SAP TechEd 2023 Executive Keynote – Highlights

Back in Bangalore, SAP TechEd 2023 kicks off with the Executive keynote of Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP and other special guests who bring a lot of powerful AI innovations that serve both the present and the future to become intelligent with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Generative AI has been top of mind for our industry, our customers, and many enthusiastic developers. In this keynote, you learned how we are infusing generative AI into our product portfolio.

As you walk away from the keynote inspired with ideas for your business, this blog is designed to help you put those ideas into action, making your inspirations a reality.

Highlights	Details
SAP Build Code	SAP announces its new pro-code offering SAP Build Code. AI-powered productivity tools for developers optimized for Java and JavaScript development. SAP Build Code provides you with simplified developer experience and a unified lobby as the starting point for both SAP Build and SAP Build Code SAP Build Code follows the CAP model which is used for JAVA and JavaScript based applications on SAP BTP. Combining the low-code and pro-code offering, enhances the collaboration between professional and citizen developers. In addition, the pro-code offering now also uses SAP’s generative AI capabilities with Joule to generate code, create data models and test data for applications.
SAP Integration Suite Edge Integration Cell	Now customer with heterogenous and distributed environments have better flexibility and control over integrations and APIs. The new Edge Integration Cell runtime is now GA for SAP integration Suite. Learn more – https://help.sap.com/docs/integration-suite/sap-integration-suite/what-is-sap-integration-suite-edge-integration-cell Refer here the announcement – https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/05/announcement-hybrid-integrations-with-integration-suite/
SAP Datasphere	SAP announces additional features in SAP Datasphere to help customers continue streamlining their business data fabric and improve interoperability. In Q4, 2023 SAP Datasphere Semantic Onboarding will be generally available. This is a fresh new approach to building data products and enabling other domains to self-serve and securely distribute them.
SAP HANA Cloud vector capabilities	SAP HANA Cloud’s multi-model capabilities will be expanded by vector capabilities to fully leverage the power of generative AI. SAP HANA Cloud vector capabilities will be enabling customers to manage unstructured data, such as – text, images, audio as vector embeddings. This new capability provides the long-term memory and context that generative AI models need to understand the complexities of businesses as they evolve over time and to generate accurate and relevant responses. SAP HANA Cloud’s new vector capabilities will not only simplify interactions with large language models, but also empower developers to implement generative AI securely within their intelligent data applications. This innovation will be available in Q1 of 2024.
SAP Analytics Cloud	SAP Analytics Cloud has become faster than ever before. Lightweight Viewer performance is up to 60% faster compared to the classical SAC stack. Getting insights quicker with Just Ask. With natural language interaction, it’s easier to interact with the system to get the insights you need. Just Ask’s integration with SAP Analytics Cloud complements SAP’s generative AI copilot, Joule. Just Ask will be available to most of the existing SAP Analytics Cloud enterprise customers starting in Q1.
SAP Business AI	Generative AI is everywhere and will reinvent the way how we run our businesses in many innovative ways. SAP announces the release of generative AI hub in SAP AI Core, planned for general availability by December 2023. Generative AI hub provides developers instant access to a broad range of large language models, including Azure OpenAI and Falcon-40b. More models, including Meta’s Llama2 and Aleph Alpha, are expected to be added early next year. With generative AI hub, you can also leverage grounding capabilities based on enterprise data via SAP HANA Cloud vector capabilities. Medium- to long-term plans include additional capabilities such as prompt management with templates, libraries, the ability to fine-tune support for scenarios requiring deeper domain-specific context and building proprietary SAP tabular transformer-based models.
Infusing GenAI in BTP	SAP showcased future-looking preview scenarios in which generative AI is infused into SAP BTP to increase the productivity of SAP BTP application developers, administrators, integration developers, etc. SAP BTP Cockpit with SAP’s generative AI assistant Joule AI-assisted ABAP Cloud programming GenAI for SAP Build Process Automation
SAP BTP Guide	Are you an application developer interested in general SAP BTP reference architectures, methodologies for integration, extensibility, data, and analytics, and more? Take a look at the best practices in our brand-new SAP BTP Guidance Framework. BTP Developer Guide – https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/what-is-btp-developers-guide BTP Guidance Framework – https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

You can find more information and have the opportunity to exchange ideas with our expert community in the SAP TechEd Group or on the SAP BTP topic page. We look forward to hearing your ideas!

Have fun at SAP TechEd 2023!