cloud Vector Engine and Knowledge Graph Engine were introduced, both of which enable businesses to harness structured and unstructured data for more context-aware AI-driven decisions. These engines promise faster and more accurate data processing, particularly in scenarios involving large language models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Additionally, the keynote showcased how SAP Datasphere is being adopted by large enterprises like Hershey’s and Bosch for data cataloging, integration, and self-service analytics, empowering businesses to access trusted data with ease.

Integration Suite and AI-Driven Optimization

The SAP Integration Suite now offers a modern, AI-powered solution for real-time end-to-end business process integration. With thousands of pre-built integrations and connectors, businesses can seamlessly integrate SAP and third-party applications. SAP is also leveraging AI-generated recommendations to optimize custom scripts, further enhancing developer productivity and reducing memory consumption.

Conclusion

SAP TechEd 2024 demonstrated SAP’s unwavering commitment to making innovation accessible, impactful, and transformative. From the integration of advanced AI capabilities to the expansion of BTP, SAP is setting a new standard in enterprise software. Whether you are looking to enhance your application development, automate processes, or harness the power of data, SAP’s latest innovations offer powerful tools to bring your ideas to life.

As SAP continues to evolve, the future of enterprise technology is more connected, intelligent, and adaptable than ever before.

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SAP Developer News: TechEd Day 2

2024-10-09T16:10:00.035000+02:00

DESCRIPTION

SAP TechEd General

News Guide: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide.html
TechEd Watch Live: https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html

Data and Analytics

Data and Analytics News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/data-and-analytics.html
SAP HANA Cloud Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search.offeringsproducts=1693018299239028TpZb

Integration

Integration News: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/integration.html
Integration Sessions: https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog?tab.day=20241009&search.track=1692371026432005VcKa

New SAP Build Capabilities

SAP Build Extensibility Wizard: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-build-extensibility-wizard-for-sap-s-4hana-cloud-public-edition/ba-p/13867427
AD105 | Enhance your fusion team collaboration with ABAP Cloud and SAP Build https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog/session/1721791179884001rYRe
AD200 | Extend Joule with SAP Build and develop custom enterprise skills https://www.sap.com/events/teched/virtual/flow/sap/te24/catalog/page/catalog/session/1722394882377001d2M9

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro
0:10 TechEd Intro
1:13 Data and Analytics
2:25 Integration
3:49 New SAP Build Capabilities

Transcript

[Intro] It's a long way from Philly to Heidelberg, but the show must go on. We're late, aren't we? Yeah, we're late. We all know there's nothing like the real thing. Luckily, we've got our best people on the job. Oh, sorry, Josh! Josh, if you pulled your own weight, we wouldn't have to carry you through this place.

[Witalij] There were many extremely interesting announcements related to data and analytics during SAP TechEd Virtual. Some of them are coming in Q1 of 2025, while others are already available. For example, you might have noticed that as technology continues to evolve, we've also brought SAP Analytics Cloud to Apple Vision Pro. We also announced new data lake capabilities for SAP DataSphere. These new capabilities, including Object Store, Spark processing, and SQL on files, will be available starting in Q4 2024. Looking like I'll need to develop new CodeJam exercises and hit the road with them in 2025. I've done a lot of CodeJam focused on getting started with HANA ML capabilities, and I'm already excited that the development of intelligent data apps will become even more efficient with the introduction of the generative AI toolkit for SAP HANA Cloud. I hope you've seen this in the announcements.

Additionally, the new introduced Knowledge Graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud, combined with the accelerated vector engine, will be a powerful combo for building even more impactful AI-based applications using SAP data. So lots of work and fun ahead. Stay with us.

[Antonio] Hola, SAP developers. Many announcements in the integration space as part of SAP TechEd 2024. So we have new integration adapters to easily connect to ANAPLAN, CUPA, HubSpot, NetSuite ERP, Snowflake, and more. We also have a new message status overview monitor. That's the aggregated overview of the status messages, for example, that we had in SAP Process Orchestration that we all love. The migration tool has been enhanced. Now it's possible to do mass migration of integration scenarios. There's a new licensing option for SAP Integration Suite, which is called Starter Edition. This is focused for grow with SAP customers and SAP SuccessFactors customers. Also, we have new generative AI capabilities in SAP Integration Suite. So we can now optimize our groovy scripts in SAP Cloud Integration. And finally, the product, SAP Event Broker for SAP Cloud Applications, was recently renamed to SAP Cloud Application Event Hub. Apart from that, you can check out the documentation in CAP to see how you can easily connect your CAP application deployed to SAP BTP to the SAP Application Event Hub.

[Shrini] SAP announces several improvements to SAP Build. Its comprehensive solution for extending S/4 HANA Cloud and other line of business applications. The most significant updates enhance SAP Build by streamlining S/4 HANA extension developments, introducing new generative AI capabilities, and expanding access to about development tools. A new extension wizard available now lets developers access SAP Build directly from S/4 HANA Cloud Public Edition. With this access, developers can extend custom fields, business logic, and processes, either on-stack or side-by-side. A critical feature of this integration is the knowledge of business context, such as events and objects, when creating business processes and while transitioning between S/4 HANA and SAP brand. This preserves important business information, enabling developers to switch between environments seamlessly without losing crucial context.

In Q4 2024, the extension wizard will let developers create SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications, leveraging the full set of features available in SAP Build. In Q4 2024, new capabilities such as code exploration and documentation search in SAP Build Code will reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers. Low-code developers and business users will also be able to create user interfaces and automate workflows with assistance from Juul. Joule is SAP's generative AI assistant. In Q1 2025, ABAP developers will be able to generate high-quality code and unit tests with Joule that comply with ABAP cloud development model. Joule will also be able to generate explanations for legacy code, making it easier to modernize legacy code bases and migrate to a clean code. By end of Q4 2024, Joule will also be integrated into SAP Build Work Zone, a low-code tool for creating engaging and personalized business sites. Joule's generative AI capabilities will offer user task automation and intelligent support.

[Sheena] By end of 2024, developers will also be able to use low-code capabilities in SAP build to enhance Joule with new skills, integrating it seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP applications. This flexibility ensures Joule can be tailored to meet customer-specific business needs. Finally, developers can create applications that feature alternative AI capabilities by taking full advantage of HANA Cloud to ground large language models using its vector engine. Soon, developers will also be able to achieve this S/4 HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine, scheduled for general availability in the first half of 2025. By the end of 2024, SAP Build will include access to ABAP development tools and ABAP development environments for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP BTP. New access from the SAP Build Lobby, the solution's central starting point for all extension projects, will make it easier for multi-disciplinary development teams, also known as Fusion Teams, to build extensions and custom processes across all technology stacks. Developers will also be able to create and monitor their web cloud projects directly from SAP Build. This integration streamlines workflows by reducing the need to switch between different environments, significantly improving development efficiency.

SAP Teched ---- I was worried this year... On-Premise - Favorite Session

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SAP Teched! It is one of my favorite events. But lately... lately - I've been kind of... well not excited. My company is On-Premise. I was worried none of it would work with my current job. Then I gave myself a pep talk. I remembered that I went to Teched to see all the possibilities. And decide if there was anything I needed to learn immediately.

Well... I was excited about all the new things. I always am. Then I heard something that really made going to the event worth it for me. SAP does understand that we have many applications that were custom built. There was something cool called Tier 3. I need to read more on it. I am not the expert by any stretch of the imagination. Here's what I heard - Our old developments are safe. We don't have to just drop them all and try to rewrite them quickly in a better way. The idea is to gradually move to the "new" way of doing things, and phase out our old programs. We'll actually have the time to move to the "clean core" way of doing things. The session I was at when I heard that was "Clean Core extensibility SAP S/4 private cloud".

Big sigh - and happy face from me. I have developed so much code. Code is being used now. It doesn't need to change immediately. It can be done over time. Plus as a bonus we get a friend that will help us - like they are sitting right next to you to help you understand how to do something. The AI capability built for all of us - Joule. Also help you find where that pesky data is hiding.

It was interesting to me that many people were wondering if JAVA and ABAP developers would be obsolete in the future. My answer to myself was no of course not! We still have a lot of old code. Then I look at Joule and think about how many interesting things we can write with the basics taken care of by the AI software. So maybe in time - the old languages will go away. If they do, that's OK too. I new other languages before. No big change for me. What has changed is AI. Joule can spring board us into using all the fun new tools! My learning time could be significantly reduced. Then when thought about - I thought of all the repetitive tasks we do. If they were eliminated, I would have time to work on the "harder" solutions.

Anyway - my short quick recap. There was a ton to learn. (as usual) Another fun fact - on the exercises. I can do them later on my own time. (YES! Github) That's a big plus. Honestly, it's going to be a while before I do that. But once I do - I'll be happy to share my experience.

What did you learn about?

Come Say Hi at an SAP TechEd Tour Stop

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It’s a wrap! Yes, sadly, SAP TechEd Virtual is already over, but it’s been a blast! But the good news is: If you want to continue to learn, network, and bring out your best, you can still participate in one of five SAP TechEd on Tour or SAPinsider events worldwide – with learning sessions and meet-ups with SAP experts. Here’s what you need to know to come and say “Hi”:

SAP is offering five separate tour stops around the globe, organized in collaboration with SAP user groups. Each stop will offer hands-on learning opportunities, deep-dive lecture sessions, and meet-the-experts all presented by SAP experts, partners, and many customers. We are also bringing back the Developer Garage for you as a great opportunity to learn by doing.

Choose the US or Europe to meet SAP experts

From November 12-14, join technical practitioners and SAP experts at ASUG Tech Connect 2024 in West Palm Beach for immersive sessions, SAP insights, and networking. Over three days, you'll enhance your skills, stay at the forefront of digital advancements, and grow professionally.

If you prefer a trip to Europe, SAPinsider EMEA 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is for you. From November 12-14, you can develop the skills and expertise needed to thrive in your role. Hear from customers about their successful digital transformations, learn implementation best practices from SAP partners, and connect with peers and SAP experts in a three-day learning event aligned with SAP TechEd Virtual.

Get an overview of the SAP ecosystem in Australia

If you fancy a trip to Down Under, we’re excited to meet you at SAUG-x 2024 this year! From November 19-20 you can learn from unique insights, network with your peers, hear from SAP experts, and get an overview of our ecosystem. Don’t miss these relevant knowledge sharing, learning, and networking sessions – all in Melbourne, Australia!

