This solution helps developers create, extend, and automate business applications faster using AI-powered, code-first, and low-code tools.

麻豆原创 Build has been designed as the optimal way to extend 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications. Thousands of customers are already experiencing up to 3x faster development speeds with 麻豆原创 Build according to 鈥� and now we’ve made it even better.

We are making it dramatically easier for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers to develop with 麻豆原创 Build. Starting today, all 麻豆原创 Build capabilities, along with 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud, are included in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Combined with deep technical integration, this unified offering empowers customers to quickly extend and personalize their 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud systems using AI-powered application development and automation, while maintaining a clean core and eliminating additional licensing or budgeting complexity.

麻豆原创 Build now fully included with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud packages

New pricing and packaging for 麻豆原创 Build provides customers with a frictionless way to innovate by gaining the freedom to choose the right tool for every job — whether it鈥檚 AI-powered code-first or low-code development, no more complexity of multiple licenses. Additionally, 麻豆原创 Build and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud are now included in 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private packages, meaning 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers can jumpstart all their development without needing to purchase additional licenses.

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): The new commercial approach for 麻豆原创 Build alongside 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud significantly lowers TCO through flexible and cost-efficient model, optimizing resource usage while reducing operational overhead. By integrating seamlessly with existing 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud investments and simplifying application management across the 麻豆原创 ecosystem, organizations can drive greater business value.
• Leverage deep integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud based on proven security and technology platform following clean core best practices: With the 麻豆原创 Build Extensibility Wizard users access a guided experience that helps them jumpstart their extension creation from 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. The Extensibility Wizard is available now in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and will be available in the second half of 2025 in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
• Build faster with ready-made pre-built content and Joule for developers AI capabilities to generate code and app logic, create data models, sample data, automations, and code explanations with quality and precision.
• Gain flexibility: By offering seamless access to both code-first and low-code tools under one unified license, 麻豆原创 Build makes it easier for businesses to meet diverse development needs of their developers without being locked into restrictive platforms.

“麻豆原创 Build is strategic for Delaware, as we believe it is the future for our 麻豆原创 developers. For our customers, it is the easiest way to achieve a clean core and accelerate innovation, boosting their businesses.”

Tim Leys, 麻豆原创 Platform Unit Lead, Delaware Consulting

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Customers asked for more flexibility and a simpler way to build and automate. We listened and took action to make it a reality. 麻豆原创 Build is the gateway to faster, more efficient application development and automation for all 麻豆原创 systems.

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Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Business Technology Platform at 麻豆原创.

With more than 17,000 customers now leveraging 麻豆原创 Build solutions globally, momentum continues to surge, enabling developers to build, automate, and innovate with greater speed and ease. Today, we鈥檙e taking a huge step forward to bolster developer productivity within 麻豆原创 Build solutions!

We鈥檙e thrilled to announce new Joule-powered AI capabilities for 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation and 麻豆原创 Build Apps. These enhancements complement the previously announced AI capabilities in and 鈥攅mpowering developers of all skill levels to build more efficiently by leveraging comprehensive, AI-infused developer tools to deliver precise, contextualized outcomes powered by purpose-built, 麻豆原创-centric AI models. This can free up time for developers to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and visual tool-based application development and automation of 麻豆原创 processes.

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鈥淭he latest AI features across 麻豆原创 Build solutions provide developers with a powerful tool kit to build and extend business applications across both 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems.鈥�

Holger Mueller, Principal Analyst & VP at Constellation Research, Inc.

Comprehensive developer assistance for all 麻豆原创 development needs

Joule can understand 麻豆原创 development framework intricacies, anticipate developers鈥� needs, offer intelligent suggestions, and automate repetitive, mundane tasks like documentation and sample data generation. It can enable developers across low-code, pro-code, and automation projects to be more productive, creative, and proficient in accelerating apps or extensions for business applications like 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Key capabilities include:

• Application creation: Generate code, UI, data models, and sample data across 麻豆原创 programming models for Java, JavaScript, and ABAP, using Joule
• Code optimization: Refactor code, create unit tests, and generate code explanations, summarizations, and more with natural language queries and intuitive actions with Joule
• Process and workflow automation: Generate automation workflows and business rules using natural language queries

鈥淚n utilizing generative AI, 麻豆原创 Build Code offers our joint clients easier integration capabilities and a streamlined developer experience for cloud application development, boosting overall productivity and driving tangible value.鈥�

Chip Kleinheksel, Global 麻豆原创 Chief Technology Officer and Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Contextual and precise results with purpose-built LLMs

Joule uses purpose-built large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for 麻豆原创 workloads, such as our ABAP LLM, which can power code predictions and explanations. Developers can derive precise, contextualized results鈥攍ike code snippets or explanations鈥攆aster and more efficiently. Joule can also provide developers with real-time, context-aware support for code completion and optimization, as well as automation pipeline creation that understands the customers鈥� application environment, development project artifacts, and 麻豆原创-specific syntax.

