Join Susen Poppe and our team of SAP HANA Cloud experts as they explore the latest innovations released in SAP HANA Cloud for Q3 2025. Gain valuable insights and discover new features. Use the timestamps below to navigate through the video easily.
00:00 – Introduction
01:40 – General update
07:45 – Multi-Region Disaster Recovery
12:43 – Newer Remote Source Support in SDA with the Data Access Agent
27:15 – Apache Iceberg Open Table Format Support in SQL on Files
34:44 – Database Application Development Updates
37:15 – Partition Advisor
42:55 – Graphical View Modeling
58:15 – Further contents
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👉 Learn more about Bulk Alert configuration in this blog post by Hai Zhang: https://sap.to/6055A5FUt
👉 To learn more about SAP HANA Cloud’s New Data Access Agent, take a look at SeungjoonLee ‘s blog post: https://sap.to/6056A5FUQ
👉 Explore the new updates on Calculation View Features introduced in SAP HANA Cloud in this blog post by Jan Zwickel: https://sap.to/6057A5FUv
👉 To learn more about SAP HANA Cloud on SCI, take a look at this blog post by Ileana Somesan: https://sap.to/6059A5FUx
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Customers are at the center of everything we do with SAP Business AI. Our innovations and partnerships announced at SAP Sapphire and additional releases in the second quarter of 2025 reaffirm this focus.
Create transformative impact with the most powerful AI and agents fueled by the context of all your business data
SAP Sapphire saw Joule further cement itself as our new UI in the age of AI, as it continues to redefine the end-user experience. Customers are asking questions in natural language, and Joule is working hard behind the scenes to find answers.
More than 40 Joule Agents were announced at SAP Sapphire, and the first set of Joule Agents is now available to customers. These agents work across business functions to help customers resolve dispute cases, maintain strong customer relationships, complete follow-up tasks, and more. AI Foundation, the AI operating system for all SAP Business AI solutions, simplifies AI development by centralizing all the tools to build, extend, and run custom AI solutions and agents at scale.
In the second quarter of 2025, we continued accelerating the delivery of high-impact innovations to customers with enhancements to Joule, Joule Agents, and additional AI scenarios embedded across the portfolio. These features are all built with AI Foundation on SAP Business Technology Platform and add to over 240 existing AI scenarios and 1,600 Joule skills. We are working hard and are fully on track to have over 400 AI scenarios by the end of 2025 that will deliver unparalleled business value to customers.
Here are some of the highlights from Q2 2025:
Joule continues to redefine the way people interact with SAP. As SAP Joule for Consultants is now generally available, consultants can rapidly grasp ABAP code and best practices for faster project execution, less rework, and time savings. The phased integration of Joule with Microsoft 365 Copilot offers a unified experience across SAP and Microsoft environments for seamless task completion. Joule’s analytical insights feature is generally available, delivering tailored, on-demand decision support through natural language.
Joule Agents and AI Agents: For example, in supply chain management, agents can already do so much, from autonomously scheduling and optimizing service orders to continuously analyzing real-time data to suggest maintenance schedule adjustments, help reprioritize tasks, and improve asset health. In human capital management, the Performance and Goals Agent provides managers with data-driven insights before one-to-one employee meetings. In SAP CX AI Toolkit, the Shopping Agent and CX Agents Builder are now generally available, with the opportunity to build custom agents for customer experience scenarios, such as quote creation, Q&A, or service classification.
SAP Business AI for supply chain is working to minimize disruptions and simplify planning. SAP Digital Manufacturing gets error analysis, and Joule’s general availability provides instant access to critical information through natural language. There’s an add-in for Microsoft Excel and SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) to generate IBP formulas using natural language. These are just some of the supply chain updates. Explore more below.
SAP Business AI for finance and spend: It’s all about efficiency when it comes to SAP Business AI for finance and spend. Joule partners with SAP Document and Reporting Compliance to translate complex e-invoicing errors into natural language. This way, error misunderstandings are a thing of the past. Joule enhancements in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition increase efficiency with proactive sales order fulfillment monitoring, direct fixed asset master data creation, and price adjustment suggestions. For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Joule helps users with field logistics, cash management, contract analysis, and streamlines convergent invoicing processes. The first Joule agents are now available in spend management. The Concur Travel Meeting Location Planner Agent simplifies off-site planning by automating information gathering and coordination. The Concur Expense Report Validation Agent can proactively flag issues and guide users through corrections, reducing report preparation time dramatically. Learn more below.
SAP Business AI for procurement sees Joule join SAP Fieldglass and boosts Contingent Workforce Management with AI-assisted skill-based job postings, which reduce time defining and matching skills and lower worker ramp-up time. Plus, the AI summarizer in SAP Ariba slashes document review times by 50%, and the Sourcing Agent, available in beta, speeds up the sourcing event creation process. Dive in below.
SAP Business AI for HRshows the power of AI and SAP SuccessFactors. New language features streamline translation, interview feedback improves candidate evaluations, and “Explain Pay” in Joule reduces payroll help desk tickets and raises employee satisfaction. Explore more below.
SAP Business AI for IT and developersputs the power of Joule in developers’ hands. Generative AI hub in AI Foundation gets the latest and greatest models, including Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash, OpenAI GPT, o3, o4-mini, 4.1, 4.1-mini, 4.1-nano, and Mistral Small 3.1, Anthropic Claude Opus 4, Sonnet 4, and NVIDIA Llama 3.2 nv embedqa 1b. The prompt optimizer is now available in early access. It automates prompt optimization across AI models, eliminating vendor lock-in and expediting model adoption. SAP Document AI now includes file filtering, for example, allowing AI agents to process only relevant document pages for more efficient processing and more flexibility for task-specific document handling. Learn more below.
We will deliver more use cases across our entire solution range in the second half of 2025. Customers can stay updated with forthcoming SAP Business AI releases here.
Joule
SAP Joule for Consultants Generally available
Consultants navigating complex innovation and transformation projects require access to reliable and efficient information. SAP Joule for Consultants assists consultants in rapidly understanding ABAP code purpose, business logic, and structure through a model trained on 300 million lines of ABAP and 30 million lines of CDS code. This access to SAP’s exclusive content, coupled with over 200,000 pages of SAP documentation, over 50 SAP Certifications, and more than two terabytes of curated SAP Community content, allows consultants to make informed decisions and align projects with best practices.
The resulting business value includes up to a 14 percent acceleration in project execution, a 50 percent reduction in design iterations and rework, and an estimated 1.5 hours saved per consultant per day due to much faster knowledge access and improved code interpretation.*
