At its flagship event SAP TechEd 2025, global enterprise-software leader SAP SE unveiled a suite of powerful innovations and strategic partnerships aimed at embedding artificial intelligence deeply into the developer workflow. These new capabilities are designed to enable developers to convert business data and AI into tangible enterprise results.
Advancing the Developer Platform
SAP is elevating the developer experience by integrating AI agents, enriched data frameworks and platform services that accelerate transformation from concept to execution. “SAP’s announcements 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 in the driver’s seat where they belong.”
Opening the Developer Ecosystem
With the redesigned flagship application-and-automation solution SAP Build, SAP is offering developers unprecedented flexibility. Professionals familiar with agent-centric development platforms such as Cursor, Claude Code, Cline and Windsurf can now leverage SAP development frameworks via new “Model Context Protocol” servers within SAP Build. A dedicated extension for Visual Studio Code gives full access to Build capabilities directly from the IDE, and an Open VSX-based version is planned for additional environments. In parallel, SAP has announced a collaboration with n8n to integrate Joule Studio agents with existing n8n-based automation workflows. Developers also gain enhanced agent-building features within Joule Studio, empowering them to customise and deploy new agents grounded in SAP-native business data and context, capable of autonomously adapting to evolving business conditions.
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Putting Data to Work
SAP emphasises that every intelligent application must begin with trusted, connected data. Through the enterprise data solution SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), developers now have extended access to the platforms they already use daily. A new SAP Snowflake solution extension brings the capabilities of Snowflake Inc.’s AI Data Cloud directly into the SAP ecosystem, allowing customers to select optimal compute and storage options for each workload while preserving governance, interoperability and business context. The extension is supported by the newly announced “SAP Business Data Cloud Connect” partnership with Snowflake. These enhancements complement SAP’s existing integrations with Databricks Inc. and Google Cloud, giving developers greater freedom around how and where they work with SAP data.
Further enriching the data ecosystem, a new “data-product studio” within SAP BDC enables developers to convert raw data into consumable data products tailored for analytics, AI and application building. Meanwhile, enhancements to the knowledge-graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud allow automatic generation of knowledge graphs that map relationships across tables, columns and data models helping developers visualise how data connects across systems and uncover hidden business insights.
Bringing AI Autonomy to Life
SAP also introduced its first enterprise-relational foundation model named SAP-RPT-1 (Relational Pre-trained Transformer) designed not just to predict the next word, but to forecast business outcomes such as delivery delays, payment risk or sales-order completion. SAP launched a free “playground” environment for developers to explore SAP-RPT-1.
Additionally, new AI assistants in Joule orchestrate multiple agents across workflows, departments and applications enabling automation and autonomy across finance, supply chain, HR and more. Among the initial offerings is an agent specialising in business-process analysis, enabling teams to visualise process flows, identify inefficiencies and unlock optimisation opportunities.
Recognising that AI changes the nature of work for everyone, SAP has committed to equipping 12 million people globally with “AI-ready skills” by 2030, expanding hands-on training and certification programmes including via its partner Coursera Inc..
Looking Ahead
With these announcements, SAP positions its platform to help developers and organisations accelerate digital transformation blending applications, data and AI into an integrated “flywheel”. For enterprises focused on speeding innovation, improving governance and unlocking new business outcomes from trusted data and autonomous agents, SAP now offers a richer set of capabilities to get from idea to impact faster.