Key capabilities include:

• Predictive code completion based on context, comments, and project heuristics
• Code explanations of core data services (CDS) view entities, classes, interfaces, and functional modules
• AI-powered assistance for documentation, best practices, and new concepts
• Workflow development and decision assistance based on processes, API specifications, and connected systems

Integrated AI tooling for seamless development

Developers can now enjoy a fully AI-infused development environment. Joule’s capabilities are integrated within 麻豆原创 Build development tools, including ABAP, to help ensure a smooth, cohesive AI-enhanced experience. This AI integration helps eliminate the headache of switching between development and AI tools and can generate actionable insights and outputs within a single place so developers can focus on what they do best鈥攂uilding innovative solutions.

Key capabilities include:

• Joule support for 麻豆原创 Fiori apps, 麻豆原创UI5 guided development, and more in 麻豆原创 Build solutions
• Joule integrated inside 麻豆原创 Business Application Studio and ABAP development tools for Eclipse for all Java, JavaScript, and ABAP-related development tasks
• Joule integrated into 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation project canvas for generation and summarization of processes, decisions, forms, and more, right in place using natural language

Road map and future enhancements

Our commitment to AI-driven innovation for developers is unwavering. Over the last year, we鈥檝e unveiled groundbreaking capabilities across our portfolio: Joule in , , , , AI agents embedded deep within 麻豆原创 Business Suite processes, and more. 

Looking ahead, we have a complete road map of cutting-edge features, including optimizing business logic, automating documentation, and enhancing data protection and AI compliance. To enable an agentic journey, developers will be able to develop custom AI agents tailored to their specific needs. Additionally, as customers continue to adopt 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, we plan to simplify the migration journey with enhancements that can meticulously analyze legacy code, provide clear code explanations, and suggest code optimizations. This will help ensure customers have a smooth, intelligent transition to the cloud alongside 麻豆原创鈥檚 clean core guidelines.

These new features will help empower developers to build more innovative, efficient, and secure workflows and applications. Stay tuned for more AI-driven innovations!

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We can鈥檛 wait to see how developers leverage the new Joule capabilities in 麻豆原创 Build solutions.

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Michael Ameling is general manager and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 BTP and a member of the 麻豆原创 SE Extended Board.

Two years ago, we introduced 麻豆原创 Build, a unified low-code environment that enables developers of all skill levels to create, extend, and automate business applications with drag-and-drop simplicity. Last year, we broadened its capabilities and integrated Java and JavaScript development with AI.

With more than 16,000 customers now leveraging 麻豆原创 Build globally, momentum continues to surge, enabling developers to build, automate, and innovate with greater speed and ease.

Today, we are thrilled to announce new enhancements of 麻豆原创 Build, combining the power of ABAP development, more generative AI capabilities, as well as deeper integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and other business applications. 麻豆原创 Build streamlines extension creation and accelerates ERP modernization. It connects all 麻豆原创 development tools — ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and low-code — so teams can collaborate easily regardless of skill set. 

Let鈥檚 look at what developers can achieve with 麻豆原创 Build.

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麻豆原创 Build with ABAP offers developers capabilities to easily extend their 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and other business applications, utilizing Joule鈥檚 generative AI capabilities. It facilitates in-context collaboration between developers and business users to build business custom apps and processes efficiently, all without compromising on security and governance.

– Brad Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI Platforms, Omdia

Streamline 麻豆原创 Application Development and Automation

麻豆原创 Build is the only solution offering direct development access within 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for easier customizations. Developers can quickly create scalable and secure 麻豆原创 S/4HANA extensions — both on stack, to extend applications within 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, and side by side, to extend applications on 麻豆原创 BTP — while following 麻豆原创’s clean core best practices.

