SAP Business Technology Platform in 2025 - Overview 💫

in a world where change is taking place at an unprecedented Pace businesses need agile intelligent and scalable Solutions

more than ever and this is where the sap business technology platform comes in SCB PTP is constantly evolving with new capabilities and

features being added at a regular Pace to ensure that it remains at the Forefront of in inations today we will explore the

latest Innovations of the core uh building blocks and by the end of today's session you will have a clear

understanding of how SCP btp supports managing the latest uh World um

challenges and um help you turn bus ideas into um good uh Business Solution sorry here

I'm blocking here but with this a very warm welcome and thank you for joining our first episode of sap btp in

2025 I have here with me anash you will might remember him from the last years Anna is product manager for thep

B2B focusing on platform related Cross services topics during his past 19 years at sap Anna worked in different roles in the

area of Sap's technology portfolio with strong customer focus and with this without further Ado Anna over to you thank you so much t for

having me again in this session so for the fourth time four fourth year um I am happy uh to join your session series

here and um Take A Part so this year again the overview uh and the introduction session um really uh great to be here also thank you for all the

participants to join our session today um uh my name is Anish Beck as Tanya already mentioned uh maybe some of you have already seen me during the last

years so this is an update really on what is sap business technology platform what are the areas that we cover with its features and capabilities what are some new

developments in that area and it's the start of this series of deep diap sessions on the different topics that we are covering

today so um let's directly dive into the content here and start with a picture that might be might look familiar in some way or

form to a lot of you but some of you might have looked at this from a different uh different angle and say why

are the colors that strange so yes uh this is the general um strategy graphic that sap is using to outline the general

sap strategy and it has been uh updated a little at the beginning of the year uh so basically it outlines really what

Sap's Core Business um and strategy is with that light blue um area in the middle here outlining Cloud Erp and the

different lines of business where we provide our business applications now recently last week we introduced introduced as a funny term in

that case the term business suite for this uh collection of applications I know we had this term in the past so everything's coming back so you will

potentially hear that um that term a lot more uh in the future so basically that is of course our Core Business uh at sap

nevertheless that gets extended by our partners with their ecosystem Solutions with industry specific Solutions with

tools and um guidelines on really help you with your business transformation and how to manage that and when you look then at the purple ring uh at the

outside we are really focusing on AI from a strategy perspective so that's where Jewel comes into play jewel is our

assistant to support your employees in their different business functions to do their businesses better and faster and with uh information uh and support by

artificial intelligence you see behind then or underneath are the agents so also here what we're following up besides this

conversation Jewel uh possibility to have it as assistance are AI agents so you can

imagine those like um specialists in their certain area that have the cap the ability to also

work together to solve also very complex problems so actually helping these agents uh each other uh to also answer

questions that been AC cross a different application or process area to then give uh the right and necessary

information um to the end user or do really tasks by themselves at the bottom and I mean this is the the reason why

we're here to today is still our business technology platform and uh that we are going to cover in this uh Series today and you

also see this uh blue uh half circle here on top of btp which is the business data Cloud I don't know how many and if

there are people in the call today that joined our large announcements session last week our business Unleashed event where we gave this introduction or where

we announced uh sap business data cloud and I'm also going to cover a little bit on what it is today but we will ALS of course have a dedicated session on this

uh next week on Thursday uh where we will or where you will get all the details on where are we going to now really focusing on btp I want to start

and now if you look at the header it says it is the development foundation for sap development so what does that mean it means that whenever sa is

building new business applications btp is our first choice as the development system for our own

developments on the one hand side as I said it's the choice for new developments on the other hand side now focusing on that business Suite of

applications it's also the platform the technology platform that offers common technology services that are used by the

different applications of our portfolio to really have have common qualities things like um common security um

authentication authorization mechanisms um same inter user interface Technologies um having the possibility

to combine user interfaces of the different and tasks of the different applications into a central entry point

for your employees no matter from which application actually it's coming from um handling of Master data and having harmonized models behind Central task