And if you’re still in the mood for SAP TechEd by December, join us in Birmingham, UK, at UKISUG Connect 2024. At the ICC in Birmingham, expect to learn from experts, network with like-minded peers and collaborate together. Benefit from knowledge-rich keynotes, engaging breakout sessions, a range of workshops and an exhibition hall of over 70 SAP partners.

Last, but not least, head over to the motherland of SAP – Germany – and join us at DSAG-TechXchange 2025 on April 4, 2025! Yes, it might be a couple of months away, but having your next trip planned is always a nice thing, don’t you think?

Whichever location you prefer – we are looking forward to seeing you there! Make use of the unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, gain valuable insights into the tech industry, and get hands-on experience with the latest SAP technologies. Whether you're a developer, architect, IT manager, or business executive, SAP TechEd on Tour has something for everyone. Don't miss out on this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and propel your tech career to new heights!

For more information on the SAP TechEd on Tour stops, visit this page.

And while you’re at it, make sure to attend SAP CodeJam events in your area - free, hands-on coding experiences where you can collaborate with fellow developers to solve real-world challenges while diving deep into the latest SAP technologies.

Top 10 takeaways #SAPTeched 2024

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1. Harnessing GenAI: The True Power Lies in Its Application

"You know how they say we can only access 20% of our brain? This lets you access all of it!" That's what Vernon Gant told Eddie Morra when he gave him the NZT-48 pill in the movie Limitless. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, large language models (LLMs) and other foundational models have gone mainstream—giving everyone their own version of NZT-48.

The question is: What do people bring to the table? Are they like Eddie, with a solid foundation in math and law that needs a boost? Or like Gennady, whose extortion skills got turbocharged? This analogy applies to companies as well.

SAP has a solid head start with its Business Technology Platform (BTP). At TechEd, SAP announced a slew of AI-enabled advancements that would have been impossible just 23 months ago.

Screen Capture of the Movie 'limitless' Released 2011

2. Embracing Innovation Through SAP BTP

As technology evolves, building new code or introducing innovative approaches depends on a strong platform foundation. SAP has fully embraced this with its Business Technology Platform (BTP). Originally launched as SAP Cloud Platform, BTP has evolved into a unified platform that consolidates essential components to help businesses scale, innovate, and thrive.

BTP's key pillars—application development, automation, integration, data and analytics, and AI—are driving innovation across industries, enabling companies to adapt to changing needs. With 27,000 live customers and over 2,800 partners, SAP BTP's success continues to grow, empowering businesses to stay competitive.

SAP BTP Portfolio 2024

3. AI Foundation on BTP: Relevant, Reliable, Responsible

"Relevant, Reliable, Responsible" is not just a buzzword for SAP. SAP has taken significant actions to demonstrate this commitment.

Responsible: The AI Foundation model is expanding access to more LLMs. A highlight this year is Mistral Large 2, which will be hosted in SAP's own data centers rather than relying on external APIs, ensuring complete control over your data. Additionally, SAP has announced access to the latest LLMs from Aleph Alpha, Meta, and IBM.
Reliable: The SAP Gen AI Hub now offers various orchestration tools—such as data masking, grounding, and content filtering—to ensure that outputs from LLMs are trustworthy and less prone to hallucinations.
Relevant: SAP has built a comprehensive set of AI services, AI lifecycle management, and business data and content for AI, allowing seamless integration into SAP applications—all accessible via Joule.

SAP AI Foundation

4. Joule Updates: Your Trusted Co-Pilot

Joule, SAP's intelligent co-pilot, turns one this year! It will cover 80% of commonly used workflows and tasks in SAP, featuring 500 skills today with a goal to reach 1,200 by year-end, spanning HR, finance, sales, supply chain, and more.

New announcements include:

Multiple Language Support: Joule now supports multiple languages, expanding its accessibility.
Expanded Data Centers: Increased infrastructure to support Joule's growing capabilities.
Availability in SAP Mobile Start: Joule is now accessible in SAP Mobile Start.
Joule Studio in SAP Build: Enabling two million ABAP developers globally, Joule now supports ABAP developer capabilities in Eclipse.

Future Outlook:

Joule Agents: Specialized in specific domains like HR or Customer service, these agents leverage multi-agent systems, allowing businesses to create custom skills, including integration with other enterprise apps like ServiceNow via APIs. This expansion ensures Joule remains a powerful co-pilot, enabling seamless transactional, informational, and analytical interactions to boost business efficiency and automation.

Joule Agents

5. Unified Application Development Under SAP Build, Including ABAP

Two years ago, SAP introduced a low-code environment and last year added AI-powered code development for Java and JavaScript. This year, the latest SAP Build release includes ABAP Cloud, which comes with its own large language model trained on 25 million lines of ABAP code, offering immense power for the SAP ecosystem.

What does this mean? You can now extend your core S/4HANA systems using an AI-powered approach in ABAP Cloud in two ways:

On-Stack: Build custom extensions directly within the core system.
Side-by-Side: Develop modular, customizable extensions on SAP BTP.

The key is to maintain a clean core. The goal is to make all applications lifecycle-compliant, meaning they are built to last without requiring adaptations during innovation cycles. This applies to both private and public cloud. For private cloud, SAP Build supports RFC connectivity, enabling seamless third-party integration with S/4HANA. For public cloud, there is the SAP Build Extensibility Wizard, which helps key users and developers create both on-stack and side-by-side extensions within S/4HANA in an embedded experience.

ABAP Cloud in SAP Build

6. Data in the GenAI Age

In the era of Generative AI, creating intelligent applications requires careful data handling. While foundational models perform well, enterprise data needs precise management.

HANA Cloud Vector Engine: enables in-database vectorization with a proprietary SAP-specific text model, simplifying the creation of vector embeddings. This allows LLMs to provide more accurate, context-aware outputs for enterprise use. A notable example is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), where the engine retrieves relevant business data to improve AI results.
Knowledge Graph Engine: This engine organizes data as interconnected facts, helping users navigate relationships and extract insights easily. In the GenAI space, knowledge graphs can power domain-specific question-answering systems, combining business data from manuals, documents, and records to generate precise, context-aware responses.
GenAI Toolkit for HANA Cloud: Similar to ABAP Cloud's AI-enabled code generation, this toolkit provides users access via Joule, allowing them to query datasets and receive results through AI-driven interactions.

SAP Knowledge Graph

7. Analytics in the GenAI age

Both SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud have received significant enhancements this year.

SAP Analytics Cloud now features SAP Analytics Cloud Compass, set to be generally available in Q1 2025. This feature enables business users to model complex risk scenarios using the Monte Carlo simulation method. With a user-friendly interface, non-technical users can perform real-time risk analysis without needing prior setup or technical expertise.
SAP Datasphere gets a boost with new embedded data lake capabilities, including the Integrated Object Store for storing large amounts of data, Spark Data Processing capabilities, and SQL Files for live access to data in the integrated object store without duplication. These features allow organizations of all sizes to implement a business data fabric in a simple, cost-efficient, and scalable way, powered by SAP HANA Cloud.

SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datashpere

8. SAP Integration Suite Enhancements

Many SAP customers leveraging SAP Integration Suite have experienced a significant return on investment—up to 345%, according to Forrester.

In the era of Generative AI, you can now optimize your existing integrations with AI-generated recommendations. This allows you to run script optimizations, modify connections, relaunch applications, and immediately observe the changes in system performance after the optimizations, providing a significant boost. (This feature will be available as part of SAP Integration Suite Premium Edition.)

Additionally, there's a new commercial offering: the SAP Integration Suite Starter Edition for SAP SuccessFactors and SAP GROW customers. This edition provides access to all pre-packaged SAP integrations, along with a fixed number of customizable integrations.

SAP Integration Suite

9. Business Transformation Management

LeanIX, Signavio, and WalkMe now form a cohesive block where customers need it most—business transformation management. With LeanIX, you can automatically discover your current application landscape. Signavio helps you discover and design your business processes, and WalkMe enables people to seamlessly navigate and adopt these processes, supporting activities such as employee onboarding, performance management, and job changes in SAP SuccessFactors.

SAP Business Transformation Management

10. AI Use Cases in Action Across Applications

A sample customer, "TeachIT Technologies," was used to demonstrate the power of Generative AI in various application spaces. The scenario: TeachIT Technologies, a mid-sized software implementation company, is facing challenges in project management, resource allocation, and international expansion.

Cloud ERP: Project managers track success criteria with GenAI-powered in-app extensibility. SAP BTP allows for custom application development, streamlining processes without manual coding.
UI and AI-Assisted Development: Developers use SAP Fiori Tools and LLMs to quickly transform sketches into functional applications, simplifying the development process (future-looking).
Global Expansion & Compliance: SAP Central Business Configuration (CBC) and GenAI automatically configure regional business processes for expansion, ensuring compliance with local regulations. AI in SAP’s compliance tools resolves tax errors like incorrect GST numbers.
Sales & Operations: SAP Sales Cloud and SuccessFactors use AI tools to help project managers manage teams, set goals, and track budgets, making decision-making easier.

Almost all applications, in one form or another, have their own 'NZT-48 pill'!

Please explore these in the newly launched SAP Business AI Features in SAP Discovery center.

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/index.html

SAP Business AI Features

SAP TechEd 2024 Announcements - Consolidated and Simplified

2024-10-17T08:28:35.930000+02:00

In this blog, I have consolidated everything related to SAP TechEd 2024 in one place! Hope this will help the community.

Note: Don't miss the list of all the links of news, recordings, source-code, demo etc. towards the end of this blog.

First let's have a quick summary of all the key announcements.

Let's go in detail.

SAP Build + ABAP Cloud

SAP Build unifies the entire development and extension capabilities and will now also include ABAP Cloud.
Technically, it means that SAP Build will integrate ABAP development tools and ABAP development environments for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP.
Developers will also be able to create and monitor their ABAP Cloud projects directly from SAP Build.
It will be available by Q4 2024.
SAP Build Lobby will be the central starting point for all extension projects.