Key capabilities include:

• The new 麻豆原创 Build extensibility wizard in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud for extending custom fields, logic, applications, and process automations while maintaining in-app business context
• Accelerating the creation of guided experiences with pre-built content to extend 麻豆原创 business applications across business processes such as spend management, HR, procurement, and more

Accelerate Development with Joule-Powered AI Capabilities

Envision a development tool where anyone, from beginners to seasoned pros, can rapidly bring their ideas to life with generative AI. Joule is the co-pilot that developers need for all 麻豆原创 development because it is uniquely trained on 麻豆原创 data and processes.

New generative AI capabilities include:

• Code explanation, code completion, business object generation, and unit test generation
• Documentation search and instant assistance from 麻豆原创 Help and 麻豆原创 Community within 麻豆原创 Build
• Workflow automation and approval recommendations
• The ability to extend Joule, allowing developers to create, deploy, monitor, and manage custom AI skills with drag-and-drop simplicity

Foster Fusion Team Development

麻豆原创 Build breaks down silos, enabling collaboration across development teams without barriers. Developers can achieve greater flexibility and scalability together as a team through:

• 麻豆原创 Build lobby, the central entry point for all development tools, now featuring access to ABAP, to build any type of extensions on 麻豆原创 BTP
• Streamlined navigation between ABAP, Java, JavaScript, and low-code tools while maintaining full business context for efficient full-stack application development
• Centralized lifecycle management and governance for all 麻豆原创 projects

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JG Chirapurath is chief marketing officer for Business Technology Platform at 麻豆原创.

*General availability: The new capabilities will be available in Q4 2024, with additional AI features rolling out through Q1 2025

Last week at , we announced new 麻豆原创 BTP innovations that help organizations and developers bring their ideas to life.

Thank you to everyone who attended the event virtually and in person at Bangalore. For those who couldn鈥檛 attend live, I recommend reading the , checking out the full list of , and watching the , delivered by 麻豆原创 CTO Juergen Mueller.

Here are some of the key announcements we made.

Turning Every Developer into an AI Developer

Developers are essential to the modern world we live in, driving innovation and transformation forward across every industry. To help improve their productivity, we announced 麻豆原创 Build Code, a generative AI-powered application development solution, built on 麻豆原创 BTP and optimized for Java and JavaScript development. It delivers a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrations, and application lifecycle management.

麻豆原创 Build Code has embedded generative AI capabilities with Joule to enable code generation to streamline application development. It also enables fusion development so developers can build rapidly, integrate seamlessly, and collaborate effectively with other developers and business experts. 麻豆原创 Build Code complements , our low-code solution that provides a unified environment to create and enhance enterprise applications, automate processes, and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity. .

Generative AI for Everyone

More than ever before, companies are seeking to unleash the power of AI in their applications and processes. We are thrilled to unveil , a one-stop shop for developers to build and extend applications powered by AI and generative AI on 麻豆原创 BTP. With AI Foundation, developers gain access to everything they need to quickly embed business-ready AI into their applications, leveraging the same powerful technology 麻豆原创 development teams use today. This includes AI services, generative AI management, AI workload management, access to business data and context, and lifecycle management based on 麻豆原创 AI Core, 麻豆原创 AI Launchpad, and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud. .

Later this quarter, AI Foundation will include a new generative AI hub capability in 麻豆原创 AI Core for accessing a broad range of large language models (LLMs) from third-party providers. With the hub, developers will be able to use tooling for prompt engineering and experimentation to accelerate generative AI application development.

AI-Powered Business Data

麻豆原创 believes every data professional should have seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. To this end, we鈥檝e announced new innovations that empower developers to build intelligent data applications with 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud but also brings new capabilities that not only enhance the with 麻豆原创 Datasphere.

Good data is the foundation of good AI, and 麻豆原创 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 datastores 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 powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between LLMs and an organization鈥檚 mission-critical data. The innovation puts 麻豆原创 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.

New semantic onboarding capabilities within enable customers to deliver business-ready data products at an accelerated pace. With the powerful semantic layer, organizations can build data products that maintain business context and application logic and forego the time-consuming tasks of extracting business data, creating data pipelines and rebuilding data context that was lost. .

Enterprise Automation

Integrating, analyzing, and automating end-to-end business processes is critical in today鈥檚 digital landscape. To help customers stay ahead of the competition, 麻豆原创 offers , one solution that combines the value of , , and . At 麻豆原创 TechEd, we previewed new generative AI capabilities to simplify creating processes and integrations and to recommend pre-built content. Deeper integrations across the three technologies helps companies easily mine non-麻豆原创 processes to better analyze, integrate, automate, and monitor business processes across their environment.聽.

