The innovation highlights blog for SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) is back in 2024. I´m excited to see which innovations are coming up in 2024 for SAP BTP. But isn´t it worthwhile reviewing the top Q4 2023 highlights of our recent deliveries out of the SAP BTP product roadmap as well?
Join me to take a closer look at a subset of my personal innovation highlights of SAP BTP in Q4 2023 and an outlook of what´s coming up next.
SAP BTP Innovation Highlights Q4 2023
Application Development and Automation:
- With Q4 2023, SAP Build Apps is now available with the SAP BTP Trial Account. Trial Accounts allow to experience and evaluate the key functions of SAP Build Apps, the low-code application development tool. If you ready to experience SAP Build Apps then activate your Trial Account right now following a few simple steps. Learn how to get started with the blog post of @EsmeeX.
- SAP Build Work Zone got some new features and enhancements as well. A new site experience for SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition, import and export of site menu for the advanced edition are just two new features for a smooth admin experience. Business users can be happy as well as they also got a new improvement for the guided experience with wizard layout. Check out also the integration of Joule, our digital assistant, in SAP Start. Read the blog post of @Vera_Gutbrod to get all updates.
- In Q4 2023 SAP Build Process Automation released a new set of 19 content packages - 12 business content and 7 learning content crafted for IT, Sales, Services, Sourcing, Finance, and Procurement. A detailed list on the new content can be found here. Check out also the blog post of @JesseSukhbayar to get more insights on what´s new with SAP Build Process Automation. If you have found interesting content and need to know how to deploy the pre-built content in SAP Build Process Automation I can highly recommend to watch the video demonstrating it. Learn how easy it is and configure step by step to fine-tune the content before deploying it in your project.
Integration:
- Concentrating on our flagship integration product, SAP Integration Suite, we released a flexible hybrid integration runtime: Edge Integration Cell. The new extension of SAP Integration Suite as Kubernetes based solution provides the option of a local, customer-managed environment of the SAP Integration Suite. With this we provide customers with hybrid or private environment the flexibility to choose the runtime for the execution of ground-to-ground or hybrid integration scenarios depending on their use cases. Edge Integration Cell supports for example the execution of integrations between local on premise systems without any data leaving the local datacenter and without loosing the comfort of having a central design and management solution for all integration scenarios. It helps a lot of customers in certain industries to meet region specific laws and regulations. Check out the announcement blog post of @piyush_gakhar and the FAQ blog post of @finny_babu to get more insights. For 2024 there are already several innovations on our Road Map Explorer for Edge Integration Cell.
- To provide enhanced B2B integration, Trading Partner Management capability enables now support for validating and converting the Tradacoms message format by introducing a new flow step. It provides the full end-to-end support for Tradacoms messages in Trading Partner Management and you are able to use the type system for modelling guidelines in Integration Advisor. Check out the blogpost of @joerg_ackermann for more information.
Data and Analytics:
- The data lake realational engine in SAP HANA Cloud has with Q4 2023 the ability to read and write data from nearly any files instance of SAP HANA Cloud data lake. This significantly improves the integration between instances of SAP HANA Cloud and broaden access to data sources from the relational engine of the data lake for SAP HANA Cloud. You will benefit from expanded access to diverse data sources, fostering improved data utilization and reinforcing the synergy between various SAP HANA Cloud instances. If you want to learn more check out the blog post of @thomashammer to get more highlights on what´s new for SAP HANA Cloud in December.
- Additionally with Q4 2023 you have new options of data center availability and hyperscaler options for SAP Analytics Cloud through the deployment of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in the Asia and Europe region.
Artificial Intelligence:
- At TechEd 2023 in November we did not only announce the generative AI hub - it also got released just a few weeks later. The generative AI hub provides instant access to a broad range of large language models (LLMs) from different providers and partners like GPT-4 by Azure OpenAI or OpenSource Falcon-40b. With this access, developers can orchestrate multiple models, whether programmatically via SAP AI Core or via the playground within SAP AI Launchpad. Check out the blog post of @HadiHares.
- With the Q4 2023 release the new Document Information Extraction, premium edition supercharged by AI capabilities, makes the process of different types of documents without increased costs or more manual work possible. It automates all business document use cases in most languages end to end, provides built-in support for 40+ languages with extensions for virtually any kind of document and makes extensions of exisiting extraction routines possible. To get more information read the blog post of @tomasz_janasz.
- If you are interested in a deep-dive of SAP´s Generative AI strategy make sure you read the blog post of @philipp_herzig. The blog post is the first of a series that dives deeper into various aspects of SAP’s approach to generative AI and its technical underpinnings.
Cross SAP BTP:
- Guidance on the best way to develop extensions and applications on SAP BTP is a topic everyone is lacking for. Our in Q4 2023 released SAP BTP Guidance Framework is the compass for architecting, implementing, and operating solutions on SAP BTP. It includes elements like decision guides, reference architectures, methodologies, recommendations and DevOps. One resource within the SAP BTP Guidance Framework which was also released in the last quarter of 2023 is the SAP BTP Developer´s Guide. The guide helps on how to implement business applications on SAP BTP and explains the building blocks for developing, delivering, and integrating business applications.
- Our famous SAP Discovery Center also got some updates. In addition to missions and services the SAP Discovery Center cosmos now includes reference architectures. As of now you can find integration, data and analytics and hyperscaler references architectures in our catalog. Each reference architecture provides you guiding information which helps to understand its scope, mechanics, how it relates to SAP business applications and guidance when to choose a particular reference architecture. The SAP BTP reference architectures are also part of the just mentioned SAP BTP Guidance Framework.
- With Q4 2023 we also announced the availability of the SAP Application Extension Methodology version 2.2. The SAP Application Extension Methodology supports and guides you by providing a structured, technology agnostic approach to define an organization specific extension strategy. Version 2.2 offers now a full documentation on the SAP Help Portal, improved technology agnostic extension tasks and a refined extension technology mapping. Check out the blog post of @MarcoMatha to learn more.
SAP BTP Innovation Highlights - outlook:
Please find here my personal innovation highlights outlook coming up:
- Application Development and Automation: SAP Build Code
- Application Development and Automation: Generating a business service of ABAP RESTful application programming model
- Integration: AdvancedEventMesh adapter for event mediation
- Integration: Support for custom SOA messages in Integration Advisor
- Data and Analytics: Next-generation natural language query (NLQ) powered by AI for SAP Analytics Cloud
- Data and Analytics: Support for storage and retrieval of vector embeddings in SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP Identity and Access Management: Identity Authentication service integration with SAP Cloud ALM
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