Demo of SAP Build Lobby

SAP Build for S/4HANA Extension Development

A new extensibility wizard is available now which will let developers access SAP Build directly from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
With this, developers can extend custom fields, business logic and processes either on-stack (deployed in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, ABAP environment) or side-by-side (deployed in SAP BTP).
In Q4 2024, the extensibility wizard will let developers create custom SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications, leveraging the full set of features available in SAP Build.

New Generative AI Capabilities of SAP Build with Joule

New capabilities in SAP Build Code such as code explanation and documentation search will reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers (Q4 2024).
Developers will also be able to automate workflows in SAP Build Process Automation with assistance from generative AI (Q4 2024)
ABAP developers will be able to generate high-quality code and unit tests with Joule that comply with SAP’s ABAP Cloud Development model, and also generate explanations for legacy code, making it easier to modernize legacy codebases and migrate to a clean core (Q1 2025)
Developers will also be able to enhance Joule with custom skills using Joule studio in SAP Build, integrating it seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP applications (Q1 2025)

For more information on SAP Build, refer to SAP Build.

Joule with SAP Build Work Zone

Joule will also be integrated into SAP Build Work Zone (Q4 2024)
It will be available in SAP Build Work Zone standard edition, the SAP Start site and the SAP Mobile Start app.

Joule with Collaborative AI Agents

SAP will infuse Joule with multiple autonomous AI agents that will combine their unique expertise to collaboratively accomplish complex workflows (Q4 2024)
With an in-built agentic capability, Joule can now solve complex business problems for you through planning, self-reflection, logical reasoning and collaboration.
Developers will be able to extend Joule by building their own autonomous AI agent use cases with SAP Build (Q1 2025)

Joule Agent Demo

Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Joule will be available for all SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers (Q4 2024)
Joule capabilities will expand to support key functions including sales professionals, warehouse clerks and project managers (Q1 of 2025)

Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Following the introduction of Joule into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition in July, SAP launched a feature pack with new use cases that let business users instruct Joule with simple commands.
The feature pack includes a new implementation wizard that installs a model outlining criteria to evaluate extensions built with low-code, no-code and pro-code tools on SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.
Joule will be incorporated into the top 300 most-frequently-used SAP Fiori apps (Q4 2024)
Joule will also be able to take master data change requests within SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, so users don’t have to navigate across multiple menus.

Joule in SAP BTP

Joule will be available to use with SAP HANA Cloud in SAP BTP cockpit (Q4 2024)
Joule will be incorporated into SAP BTP cockpit (Q4 2024)
Joule can be directed to perform transactional scenarios like creating a subaccount, onboarding users, and answering questions about SAP BTP administrations in general.

Joule in Other SAP Solutions

Joule will be available in the SAP Service Cloud solution and SAP Concur solutions (Q1 2025)
SAP now offers Joule across the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution, the SAP Digital Manufacturing solution, and the SAP Asset Performance Management application.
SAP will continue to roll out Joule across the entire SAP Supply Chain portfolio.
Joule will be available in the SAP Sales Cloud solution with navigational and task-management assistance (Q4 2024)
Joule will help SAP LeanIX solutions users manage and optimize their IT landscape (Q4 2024)
Joule will be available with SAP Signavio (Q4 2024)
Joule will be available in SAP Mobile Start (Q4 2024)

Joule studio in SAP Build

SAP will release Joule studio in SAP Build (Q4 2024).
Joule studio will provide a dedicated environment for businesses to create, deploy, monitor and manage custom skills for Joule developed with low-code, no-code capabilities.
Custom skills, which complement Joule’s out-of-the-box capabilities from SAP, extend conversational AI to organization-specific workflows.
Additionally, customers can now integrate any third-party system into Joule for an entirely integrated conversational user experience.

SAP Knowledge Graph

SAP announces the addition of a knowledge graph engine to SAP HANA Cloud (Q1 2025)
The knowledge graph engine will let users identify and understand complex relationships in their data not otherwise discoverable using traditional data modeling tools.
SAP announces SAP Knowledge Graph, a new solution that will unlock the full value of SAP data by connecting it with the rich business context captured in SAP applications.
Accessible through SAP Datasphere and Joule in Q1 2025, it will help root AI in SAP-specific business semantics, reducing the risk of inaccurate or irrelevant results.
In its initial release, this solution will focus on SAP S/4HANA, providing a semantic layer that connects over 450,000 ABAP tables, 80,000 CDS views and thousands of SAP Fiori applications, along with OData APIs and entity sets.

SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine

Knowledge graph engine will be added to SAP HANA Cloud (Q1 2025)
By combining the vector engine and the knowledge graph engine, you can harness the power of structured and unstructured data together.

SAP Expands Strategic AI Partnerships

Anthropic: SAP introduces Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Amazon Bedrock to generative AI hub.
HCLTech: HCLTech announces a newly built AI Center of Excellence in Munich focused on developing AI use cases for the AI Foundation on SAP BTP.
IBM: SAP announces the addition of IBM Granite, IBM’s flagship series of transparent and efficient LLMs, to the growing repository of AI models available in generative AI hub.
Meta: SAP continues to execute its multi-vendor strategy for LLMs with the addition of Meta Llama 3.1 70B, which is built to deliver performance and cost efficiency.
Mistral AI: SAP continues to expand its partnership with Mistral AI by adding Mistral Large 2 to generative AI hub.
PwC: PwC announces it is using generative AI capabilities based on SAP’s generative AI hub.

Generative AI Hub + ABAP

Developers will be able to access generative AI hub capabilities from custom ABAP applications using the ABAP AI SDK powered by the intelligent scenario lifecycle management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud functionality.
Using the ABAP AI SDK, ABAP developers can easily infuse AI capabilities into their custom applications and extensions.

Generative AI Hub – New LLMs Support

New LLMs will be available for generative AI hub by the end of 2024, including:

Aleph Alpha Pharia-1
Amazon Titan Image Generator
IBM Granite
Mistral Large 2
OpenAI Dall-E 3

Generative AI Hub – New Data Centers

New data centers for generative AI hub by the end of Q4 2024:

AWS: Singapore
Google Cloud Platform: Australia (Sydney); Japan (Osaka)
Microsoft Azure: Australia (Sydney); Switzerland (Zurich)

Generative AI Hub – Other Updates

We will be able to integrate advanced AI capabilities into web apps with new SDK support for ABAP, Java, and JavaScript in generative AI hub (Q4 2024)
Orchestration improvements to the generative AI hub capability in SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad that will enable document grounding and indexing pipelines (Q4 2024)

New generative AI functionality for customers move to the cloud faster

SAP announced a new generative AI functionality that helps customers move to the cloud faster (Q1 2025).
Accessed through the SAP Cloud ALM solution, customers and consultants will be able to get expert answers, proactive guidance, and task automation aligned with the RISE with SAP Methodology.

SAP Expands its Portfolio of Learning and Certification Offerings

SAP launches new role-based certifications, free training materials and hands-on opportunities for developers and tech professionals.
These includes 60 new self-paced learning journeys, trial experiences and solution demonstrations that help tech professionals benefit from the latest fully integrated and practical training.

SAP Datasphere

SAP announced new embedded data lake capabilities for SAP Datasphere (Q4 2024)
Built on SAP HANA Cloud SQL on files and data lake file service capabilities, it will expand the business data fabric architecture with a data lake option, complementing existing storage solutions.
This helps businesses access, manage, and analyze data across cloud and hybrid environments while preserving its context and logic, improving decision-making, operational efficiency, and AI-driven innovation.

New embedded data lake capabilities

An integrated object store, which provides a simpler way to store large amounts of data, making it easier for businesses to expand their storage as needed.
Spark compute, which facilitates efficient data transformation and processing based on existing SAP Datasphere data integration capabilities.
SQL on files functionality, which lets developers access data in the integrated object store without needing to physically copy the data.

These capabilities let users import and integrate data at scale while maintaining a consistent user experience that ensures seamless data integration from both SAP sources (including SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse) and non-SAP sources while preserving the original structure and context of the data.

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP announced general availability of the new SAP Analytics Cloud compass feature (Q1 2025)
SAP Analytics Cloud compass feature can be used to model complex risk scenarios and simulate a broad range of probable outcomes.

SAP Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite, starter edition will offer an unlimited number of prepackaged SAP integrations and a fixed number of customizable integrations for GROW with SAP and SAP SuccessFactors customers (Q4 2024)
New integration adapters will allow users manage data from various third-party technology platforms, including Anaplan, Coupa, HubSpot, NetSuite ERP, Snowflake, and more.
AI supported custom script optimization (2025)
AI support iFlow creation is now Generally Available

SAP TechEd 2024 - Recordings and News

SAP TechEd keynote replay - https://www.youtube.com/live/VUp4nt3zNCg

SAP TechEd News Guide 2024 - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide.html

SAP TechEd 2023 Executive Keynote - Highlights - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-teched-2023-executive-keynote-highlights/ba-p/13576476

SAP TechEd Keynote 2024 – Technology Highlights - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-teched-keynote-2024-technology-highlights/ba-p/13891880

Joule with Collaborative Capabilities - TechEd Announement - https://news.sap.com/2024/10/sap-teched-copilot-joule-collaborative-capabilities-enterprise-ai/

SAP Build’s Next Leap: Generative AI and ABAP - https://news.sap.com/2024/10/sap-build-generative-ai-abap/

SAP Business AI: Release Highlights Q3 2024 - https://news.sap.com/2024/10/sap-business-ai-q3-release/

SAP Galvanizes its Developer Community with New SAP Build Capabilities - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/application-development-and-automation.html

SAP Transforms Joule with Collaborative AI Agents - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/ai.html#sap-transforms-joule-with-collaborative-ai-agents

SAP Knowledge Graph to Unlock Business Context Across SAP Ecosystem - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/ai.html#sap-knowledge-graph-unlock-business-context-across-sap-ecosystem

Cloud ERP announcements - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/cloud-erp.html

Data and Analytics announcements - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/data-and-analytics.html

SAP Integration Suite announcements - https://www.sap.com/events/teched/news-guide/integration.html

List of GitHub Repositories for SAP TechEd Hands-on Sessions

Build your own generative AI scenario in a Snap - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-AI180

Use SAP Integration Suite with SAP IBP and third-party systems - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-IN280

Build AI-enabled intelligent data apps - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-AI280

Set up Joule to answer questions in your own policy documents - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-XP180

Build SAP Fiori Apps with ABAP Cloud powered by Joule's ABAP developer capabilities - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-AD180

SAP TechEd 2024 Developer keynote [deconstructed]: Keeping the promise - https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-developer-keynote

Explore SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud End-to-End- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-DA180

From clicks to code: Managing your SAP BTP infrastructure with Terraform- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-XP280

Future-proof your SAP PI/PO investments with SAP Integration Suite- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-IN180

Develop applications and processes with SAP Build and Joule- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-AD181

Cloud ERP Extensibility- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-DT280

Integrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud with SAP IBP using SAP Integration Suite- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-DT180

Build a chatbot with SAP Build Apps and SAP AI Core- https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2024-developer-keynote/tree/main/topics/DEV100A-build-chatbot-apps-aicore

Hope this will help! Let me know if I have missed anything important 😊

SAP TechEd 2024: The Future of Intelligent Enterprises Unveiled

2024-10-17T13:17:11.995000+02:00

SAP TechEd 2024, held both virtually and in Las Vegas, brought together technology enthusiasts, developers, and enterprise leaders to explore the latest innovations in SAP technologies. This year’s event was packed with keynotes, expert sessions, hands-on workshops, and a glimpse into the future of intelligent enterprises. Whether you attended in person or online, the excitement was commendable, and the energy was contagious.

