Several thousand customers and partners accepted SAP’s invitation to attend Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona to learn firsthand how the leading business application software provider envisions the future. It is more about solid work than inspiration, despite artificial intelligence and cloud transformation. The strong demand due to S/4HANA transformation projects still holds up, but it will not last forever.
SAP promises that 80% of the most used tasks will be infused with its Joule AI assistant. SAP says it currently has 50 use cases; this figure is expected to reach 100 by the end of the year. The use cases presented range from creating job advertisements to Joule for Consultants. The new consulting capability, leveraging the NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservice, gains insight from SAP product documentation and the SAP community to provide consultants with vital information through natural language interactions. Plus, SAP embeds Joule in the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for SAP developers. This could be a game changer, threatening legions of programmers who hope to make a living from switching legacy installations to HANA.
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