inbox for tasks that come from the different applications these are the services that actually are provided by btp to make really a suite of

applications and integrated applications um out of our um application portfolio and then last but not least

when we talk about sap developments btp is also our Innovation engine so our Innovation platform that is used by the different um application and development

teams within sap to bring Innovative Technologies into their applications um the best

example here is AI so how do we handle um AI at um at sap so basically we're

developing the uh AI scenarios for the different applications on top of btp and we're also operating these scenarios on

btp and embed the functionality into uh our Cloud applications so we are using this also as our Innovation platform to bring

modern Technologies like AI gen Technologies and and and features into our applications but that's not all so if you look at

partners for example uh and we see this uh one ring saying ecosystem Solutions it's also our platform that we give to

our partners to say you know this is a platform that is optimized to work together with those business applications we're providing why don't you use it as

partners to create maybe industry specific or very specialized applications that extend the rich functionality that we're

using or giving to our customers with our application portfolio and what we're seeing now is that we have a large

community uh of sap uh partners with more than overall more than 50,000 licensed uh individual um people uh

being licensed for btp um we have more than 750 partner applications that at the moment available for you uh to

choose um to work with to really create your individual um uh business processes here and talking about individual uh business

processes we're then uh really at the heart of what you can do and how you can work with the business technology platform and this is that we are

providing this platform also to our customers to you um to really create your individual highly integrated and

highly Automated Business processes so exactly the way you need them in the combination of applications that you're running with the extensions that you're

needing fully integrated in between the different applications that you're operating here and with a lot capabilities and possibilities on how to automate uh a lot of those process or a

lot of the things and steps uh that you're having in these processes so to do that we are focusing on some key areas and also here you

might see we are with the with the changes to the general um um graphic here for the overall U sip strategy we

also slightly adjusted um our representation picture on how we look at business technology platform so the first pillar that we're having here is really the application development and

automation area where we really want to provide a modern development platform for all types of developers in the

development Community to allow code-based low code no code based um automation related um

development um the second part is the data and analytics part and here we have a very strong collaboration or coexistence however you want to call

that with the business data Cloud solution that I will touch then later on WE of course have the integration piece where we really focus on bringing all

the pieces of your endtoend processes together no matter if we're talking about application to application business to business business to

government API based or uh event driven uh integration um this is where we're going in with the business technology platform here to

support you with all those tasks and then we have of course artificial intelligence and um if we look at artificial intelligence and btp there

are always two sides of the story so the first side of the story and I mentioned that before that we're embedding artificial intelligence into our

applications we of course also embed artificial in intelligence into our btp tools so inside epde data and analytics

integration and automation we're really um embedding artificial intelligence to support the respective developer data

scientist or end user or maybe Enterprise architect uh in their work to create new applications or helping to

read existing and Legacy code or or create new Integrations or get insights uh in a very intuitive Way by just communicating with this uh with the

solutions on the other hand side if we look at artificial intelligence it's of course the discipline that enables you

to create your own um AI scenarios and embed your own custom AI scenarios into your processes to really fulfill uh your

needs and also looking at the time we are working really in embedding AI wherever we can

but our um priorization on when we will be able to do what is maybe not yours and so you have the possibility to also

create your own AI scenarios of course and embedd it into the platform or into your applications and last but not least um there is the platform Foundation that

actually makes a platform out of those uh different tools and and disciplines here uh where we take care on for