Opening Keynote: Building the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise

The event kicked off with an inspiring keynote from SAP CEO Christian Klein, who emphasized SAP’s commitment to innovation, sustainability, and enabling businesses to become intelligent enterprises. He highlighted the importance of digital transformation and how SAP is paving the way with groundbreaking solutions that prioritize sustainability, AI, and enhanced user experiences.

Key Highlights:

SAP Business AI: Announcement of new AI capabilities integrated into SAP S/4HANA, designed to automate routine tasks, improve data-driven decision-making, and optimize business processes.
Sustainability at the Core: Introduction of new sustainability features that help companies monitor and minimize their carbon footprint, track resource usage, and improve supply chain transparency.
SAP Fiori Evolution: Enhanced user interface with a focus on accessibility and a more intuitive design, making it easier for users to navigate and interact with SAP applications.

SAP Virtual – The new and improved Dashboard

New Announcements and Innovations

SAP TechEd 2024 had no shortage of exciting new announcements. Here are some of the key innovations revealed during the event:

Expanded AI Capabilities

SAP Business AI was a central theme throughout the event, with new AI features showcased across multiple products. From predictive analytics in SAP S/4HANA to conversational AI for customer support, SAP demonstrated how AI is being seamlessly integrated to enhance business processes.

SAP Build Process Automation

A major highlight was the announcement of updates to SAP Build, aimed at making process automation more accessible to users of all technical levels. The low-code/no-code platform now includes pre-built templates, drag-and-drop tools, and enhanced integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

SAP Datasphere Enhancements

The data management solution, SAP Datasphere, received new capabilities, making it easier to connect, manage, and analyze data across various sources. The enhancements include improved data governance, real-time analytics, and deeper integration with third-party data platforms.

Developer and Learning Tracks

One of the best parts of SAP TechEd is the wealth of learning opportunities. This year’s event featured over 500 sessions, including workshops, expert-led talks, and networking opportunities. Some popular tracks included:

Future-Proofing with SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)

Sessions focused on helping developers leverage the SAP Business Technology Platform to build, extend, and integrate applications. There were workshops on using SAP Integration Suite, building custom apps with SAP BTP, and harnessing the power of SAP AI.

The Path to Clean Code and Efficient Development

An emphasis was placed on clean code principles, efficient development, and best practices for building scalable solutions. Developers got hands-on experience with SAP’s latest development tools, ensuring they are ready to build future-ready applications.

Enhancing User Experience with SAP Fiori

Experts guided attendees through the latest updates to SAP Fiori, including the new design elements and features that make applications more intuitive and responsive. There were live demos showcasing how to customize the Fiori Launchpad and build applications with improved accessibility.

Hands-On Workshops and Demos

SAP TechEd 2024 didn’t just talk about innovation—it allowed attendees to experience it firsthand. Attendees participated in hands-on workshops to build applications using SAP BTP, explore machine learning with SAP AI, and configure real-time data flows in SAP Datasphere.

Some Popular Workshops:

"Building Scalable Applications with SAP BTP": Participants created cloud-native applications and learned best practices for integrating them with SAP S/4HANA.
"Automate Business Processes with SAP Build": A practical session on designing and automating workflows without writing a single line of code.
"Data-Driven Insights with SAP Analytics Cloud": Attendees explored how to visualize and analyze data using the SAP Analytics Cloud, with a focus on real-time data.

Networking and Community Engagement

One of the major draws of SAP TechEd is the opportunity to connect with peers, SAP experts, and industry leaders. Networking lounges, breakout sessions, and even virtual chatrooms were bustling with activity as attendees exchanged ideas, discussed challenges, and explored collaboration opportunities.

SAP Community Awards
The event also celebrated the achievements of the SAP community with awards recognizing developers, partners, and businesses that have made significant contributions to the ecosystem. It was a proud moment for many, reinforcing the strong collaborative spirit within the SAP community.

Key Takeaways from SAP TechEd 2024

AI and Automation Are the Future

SAP’s commitment to integrating AI into its core products signals a future where routine tasks can be automated, allowing businesses to focus on strategic initiatives.

Focus on Sustainability

With sustainability becoming a global imperative, SAP’s solutions are enabling businesses to measure and minimize their environmental impact, helping them to meet regulatory requirements and improve their corporate responsibility.

Empowering the Developer Community

From expanded capabilities in SAP BTP to enhanced tools for building and automating processes, SAP TechEd 2024 reinforced the message that developers are at the heart of driving digital transformation.

The Future Innovation with SAP Builders
Innovation is the key to future. There is SAP Builders group to engage with a community of peers to unleash innovation: SAP Builders - SAP Community

In-person events for SAP TechEd 2024
There are multiple in person events for SAP TechEd2024 the timelines are as follows:
• ASUG Tech Connect 2024: November 12–14, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida
• SAUG-x 2024: November 19–20, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia
• UKISUG Connect 2024: December 1–3, 2024 in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• SAPinsider EMEA 2024: November 12–14, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark
• DSAG-TechXchange 2025: April 4, 2025 in Wiesbaden, Germany

Sponsors of this TechEd 2024

Summary

SAP TechEd 2024 was a showcase of the future of enterprise technology, highlighting the tools and innovations that will shape businesses for years to come. Whether you were there in person or joined online, the event offered a comprehensive look at how SAP is driving the digital transformation journey.

Excited to look forward to whats in store with SAP TechEd 2025!
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Cheers!

Driving ABAP Innovation: Key highlights and future trends from SAP TechEd 2024

2024-10-24T16:39:37.266000+02:00

Dear Developer Community,

I am thrilled to share with you some of the inspiring ABAP highlights from SAP TechEd 2024. The sessions were packed with valuable information and insights that are sure to empower and motivate every ABAP developer out there.

If you haven't had a chance to watch the video SAP TechEd 2024 | ABAP Highlights, I highly recommend it as it provides a concise overview of the latest developments in ABAP and the incredible possibilities that lie ahead:

In this blog post, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the incredible work of our talented speakers and reflect on the wealth of knowledge they shared.

ABAP Cloud in SAP Build

Alexander Rother’s, Björn Schulz’s and Andre Borchert’s session AD100 | Unlock SAP Build and ABAP Cloud interoperability to elevate your extensions emphasized the immense potential of the SAP ecosystem. The inclusion of ABAP Cloud in the SAP Build family marks a significant leap forward, forming the world’s strongest alliance for customer and partner development. By embracing the fusion development principle and harnessing the power of Generative AI, developers can expect unparalleled productivity and unprecedented outcomes. This transformative collaboration paves the way for innovation and advancement, driving the SAP ecosystem to new heights.

This integration was also discussed in session AD105 – Enhance your fusion team collaboration with ABAP Cloud and SAP Build by Anne Keller and Tim Back. They showed a demo of how to integrate your ABAP Cloud projects into the lobby of SAP Build solutions.

Clean Core Extensibility

The session DT200 | Clean Core extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition by Olga Dolinskaja and Thomas Fiedler provided essential guidance on transforming legacy development to ABAP Cloud and Clean Core by using classic SAP APIs for the 3-Tier Extensibility Model. It also captured the upcoming S/4HANA Joule Agent in ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and how it will boost the development efficiency and create exciting possibilities for the future.

The 3-Tier Extensibility Model and how it serves to transform classic ABAP custom code into Clean Core compliant custom, was also highlighted in session DT100 | Unlocking the intelligent enterprise: Cloud ERP innovations for the future by Carine Tchoutouo Djomo and Jan Gilg. By integrating of Generative AI across the entire SAP development lifecycle, they showcased the limitless possibilities for future innovation.

In session AD106 | Clean Core extensibility of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with ABAP Cloud, Volker Drees provided valuable insights into the Clean Core extensibility of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with ABAP Cloud. The overview of ABAP Cloud usage and the 3-Tier Extensibility Model, coupled with the integration of classic APIs (BAPIs) following the Clean Core principles, presented a roadmap for developers to create extensions in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Andre Fischer's session DT280 | Build Clean Core extensions with ABAP Cloud for SAP S/4HANA Cloud demonstrated the power of the new generators in ADT for building Clean Core extensions with ABAP Cloud for SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The session showed how easy it is to use the Field Extension Wizard and the UI Services Wizard to create extensions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, empowering developers to unleash their creativity and take their applications to the next level.

Attendees of session DT201 | Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, presented by Alda Dollani and Thomas Schneider, gained valuable insights into finding the right extensibility tool for various use cases and identifying the right API or extension point. The session also showcased a cutting-edge extensibility wizard and AI capability, which is sure to revolutionize the way attendees approach their extensibility challenges.

ABAP AI

In the session AD107 | Boost your coding efficiency: Explore Joule’s ABAP developer capabilities, Jasmin Gruschke and Sebastian Baskovich focused on SAP's development of AI assistant tools for ABAP developers, with an exciting live demo and lab preview of Joule’s ABAP developer capabilities. ABAP AI truly is a game changer.

