We are proud to announce that Gartner has recognized SAP as a Visionary in its 2024 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platform.
In today’s dynamic market, agile organizations require seamless collaboration among business users, IT professionals, and software developers. Low-code application platforms empower both professional and citizen developers to rapidly create and deploy digital solutions through guided development, automation, and robust governance, fostering innovation and agility.
SAP Build has been developed with the bold vision that business users and developers alike should be able to augment enterprise applications and build new functionality, automate business processes, and design digital workspaces using the tools of their choice. It is an AI-powered cloud service that combines application development, workflow management, task automation, and workspace creation into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
Strategic Challenges in Modern Software Development
Developers today face several significant challenges.
First, it is difficult for many organizations to leverage the deep insights from non-technical business experts across functions like finance and supply chain. While AI is a powerful new tool, its efficacy hinges on its integration with business-specific data and processes; without this, its broader benefits are diminished. Building or extending business applications is often time-consuming and expensive, prompting a shift toward customizable pre-built solutions for greater agility. Finally, developers grapple with fragmented systems requiring extensive integration, hindering efficient workflows and resource utilization.
These challenges collectively underscore the need for a more robust development platform.
The SAP Build Advantage
SAP is recognized in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Application Platforms for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. SAP Build offers unique benefits that streamline the development process and ensure innovative and efficient solutions.
- Build together: SAP Build supports a fusion development approach, accommodating different skill levels and project needs across diverse technologies. This environment fosters team collaboration with business experts and increases productivity by allowing developers to select the most appropriate tools, whether they prefer low-code visual tools or programming with Java, JavaScript, or ABAP.
- Develop faster with business AI: Generative AI in SAP Build, using the AI copilot Joule, automates coding, workflow, and workspace creation customized to a company’s needs. Joule uses large language models (LLMs) and data specific to the company’s finance, supply chain, and other processes, ensuring relevant and reliable solutions for each customer.
- Start ahead with pre-built, industry-specific solutions: SAP Build provides more than 500 industry-specific, pre-built solutions that developers can utilize to jump-start application development. These solutions are complemented by generative AI capabilities that simplify and automate complex workflows across various business domains.
- Extend business applications with confidence: SAP Build ensures seamless integration with both SAP and non-SAP applications, facilitating the extension of core business systems. The integration capabilities are bolstered by a new extensibility wizard in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, enabling developers to smoothly incorporate custom fields, customer business logic, and automation, and to create bespoke applications while remaining aligned with fundamental business operations and maintaining robust security and connectivity.
Extend ERP and Other Business Applications with Ease
Typically, most business applications need to be adapted to meet customer specific requirements. SAP Build empowers organizations to accelerate automation, tailor business processes, and extend the functionality of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications.
SAP Build follows a clean core paradigm, which future-proofs an ERP system, ensuring upgrades become seamless and moving to the cloud is simplified. This translates to lower costs, faster innovation, and the agility to adapt to changing business needs, all while ensuring custom extensions continue to work flawlessly.
Gain a Competitive Edge with SAP Build
Since launching SAP Build, we have seen tremendous growth in customers embracing future-proof extension building in impactful ways. Trumpf, for example, streamlined operations by reducing time spent with administrative tasks by 60% and doubling the efficiency of assembly instruction generation. BMW enhanced data quality and reduced collection time, ensuring reliable reporting of sustainability KPIs for better informed decision-making. And Piller has delivered 80% faster system access, a tailored user experience, and reduced search time for optimized employee efficiency and productivity.
Next Steps
To learn how SAP Build adds value to cloud ERP, explore use cases that address specific challenges in business processes. To unlock the full potential of application development, automation, and AI, take the next step with the following resources:
- Explore the basic trial
- Start a learning journey
- Visit the SAP Build area of sap.com
Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president of Application Development, Automation, Integration, and AI at SAP.
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