Central Security for connectivity when it comes to live and work in hybrid uh Landscapes um we're looking into things

like um life cycle management for your um applications um compliance uh when it comes to fulfill

um those requirements and the overall administration of your platform your solutions that you created on top and how you can also work with the uh

processes and build up let's say a center of excellence for uh btp to really be able to work inside your

company as always as last year let me give you one example of a customer um on

how they are using um uh btp um with one example uh today i' chosen uh Faris which is a Belgian water company so they

are in Water Production Transportation uh but on the other hand side there are also U running some um public pools uh and so on so everything that

deals with water and uh farth uh together with uh some other companies inside Belgium decided really to create

a smartw platform on btp so basically the original idea was we want to use Smart Meters um at our customers to

really get more insights uh detect things leakages for example that occur much earlier and bring this information

have the possibility to analyze and do the planning um on what is going to happen being faster to really create and do a billing invoicing and so on so what

they did is they are using heavily the integration tools to for example get uh data of the systems that are actually

operating the water meters and exchange that with sap Cloud for energy which also here shows that sap is using btp as

a as a development platform so sap Cloud for energy uh is a um software as a service solution that is being built on

on btp by sap and provided to you um and they are then taking the uh integration Suite Advanced Event mesh to actually gather events that come

directly from the water meters they are then mixing all this information together of course with the master data with work orders notifications and the

objects they are getting from the S4 system within sap data sphere to really make it possible to have advanced planning and

analytics on top of this data and they also then created um smart applications on top of btp where for example as I

mentioned before they are taking the data coming from the water meters and detect leakages not as they did it before at the end of the year when they

actually did the metering now they really are able to do that every day to detect if there is a leakage to directly um resolve the necessary um um

actions afterwards creating work orders and so on uh to be able um to get rid of the problem so just as an information for you there is this link on more

information or just Google sap and Faris there is actually a session tomorrow uh at the same time as we met today um

where Faris is uh explaining this overall Solutions and what they did in detail where you can just register just go to Google uh and Google for Faris and

sap or uh take the link here uh in the slides and then you will be able to to join this uh session so fares just one

example of our um more than 29,000 customers we are having today um on sap bdp a lot of Partners as I mentioned

before and uh and this is something that I did not mention explicitly um for now but is very key part of btp is really

then the business content that we're providing like if you have an integration platform that's nice uh if you have to start and create every uh

integration on your own uh it's a lot of work and this is also something where we are targeting what we are targeting at for all the different areas that that I

was introducing here to really give you a hat start by providing um respective content like for example 3800 uh

integration flows that you can uh reuse but on the other hand side not mentioned on the slide we will cover that a little bit later a lot of bots that help you

for example automate tasks workflows that you can uh create and and reuse and we will see that also in the data area

um we are going into this direction more and more so let's drive uh dive a little bit uh deeper into the different

sections uh that I introduced on btp and let's start with the application development and automation part just as a reminder I will give you today an

overview about the difference solutions that we are looking at when we look at this part we will have a dedicated Deep dive

session with the respective experts also that um go a lot deeper uh into the topics here um so please have a look at

the agenda of the series uh which are the sessions um and you will get all your answered all your questions

answered so when comes to application development um the first question that we have to look at is what are the

different tasks and challenges that have to be Sol solved and um how do we do that so let's start at the bottom here

um first thing and also often first scenario of um customers that start with btp is really the setup of business sites so

combining the access to different applications you are having in a central launcher page or if you want to go a

little bit further integrating also uh other things like some analytics insights uh and maybe Knowledge

Management capabilities in the end maybe to really come to a complete digital workspace for your employees Act acting

as a central entry point to uh the work for your employees inside their specific tasks and requirements so that could be one um uh

action that developers have to look at the next thing is really then automating processes or tasks so in this world

where we have the different business applications covering often only pieces of endtoend process

um it's all more and more required to look at processes that span across different application systems and the

question is always how do we handle that and from where actually do we do that and um with sap btp um as a side by-side

platform being independent also of the life cycles of the different solutions it's a perfect solution to really create

those cross applicational workflows and processes being very well integrated on the other hand side um that is one topic

where we see more and more often um development requests the other thing is the task automation here so what we also see a lot is that is specifically in the

transition to S4 uh our customers see that there is a lot of room for improvements when it

comes to automate specific tasks even in their business applications where they figure out maybe with the help of the signavio tooling analyzing the processes

and they figure out that they have some specific tasks human tasks that actually slow down those processes and these are