Carine Tchoutouo Djomo's sessions AD180 | Build extensions with ABAP Cloud and Joule's ABAP developer capabilities was an inspiring demonstration of the potential to accelerate application development using Joule ABAP developer capabilities. In her session, Carine demonstrated the implementation of business events with ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) for loosely coupled on-stack and side-by-side integration scenarios, as well as the display of hierarchical business data in SAP Fiori apps using Treeview.

In their session AI104 – Revolutionize ABAP development with Joule, our generative AI copilot Salma Sohrabi-Jahromi and Jens Weiler elaborated further on Joule's capabilities in ABAP development and how Joule can enrich everyday work.

Let me end this blog post with another video about the key TechEd Keynote messages about ABAP:

My heartfelt thanks to all the speakers and session owners for their invaluable contributions and insights.
All the best,

Sonja Liénard
SVP BTP ABAP

More to read

We recently published a blog post entitled The next step of ABAPs evolution: ABAP Cloud now part of SAP Build, which focuses on ABAP Cloud and its integration with SAP Build. I encourage you to read it if you haven't already.

On behalf of the entire ABAP community, I would also like to thank Michael Ameling for his continuous support and dedication to spreading the amazing ABAP news at TechEd 2024. His contributions have been invaluable, and we are incredibly grateful for his efforts. Check out his latest community blog post Unveiling today: SAP Build meets ABAP Cloud!

SAP Developer News, October 24th, 2024

2024-10-24T21:10:00.032000+02:00

Podcast Version: https://podcast.opensap.info/sap-developers/2024/10/24/sap-developer-news-october-24th-2024/

Description

SAP Build Apps now supports Actions!:

Chatbot Development Made Easy with SAP AI Core and Build Apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE7nHx9XHAY&ab_channel=SAPDevelopers
Blog Post by Qui Shi: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-build-apps-integration-with-sap-ai-core-services-part-4-integration-via/ba-p/13885101
Official feature documentation: https://help.sap.com/docs/build-apps/service-guide/actions

Devtoberfest Wrap Up

Devtoberfest Homepage: https://community.sap.com/t5/devtoberfest/gh-p/Devtoberfest
Devtoberfest Event Calendar: https://community.sap.com/t5/devtoberfest/eb-p/devtoberfest-events?calendar=true
Devtoberfest Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6RpkC85SLQDHz97qsNTNAE2jnUKj8X5d

SAP TechEd On Tour

SAP TechEd: https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html
ASUG Tech Connect 2024: https://events.asug.com/event/9a5f27ca-d742-45bb-85e7-a6597b952900/summary?RefId=sap-splash-page-home&utm_campaign=ATC_24&utm_medium=sap&utm_source=referral&utm_term=sap-splash-page-home
SAPinsider EMEA 2024: https://reg.eventmobi.com/emea-2024?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=teched&utm_content=sapmarketing
SAUG-x 2024: https://www.saug.com.au/WhatsOn/SAUG-x2024
UKISUG Connect 2024: https://www.ukisugconnect.co.uk/techx-at-connect?utm_source=TechEd_Webpage&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=TECHx_at_Connect
DSAG-TechXchange 2025: https://dsag.de/neuigkeiten/sap-teched-goes-dsag-techxchange-english/

ABAPconf 2024

Event Site: https://abapconf.org/abapconf2024/

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro
0:10 SAP Build Apps now supports Actions!
1:26 Devtoberfest Wrap Up
3:45 TechEd On Tour
4:49 ABAPConf 2024

Transcription

[Intro] This is the SAP Developer News for October 24th, 2024.

[Shrini] I hope you got a chance to watch this Devtoberfest session we did earlier this week on chatbot development made easy. If you haven't watched it, go ahead and watch the recording as I am using the same project to show you the newly added actions feature that is now available in SAP Build Apps. In the demo, I showed you how to create a data entity to connect to the Generative AI Hub and now with this feature, you could replace the data entity with an action project, configure the input, test, and save the output fields. Remember to add SAP Application Development Actions enabled to true to the destination in order for it to appear in the access project. After you release and publish the access to the library, you can enable it from the integrations tab. Now, there is also a trigger actions function available in the logic canvas and you could trigger this action while providing the BTP destination to get a response from the backend system. The response will now be available within outputs trigger action. Go ahead and try out the new actions feature in SAP Build Apps now, and you could replace a data entity in one of your build apps project with this new actions feature. You could refer to this blog post by Chu Shi, which has step by step instructions.

[Thomas] By the time you're seeing this new segment, our Devtoberfest for 2024 will have probably nearly come to a close. It's hard to imagine but this is the fifth year for Devtoberfest. I know it seems to us like just the other day we were planning our very first Devtoberfest and here we've grown to be this major part of your overall SAP TechEd experience. I'm really enjoying where we're at with Devtoberfest and TechEd. You know with TechEd you get the big announcements; you get introduction to new topics and then you can attend Devtoberfest session sessions to get a deeper dive into those same topics. It also allows us to cover a variety of maybe older topics, but ones that are still relevant to customers and partners out in the SAP ecosystem. So I'm really happy with the state where we are with Devtoberfest. It's great that we had over 60,000 unique people join and attend Devtoberfest sessions. We had tons of people, you know, almost 4,000 people enter the contest. We'll be announcing winners of the Devtoberfest contest soon. If all the validation of winners happens in enough time, we plan to announce those at the ASUG Tech Connect event, one of the SAP TechEd On Tour stops.

Speaking of SAP TechEd On Tour, that's really the next stage of continuing your TechEd journey. journey. If a Tekken on Tour stop is coming to an area near you, I encourage you to sign up and join to get that in-person experience with many of these new announced technologies. If it's not able to come your way, then we have lots of Code Jams planned for you next year, or if one's not coming to an area near you, consider hosting and request one to come to your area. We have plans to expand the parts of the world that we cover with Code Jams next year, hopefully making it to a few locations that we haven't been to in over four or five years. So with that, thank you, developer community, for another successful Devtoberfest, and we look forward to seeing you again in 2025.

[DJ] In this video I'm going to talk about innovating cutting-edge tech from the high seas. He could have kept his anchors away, but he didn't. Right. Tech out. I'll be coming up hot for a minute.

[Rich] Hey folks, Rich Heilman here. I hope everyone is having fun with the last week of Devtoberfest. But today, I wanted to make sure that you all know about the ABAP conference, which will take place on December 5th, 2024. This is a fantastic community-driven event specifically for ABAP developers, which will be streamed online. But you can also enter a drawing for a ticket to one of the on-site venues. The content is delivered in both German and English, depending on the session, and there are a ton of familiar names on the agenda. Way too many to mention here, so head over to the abopconference.org website for more information and details around the agenda.

TechEd On Tour in our very own Melbourne

2024-10-25T09:49:38.238000+02:00

Choose the US or Europe to meet SAP experts

Get an overview of the SAP ecosystem in Australia

For more information on the SAP TechEd on Tour stops, visit this page.

SAP Developer News, October 31st, 2024

2024-10-31T20:00:00.035000+01:00

Podcast Version: https://podcast.opensap.info/sap-developers/2024/10/31/sap-developer-news-october-31st-2024/

DESCRIPTION

New CodeJam: Expose capabilities of SAP AI Core with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model

Github repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/codejam-cap-llm/tree/main
SAP CodeJam topics: https://community.sap.com/t5/sap-codejam-blog-posts/sap-codejam-topics/ba-p/221407
Host a CodeJam: https://community.sap.com/t5/sap-codejam-blog-posts/so-you-want-to-host-a-codejam-everything-you-need-to-know/ba-p/221415
SAP Cloud SDK for AI: https://github.com/SAP/ai-sdk-js/tree/main

SAP TechEd On Tour

SAP TechEd: https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html
ASUG Tech Connect 2024: https://events.asug.com/event/9a5f27ca-d742-45bb-85e7-a6597b952900/summary?RefId=sap-splash-page-home&utm_campaign=ATC_24&utm_medium=sap&utm_source=referral&utm_term=sap-splash-page-home
SAPinsider EMEA 2024: https://reg.eventmobi.com/emea-2024?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=teched&utm_content=sapmarketing
SAUG-x 2024: https://www.saug.com.au/WhatsOn/SAUG-x2024
UKISUG Connect 2024: https://www.ukisugconnect.co.uk/techx-at-connect?utm_source=TechEd_Webpage&utm_medium=Website&utm_campaign=TECHx_at_Connect
DSAG-TechXchange 2025: https://dsag.de/neuigkeiten/sap-teched-goes-dsag-techxchange-english/

ML/AI in SAP Data Management products

Let’s Understand Knowledge Graph in 5 Simple Points: https://medium.com/@raja.gupta20/lets-understand-knowledge-graph-in-5-simple-points-36999c79df8e
Connecting the Facts: SAP HANA Cloud’s Knowledge Graph Engine for Business Context: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/connecting-the-facts-sap-hana-cloud-s-knowledge-graph-engine-for-business/ba-p/13888597
Get Hands-On: Build an Intelligent Data Application powered by the SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/get-hands-on-build-an-intelligent-data-application-powered-by-the-sap-hana/ba-p/13916066
Accelerate the Budget Approval Process with SAP HANA Cloud vector engine: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/accelerate-the-budget-approval-process-with-sap-hana-cloud-vector-engine/ba-p/13884137
Turbocharging Machine Learning on SAP Data with Datasphere, FedML, and NVIDIA: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/turbocharging-machine-learning-on-sap-data-with-datasphere-fedml-and-nvidia/ba-p/13889054
SAP and DataRobot Partnership Updates 2024: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-and-datarobot-partnership-updates-2024/ba-p/13916493

The Open Source Way podcast episode: R/3 on Linux

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro

0:10 New CodeJam: Expose capabilities of SAP AI Core with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model

0:55 TechEd On Tour

1:58 ML/AI in SAP Data Management products

3:58 The Open Source Way podcast episode: R/3 on Linux

Transcription

[Intro] This is the SAP Developer News for October 31st, 2024.

