SAP turns every developer into a generative AI developer

Issue 7 2023 AI & Data Analytics

At the SAP TechEd event in 2023, SAP announced a comprehensive series of generative AI capabilities and advancements aimed at empowering developers of all skill levels to supercharge their businesses in the age of AI.

“Today’s dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,” said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “The innovations we are launching at SAP TechEd, from AI-infused pro-code tools, to a one-stop shop to create generative AI extensions and applications on SAP Business Technology Platform, supports the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and provides them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.”

As organisations aim to derive business value from generative AI, effective collaboration between professional and citizen developers is essential. SAP is launching SAP Build Code solutions, which streamline cooperation with business experts who use the low-code SAP Build solutions. Uniquely built for SAP applications and the SAP ecosystem, SAP Build Code solutions offers AI-powered productivity tools for developers. Optimised for Java and JavaScript development. SAP Build Code also draws on the power of SAP’s new generative AI co-pilot Joule – the co-pilot that truly understands business – to further boost productivity, embedding code generation capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation.

Good data is the foundation of good AI, and SAP HANA Cloud continues to pioneer innovation in the data space by adding new vector database features to its multi-model offerings at no additional cost. Vector data stores manage unstructured data – such as text, images or audio – to provide long-term memory and better context to AI models. This makes it easy to find and retrieve similar objects quickly. For example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace individual orders. These new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organisation’s mission-critical data. The innovation helps put SAP developers at the forefront of delivering radically new levels of data insight within a secure, private framework that uses industry-specific customer data to reduce hallucinations.

AI Foundation on SAP BTP is a new one-stop shop for developers to create AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on SAP BTP, further increasing developers’ impact and efficiency. AI Foundation includes everything developers need to start creating business-ready AI tools on SAP BTP, from ready-to-use AI services and access to the top large language models, to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.

The rapid pace of technological innovation has driven up global demand for skilled developers, and SAP is increasing its learning opportunities in tandem. As part of a commitment to upskill two million professionals by 2025 and complement free AI learning content already available, SAP today launched new role-based certification and free learning resources for back-end developers using the ABAP Cloud development model. The two new learning resources covering ABAP development tools on SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA are available on the SAP Learning site. They are designed for agile and cloud-compliant business transformation, providing developers with skills to build cloud-ready extensions that are aligned with SAP’s clean core strategy.




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