Create business apps and automations with SAP Build

Develop apps and automations 3x faster using pro-code, low-code, and generative AI tools.
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What is SAP Build?

SAP Build is a unified application development and process automation solution, enabling personalization and efficiency at scale.

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Simplify from the start

Reduce development effort from day one with one platform made for SAP and third-party landscapes.

Deploy in record time

Go from request to result three times faster with AI, prebuilt solutions, and development frameworks optimized for SAP.

Stay in control

Scale confidently with clean core–compliant extensions that adhere to the governance rules of your most trusted applications.

What can you build?

Create Applications and Extensions with AI-powered code-first and low-code tools

Your apps, your way​

- Create apps with low-code and pro-code together

- Use Joule copilot for generative AI assisted code development

- Extend applications with prebuilt solutions and templates

- Get secure integration and authentication immediately 

ABAP

Develop ABAP applications and extensions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP.

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Java and JavaScript

Accelerate app development with an integrated development environment for Java and JavaScript developers.

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Low-code

Create and augment enterprise apps quickly and visually with low-code development tools.

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Customer stories

50% quicker HR processes

Open Grid Europe (OGE) streamlined HR and invoice processes with custom applications developed using SAP Build.

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40% increase in productivity

Lufthansa Technik streamlined operations and increased speed with automated logistics.

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10x faster app development

Thyssenkrupp empowered citizen developers to transform talent acquisition with custom apps.

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Saving 60% on admin tasks

TRUMPF adopted low-code development to build an app that boosts assembly line efficiency.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

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Gartner recognizes SAP as a Visionary in LCAP

Explore the current low-code application development market in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.

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Gartner recognizes SAP as a Challenger in RPA

Discover how the robotic process automation market has evolved in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Robotic Process Automation.

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GigaOm: SAP drives 3x faster app development

See GigaOm’s total cost of ownership research on how SAP Build improves developer productivity vs. custom development.

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Build faster with Joule for developers

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Accelerate app development and automation with AI

With Joule, developers can use integrated AI tools in SAP Build, powered by SAP-optimized models, to significantly improve productivity and efficiency in application development and automation without switching context.

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Extending SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Achieve a competitive advantage by deploying clean core-compliant custom apps, automations, and business sites.

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SAP Build pricing

Find the SAP license options that best align with your business, budget, and project needs.

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Activate SAP Build

Follow our onboarding guide to set up your SAP Build environment and get an overview of its capabilities.

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Prebuilt solutions

You don't have to start from zero. Get started with 500+ prebuilt business processes, automations, and app templates.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Build is a solution that is comprised of:

SAP Build is for developers, IT professionals, and business users/citizen developers who want to create and customize business applications. Offering capabilities across low-code, code-first, and generative AI, SAP Build facilitates a myriad of development possibilities across functional areas of an organization, including human resources, procurement, finance, supply chain, and more.

Pro-code application development allows for greater developer flexibility and customization, tailored to specific business requirements and needs. In addition to low-code, SAP Build currently supports coding languages like Java, JavaScript, and ABAP, and UI5. As for coding frameworks, SAP Build supports UI5, Fiori Elements, mobile, and HANA Cloud toolkit.

 

With the combination of low-code, generative AI, and various coding languages, users can build applications and extensions that address their unique business needs and requirements.

AI capabilities in SAP Build include

  • AI assistance in pro-code tools  that help developers understand existing code better, as well as generate code, unit tests, data models, and sample data.

  • AI assistance in low-code tools  that allows users to automatically generates UI, formulas, and translations.

  • AI assistance in automation tools  that enable users to generate automation workflows, make informed decisions, and get summarized explanations of various artifacts.

  • AI assistance in business portals that help users with navigation, transactions, content management, and decision-making through natural language interactions, as well as step-by-step guidance and instant answers from business documents.

 

All the design-time capabilities for developers in SAP Build are made available through Joule for developers.

SAP Build includes both low-code and pro-code capabilities ranging from drag-and-drop functionalities to advanced, AI-based code generation. This allows both developers and business experts to build and extend applications and automate processes in ways that work best for their requirements, allowing for greater developer flexibility and customization, tailored to specific business requirements and needs.

 

With SAP Build, customers can enjoy the ease of low-code (SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone), along with developer power of pro-code with SAP Build Code and SAP BTP ABAP environment and SAP S/4HANA ABAP Cloud environment. 

SAP Build is included as part of SAP Business Suite. The unified SAP Build offering consolidates key capabilities for application development, automation, and low-code UI generation, with a clear strategic direction toward providing access to low-code and code-first development.

 

To activate your SAP Build entitlements, access the SAP BTP cockpit to confirm the specific entitlements and quantities available. For detailed instructions on the activation process, please share this documentation with your technical team.

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