[Kevin] If you followed the announcements from SAP TechEd 2024, you know that there is a brand new SAP Cloud SDK for AI for JavaScript, Java, and ABAP. So I thought why not create a brand new code gem to teach you how to utilize AI capabilities within your CAP application using the SAP Cloud SDK for AI JavaScript version. So that code gem is out right now. So go ahead, visit the community.sap.com to see if there is a CodeJam happening right nearby you, or if you want to host one yourself. There is a ton of description on how to do that. And hopefully I'll see you next year in a CodeJam talking about AI and CAP. I can't wait.

[Promo] It's a long way from Philly to Heidelberg, but the show must go on. We're late, aren't we? Yeah, we're late. We all know there's nothing like the real thing. Luckily, we've got our best people on the job. Oh, sorry, Josh. Josh, if you pulled your own weight, we wouldn't have to carry you through this place.

[Witalij] We at SAP are enhancing our cloud native data management products with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, providing robust tools for developers and data scientists. First, the SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine announced at SAP TechEd Virtual is essential for developers and data scientists among you working with large language models or LLMs generator AI, as it facilitates the extraction of complex insights from bus data sets. Check Shabana's post to find out more.

Next, with the release of SAP HANA Cloud's Vector Engine, our development team built an insightful Movie Inside demo app to showcase the vector-based querying and storage capabilities. This demo illustrates the Vector Engine's role in enhancing LLM responses with contextual data. The entire demo is now available to you, providing a hands-on experience for developers and tech enthusiasts like you to explore the vector engine's capabilities and applications. To see such a practical implementation, check one of the partner applications known as SBF or Smart Budgeting and Forecasting.

Summarizing long documents and querying using the trivial augmented generation with SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine, this application enables a quicker understanding of the attachments to budget request forms.

In addition, SAP DataSphere, in collaboration with NVIDIA, integrates Federated Machine Learning, or FEDML. This setup allows data scientists to conduct extensive ML experiments on SAP business data while ensuring data security and stellar performance.

Finally, the integration of data robots' AI models into SAP environments empowers developers and data scientists to embed AI-driven insights directly into their workflow. The partnership enhances the technical capabilities of SAP data management tools, making it easier to deploy and manage AI models within existing systems.

[DJ] Did you know that SAP, in particular the open source program office within SAP has a podcast show? It's been running now four years and to celebrate their fourth anniversary, they've published a monumentally epic episode. What is the episode about? Well, in my opinion, it's about one of the few major, major milestones in SAP software history, and that is the port of SAP R/3 to Linux. Now, you might think, oh, it's a big deal, but back then, and this was in the early 1990s, back then it was a massive deal. I was super lucky to be around at the time to get to know the two main actors in this affair, in this amazing event, Christoph Rohland and Harald Kuck. And these two, Christoph and Harald, are guests on this particular anniversary episode of the podcast show to talk about how it came to be, what happened. It's an amazing story. I can't recommend this episode strongly enough. Anyway, get the podcast show into your favourite podcast player, have a listen, and while you're at it, also have a look at this blog post from Ulrika, which talks a little bit more about the show, and also specifically about the milestone that Harold and Christoph will relate to you. So, see you online, and by the way, Happy birthday, the open-source way.

SAP Partner Headlines: The Latest News Delivered Straight to You

2024-11-05T20:18:30.246000+01:00

In today's fast-paced business world, staying informed about the latest developments is crucial—especially when it comes to navigating SAP’s extensive ecosystem. We understand that keeping up with the constant flow of news and updates from SAP can be a challenge. That's why we're excited to introduce SAP Partner Headlines, a new video series designed to bring you the most important updates in a concise, easy-to-digest format.

Why SAP Partner Headlines?

As SAP continues to evolve, it’s essential for our partners to stay up to speed on the latest programs, events, and strategic changes. However, with so many valuable updates coming from different corners of the organization, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. SAP Partner Headlines was created to address this need. Each instance will focus on highlighting key developments that impact your business—timely changes, new initiatives, and major announcements that partners should prioritize.

This series is not meant to diminish the value of other news but to make sure you're kept in the loop about the changes that matter most. Our goal is to support you in staying informed and empowered to take full advantage of the opportunities within SAP’s ecosystem.

The First Episode: Key Announcements

In our inaugural episode, we’ll cover two major updates:

The launch of SAP’s new Development Fund for SAP PartnerEdge, which consolidates our market and business development funds into one streamlined approach, aimed at accelerating partner growth and cloud practice development.
SAP TechEd on Tour, where you can continue your learning journey with in-person, deep-dive sessions on SAP’s latest technologies.

Stay Connected

Don’t miss out on the latest SAP partner news—stay informed by subscribing to our newsletter today. We look forward to bringing you the essential updates you need, when you need them, through this exciting new series.

Discover TechEd “Live” at SAPinsider EMEA 2024

2024-11-06T12:45:45.302000+01:00

Following hot on the heels of the hugely successful SAP TechEd Virtual event last month, attention now turns to a number of live events that will feature TechEd content and speakers, starting at the ASUG Tech Connect event in West Palm Beach, the first of SAP’s “TechEd on Tour” locations, as well as featuring in sessions at the SAPinsider EMEA “TechInsider” event in Copenhagen. Both events run from 12- 14 November in these wonderful, if quite different, locations.

I’ve been deeply involved in the planning for the SAPinsider event again, and for this reason alone will focus my blog on that event, though I am hopeful that both events will deliver a rich experience of TechEd content for attendees, and allow them to delve deeply into SAP technologies, particularly relating to SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

At SAPinsider Copenhagen we’re going the extra mile, in trying to deliver a TechEd-style experience for attendees, who I’m happy to say will not only find an agenda littered with TechEd sessions, delivered by many of our stellar TechEd speakers, but also they’ll be able to participate in multiple hands-on sessions as well as having an opportunity to continue their learning experience by networking with SAP’s Developer Advocates who will guide and support attendees as they work through a number of the tutorials available at the Developer Garage on the show floor – which we are pleased will make its very first appearance at this SAPinsider event.

With all this on offer I’m excited for what’s in store in Copenhagen next week – and I hope that you are too!

Plan Ahead – And Set Your Agenda Now!

For those of you registered for the event, and in a manner which is not unlike visiting a Disney theme park, my suggestion for you to get the most out of an SAPinsider event is to plan ahead – not so much to beat the queues as you might at the theme park, but more so to make sure that you see all you want to see, and achieve what you set out to do. And the best way to do this is to prepare your agenda for the event before you go.

The first step is of course to get the event app, “SAPinsider Events”, available on the App Store and Google Play, and once you’ve installed that you’re good to go in terms of adding sessions to your personal agenda. Now for the fun bit – what sessions to see? Perhaps I might help with some ideas.

I’ll assume that everyone will plan to join the day 1 and day 2 keynotes. I’m looking forward to both, the motivational first day keynote from Hein Wagner, starting at 9.00am on Tuesday 12th November, followed the next day by the AI inspired second day keynote, featuring Martin Böhm of Ottobock and Jonathan Von Rüden of SAP, and which starts at the same time of day on the 13th November.

But after the keynotes, what next? Here are my personal 6 TechEd inspired picks for Copenhagen:

Enhancing SAP Development Processes with SAP Build and ABAP Cloud Interoperability to Elevate Your Extensions, 12-Nov-24, 10:30 - 11:15
Hands-On Lab: Develop Applications and Processes with SAP Build and Joule, 12-Nov-24, 15:30 - 17:30
Mastering SAP Business AI for Enhanced Performance and Innovation, 13-Nov-24, 10:30 - 11:15
SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere Solutions: Integration, 13-Nov-24, 14:15 - 15:00
Clean Core Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, 13-Nov-24, 16:45 - 17:30
SAP BTP Strategy and Highlights, 14-Nov-24, 09:00 - 09:45

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as there are many more sessions available for you to select from the agenda, and among which you’ll find more TechEd content, as well as content from other speakers from SAP and our business partners, in addition to many customer case stories too. And in a shameless plug too, you may also note my session “Navigating Your Path to Success with SAP BTP” which I shall deliver alongside Nis Boy Naeve on 13 November at 11:30am. Please join us if you can! Take a look at the SAPinsider event website sessions list, or the event app that you’ve already downloaded to see more.

Your Continued Learning Experience

If you’d like to continue your own personal learning journey after the event, then why not explore other learning opportunities from SAP? For example, learn how to build software applications, side-by-side extensions, and integrations to and from cloud applications by exploring SAP’s free learning content on SAP BTP. It is made for both integration designers and extension developers from all levels of expertise and will help you stay up to date with the latest SAP BTP innovations. And check out even more role-based learning resources and opportunities to get certified in one place on SAP Learning site.

Or if you’re interested in TechEd sessions, but can’t join the events in West Palm Beach or Copenhagen, then perhaps another TechEd on Tour location, in Australia, Germany or the UK would work better for you?

For those of you travelling to Copenhagen next week, I do hope that you find SAPinsider EMEA 2024 to be a truly informative and stimulating experience. And, of course, if you visit the show floor then look me up at the SAP exhibit booth, and I’ll be happy to have a chat with you about SAP BTP, the conference or just about the amazing city of Copenhagen!

My best wishes for safe travels, and I hope that you enjoy the event!

Chris Grundy

Product Marketing, SAP BTP

ASUG Tech Connect 2024 | Keynote Highlights & Resources

2024-11-12T12:47:37.852000+01:00

Today, the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) hosted the first SAP TechEd on Tour stop in Florida! Together with Geoff Scott, CEO of ASUG, and Patrick Dineen, SVP Finance Transformation Systems at NBC Universal, we explored how SAP is helping organizations accelerate ERP modernization and drive innovation across industries with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP Joule, SAP Build, and SAP Integration Suite.

In this blog post, I've compiled all relevant links and demos presented during my segment of the keynote – and more!

If you want to learn more about SAP TechEd on Tour and other stops, go to https://www.sap.com/events/teched.html.

Best of TechEd – Virtual keynote recap

The main SAP Business Technology Platform announcements from our virtual keynote focused on three key points:

First: We help customers get faster, better, and automated: SAP BTP serves all their needs to innovate, integrate, and extend their systems.

Second: We are enhancing the developer and user experience with our latest release of SAP Build, which now includes ABAP Cloud.

And third: We are raising the bar for Business AI – for a whole new level of productivity.

You will find all announcements shared at SAP TechEd 2024 in our News Guide and the replay of our opening keynote.

Best of Platform

SAP BTP is your platform of choice for application development, automation, integration, data & analytics, and Business AI.

