Create HCM skills for Joule with the SAP Build solution
Read how SAP Business Technology Platform can help your organization on its AI journey by extending the Joule copilot with new capabilities, called skills, to augment your HCM solutions. Download the DocumentCreate HCM
skills and agents
for Joule with
SAP Build
Many organizations are considering
adopting AI as part of their human
capital management (HCM) solutions
and processes. As they do so, they are
realizing that preconfigured AI agents,
such as the Joule copilot, have the
potential to support more business
needs and employee-facing processes.
Solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP) can help your organization on its AI
journey by extending Joule with new capabilities.
Joule has been pretrained and integrated with
various solutions from SAP SuccessFactors HCM
and their related use cases, but there’s always
room for more functionality, especially if you have
unique or industry-specific business needs. These
business needs require Joule, or any other AI
assistant, to be told what to do, what data means,
and how to help users make informed decisions
in complex scenarios. All of this can be done with
the SAP Build solution, part of SAP BTP.
The SAP Joule for Developers
add-on lets you create
applications nimbly, including
by embedding AI where
you build.
skills and agents
for Joule with
SAP Build
Many organizations are considering
adopting AI as part of their human
capital management (HCM) solutions
and processes. As they do so, they are
realizing that preconfigured AI agents,
such as the Joule copilot, have the
potential to support more business
needs and employee-facing processes.
Solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP) can help your organization on its AI
journey by extending Joule with new capabilities.
Joule has been pretrained and integrated with
various solutions from SAP SuccessFactors HCM
and their related use cases, but there’s always
room for more functionality, especially if you have
unique or industry-specific business needs. These
business needs require Joule, or any other AI
assistant, to be told what to do, what data means,
and how to help users make informed decisions
in complex scenarios. All of this can be done with
the SAP Build solution, part of SAP BTP.
The SAP Joule for Developers
add-on lets you create
applications nimbly, including
by embedding AI where
you build.
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Extend Joule with
Joule Studio in SAP Build
Your developers can start with SAP Build, our
application development offering, and use
Joule Studio to design agents and skills that
orchestrate workflows across SAP and third-party
software systems, improving efficiency.
While creating an AI agent, you can:
• Specialize your agent in a business area using
instructions and expertise, empowering the agent
with its business context, role, and responsibilities
• Equip your agent with the planning and
reasoning capabilities needed for dynamic,
complex business scenarios using an advanced
language model
• Select from preconfigured tools to enable
agents to interact with their environment and
ground agents with the right business context
by assigning documents as a tool, supporting
accurate outcomes
• Leverage existing actions in SAP Build to connect
with SAP and third-party software and models
In designing a skill in Joule, you can:
• Configure the predefined execution flow
for skills by defining inputs and outputs
• Intuitively browse and embed existing
automations in SAP Build within a skill to
orchestrate a smooth end-user experience
• Intuitively browse and select existing actions
in SAP Build as tools to connect the agent to
SAP and third-party software
• Drive a conversational experience by
configuring messages for end users through
Joule using a no-code editor
Help developers create
applications faster
Next, developers can start creating an application
using SAP Joule for Developers, part of SAP Build.
Using SAP Joule for Developers, you can:
• Leverage a large language model in the ABAP
programming language that is trained on
enterprise-grade code
• Generate data models, application logic,
and unit tests with precision
• Migrate custom code in ABAP faster with
documentation chat, code explanations,
and issue diagnostics
You can optimize for Java, JavaScript,
and low-code development by:
• Quickly building full-stack applications—
including data models, unit tests, and user
interfaces—following SAP software frameworks
• Refactoring, explaining, and searching code
in context
• Generating forms, decisions, and scripts with AI
You can also embed AI where you build by:
• Accessing AI capabilities in SAP Build using
Joule’s chat functionality and in-context actions
• Generating, testing, and optimizing applications
with dedicated commands
• Following guided instructions for artifact
generation and automation tasks
Learn more
For more information about how SAP BTP can
help extend HCM processes, please visit us online
or reach out to your SAP representative.
99978enUS (25/11) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.
See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to this material.
Extend Joule with
Joule Studio in SAP Build
Your developers can start with SAP Build, our
application development offering, and use
Joule Studio to design agents and skills that
orchestrate workflows across SAP and third-party
software systems, improving efficiency.
While creating an AI agent, you can:
• Specialize your agent in a business area using
instructions and expertise, empowering the agent
with its business context, role, and responsibilities
• Equip your agent with the planning and
reasoning capabilities needed for dynamic,
complex business scenarios using an advanced
language model
• Select from preconfigured tools to enable
agents to interact with their environment and
ground agents with the right business context
by assigning documents as a tool, supporting
accurate outcomes
• Leverage existing actions in SAP Build to connect
with SAP and third-party software and models
In designing a skill in Joule, you can:
• Configure the predefined execution flow
for skills by defining inputs and outputs
• Intuitively browse and embed existing
automations in SAP Build within a skill to
orchestrate a smooth end-user experience
• Intuitively browse and select existing actions
in SAP Build as tools to connect the agent to
SAP and third-party software
• Drive a conversational experience by
configuring messages for end users through
Joule using a no-code editor
Help developers create
applications faster
Next, developers can start creating an application
using SAP Joule for Developers, part of SAP Build.
Using SAP Joule for Developers, you can:
• Leverage a large language model in the ABAP
programming language that is trained on
enterprise-grade code
• Generate data models, application logic,
and unit tests with precision
• Migrate custom code in ABAP faster with
documentation chat, code explanations,
and issue diagnostics
You can optimize for Java, JavaScript,
and low-code development by:
• Quickly building full-stack applications—
including data models, unit tests, and user
interfaces—following SAP software frameworks
• Refactoring, explaining, and searching code
in context
• Generating forms, decisions, and scripts with AI
You can also embed AI where you build by:
• Accessing AI capabilities in SAP Build using
Joule’s chat functionality and in-context actions
• Generating, testing, and optimizing applications
with dedicated commands
• Following guided instructions for artifact
generation and automation tasks
Learn more
For more information about how SAP BTP can
help extend HCM processes, please visit us online
or reach out to your SAP representative.