See you at 麻豆原创 TechEd in 2024!

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 BTP and Artificial Intelligence at 麻豆原创.

In an interview, Mueller shares 麻豆原创鈥檚 amazing generative AI journey with partners and customers that鈥檚 supercharging generative AI development and how companies operate.

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Q: What are the top three things that developers, IT professionals, and business leaders need to know about the at 麻豆原创 TechEd 2023?

A: First, we want every 麻豆原创 ecosystem developer to become an AI developer and we are rolling out new tools, leveraging generative AI, to help them build and deploy intelligent data applications at scale.

Second, we are simplifying interactions between large language models (LLMs), enabling developers to implement intelligent data for generative AI applications. By expanding 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud database capabilities with a vector engine, developers can combine the generic LLMs and gain the context they need with company-specific real-time data.聽

Third, is the choice for infusing 麻豆原创 and partner applications with AI. By embedding generative AI into our solutions and giving developers, partners, and customers access to all our technology and learnings through 麻豆原创 BTP, 麻豆原创 is the go-to partner for business AI and generative AI-powered enterprise applications. We already have 22,000 live 麻豆原创 BTP customers in the cloud.

Lastly, our ecosystem is critical for all our efforts to provide our customers with beneficial innovations for their digital transformation. We have 2,100 partners on 麻豆原创 BTP, and there are 2,000 innovative partner solutions on the today. More than 360 of these solutions offer AI capabilities that drive business value.

Can you give us a snapshot of the major announcements this year?

Each of these advancements reflects 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to become the No. 1 generative AI enterprise application ecosystem together with our partners and supported by our platform, 麻豆原创 BTP.

• 麻豆原创 Build Code offers AI-powered productivity tools for developers. It鈥檚 an exciting evolution of the 麻豆原创 BTP low-code solution that we launched last year. Our unified lobby of tools enables enhanced collaboration between citizen developers, professional developers, and IT departments. Developers will be able to create new applications or extensions for 麻豆原创 solutions using our generative AI assistant Joule to generate code, create data models, and test data for applications.
• New vector capabilities for 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud allow developers to enrich business data with unstructured data including text, images, and audio. This is a unique offering from 麻豆原创, as customers will be able to combine the intelligence of LLMs with their business-specific data to provide accurate, relevant, and insightful responses. is the database management foundation of 麻豆原创 BTP.
• AI Foundation on 麻豆原创 BTP is our one-stop-shop for developers to build business-ready AI applications and extensions on 麻豆原创 BTP. From ready-to-use AI services to AI runtimes and lifecycle management, we鈥檙e providing the tools developers need to manage enterprise-grade generative AI with security, governance, and trust. As part of AI Foundation we will also include a generative AI hub in 麻豆原创 AI Core to provide developers with instant access to a broad range of LLMs from different providers.
• Learning is foundational to 麻豆原创鈥檚 ambitious goal to upskill 2 million professionals by 2025. Our newly announced role-based certification for ABAP Cloud back-end developers will drive expert skillset growth for agile cloud business transformation. Moreover, we鈥檝e supplemented the with a new , which explains how to build and implement business applications on 麻豆原创 BTP.

How do 麻豆原创 solutions help developers, data scientists, business users, and other professionals power their personal success and organization鈥檚 growth?

麻豆原创 is already at the forefront of generative AI advancements. Over 24,000 cloud customers are actively using more than 130 AI scenarios built on 麻豆原创 BTP. We have the business data, processes, and customer relationships, and we believe that most business AI capabilities will be consumed in an embedded way.

麻豆原创鈥檚 unique access to business data and our industry depth — together with our foundation in ethics, data privacy, compliance, and security — mean that we鈥檙e able to deliver unparalleled automation and seamless human-machine collaboration capabilities to our customers.

Most important, 麻豆原创 Business AI is relevant, reliable, and responsible. In our trusted environment, people are creating relevant AI use cases in the context of their organization鈥檚 real-world business processes and embedded into their daily 麻豆原创 systems. These use cases are reliable because they鈥檙e based on an understanding of both the business data and what it means within the business process.

Finally, our AI is responsible as it is built on leading ethics and data privacy standards.

How are customers and partners generating business results from 麻豆原创 BTP generative AI capabilities?

Many of our partners are pioneering multiple generative AI use cases with our support.

