At SAP TechEd 2025, SAP SE unveiled major innovations bringing artificial intelligence (AI) deeper into the development process, redefining how developers build and deliver value. With new AI-driven capabilities in the SAP Build solution, an expanding data ecosystem, and advanced Joule Agents, SAP is empowering developers to move from idea to impact with unprecedented speed and confidence.
As AI continues to transform the nature of professional work, SAP has also pledged to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030. “SAP’s announcements today give developers the tools they need to deliver at the speed of AI,” said Muhammad Alam, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “Innovations across SAP’s unique flywheel of applications, data and AI put developers firmly in the driver’s seat – where they belong.”
Opening the developer ecosystem
SAP Build, the company’s flagship platform for enterprise application development and automation, now provides developers with greater flexibility to build, extend, and automate using their preferred tools and environments.
For example, developers who use agentic development solutions such as Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, and Windsurf can now leverage SAP development frameworks through new SAP Build Local Model Context Protocol Servers.
Visual Studio Code users can access SAP Build capabilities directly within their development environment via a new SAP Build extension — which will also be made available later through the Open VSX Registry for other integrated development environments (IDEs).
SAP and n8n have also announced plans for an integration enabling Joule Studio agents and n8n agents to collaborate seamlessly.
Additionally, new agent-building tools in Joule Studio empower developers to extend SAP’s ready-to-use agents and create new ones grounded in SAP business data and context, capable of acting autonomously in response to changing business conditions.
Putting data to work
Every intelligent application begins with trusted data. SAP is giving developers more ways to harness that data through SAP Business Data Cloud.
The platform now connects with an even broader range of data and AI environments. A new SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud brings Snowflake’s managed data and AI capabilities directly to SAP customers. This allows them to select the most appropriate compute and storage resources for each workload while maintaining governance, interoperability, and business context.
SAP also announced the SAP Business Data Cloud Connect partnership with Snowflake—complementing existing integrations with DataBricks and Google Cloud— giving developers greater freedom in how they work with SAP data.
A new Data Product Studio capability within SAP Business Data Cloud allows developers to transform raw data into ready-to-use data products that support analytics, AI, and application development.
An improved engine for knowledge graphs in SAP HANA Cloud can now automatically generate knowledge graphs that map relationships across SAP database tables, columns, and data models. This reveals how data connects across systems, helping developers uncover hidden business insights and understand how their data fits together — and why it matters.
Bringing AI autonomy to life
SAP is evolving its AI portfolio to give developers the intelligence and orchestration power needed to move AI from insight to action.
The company has introduced its first enterprise relational foundation model — a new class of AI that predicts business outcomes rather than simply generating text. The SAP-RPT-1 (Relational Pre-trained Transformer) model can quickly and accurately predict common business situations like delivery delays, payment risks, or whether sales orders will be completed. A free developer playground for SAP-RPT-1 is available starting today.
New AI assistants within Joule coordinate multiple agents across workflows, departments, and applications, bringing true automation and autonomy to life. These assistants can plan, initiate, and complete complex, multi-departmental tasks spanning finance, supply chain, human resources, and beyond.
Among the latest additions is an agent for business process analysis, which helps teams understand how processes function, identify inefficiencies, and uncover opportunities to optimise workflows and drive measurable improvements.
Empowering the workforce of the future
As AI reshapes how people work, SAP is committed to ensuring that opportunities remain accessible to all. The company has pledged to train 12 million people globally in AI-ready skills by 2030.
Through its partnership with Coursera, SAP will expand its hands-on training and certification programmes — integrating practical AI tools to make AI education more accessible to learners worldwide.