perfect points to step in and think about how can we automate those tasks and as I said um what we're offering here is a lot also of content where we

see a lot of customers have struggling at some similar areas for example in in S4 at some point in time and we already

offer you templates for those Bots that you can use to implement automated processing be it completely un attendant

or be it just as a helper for the human being that actually is uh processing in those tasks and then of course we have the

classical uh development um requirement where we say we need to do some coding here we have new functionality we have

new business logic uh that has to be implemented and of course this is where the traditional developers come into play building those applications with

code not necessarily having to write their code alone today in times of AI there is a lot of code generation Al possibilities I will talk to that about

that in a second how we implement or integrate uh those capabilities in our Solutions but we clearly are addressing here the role of a traditional developer

no matter if this is cloud native with python or JavaScript um capabilities or if it's the classical ABAB developer right this is all

or these are all the different profiles that we're addressing here with our application development uh and an automation

portfolio but in times where a lot of customers tell us that their development

backlog is growing and growing the question is how do we make sure that you can bring this backlog down I mean I was

talking about code generation capability which of course speeds up the traditional um um development approach

but on the other hand side there's also of course the approach to say how can we enable non developers to actually do

development tasks so basically in the Enterprise and business area I don't think that it is the same as in the office or or personal work area where

you have a simple automation tool and you build your own application because of course you're handling on business data you need to have knowledge on business data but thinking

about the dysfunction often um referenced as business it so often the people that in

former times wrote the requirement catalogs for what has to be developed these people are often a good source to

start with to enable them to do a lot of tasks by themselves and establish such a development approach inside your

organization and then if you want to do that and you have those different roles in the end you do not want to have them separated often you have will have

projects where certain things will be part of the overall solution in the end so maybe uh some low code developers of the

business it will focus on UI perspectives then we have some dedicated also process experts leveraging low code

tools to create workflows but then at some point in time you have maybe really business logic to develop so now making

a complete product or project out of that requires also bringing together those different rols those different

Tools in a central place where you can also govern uh such projects and have access to the different assets and artifacts that are being created here

and this is where we're talking about Fusion development and this is exactly what we're targeting with sap

build so with sap build basically we're combining all those different tools I will introduce in in a second in one

central place as a starting point and as the central point also to collect all the different artifacts on the one hand side but also templates something that

we provide as I said before for example for Bots for workflows and so on and you can directly use it and then make sure that your development projects combining

and bringing together those different teams uh can work together and uh that you're coming to best results here so

what are the tools that we are combining here let's have a look first of all at the traditional um development tools um

so on the one hand side we have sa build code which is our solution for cloud native development um in the languages

of your choice so this could be JavaScript this could be python this could could be Java or others um of course and I will come to that in a second we have a

strong recommendation uh for you what might make sense here to use um and then we have on the other

hand side the upup environment running on btp allowing abup uh developments in a side-by-side approach to your S4

system which also uh gives you good opportunities to couple certain developments from uh your S4 system for example in scenarios where you need to

have a separate life cycle management for the apps or extensions that you're building where you want to serve users that do not have S4

access um and of course a lot of you will have great abup developers with great process knowledge

and he the possibility to really use them in their uh environment to um bring in their experience in the

developments the last solution uh when it comes to application development that we're providing is sap build apps sap

build apps is basically our low code no code solution so more no code than low

code um that really targets at uh non-developers to be or to enable them to really also create full stack

applications uh from the data U structures to uh the the business logic and the UI so there is a very short video it's running very fast just want

to give you some U small Insight on how that look like so the screen that you're seeing here is from build code uh and what you see is that we also embed AI

Technologies uh here so we have Jewel integrated uh into our development environment here so what you're seeing

is that there has been uh somebody the developer has created uh prompt um so normal text um and the solution

generates then the code beneath and you can also see that that we're using here a um uh in inside our development also the capability to not only have the

plain code but also use graphical support uh for the modeling for example of data structures so how does that look like so the first thing is you decide

inside the lobby what you want to use as a tool so build code or build apps for example then you're doing the uh prompt

you create uh you get your uh solution created then um the data model um so maybe this was the step before where you

had the possibility the to what is happening now can you still see my screen what has happened now my

