SAP Build

The simplest, fastest and most trusted way to extend your business applications.

What is SAP Build?

SAP Build helps teams create and extend business applications and automations in their preferred tools. Governance, roles, and clean-core alignment are built in from the start and grounded in business context and processes.

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Simplify from the start

Reduce development effort on a single, unified solution  that combines the flexibility of drag-and-drop tools, traditional coding, and AI assistance.

Deploy in record time

Go from request to result three times faster with AI, pre-built solutions, and development frameworks optimised for SAP.

Scale with confidence

Stay in control with upgrade-safe extensions that adhere to the governance rules of your most trusted applications.

What can you build?

SAP Build application development works combines AI coding, low-code and pro-code in one solution.

Joule for developers

Use natural language to create applications that are anchored in your business context. 

Open ecosystem

Work in your preferred environment, including Visual Studio Code and popular app development tools.

Custom code migration

Use AI to accelerate the migration of ABAP custom code to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 

Java and JavaScript

Generative AI-based code development for Java and JavaScript applications on the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP).

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ABAP

Develop cloud ready business applications and services, powered by Joule for developers, ABAP AI capabilities, on both SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA.

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Bringing agentic AI to every enterprise

Join us for a 2026 webinar series showing how SAP Build, Joule Studio, and Integration Suite help organizations rapidly build, scale, and govern AI agents, apps, and automations - connecting technical capabilities to real business outcomes.

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Customer stories

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40% more transaction volume

Lufthansa Technik streamlined the material logistics process for defective parts with process automation.

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10x faster app development

Thyssenkrupp empowered citizen developers to transform talent acquisition by creating custom apps with low-code tools in SAP Build.

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20% reduction in operating costs

SK Inc. C&C accelerated its SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration by building custom extensions following a clean core approach.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP Build

Gartner recognises SAP as a Visionary in LCAP

Explore the current low-code application development market in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.

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Gartner recognises SAP as a Challenger in RPA

Discover how the robotic process automation market has evolved in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Robotic Process Automation.

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IDC names SAP as a Leader in automation platforms

See why SAP is recognised as a leader in the first-ever IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment.

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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-optimised models, to significantly improve productivity and efficiency in application development and automation without switching context.

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Resources

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Process automation in the age of agentic AI

Explore use case categories and discover real-world examples from our customers of traditional and agentic process automation.

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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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Agentic development meets an open ecosystem

SAP Build now supports Visual Studio Code, connects to MCP servers, and works with popular agentic development tools. Get all the latest TechEd release news.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Build is a solution that allows users to:

SAP Build is for developers, IT professionals, and business users who want to create and customise 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 organisation, including human resources, procurement, finance, supply chain, and more.

SAP Build supports a flexible, full-stack development approach by providing two programming models:

  • ABAP Cloud: For developing applications and extensions using the ABAP programming language, tightly integrated with the SAP ecosystem.

  • SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP): For development using Java (with Spring Boot) or JavaScript/TypeScript (with Node.js).

This flexibility extends across the full stack, with robust support for:

  • UI frameworks: Seamlessly integrate with popular UI frameworks, including SAPUI5, SAP Fiori elements, and SAP Web Components.

  • Databases: Connect to a variety of databases, such SQLite Service, PostgreSQL, and SAP HANA Cloud.

 

By combining these professional development tools with powerful low-code and generative AI capabilities, SAP Build provides a complete platform for users to create enterprise-grade applications and extensions that solve their unique business challenges.

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 customisation, tailored to specific business requirements and needs.

 

With SAP Build, customers can enjoy the ease of low-code, 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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