At last week’s 2023 SAP TechEd event in Bangalore, India, SAP announced a series of generative AI (GenAI) capabilities and advancements aimed at empowering developers of all skill levels to, it said, “supercharge their businesses in the age of AI.”
Key among them was the launch of SAP Build Code, which it said streamlines cooperation with business experts who use the low-code SAP Build solutions launched at the event in 2022.
Built for SAP applications and the SAP ecosystem, SAP Build Code solutions offer AI-powered productivity tools for developers and are optimized for Java and JavaScript development. SAP Build Code also draws on the power of SAP’s new generative AI copilot, Joule, to further boost productivity, embedding code generation capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation, SAP said in a release.
Good data is the foundation of good AI, the company said, and thus SAP HANA Cloud has added new vector database features to its multimodel offerings at no additional cost. Vector data stores manage unstructured data – such as text, images or audio – to provide long-term memory and better context to AI models.
SAP also announced AI Foundation, which it described as a “new one-stop-shop for developers to create AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on the SAP business technology platform (BTP) which includes everything developers need to start creating business-ready AI tools on SAP BTP – from ready-to-use AI services and access to the top large language models to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.”