PowerPoint crashed I I'm afraid let me I can see your screen that's your yeah laptop I will have uh to look my

PowerPoint crashed completely that's not really nice so no let's go there no that was the wrong one sorry that's

events YouTube series I'm so sorry for that I have no idea what has happened there let

me quickly open up PowerPoint again taking its time to open yeah not our

technology this Cas I am relieved I had the same thoughts yeah maybe I should not mention that

but sometimes it's it's good if you can really say it so let's see that's not even the right presentation let

I will look here yeah now it's opening up a ton of different PowerPoints let me choose the right

one which is this one and we were at this page where we have uh the video so I'm

not going uh through all the process you see here we are provide um then using AI to create some example data the business

logic and maybe I stop here for a second whoops sorry uh at the end and at the other hand side you will see also then

the uh business uh the build apps tool where you have the no code approach where you have then for example here on top possibility to create the user

interface but also then the business logic and the um and the data structures here

so that's um when it comes to application development looking at what we're focusing at it's on the one hand side Always Mobile end web no matter if

your pro code or low code developing of course we're using AI you saw that we also have um similar or we're working on

similar functionalities for ABAB to explain and gener generate code here um and uh really focusing on the extensions

of our applications enabling you to really work together with the existing application systems that you're having making sure that all the things like

signal sign on integration and so on are available more or less out of the box supporting you with content uh to really

get uh the start uh and to create your individual extensions also from a tooling perspective and you know specifically if

we're talking at the about the cloud native development uh there are a ton of different Frameworks for the different layers available so we have clear

recommendations when it comes to development um and you will find here the link to the btp developers guide so at the center of our strategy here in

our recommendations are our uh programming models with for non-ab up development the cloud application programming model

cup and um of course the abup cloud model these also make sure that you lever you can leverage um core Services

of the sap btp that help you get some required tasks when it comes to to development of business applications out of the box so for

example um audit logging is such a topic where we provide a service it's one line of code in the end um in inside your application development if you're using

cup and automatically then you simply have to annotate um the your data and automatically uh the the audit log

functionality is coming out of the box really showing you when something is going on so that you really have the possibility to focus on the business

scenario that you have to develop and not having uh to focus much on any

technology um related uh things here now I would like to add one um one thing here and this is the area of

specifically S4 Hana uh extensibility because I think it is really really important to think about how to come to

what we call a clean Core so if we look at our customers today we see there foran um specifically and that's also the reason why a lot of customers move

uh to the private Cloud edition of Sana is that they have tons of custom code they created over the last 30 to 40

years inside their Erp systems and basically if I look at what we're doing at the moment moment in our development environments where everybody

is focusing on AI and bringing AI capabilities into our core applications which is of course also true for s for Hana let me ask you the question on what

do you think within your company when you will be able to consume or your end users will be able to consume the development that is now taking place in

our development department when when it comes to for example Leverage the AI functionalities that we're providing and I'm pretty sure that most

of you have numbers in mind like two to five years uh it will take and if we look at on the other hand side um public

Cloud Solutions um I can tell you of course that ins into the public Cloud Solutions potentially these developments will be available in half a year or

something right so it's definitely on the PA also to the cloud it is important to bring down the custom code because that is

basically at most of our customers the reason why it takes so long because it is extremely hard to do upgrades due to

heavy testing huge projects take forever and so it definitely is important to have a look at what do I do with the custom code that I have um for different

reasons of course Bringing Down the upgrade cycle time um we're seeing a lot of ton of code that is not even used any

longer um but also of course making sure that you're not falling into any security gaps due to old code or code where you have no clue what it's doing

simplification bringing back also the data St to standard with this comes improved performance and of course if the upgrades are getting much easier

also the TCO is getting down so there are different ways on how you can approach this for your different scenar scenarios we have the inap extensibility

