Sapphire is always a highlight. But this year it was a special Sapphire. With this year´s event theme “Bring Out Your Best” our latest business AI innovations, products, and partnerships were highlighted. Take a look at this blog post where I want to focus on the most important announcements of SAP BTP at Sapphire 2024 (also non-AI related). In addition let´s explore innovation highlights coming up in the future. Enjoy reading on.
Clean Core Strategy with New SAP Build and ABAP Cloud Features
Following a clean core strategy means keeping your systems as unmodified as possible and creating your custom code in a way that does not effect upgrades and adoption of the latest innovations. But there is still the need to tailor your systems to your own businesses. To achieve this, we recommend that you go for side-by-side extensibility scenarios with SAP BTP, meaning that you build your own extensions to SAP systems on SAP BTP, whenever possible. SAP BTP offers three main options for this scenario: SAP Build low-code solutions, SAP Build Code and SAP BTP ABAP Environment.
If we look at ABAP, the first highlight is the Joule´s ABAP Developer capabilities, which will contain multiple features all tailored to increase developer efficiency. It will be the GitHub Copilot for the ABAP world embedded directly into the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse (ADT). You will receive functionality embedded into wizards and an integrated chat. Planned GenAI features are explain ABAP code and CDS code, test and test data generation for ABAP and CDS, ABAP code completion, and many more.
To simplify this process, we are building a way to access SAP Build directly from S/4HANA. Providing the ability to access SAP Build directly and with context from SAP S/4HANA, your development teams and their business stakeholders will be able to create new processes and process extensions much faster and more convenient than in the past.
Guided experiences in SAP Build Work Zone
In addition the Guided experiences in SAP Build Work Zone let developers create step-by-step line-of-business workflows. This simplifies complex business processes through automation without custom code. With the Guided experiences, you can empower your workforce with seamless digital experiences tailored to their needs, boosting user satisfaction, engagement, and retention. You can automate tasks and streamline processes, allowing employees to focus on high-impact work.
Accelerate enterprise automation with AI
We are also enriching our Process Automation offering with Joule. Our GenAI-based copilot will help you to simply specify in natural language what kind of workflow or automation you would like to have. In addition our tools, with the help of different large language models, will help you either source these artifacts from available content, or they will generate new process and automation content for them using the power of AI.
Accelerate integration with AI
We believe that by embedding AI into SAP Integration Suite, you will be able to shorten project times and integrate applications and systems faster by using AI generated mappings, scripts, and integration flows without even needing to be a high end integration expert. The SAP Integration Suite will improve the quality of integration flows and business processes by helping you identify pre-built content packages or by supporting AI-generated artifacts that fit to your specific requirements. Same as with code or process automation artefacts, you will be able to generate integration artifacts, our so called integration flows, by leveraging generative AI and the Unified Customer Landscape service which provides your specific landscape details as context for the integration.
Anomaly detection with SAP Integration Suite
We are making use of machine-learning based capabilities in SAP Integration Suite to offer API anomaly detection. What this means is that we use Machine Learning to identify issues in your landscapes. Think of a sudden surge or drop in API calls, an increase in latency or an increase in the number of errors detected. We can identify this kind of unusual behavior and actively alert your stuff to these anomalies in API performance. This way, we can help identify and address issues before they escalate, minimizing disruptions and optimizing system performance.
Simplified transition
How do I transition from SAP PI / PO to SAP Integration Suite? We know that many of you relying on PI/PO for the daily business and we want to make sure we safeguard the investments you have made. Therefore we will provide a simplified transition from SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite with features like mass migration, reduction of migration templates, and reduction of JMS queues using a pipeline concept. Also, there is a free assessment and planning services available where we provide customer specific recommendations on how to move your integration to the cloud.
If you want to learn more what´s new for Application Development, Automation and Integration on SAP BTP read the blog post of @thomas_volmering.
Infuse AI in SAP Analytics Cloud
How do we evolve our portfolio in the space of Data and Analytics moving forward? First: We integrate Joule as your GenAI copilot in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can analyze, consume and create story content with Joule moving forward. You also have also the possibility to ask questions and get answers as charts. Or you can generate some scripts to make the story interaction for your end-users richer and more interactive. Remember the just ask feature? This will be integrated with Joule as well. The key thing to understand is that while the just ask feature is providing natural language query capabilities, Joule will be using this feature as well, but provide a more conversational experience in remembering the conversation and the user progress and integrations.
Extended capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud
One more thing on Data and Analytics, as it touches both the themes of openness and connectivity. Later this year it is planned that SAP Analytics Cloud content will be able to natively be integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint. Using our add-in, you can intuitively connect to an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant and find user-created content to integrate into your presentation. For example stories, in which business users communicate business information using a combination of data and visual elements (like, building a heat map of North America illustrating where a company’s sales are overperforming and underperforming commercial expectations). Or Widgets, which are visual elements used to tell stories (for example, charts, tables, geographical maps, or buttons).
SAP Analytics Cloud will also let you connect to SQL data sources as live data connections. This eliminates the need for direct data replication, resulting in much faster access to real-time data, reduced data storage requirements, more reliable data consistency, improved system performance and lower costs.
More to come…
For me personally it has been a quite impressive and innovative Sapphire 2024. If you want to explore more highlights coming up in 2024 watch the replay of my session “Explore the road map of SAP BTP”.
You did not make it in person or virtually? No worries, you still have the chance to watch the replays and especially the Opening Keynote of Christian Klein and Julia White. Explore the SAP Sapphire News Guide 2024 to learn more about the announcements.
Interested in more innovation highlights coming up? Then take a look at our Road Map Explorer. We do have more than 1000 innovation highlights planned for SAP BTP 2024.
Also be informed that this blog and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice.
