SAP Developer News, May 2nd, 2024

Nora: Hi there, I am super excited to share the numbers of the April Developer Challenge with you. The challenge was on SAP Build apps, and participants learned about OData calls and filtering, a new way to look at formulas, and how to add theming to your app. In the end, participants created like a four-square app that got their location and showed them places to go nearby them. We had 77 people submit at least one entry, 66 people get at least one entry correct, and 15 people completing all five challenges successfully.

And with that, I want to introduce the topic of this month’s challenge, which is SAP AI services. So for the next five weeks, we will learn all about document information extraction and data attribute recommendation and build a use case around one of my favorite things besides AI, which is food. So check out the blog post, only challenge in the SAP community. Taking part is as easy as posting a screenshot of your solution as a reply in the discussion.

I would also like to use this opportunity to tell you about a really cool new blog post from my colleague Drupal that gives you a great step-by-step guide of how to implement a retrieval augmented generation use case using Genitive AI Hub on SAP AI Core and the new HANA Vector Engine. And if you’re curious how you can implement the same thing using the Langchain package and the extension for SAP HANA and the new Vector Engine, then make sure to also check out my TechByte. So check out the tutorial, check out the TechByte and make sure to register for the May Developer Challenge, because the month of May is going to be the month of AI.

Thomas: We have exciting news for CAP developers that want to delve into the world of generative AI. There’s a new CAP plugin for AI large language models that allows you to easily use your existing CAP and JavaScript development skills, but use those a tap into the power of SAP Business AI, AI Launchpad, and the HANA Vector Engine. So if you’re looking to get started with those technologies and you’re a CAP developer, strongly suggest you check out this new plugin. Also coming up in a couple of weeks, we’ll have a live stream from the developer advocates that will show some of these capabilities of combining CAP with generative AI. So be on the lookout for that. And finally, if you’re wanting to get started with AI on SAP BTP, there’s a new starter kit for generative AI. It’s a Terraform provide that will help you set up your account and all of the necessary enablements and configuration so that you can quickly get started with AI. So check all the links out in the show notes below.

DJ: The April 2024 edition of SAP BTP InnoBytes is out now with a fresh design too and as usual some lovely byte size items on SAP BTP. Keren Rotenberg tells us all about the new costs and usage overview in the cockpit. We can hear about SAP build Code and Joule from one of the team members, Rupa Maity. We can learn about the AI units estimator from Holger Neuert and Anett Richel tells us all about the new SAP BTP enterprise agreement commercial model. Links to the video and blog post versions of this month’s InnoBytes are in the description.

Daniel: SAP Build Actions is a way to wrap APIs to make them easily consumable for your citizen developers using SAP Build Process Automation and soon SAP Build apps. To create actions, you select for a variety of data sources like cap and wrap services you’ve deployed or BTP destinations or even specs that you can upload. Last week, it was announced that a very important new data source available for creating actions and that’s API Business Hub Enterprise. API Business Hub Enterprise is a part of SAP Integration Suite and lets companies manage and publish their APIs, SAP APIs and non-SAP APIs to their developers. So now you can go into the SAP Build Lobby and create a new action and you will see API Business Hub Enterprise under SAP Integration Suite, along with SAP Graph and Integration Flows. For all of the details on how to use it, see the description for a link.

Shilpa: Hello everyone. You already know about SAP Build, a tool set for creating low code, low code extension on SAP PTP. You might also know about key user extensibility tools, which are the Fiori apps to adapt SAP applications or create custom application or objects. For example, create custom CDS views or custom business objects. SAP Build includes SAP Build apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Workshop. Have you wondered why there are two different toolset and when to use what and how to make best use of both? Key user tools are used for local extension, say, if you want to adapt a Fiori UI and validations for a field or add a custom field or table. But if you want to create a new UI or a new process, it makes sense to create this extension in Central Hub on SAP BTP, where SAP Build comes in handy. Check out the blog post from Thomas Schneider, where he explains both the scenarios with examples and why it makes sense to combine both the capabilities to create powerful extensions without any lines of code. The blog post also has links to the related tutorials, which is worth to have a look. Link to the blog post is in the description below.