um inside um S4 for the um private Cloud Edition we also of course have then abup Cloud on top of S4 nevertheless as said

before there are a ton of scenarios where we think it definitely makes sense to have a side by side platform as btp

as crucial and Elemental um part of your um strategy when it comes to um extensions and of course uh with btp

it's at the same time uh your platform that gives you um the access to Innovative Technologies not only the innovations that we're bringing in

standard automating processes quite fast I was telling a lot um about this so here really low code based solution with build process automation focusing on the

two topics of uh process Automation and workflows and on the other hand side on uh task automation with Bots that

support or individually or um uh independently uh fulfill uh human TS so here we integrated AI on both

sides on the one hand side helping create workflows for example but on the other hand side also being able for workflows or Bots that work with documents we

directly included here solutions to extract information out of that documents uh derive actions out of the content that is part of the documents

here last but not least in the epdf and automation area we have sap build work Zone um our solution or Solutions uh if

we look at standard and Advanced Edition to create meaningful sites or application launcher Pages um so could

be a simple Louch pad to Just Launch the applications that you created but on the other hand side you also have the possibilities as you can get a glimpse

here in the in the graphic to really create highly individual and customizable entry points into the work

of your employees with really uh uh creating a digital uh workplace here summing up yes we saw the different

solutions that are part of sap build uh sap btp's portfolio for application development and um

automation we're using Jewel inside the different applications to support the developers we're providing the content

um here also to start or being faster in creating a lot of requested uh things we're seeing at our customers and with

this let's come uh to data and analytics um so as said before last week we had the business Unleashed event where we introduced a complete new solution a

software as a service solution which is uh the sap business data Cloud which is now in controlled availability and will be General

availability uh with a current planning in Q2 so basically what is business data Cloud it's the evolution of what we

started two years ago with a combination of sap data sphere analytics cloud and Hana Cloud um where we really created

this idea of a business data fabric bringing together business data uh structured data unstructured data having a strong analytical

and planning Solution on top um this uh now comes to the next step so

um I will come to that in a second we added so-called inside apps uh so these inside apps are

basically um complete solutions that provide um a dashboard or a planning template or

another analytical application on the one hand side but with all the required artifacts down to the data models and

data products so that you can in the end directly use that um and uh the the technology behind or the idea behind is

really that we now govern those data products behind so you get them from sap directly communicating with the underlying applications that we're

having you can also use those data products then to create your own models extended also with external data for

example and then create your own information on top so looking at the overall um portfolio of what is behind

this software as a solution with business with business data cloud is on the one hand side as said what we currently had with SIP data sphere

analytics Cloud for um business intelligence and and planning but we also include your business Warehouse

private Cloud Edition to directly also reuse your Investments that you have done into BW very interesting also when it comes

to the migration of BW into the direction of business data Fabric and what is completely new with sap data

bricks um which is um a joint applications created by sap and data bricks to include the data engineering

and machine learning and AI functionalities of sap data bricks to enable the data scientists for example

to leverage this business Rich data where getting from the Sip applications to work with it combine it also with other data source unstructured data to

create um meaningful and relevant machine learning and AI Solutions and when I talked about this inside apps it's not only that we are

going to deliver those completely managed um inside apps we're also working together here and uh with with a

lot of partners that will also provide then um inside apps that uh include the models the data products behind and are are managed

here so what you get yes you're getting those um context where inside apps where you can directly get

information um uh you have the possibility then with the data products that you install after you chosen those

context apps those data products will be installed you can then work with that data products that bring all the business semantics coming from the

applications into Data sphere and have the possibility then to model transform um join with with

information from uh other systems or sources and in the end use reuse for example also what you have uh created in

in BW and in the end if you need to have more look at machine learning uh capabilities or artificial intelligence scenarios you have the possibility to

use sap data bricks to create the respective applications here now as said before if you want to I

know that this was a very short overview here uh I know it is a lot um but um we will have the dedicated session on this