To support your journey with BTP, we provide a wide range of tools, best practices, resources, and reference architectures designed to help you:

Design and deploy enterprise-grade solutions,
accelerate time-to-value and optimize costs, and
foster collaboration and continuous learning in your architectural practices.

How to get started? At ASUG TechConnect, I highlighted some of the key tools and resources available to get you started effectively:

The SAP BTP Guidance Framework helps you design solutions that align with your company’s digital strategy. You can find more information here on SAP Help, and BTP reference architectures at the SAP Discovery Center. Adopt and adjust the architectures to your requirements by using the BTP solution diagram repository.

Or simply tune into our SAP TechEd session on demand:

Start your journey with SAP BTP and confidently accelerate adoption

The SAP Discovery Center provides you with hands-on guidance to implement BTP services based on real use cases! You can activate them in your BTP landscape with the new quick account setup. With a single click you will get all services provisioned and deployed. Learn more about this in the respective SAP TechEd on-demand sessions:

The SAP Business Accelerator Hub equips you with additional building blocks to realize your digital strategy. More than 25,000 pre-built assets are already available, such as Integration flows, APIs, Business Processes, adapters, validated partner use cases and a lot more.

The SAP BTP GenAI starter kit empowers you to integrate AI capabilities into your infrastructure easily. Get a first overview in this blog post and more detailed information here on GitHub.

Once you’re set up with BTP, a world of possibilities opens up. In our keynote, I highlighted why BTP stands as the premier platform for embedding AI, accelerating developer productivity, building applications, and seamlessly integrating SAP with third-party solutions:

AI Foundation on BTP
The AI Foundation on BTP helps you make the most out of your SAP data and processes. You also get the broadest selection of foundational models from top providers—all in one place. Find out more through our SAP TechEd on-demand sessions:

Joule and Joule studio
By year-end, our AI copilot Joule will cover 80% of SAP's top workflows, enabling users to manage timesheets, view returns, create reports, and compare quotes through natural language. Integrated with SAP Build, it also boosts developer productivity. Discover additional insights in the following SAP TechEd on-demand session:

Extend Joule with SAP Build and develop custom enterprise skills

Joule Agents
Joule is going agentic! Powered by large language models, AI agents tackle complex business problems through planning, self-reflection, reasoning, and collaboration.

SAP Build x ABAP
Two years ago, we launched SAP Build as a unified low-code environment. Last year, we added SAP Build Code for AI-driven app development. Now, SAP Build also integrates directly with SAP S/4HANA, enabling BAPI and function module calls in the S/4HANA Private Cloud. And we now also included ABAP Cloud in our latest release of SAP Build!

We also introduced the new ABAP explain agent, allowing users to quickly understand complex ABAP code by generating explanations through large language models. Learn more in our TechEd on-demand sessions:

Integration Suite
With SAP Integration Suite, we offer you a modern solution to run your integration scenarios across SAP and third-party applications. You benefit from embedded AI, hundreds of connectors, and thousands of pre-built integrations. Already 75% of our customers use SAP Integration Suite to integrate with non-SAP systems. And we are introducing new integration adapters for Anaplan, Coupa, HubSpot, NetSuite ERP, Snowflake, and more.

Innovate now with a modern, AI-assisted integration suite

Best of Suite

With SAP BTP powering our suite of enterprise applications, we also explored how everything connects across our portfolio. A suite-first approach ensures a seamless, productive user experience throughout the workday.

As an example, we presented a demo that shows how the end users of our products can easily navigate across our solution portfolio via SAP Start. Infused by our copilot Joule, users can be more productive when setting up new teams, booking travel, or getting insights through SAP Analytics Cloud, for example. You can watch the full demo here.

View our Integration Strategy Paper

Get started now!

To get started with BTP and Business AI, here are some of our missions in the SAP Discovery Center:

AI on BTP: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4338/4621/
GenAI with SAP Build Code: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4441/4727/
Gen AI with RAG for CAP: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4371/4655/

Here are some additional missions to kick off your journey with BTP:

App Development on BTP: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4431/4717/
Integration Suite: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/3258/3327/
Best Of Suite: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4451/4737/

I hope you are all fired up now and ready to get your hands dirty.

We can’t wait to see what you will build!

SAP Developer News, November 14th, 2024

2024-11-15T13:08:21.950000+01:00

DESCRIPTION

Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP 📖

SAP Press E-Bite: https://www.sap-press.com/developing-event-driven-integrations-with-sap-btp_6021/
GitHub repository: https://github.com/SAP-samples/event-driven-integrations-e-bite/

Terraform Provider Updates

Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-i-introduce-you-terraform-exporter-sap-btp-christian-lechner-lgzif/
Terraform Provider for Cloud Foundry 1.1.0 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/terraform-provider-cloud-foundry-v110-whats-new-debaditya-ray-xyxyc/

Report from SAP Insider EMEA 2024

SAP Insider EMEA 2024 event https://reg.eventmobi.com/emea-2024
UKISUG Connect 2024 event https://www.ukisugconnect.co.uk/
SAUG-x event https://www.saug.com.au/WhatsOn/SAUG-x2024

Report from ASUG Tech Connect

https://www.asug.com/events/asug-tech-connect-2024

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro

00:07 Report from ASUG Tech Connect

02:47 Report from SAP Insider EMEA 2024

04:10 Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP 📖

05:04 Terraform Provider Updates

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[Intro] This is the SAP Developer News for November 14th, 2024.

[Devtoberfest Winners] Hi, I'm Bato. I'm one of the Devtoberfest winners of last year. I'm here at the ASUG and enjoying a conference, doing hands-on labs, doing interesting sessions from SAP and some partners and enjoying the time. Hi, my name is Sebastian. I'm coming from Germany and I'm one of the Devtoberfest winner from 2023. It's my pleasure to be here. It's very nice TechEd conference and I love it to contact a lot of other people and to have fun. My name is Daniel also winner of this year's Devtoberfest. I'm very excited to be here. We learned a lot of new things and I'm also very excited for the disney film tomorrow. Hello, my name is Jarosław Piotrko, I won the Devtoberfest 2023. I would like to greet all programmers from Poland and encourage you to participate in Devtoberfest, because you always have a chance to win and participate in such a fantastic event, and in the journey to the Wolt Adysteia Park. Thank you. Hello, I am Abul Eshtam, the winner of Devtoberfest 2023. Here I am at SAP TechConnect attending this session on AI and different solutions of SAP and about knowing about SAP Joule. A big thanks to SAP Developer Advocate for this opportunity. Thank you. Hi, I am Sandra, I am from Mexico, and I am a winner of Devtoberfest 2023. So, hi developers, I am here in Teques, finally I met the developer advocates and I have learned a lot on the hands-on sessions. See you! Hola, yo soy Sandra de Mexico y soy una de las ganadoras del Devtoberfest 2023. Hi Bablock, I'm finally in SAP TechEd and I met the developers advocates and I've also learned a lot about hands-on. I'll tell you later. See you!

[DJ] Good morning, I'm here in Copenhagen, day three, the morning of day three, the last day of the SAP Insider EMEA 2024 event. As you can see, there's a little bit of a great time happening right now. I'm here in the LEGO area, what's not to like, but basically, it's been a great event. This is one of a number of events that's been happening post SAP TechEd Virtual 2024. We've had three days, well, two and a half days so far, all fantastic conversation, face-to-face conversation, talking about tech, getting to know each other, and also learning from each other in various sessions, lectures, but also hands-on sessions, two-hour hands-on sessions that have been very successful and very well received. We've also had a developer garage staffed by the developer advocates just down there. But anyway, it's been a great event. Look out for more events coming your way. There's one in Birmingham in the UK in early December as part of the UKISUG Connect and also one in Australia coming up next week, I think. Anyway, it's me, DJ, signing off for now from SAP Insider EMEA 2024. Cool.

[Antonio] Hola, SAP developers. Are you interested in learning about event-driven integrations? Well, I've got some news to share with you. Check out the new SAP Press eByte Developing Event-Driven Integrations with SAP BTP. It was released this week. Event-driven integrations are all about systems communicating in real time, reacting to changes instantly, and creating seamless experience for our customers. In the invite, I dive deep into how you can leverage SAP BTP to build event-driven integrations with the different offerings available. There is also an accompanying GitHub repo with code samples and integration artifacts to help you get started. It is a great time to explore how event-driven architectures can transform your integration strategy. I'm including the links in the description. Enjoy.

[DJ] In the infrastructures code arena, Terraform is where it's at and the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP released last year is already a really successful piece of software. This week a new part of the Terraform Provider for SAP BTP was released, the Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP. Now this is a result of lots of customer feedback, the number one wish is to of course be able to start with existing resources on SAP BTP and bring them into the Terraform home. This is a beta release of the Terraform exporter for SAP BTP, there's plenty of information about it from Christian's blog post, the documentation on the GitHub repo and there's also a video. So why not give it a try and let the team know what you think, they're eager to find out. And talking of Terraform, the latest release of the newly written Cloud Foundry provider, the Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry is out 1.1.0. This release brings lots of new features and improvements, so check out the blog post and give that a try as well. Just if you're wondering, just as the BTP CLI is for managing resources on SAP BTP on the command line, and the CF CLI is for managing resources in Cloud Foundry specifically on the command line, so is the Terraform provider for SAP PTP and the Terraform provider for Cloud Foundry. They sort of parallel each other. Anyway, give it a go, and again, let the team know what you think.

