SAP adds more tools for developers on its platform

On the pro-code front, Andreas Welsch, VP and head of AI marketing, said in an interview that SAP is leveraging its partnership with Nvidia to fine tune an LLM model on ABAP code. “Products like S/4HANA for ERP are coded in in ABAP, our proprietary programming language,” he said. “And by fine tuning that that model, we are able to help developers not only generate code, but do code completion, explanations, write unit tests, and we’re planning on integrating this in our Build Code portfolio for professional developers.”

Thanks to that effort, software developers will soon be able to use generative AI to create code in ABAP. Several features are planned; first up is the ability for software developers to create ABAP business objects using generative AI in SAP. It is scheduled for general availability in the second half of this year. Early next year, SAP plans to release Joule capabilities for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and the SAP BTP ABAP Environment.

SAP Analytics Cloud

In the second half of this year, SAP Analytics Cloud will natively integrate with Microsoft PowerPoint via an upcoming add-in. It will, SAP said, “intuitively connect to an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant and find user-created content in the solution.” That content will include stories in which users communicate business information through a combination of business data and visuals, and widgets, the visual elements such as charts and tables used to tell stories.