as said before next week on Thursday so I really um would ask you to go there for the details uh for BDC

integration I think very obvious for a technology platform in the era of uh digital transformation of moving from on

premise systems to private and public Cloud Solutions we see also a lot of new technologies in the um in the area of

integration with event driven Integrations we more and more if we talk about integrated processes we of course need to integrate our partners but also

um being able to fulfill governmental um requirements in the different countries so b2g and B2B scenarios um and of course looking at

technology evolving also here we want to focus on the experience of the

developers um to to enable um you to uh move your integration to the next level and our main solution here is of course

sap integration Suite on btp which handles nearly every integration pattern um or every so I'm not aware of anyone's that we're not

covering here of integration patterns in hybrid landscape so no matter if it's a ground to ground scenario that we can operate really also

on your premises or in your Prem premises um or if it's a pure Cloud scenario or if it's a scenario uh combining or integrating cloudbased and

on- premise based or private cloud and public cloud-based Solutions um we also are focusing and we have seen this um also with with the

Faris example on different types of integration like uh with the event driven approach they took um and as said just we're focusing

also here on the simplification and faster time to Value so it's nice to have a more modern user interface but on the other hand side of course we're also

leveraging AI capabilities to support the developer here to create integration scenarios and I said before with those 3,800 pre-built Integrations we're

really giving you a heads up here to start and yes we know a lot of you have invested heavily in sap integration

technology with pi and Po and we really want to make it easy for you to modernize and um yeah transform your

integration um platform here so we're also offering migration support we're now embedding also artificial intelligence to make it easier to have

tool-based migrations supporting you uh reuse a lot of of things that you have created in the back um so this is also very

important and in many many cases we recommend to also look into your other integration Solutions besides the sap

world because in many cases sap integration Suite is also the best choice when it comes to Central uh Enterprise Integration platform not only

looking at the sap world so here an overview about um our main product which is the integration Suite there is the extension

um for the integration Suite Advanced Event mesh offering Advanced Event capabilities um other than that the

integration Suite also includes event um event based scenarios to a certain extent um we have the uh Cloud

integration uh capability here that handles your a TOA B2B and b2g scenarios we have migration capabilities we have

the API Management in place so really a full Suite um of um supporting tools to

help you um really work with all the the um integration challenges that you're having deployment models here also even

if you have to to process it on prep premises you have the possibility for example to have a local runtime here for the integration engine

so I'm not going into the details here it's a very commonly used and very well established solution as you can imagine but let's go on also due to the time it's not too

much time left on artificial intelligence so when it comes to artificial intelligence let me shortly also go into the general sap um

sap strategy here so what we're doing actually I said it before we're embedding AI capabilities into all our business applications we're using Jewel

in all our different AI applications to support you as a or the business users in a uh in a as a digital assistant here

and with the agents we really then also have those specialists in the different disciplines or in the different lines of business businesses

areas so when it comes to btp I mean we are using btp to operate all those things that we're embedding into the AI

capabilities if you look at it from a customer or partner perspective it's really interesting to have a look at how can we create our own scenarios and how

do we operate those scenarios and this is what we're also offering you with the AI foundation on on btp uh to create your own things so what is

in there on the one hand side I said already there are Services included that you can directly use like for example we also integrate directly into our process

automation tools for document and text processing extracting information out of that you can directly use this service and then on the other hand side

with sap Hana if you look here at the bottom business data and context we providing the basis Technologies like with a vector engine the possibility to

calculate um vectors for Vector embeddings when we communicate with large language models with the knowledge graph engine where we can um really see

what are the um the connections um between different areas and different um things in our data uh to really provide

you the basis Technologies and then at the Center we have this AI life cycle management topic here which is mainly

our so-called generative AI Hub which is part of our AI Core service and this is really the solution that creates the

connection between foundational models like also large language models no matter if these are really public large models if they are offered by sap if you

have your own models here but you have the possibility to really create your own scenario on the one hand side getting access to them uh we are handling that for you so that's just uh

