When we said 2024 was only the beginning, we meant it. This year will be the most ambitious year for SAP Business AI yet, with a target of 400 embedded AI use cases across our cloud portfolio.
Get more done faster with AI that actually understands all your business processes and data
Customers are already doing so much with SAP Business AI, from easing the burden on public authorities for aid distribution to revolutionizing procurement in the energy sector. In 2025, we will build on these achievements with the same razor-sharp focus: providing our customers with unparalleled business value.
Joule already offers customers a unified experience across our suite’s end-to-end business processes. Now, as we enter the era of AI agents, Joule will equip customers with agents that genuinely understand their business context and collaborate across all functions. AI agents that alleviate manual supplier and contract checks before creating purchase orders or automatically classify and direct millions of service tickets to the right team. These AI agents are impactful because they are grounded in what makes our customers’ businesses unique – their processes, tools, and data – thanks to SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Knowledge Graph.
When it comes to AI agents, our customers are just getting started. That’s because the possibilities are endless with Joule’s agent builder. Customers can create and deploy custom agents that, like our out-of-the-box agents, are uniquely grounded in their business processes and data. We are excited to see how our customers drive business value in 2025 and beyond.
Before diving into the complete updates below, here are some of the highlights from Q1 2025:
- Joule is gaining a host of new capabilities, including support for 11 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek, and Polish. Strict filters are also coming for precise, personalized answers tailored to each user’s context. Joule’s responses are now streamed for real-time feedback during processing. This eliminates frustrating delays and ensures a smooth, interactive experience, even with complex queries. Joule is fully integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for enhanced context and effortless navigation. In Q1 2025, Joule’s unified experience is reaching more customers across more SAP solutions, so be sure to explore everything Joule in the sections below.
- Less manual work and democratized access are the name of the game for SAP Business AI in business transformation management. Joule for developers is front and center with code generation and optimization across ABAP, SAP Build Code, and SAP BTP Cockpit. SAP Signavio Process Manager and SAP Signavio Process Intelligence let customers use natural language to create process diagrams (“text-to-process”) or generate analytical dashboards (“text-to-widgets”). SAP LeanIX has a new AI-assisted inventory builder that automates IT landscape documentation. There is so much more to check out about AI in Joule for developers, SAP LeanIX, and SAP Signavio below.
- A lot is happening in SAP Business AI for finance and spend. AI-assisted enterprise search, personalized “My Home” page features, situation handling, and error explanations are all coming to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Joule also expands to S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, automating journal uploads, service initiations, trade classifications, and more. Plus, additional AI updates are coming to Concur Expense. Dive into everything below.
- SAP Business AI for procurement and supply chain are flush with new AI enhancements. Joule joins SAP Ariba and SAP Field Service Management for natural language navigation and task completion. SAP Ariba Category Management offers AI-assisted category recommendations to help streamline strategic planning. SAP Green Token introduces AI-powered declaration image analysis for automatic data extraction from supplier declarations. There is much more to see, so check out procurement and supply chain below.
- SAP Business AI for IT and developers has a range of exciting tools that will increase productivity and efficiency. SAP Datasphere gets AI-powered content generation and natural language search, further evolving into our overall data strategy with SAP Business Data Cloud. Generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad offers new large language models (LLMs) to ensure the best fit for customized AI use cases. Its new model library feature simplifies LLM discovery and selection with detailed model cards and one-click deployment and its grounding management feature simplifies the management of grounding pipelines, enabling developers to create, modify, and search repositories using natural language. The new SAP HANA knowledge graph engine enhances LLM responses by grounding them in business-specific knowledge. This is just the tip of the iceberg; jump into everything and more below.
The first quarter is off to a strong start, but 2025 will see us deliver more use cases — on top of the more than 200 features already available — across our entire range of solutions. Customers can stay updated with forthcoming SAP Business AI releases here.
SAP Business AI for business transformation management
SAP BTP, ABAP environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities
General availability
With Joule, developers can quickly generate precise, contextualized code snippets and explanations. Joule uses purpose-built LLMs designed for SAP workloads. The ABAP LLM, for example, powers code predictions and explanations, helping developers work more efficiently.
Joule can also provide developers with real-time, context-aware support for code completion and optimization and create automation pipelines that understand the customers’ application environment, development project artifacts, and SAP-specific syntax.
Key capabilities include:
- Predictive code completion based on context, comments, and project heuristics
- Code explanations of core data services 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
With these ABAP AI capabilities in Joule, developers can expect up to a 20 percent* reduction in time and effort spent writing ABAP code and a 25 percent* reduction in time and effort spent testing ABAP code.
In addition, the introduction of the ABAP AI SDK, powered by intelligent scenario lifecycle management, serves as an AI toolbox for ABAP developers. It allows them to use LLMs available through the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core and seamlessly infuse AI capabilities into their custom ABAP applications.
