I’m excited to return to SAP Sapphire for the first time in several years. As always, Sapphire is about showcasing SAP’s latest innovations. There will be lots to see across the full portfolio, especially all the new AI uses cases that help you make better, more informed business decisions. In this blog post, I will focus on the sessions that highlight user experience and application development, both of which contain varying levels of AI, as SAP is infusing artificial intelligence into most of our solutions.
To deliver a great user experience in SAP /4HANA, we focus on developing simple, intuitive applications using our own tools. We also make these technologies available to customers and partners. We have been making updates across our portfolio of tools and technologies for professional developers:
- SAPUI5 – added Joule as a helper to write freestyle SAPUI5 applications or custom pages
- SAP Fiori elements – unlocks efficiency and simplicity for creating apps
- SAP Fiori tools – introduces generative AI capabilities
- SAP Business Application Studio – includes many new features to make development easier
AI improves the user experience
At Sapphire, we will be showing some easier ways to find information in your apps, summarize it, and share it with your peers. Please visit the demo stations and expert stations to see the latest released functionality, along with some cool prototypes available to early adopters.
Natural language filtering in SAP Fiori elements apps is one of the AI innovations we will preview at SAP Sapphire 2024.
AI improves developer productivity
For developers, some tasks require great creativity and technical skill to build an app that meets all the user requirements and ideally is fun to use. Artificial intelligence can perform some of the mundane tasks, freeing developers to focus on understanding the user requirements, creating the business logic, and determining how to deliver an engaging experience. We have new AI capabilities in SAP Build Code and SAP Fiori tools, including the ability to create an app directly from a business requirements document. One of our co-innovation partners told us this would save them several days at the start of every project. You can hear more about this and more in the sessions I have listed below.
Key UX and application development sessions at SAP Sapphire 2024
If you are looking for more topics beyond UX and app dev, you can find them in the session catalog.
Session # Day / Time | Title Abstract | Presenter(s) |
Monday, June 3 8:00am – 5:00pm | Unleashing the Power SAP BTP: Maximizing Your SAP Investment Through Innovation and Transformation Understand how SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) provides tools and solutions to address critical business and technology areas like integration, data and analytics, low-code/no-code customizations, and AI. | Many SAP experts |
Tuesday, June 4 10:30am – 10:50am | Discover generative AI code-based development from SAP Build Code See how AI in SAP Build Code is used to generate app logic, data models, and test scripts. Learn all about SAP Build Code, including how it connects smoothly to enterprise systems | Steve Day, SAP Dimitri Lerner, Henkel |
Tuesday, June 4 11:00am – 11:20am | AI-augmented development and its impact on your IT organization AI-augmented development aids software engineers in designing, coding, and testing applications. With rising business demands, teams face backlogs and the need for efficiency. | Yaad Oren, SAP |
Tuesday, June 4 11:30am – 11:50am | Achieve real-world results with SAP Business AI solutions Join SAP leaders to uncover how AI delivers real-world results across your business functions reliably and responsibly. Get an update on SAP's AI strategy and learn how companies that have embraced AI. | Philipp Herzig, SAP |
Tuesday, June 4 11:30am – 11:50am | The new ERP mindset As changing market dynamics put pressure on traditional businesses, business model innovation becomes imperative. More than ever, businesses need ERP to enable innovation, which involves a change in mindset as much as technology. | Maura Hameroff, SAP Eric van Rossum, SAP |
Tuesday, June 4 1:00pm – 1:40pm | The latest in low-code SAP Build solutions Learn what's new in SAP Build for use in low-code development, including deeper integrations, an improved user experience, and comprehensive AI and generative AI support. | Aviad Rivlin, SAP |
Tuesday, June 4 2:00pm – 2:20pm | Five key low-code techniques for building effective enterprise apps Find out how to create and deploy enterprise-grade applications with stunning user interfaces, custom data models, and complex business logic – all within IT governance and operational guardrails | Eric Solberg, SAP Mark Wright, SAP |
Tuesday, June 4 3:30pm – 3:50pm | Unleashing the power of generative AI for developers with SAP Build Understand the paradigm shift generative AI brings to developers and its impact on their productivity and pace of delivery. Learn how they can leverage SAP Build solutions. | Tim Back, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 10:30am – 11:10am | Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori Hear about best practices for using SAPUI5, SAP Fiori elements, SAP Fiori tools, and SAP Business Application Studio to create enterprise-grade apps for your business users. Find out about practical ways to build and deploy apps quickly, leveraging AI. Come prepared to learn and ask your questions. | Peter Spielvogel, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 11:00am – 11:20am | See Joule in action and empower your business Discover how Joule, the AI copilot from SAP, helps your business get smarter insights and better outcomes, and assists your people in getting their work done faster. | Jana Richter, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 11:00am – 11:40am | Application development with SAP Build and SAP Build Code: roadmap review Find out what's new and what's coming in SAP Build and SAP Build Code solutions for use in fusion development and how they integrate further. Discover upcoming capabilities that improve a builder's efficiency and innovation potential using generative AI across the portfolio. | Nicolas Damonte, SAP Thomas Volmering, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 1:00pm – 1:40pm | Customer roundtable: migration to SAP S/4HANA and adoption of SAP BTP Using design thinking principles, walk through SAP S/4HANA migration scenarios, explore clean core methodologies, and learn how to maximize SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to avoid latency. Interact with your peers to discuss lessons learned and best practices for migration. | Peter Keller, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 2:00pm – 2:20pm | Generative AI-based code development from SAP Build Code The SAP Build Code solution, with generative AI–based code development tools and a Joule copilot, optimized for Java and JavaScript application development, provides a turnkey environment for coding, testing, integrations, and application lifecycle management. | Steve Day, SAP Sid Misra, SAP |
Wednesday, June 5 2:30pm – 2:50pm | Application extensibility with SAP Build solutions Learn how to speed up your innovation potential by leveraging the power of low-code and pro-code. See how you can extend processes and applications with SAP Build solutions. | Nicolas Damonte, SAP Thomas Volmering, SAP |
See you at Sapphire! If you want to connect and talk about how to improve the UX at your organization, please reach out to me and we can schedule a meeting.
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