at the moment there are 25 models that we offer here so you do not have to have an individual contract with all of those model

providers uh you can then uh try in your scenarios you have an exploration environment where you can say what is

the best model for my purpose how should I structure my prompt uh do I want to do any embeddings how do I want to then also bring that into an application if I

want to make sure that the The Prompt is structured in a specific way if I want to make sure that specific embeddings will be done before the actual call to

the model uh is being done if I want to maybe mask some data or make sure that some data is not trans ported to those models this is exactly where the

generative AI Hub comes into play um and as said before here you get a short overview about the um models

that are included in this that you can use try out and embed into your scenarios and when I say embed this into

scenarios and talking about operating um AI models or AI scenarios it's also important to understand that

we are in in the end um working on this to make sure that your scenario is in

the end um decoupled from the from the um model behind to make sure that once those models will evolve in the public phase you still have the possibility to

use other models to evolve with the models that you have chosen to change models afterwards and so on uh so that is basically what The geni Hub is doing

and then providing the respective sdks into again our Solutions in build code in abup to make sure that you can also

for example call those functionalities like prompt engineering um or let's say prompt

framing or making templates bring that in a specific format or doing specific embeddings and you can embed this into

your um coding here for the business scenario and then the complete life cycle handling will take place inside AI

Core so that it really gets easier to maintain handle and operate those scenarios last but not least um two

minutes left platform Foundation very important uh these are the basic services that lie underneath all the different chapter that I was talking

about so we have three strategic runtimes Cloud Foundry which makes it really easy to focus on the business part without having further knowledge

about runtimes at all Kema on the other hand side a kubernetes based runtime that um allows you to operate also

scenarios that have really dedicated requirements to the run times and of course the ab environment and also when it comes to Def Ops then on the one hand

side some customers already have established pipelines and so on please use them we support this with with sap btp if you do not have those things

until now we also provide an easy entry into this world with our services here security really important on the one

hand side things like authentication authorization single sign on but on the other hand side also the compliance aspects of developments like I mentioned

for example being able to um to do audit logging or fulfilling data privacy regulations for gdpr or whatever persistency we were talking about Hana

Cloud as our main solution nevertheless if you have requirements to take postgress uh reddis Object Store also part of the platform for you available

to do your developments connectivity we're really focusing here on being on enabling you no matter if your uh applications you want to extend

or work with are on premise private cloud based public he based also the combination with a lot of hyperscaler services um we can directly integrate

then and of course the administration and operations the possibility to run your Solutions on on btp to also operate

the processes around uh entitling your dedicated users projects into using that and also automating this this is in our

area and now last but not least where do you get this from so we're working today today together with um the infra the

hyperscalers AWS um Azure and Google Cloud uh to provide our platform what we announced

is starting mid of 2025 we will also offer this btp so the multif cloud Foundation out of sap owned data

centers uh starting uh the middle of the year with a German Data Center and we have broader plans to also grow our data

center locations and also align the service availability of the different services in the different locations and

now Tanya I'm at my final slide just summing up uh what I told the audience today these are is a basic overview

about the capabilities of btp two more commments if you want to start try out uh see what can be done have a look at Discovery Center where you have the catalog of all our services but you also

get reference architectures and missions that help you do something on it and if you want to look at the content that we're providing so like the integration uh packages that we're

having please have a look at at the business accelerator Hub where you will find the connection of this business content and with

this I am just two minutes over [Laughter] time great um if you could unshare quickly that would be great so people

can both of us so a big thank you Anna for this awesome presentation um it was really great we do not have

time unfortunately for to answer any questions but I promise that uh you will look at them or we will look at them in the chat post I have the questions and

we will answer them in the comments area underneath and as we have all the dedicated Deep dive sessions maybe spare also the questions for those experts uh

and get the answers there in even more detail AB absolutely great and with this um big thank you to the attendees for joining I wish everyone a great day a

great evening depending on where you are I look forward to seeing you again next week have a great time