Sapphire is always a highlight. But this year it was a special Sapphire. With this year´s event theme “Bring Out Your Best” our latest business AI innovations, products, and partnerships were highlighted. Take a look at this blog post where I want to focus on the most important announcements of SAP BTP at Sapphire 2024 (also non-AI related). In addition let´s explore innovation highlights coming up in the future. Enjoy reading on.Clean Core Strategy with New SAP Build and ABAP Cloud FeaturesFollowing a clean core strategy means keeping your systems as unmodified as possible and creating your custom code in a way that does not effect upgrades and adoption of the latest innovations. But there is still the need to tailor your systems to your own businesses. To achieve this, we recommend that you go for side-by-side extensibility scenarios with SAP BTP, meaning that you build your own extensions to SAP systems on SAP BTP, whenever possible. SAP BTP offers three main options for this scenario: SAP Build low-code solutions, SAP Build Code and SAP BTP ABAP Environment.If we look at ABAP, the first highlight is the Joule´s ABAP Developer capabilities, which will contain multiple features all tailored to increase developer efficiency. It will be the GitHub Copilot for the ABAP world embedded directly into the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse (ADT). You will receive functionality embedded into wizards and an integrated chat. Planned GenAI features are explain ABAP code and CDS code, test and test data generation for ABAP and CDS, ABAP code completion, and many more. To simplify this process, we are building a way to access SAP Build directly from S/4HANA. Providing the ability to access SAP Build directly and with context from SAP S/4HANA, your development teams and their business stakeholders will be able to create new processes and process extensions much faster and more convenient than in the past. Guided experiences in SAP Build Work ZoneIn addition the Guided experiences in SAP Build Work Zone let developers create step-by-step line-of-business workflows. This simplifies complex business processes through automation without custom code. With the Guided experiences, you can empower your workforce with seamless digital experiences tailored to their needs, boosting user satisfaction, engagement, and retention. You can automate tasks and streamline processes, allowing employees to focus on high-impact work.Accelerate enterprise automation with AIWe are also enriching our Process Automation offering with Joule. Our GenAI-based copilot will help you to simply specify in natural language what kind of workflow or automation you would like to have. In addition our tools, with the help of different large language models, will help you either source these artifacts from available content, or they will generate new process and automation content for them using the power of AI.Accelerate integration with AIWe believe that by embedding AI into SAP Integration Suite, you will be able to shorten project times and integrate applications and systems faster by using AI generated mappings, scripts, and integration flows without even needing to be a high end integration expert. The SAP Integration Suite will improve the quality of integration flows and business processes by helping you identify pre-built content packages or by supporting AI-generated artifacts that fit to your specific requirements. Same as with code or process automation artefacts, you will be able to generate integration artifacts, our so called integration flows, by leveraging generative AI and the Unified Customer Landscape service which provides your specific landscape details as context for the integration.Anomaly detection with SAP Integration SuiteWe are making use of machine-learning based capabilities in SAP Integration Suite to offer API anomaly detection. What this means is that we use Machine Learning to identify issues in your landscapes. Think of a sudden surge or drop in API calls, an increase in latency or an increase in the number of errors detected. We can identify this kind of unusual behavior and actively alert your stuff to these anomalies in API performance. This way, we can help identify and address issues before they escalate, minimizing disruptions and optimizing system performance. Simplified transitionHow do I transition from SAP PI / PO to SAP Integration Suite? We know that many of you relying on PI/PO for the daily business and we want to make sure we safeguard the investments you have made. Therefore we will provide a simplified transition from SAP PO to SAP Integration Suite with features like mass migration, reduction of migration templates, and reduction of JMS queues using a pipeline concept. Also, there is a free assessment and planning services available where we provide customer specific recommendations on how to move your integration to the cloud.If you want to learn more what´s new for Application Development, Automation and Integration on SAP BTP read the blog post of @thomas_volmering.Infuse AI in SAP Analytics CloudHow do we evolve our portfolio in the space of Data and Analytics moving forward? First: We integrate Joule as your GenAI copilot in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can analyze, consume and create story content with Joule moving forward. You also have also the possibility to ask questions and get answers as charts. Or you can generate some scripts to make the story interaction for your end-users richer and more interactive. Remember the just ask feature? This will be integrated with Joule as well. The key thing to understand is that while the just ask feature is providing natural language query capabilities, Joule will be using this feature as well, but provide a more conversational experience in remembering the conversation and the user progress and integrations.Extended capabilities in SAP Analytics CloudOne more thing on Data and Analytics, as it touches both the themes of openness and connectivity. Later this year it is planned that SAP Analytics Cloud content will be able to natively be integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint. Using our add-in, you can intuitively connect to an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant and find user-created content to integrate into your presentation. For example stories, in which business users communicate business information using a combination of data and visual elements (like, building a heat map of North America illustrating where a company’s sales are overperforming and underperforming commercial expectations). Or Widgets, which are visual elements used to tell stories (for example, charts, tables, geographical maps, or buttons).SAP Analytics Cloud will also let you connect to SQL data sources as live data connections. This eliminates the need for direct data replication, resulting in much faster access to real-time data, reduced data storage requirements, more reliable data consistency, improved system performance and lower costs.More to come…For me personally it has been a quite impressive and innovative Sapphire 2024. If you want to explore more highlights coming up in 2024 watch the replay of my session “Explore the road map of SAP BTP”.You did not make it in person or virtually? No worries, you still have the chance to watch the replays and especially the Opening Keynote of Christian Klein and Julia White. Explore the SAP Sapphire News Guide 2024 to learn more about the announcements.Interested in more innovation highlights coming up? Then take a look at our Road Map Explorer. We do have more than 1000 innovation highlights planned for SAP BTP 2024.Also be informed that this blog and SAP’s strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. Read More Technology Blogs by SAP articles
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