SAP Developer News, November 21st 2024

2024-11-22T11:43:06.294000+01:00

Podcast Version: SAP Developer News November 21st, 2024 - SAP Developers

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SAP BTP ABAP Environment - Release 2411

Blog Post: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-btp-abap-environment-release-2411/ba-p/13940790

SAP TechEd On Tour from SAUG-x

Event Page: https://www.sap.com/australia/events/2024-11-19-au-pe-regional-conference-teched-on-tour-saugx.html

SAP BTP Innobytes October 2024 edition

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZCTtSGP_0

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 and SAP Analytics Cloud 2024/Q4

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 Released: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-hana-2-0-sps-08-released-safeguarding-customer-investments-and/ba-p/13942543
What’s New in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 sessions: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/what-s-new-in-sap-hana-2-0-sps-08/ba-p/13941640
Calculation View Features of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS08: https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/calculation-view-features-of-sap-hana-2-0-sps08/ba-p/13927860
What's New Viewer - SAP Analytics Cloud: https://help.sap.com/whats-new/42e4f84a0e5e458792b1047eaf81c31a?locale=en-US
SAP Analytics Cloud: Q4 2024 Release's Features with Experts & Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNQxqkf0Z8&list=PL3ZRUb1AKkpTv44lv8pQvdlwT_MzAi3Qq&ab_channel=SAP

SAP Open Source Webinar on the OpenSearch Foundation

Details and sign-up https://events.sap.com/opensearch-foundation/en/registration.aspx

SAP Berlin Event

Info and to register: https://events.sap.com/eur/sapbuild-and-agilita-workshop/en/home

CHAPTER TITLES

0:00 Intro

0:07 SAP TechEd On Tour from SAUG-x

1:04 SAP BTP ABAP Environment - Release 2411

2:07 SAP BTP Innobytes October 2024 edition

3:19 SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 and SAP Analytics Cloud 2024/Q4

5:02 SAP Berlin Event

6:16 SAP Open Source Webinar on the OpenSearch Foundation

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[Intro] This is the SAP Developer News for November 21st, 2024.

[Josh and Michelle] Hey everybody, this is Josh and Michelle, and we are live from Melbourne, Australia here at the SAUGx event part of the TechEd on tour. I had a great time being here not only taking part in keynote we are standing in the Developer Garage which you may recognize from other TechEd events. We did this in Florida at ASUG, we are doing here at SAUGx and I believe there's two more events coming up right Michelle? Yes, we have one in UKI and one in Germany a little bit later next year. The DSAG event is like in April, I think. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're on tour. We're coming after you guys. We hope that you enjoy meeting with us, the developer advocates in person. Lots of great things to cover from what was announced at TechEd, as well as lots of great tutorials you can complete for some great little prizes that we have here in the Developer Garage. Oh, absolutely. And they've been flying off as soon as people have been finishing so many tutorial tracks to get them all. Alright, so that's it from Australia. We'll see you guys later.

[Rich Heilman] Hey folks, Rich Heilman here coming to you live from SAUGx in Melbourne, Australia. I wanted to take a quick minute and let you know about the new release of SAP BTP ABAP environment 2411 and of course the new blog post from Nora Klemp of ABAP product management. Nora gives us all the details about the new features coming in release 2411 including items like, you can now use Multidimensional Analysis App Generator, Wizard, to create all ABAP development objects that are needed to build, expose, and deploy a Multidimensional Analysis Fiori application. So that's cool right? We're also getting some enhancements to BRF Plus and the XCO libraries, a ton of enhancements around business events, and much much more. For more information on the BTP ABAP environment released 24-11, check out Noor's blog post today. See you later. I'm gonna go jump on a plane. Bye for now, friends.

[DJ] Just in case you missed it, the October 2024 edition of SAP BTP InnoBytes is out. And it's all out AI and also Terraform. So on the AI front, there's a new SAP Business AI feature catalog on the SAP Discovery Center. And alongside the feature catalog, there's also a feature estimator with which you can work out costs and savings. And there's also a new generative AI based content generation assistant on the SAP Automation Pilot platform. And for setup of mission-related infrastructure on BTP, you can now use Terraform, which in contrast to the original booster-based setup mechanisms, allows you to download the Terraform scripts to use. And also, of course, that means you can adopt them and extend them for use in your own landscapes and environments. Open and free. Infrastructure as code. What's not to like? more about all these new features in this October 2024's edition of the SAP BTP InnoBytes video. Link in the description.

[Witalij] SAP HANA database powers over 70,000 customers worldwide, supporting some of the most critical applications and workloads. With the general availability of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS08 as of November 20, we at SAP are delivering key updates to enhance scalability, reliability, and developer experience while reducing the total cost of ownership. This release is designed to protect customer investments in our leading multi-model translitical database platform. Starting Friday, November 22, tune into SAP Developer's channel for our What's New in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 series, hosted by truly yours, Developer Advocates. Over seven sessions, you'll hear from more than a dozen experts from the SAP HANA product management team. Each session will be packed with insights into the latest features and updates, along with guidance to help you make the most of them. Check out the full schedule in the blog post linked below. Don't miss out and join us. The QRC 2024 release of SAP Analytics Cloud went GA this week as well. You can explore the full list of all new features and enhancements in the What's New viewer on the SAP help portal. The SAP Analytics Cloud team has already released a video showcasing all the significant updates, complete with demos presented by product experts. Discover the highlights of the Q4 2024 release including bulk migration from classic stories to optimized experience, analytics catalog and grouping assets, story extensibility enhancements and so much more. Check it out today and start using these new features in in your tenant now.

[Daniel] I remember being invited to the first SAP Build Berlin event. It was called something like Burgers Beyond Budgets or something like that. Anyway, it was a great event. I got to talk a little bit. Everybody did the hands-on. And now there's a second event. Not that I was invited to it, but it's still going to be a great event. And it's combined with a Christmas market. So, there will be discussions about SAP Build, then a hands-on exercise, which I think I know what it's going to be. And I think so therefore it'll be very good. And then you'll go to a different place, and you'll have a Christmas market. The only thing I know about the Christmas market is that there will be glue wine, if I said that correctly. Not that I'm a big fan. The first time I had it was exactly 20 years ago. I was in Heidelberg where it was freezing cold, and they gave you glue wine. and the only good thing about it was that it was hot. Any event, I would go to this event in Berlin, even if you're far away, I would make your business to come November 28th. Speakers, hands-on, Christmas markets. Be a great time. Hope to see you there.

[DJ] There's a public webinar in early December, open to all and organized by the SAP Open-Source Program Office. It's on the open search foundation, how and why it was formed and why open search and open-source enterprise grade search and observability suite was moved into that foundation plus lots more from two great speakers. The webinar is on Thursday, the 5th of December. Follow the link in the description to find out more and how to sign up. See you there.

“ABAP AI is our Shared Treasure” - ABAP AI is on its way.

2024-11-25T08:44:38.882000+01:00

It’s time to talk about the announced ABAP AI capabilities, planned to be delivered with the 2502 release and beyond. ABAP AI is important to all SAP business software developers. It is our shared treasure that we hold in our hands. Let’s take a moment to elaborate a little while on this statement.

ABAP AI is powerful

The new Joule copilot integrated into ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, offers a full-fledged copilot experience and by that revolutionizes the way ABAP developers work. It provides AI support during the development process, significantly accelerating the creation and testing of custom ABAP applications. These groundbreaking developments have already been revealed and demonstrated at SAP TechEd 2024.

Imagine someone sitting next to you and guiding you, to write very good ABAP code. Not too bad, you might say. Now imagine that person complementing you and even starting to write code or to do unit tests for you. You can even discuss with this person and have them explain code you don’t understand.

Let's take a closer look at some of Joule's ABAP developer capabilities.

Joule for ABAP Code Prediction (Ghost Texting)

This feature helps you code. As you start typing your code, Ghost Text uses AI to propose the next lines of code. The difference between classic code completion already available in der development tools and this new feature is that ABAP AI actually understands the context and makes intelligent suggestions that are aligned with your coding objective. This is made possible by GenAI and SAPs trained ABAP model, which is designed to understand and predict ABAP coding patterns. This allows you to spend even more time solving complex problems and innovating.

ABAP AI Unit Agent

The ABAP AI Unit Agent is designed to assist you generate unit tests for an ABAP class. This ensures that your code is thoroughly tested. Traditionally, you would have to write unit tests manually, which is time-consuming and likely to be error-prone. With the ABAP AI Unit Agent, you can automate this process: You run the unit test for the ABAP class and check the code coverage option. The ABAP Unit Test analyzes the code coverage and identifies the methods that are not adequately covered. The ABAP AI Unit Agent adds to this the generation of unit tests.

ABAP and Core Data Services Code Explain

This feature makes ABAP, including ABAP Core Data Services (CDS), easier for developers to understand. When you select an ABAP class, CDS view, function module, a method or a code snippet, ABAP & CDS Explain analyzes the code and generates a human-readable explanation. This explanation includes a high-level overview of what the code does, as well as detailed explanations of each component. It is designed to understand ABAP coding patterns and conventions, so that it can provide accurate and useful explanations. By providing clear explanations of complex function modules, it helps developers improve their understanding of ABAP coding patterns, and best practices.

ABAP AI is attractive
SAPs ABAP AI SDK, powered by Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management (ISLM ), serves as an "AI toolbox" for ABAP developers. It allows you to incorporate AI capabilities to your custom ABAP applications. The ABAP AI SDK integrates seamlessly with the SAP BTP GenAI Hub, enabling you to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and infuse AI capabilities into your custom applications. This SDK is also used internally for all ABAP-based AI solutions.

With the ABAP AI SDK, you can easily access and use the models and features provided by the Hub by calling released ABAP classes and interfaces directly in your application code. The ABAP AI SDK takes care of the rest, executing prompts and handling the complexities of integrating AI capabilities into ABAP. This seamless integration significantly simplifies the process of incorporating AI into business applications. If that is not attractive, what is?

ABAP AI is a treasure

Even more powerful than the ABAP AI developer use cases mentioned above is the ABAP custom code migration use case. Our shared goal is to help our customers and partners to transform their custom code and move into SAP’s cloud universe.

ABAP AI for Custom Code Migration will be a game changer in achieving this goal.

We will help you transform your custom code by accelerating the transformation of custom code. Whether it's the mandatory transformation of ABAP code when migrating from ECC to SAP S/4HANA or the subsequent transformation of ABAP code to ABAP Cloud and a Clean Core.

ABAP AI support is provided for the migration of from the classic business suite to SAP S/4HANA and to ABAP Cloud and a Clean Core. This will include explanations of the mandatory simplification items to be considered during your SAP S/4HANA transformation, as well as code suggestions for refactoring your classic ABAP code towards ABAP Cloud. The corresponding AI features will be integrated in the Custom Code Migration App as well as in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse.

Let us summarize: ABAP AI is powerful. ABAP AI is attractive. ABAP AI is a treasure.

Have a look at the ABAP AI roadmap for more information:
https://help.sap.com/docs/abap-cross-product/roadmap-info/genai