麻豆原创 partner and customer HCLTech is using AI technology to simplify daily tasks like recruiting in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors software for speed and efficiency in finding the best job candidates. They鈥檙e developing a catalog of generative AI-infused processes across industries and line-of-business use cases. India鈥檚 Mahindra & Mahindra, which has automated more than 250 business processes in just three months using 麻豆原创 Build Process Automation, has piloted two generative AI use cases.

In Brazil, social enterprise startup SDW brings clean water to over 20,000 people. The company used 麻豆原创 Build Apps to develop an app that speeds up field worker collaboration and analyzes accurate data to help measure the impact of its services against KPIs, proving ROI that boosts investments for growth. Henkel is co-innovating with 麻豆原创 on its first large-scale generative AI use case, combining natural language processing, simulation, and planning to make decisions faster.

Can you preview what developers should expect from 麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI vision as we head into 2024?

We are building AI capabilities, including our new generative AI copilot Joule, into our cloud-based enterprise applications. This includes 麻豆原创鈥檚 just ask feature in , available in Q1 2024. We鈥檒l also continue expanding access to LLMs in the generative AI hub. Watch for more generative AI use cases that will be released in the first half of 2024.

麻豆原创 is on a mission to boost developer productivity. Last year at 麻豆原创 TechEd we released , a unified low-code environment that enables people with any skill level to create web and mobile apps, automate processes, and design business sites through intuitive drag-and-drop simplicity.

Today, we are taking a giant step forward to empower developers. We are excited to announce , an application development solution that draws on the power of 麻豆原创鈥檚 new generative AI copilot Joule by embedding AI-based code generation to create data models, app logic, and test scripts.

A true game-changer for all 麻豆原创 developers, 麻豆原创 Build Code offers a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrating, and managing Java and JavaScipt application life cycles by bringing together key design and runtime services and tools in a single offering.

麻豆原创 Build Code includes pre-built integrations, APIs, and connectors to 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems, guided templates, and built-in 麻豆原创 developer best practices to accelerate development. 麻豆原创 Build Code enables fusion development, so developers can innovate faster by collaborating with other developers and business experts.

Let鈥檚 look at what developers can accomplish with 麻豆原创 Build Code.

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麻豆原创 Build Code will enable rapid development and has all the features we require to build a full stack solution powered with generative AI, including pre-configured runtime and design time capabilities, enabling shorter lead time to market.

Nilesh Mhatre, CIO Americas, IMEA and Global Technology Center, Henkel

Supercharge Development with Generative AI

Envision this: Developers rapidly build business applications using AI-based code generation from natural language descriptions. 麻豆原创 Build Code empowers 麻豆原创 developers to streamline Java and JavaScript development with built-in 麻豆原创 guidance and best practices.

• Use code generation with Joule to generate application logic, data models and sample data conforming to app extensions, and test scripts
• Leverage guided experiences to quickly build 麻豆原创 applications and extensions
• Simplify onboarding with automated environment setup and one-click provisioning and streamline application lifecycle management for developers

Tailored for 麻豆原创 Development

With 麻豆原创 Build Code, 麻豆原创 developers become productive by seamlessly connecting heterogeneous landscapes of applications, data, and processes across all 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 assets.

• Extend 麻豆原创 S/4HANA as well as other 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 systems easily, leveraging integrations, APIs, events, and business services via the service center
• Safeguard assets with proven security from 麻豆原创 BTP for authentication, authorization, and data protection
• Access prebuilt templates to build and personalize full stack, UI, and mobile extensions

Enhanced Fusion Development

Collaboration is key for development projects and 麻豆原创 Build Code stands out for its fusion development capabilities, enabling developers and business experts to work together. 麻豆原创 Build Code also has built-in governance that unites stakeholders to drive better business outcomes securely.

• Enable fusion team development to solve problems faster by sharing all or specific application components, such as user experience (UX), business logic, and processes
• Facilitate developer choice for application and extension development, with flexibility to use 麻豆原创 Build for low-code, 麻豆原创 Build Code for Java/JavaScript, and ABAP environment
• Ensure unified governance and simplified application lifecycle management centrally in a secure manner

Learn more about 麻豆原创 Build Code

Developers everywhere must become more productive and collaborate effectively to achieve meaningful business outcomes. With generative AI-based application development, 麻豆原创 Build Code simplifies the developer experience and provides the capabilities and power to drive the next wave of developer ingenuity.

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JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 BTP and Artificial Intelligence at 麻豆原创.