SAP has announced a wave of major innovations to its Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), bringing advanced Artificial Intelligence and automation capabilities to the SAP Business Suite. Unveiled at SAP Sapphire 2025, these enhancements target the pressing needs of enterprises facing rapid digital transformation, increasing customer expectations, and the migration from legacy systems to the cloud. SAP BTP acts as a cohesive foundation, connecting, extending, and automating core business applications while significantly accelerating application development and process automation.
Central to these updates is Joule Studio, a new tool embedded in SAP Build that allows customers to create their own Artificial Intelligence agents and Joule skills through a low-code/no-code environment. These agents leverage business data to execute both rule-based and complex workflows, driving accuracy and operational efficiency. Joule Studio’s open, extensible framework connects SAP and non-SAP applications, broadening integration options. General availability is set for June 2025, with accessible onboarding and an emphasis on scalability and security tailored for business use cases.
Integration is a core theme, as SAP Integration Suite receives Artificial Intelligence-assisted tools for faster discovery and migration of integration flows, predictive API trend analysis, and proactive anomaly detection. New connectors for technologies like IBM MQ, Google Cloud Storage, Salesforce PubSub, Anaplan, and Snowflake further modernize integration between SAP and third-party systems. For developers, updates to SAP Build offer unified low- and code-first tools, simplified pricing, and automated extensibility features. The platform’s new ‘Joule for developers’ functions speed up code generation, debugging, and modernization across major languages, letting developers innovate with generative Artificial Intelligence and automation.
SAP Business Data Cloud now becomes tightly integrated with SAP Build, letting developers discover and deploy business data products more effectively. SAP HANA Cloud’s enhancements add advanced monitoring, usage visibility, and selective migration tools, supporting generative Artificial Intelligence and secure connections to curated business data. Additional advancements include extended FinOps capabilities, updated learning journeys, expanded access to SAP Customer Identity and Access Management, and the rollout of SAP BTP services across leading public cloud marketplaces, ensuring increased flexibility for enterprise customers. Collectively, these moves reinforce SAP’s commitment to enabling seamless innovation, operational resilience, and intelligent decision-making for organizations worldwide.
