SAP-Solution: ABAP

SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise offers a wide range of opportunities, from Agentic AI to Composable ERP. All the necessary IT tools for this are available in SAP’s portfolio. Ultimately, however, the question of affordability—based on licenses, maintenance, and Digital Access—remains.

Tabular foundation models seem tailor-made for SAP’s ABAP world. In an ERP system where everything is based on tables, an LLM (Large Language Model) has no place. With TabPFN (Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network), the startup Prior Labs can save SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise.

In the new Abap Cloud world, unlimited direct access to database tables, the local file system or the kernel of the application server is strictly prohibited. For existing SAP customers, this development doctrine results in a painful and expensive refactoring process.

Under the strict dictates of the SAP Clean Core strategy, the future of Abap is defined by cloud compliance, AI, strict governance and absolute upgrade stability. Users are forced to rethink their historically grown and individualized ERP architectures.

ERP is becoming a platform economy: the goal could be a composable ERP, but first „SAP Clean Core“ must be orchestrated. The ERP legacy must be disposed of and new Abap and AI applications must be implemented on SAP BTP and the data chaos must be countered with the help of SAP BDC/Databricks. And the entire IT industry is moving in the direction of a platform economy,...

SAP technologies such as Datasphere, Abap Cloud, Analytics Cloud and S/4 Hana Cloud for Group Reporting sound very promising on paper. However, it is with good reason that companies are hesitant to move to the cloud.

The two classic SAP operating tasks in the context of SAP on RISE—infrastructure management and SAP Basis administration—are known to be clearly regulated. Does this mean that customers no longer need their SAP Basis administrators? The answer is no.

AI research is currently undergoing rapid development, especially in the field of generative AI. Of course, this also has an impact on the world of SAP, and the Walldorf-based IT giant is constantly unveiling new services and features in this area.

Platforms are the new normal in IT architectures. SAP BTP is a broad-based, heterogeneous solution. Boomi and SAP partner Databricks specialize in data communication.

The role of SAP developers with regard to the security of software systems is similar to that of other software programmers. However, it differs in terms of the skills required and the potential impact.

SAP in the cloud is not an ERP that is merely slightly different. Previously valid programming paradigms have to be rethought in many ways and often from scratch. There are also new requirements when it comes to interfaces and integration, which sometimes require completely new solutions.

New offering provides industry-leading application security testing for SAP BTP development.