Engineering notes on AI in the SAP ecosystem - Joule, agents, observability and more.
What does an SAP AI agent really cost? Explore SAP AI Core Cost Calculator 2.0, understand Capacity Units, and compare model consumption. A worked example shows how orchestration and prompt optimization can outweigh foundation-model costs and why budgeting for the complete workflow matters.
What observability means for AI agents in SAP - explained through a simple invoice-approval agent, with a telemetry table any finance or engineering lead can read.
You cannot test what you cannot see. AI telemetry - a span for every agent step - turns non-deterministic systems into something you can measure, regression-test and trust.
Joule Studio went from low-code skill building (2024) to autonomous agent building (2025) to intent-based development in Joule Studio 2.0 (2026). Here is the progression and what it means for you.
Joule is SAP’s AI copilot - natively embedded in SAP apps and grounded in business data. In 2025–2026 it grew from a single assistant into an orchestrated network of specialized agents.
If SAP AI Core is the engine, SAP AI Launchpad is the cockpit - one place to manage AI scenarios across runtimes and work with generative AI through the Generative AI Hub.
SAP AI Core is the execution engine at the heart of SAP AI Foundation - where models are deployed, scaled and run. Here is what it does and when it matters.
Most foundation models generate text. SAP-RPT-1 is different: it predicts missing values in tables. Mark a cell with [PREDICT] and it fills it in. Here is how to call it over REST, with row-based and column-based payloads and the current limits.
If your business logic lives in ABAP, you do not have to leave the stack to call an LLM. The ABAP AI SDK invokes models deployed in SAP AI Core straight from ABAP, using ISLM as the connective tissue. Here is the full path with a working example.
Before you can send a single prompt to an LLM on SAP BTP, the model has to be deployed in SAP AI Core. Here is the full AI Launchpad flow, from selecting the model to copying its ready-to-use deployment URL.
SAP Joule can talk to agents you build in any framework, over the open A2A protocol. This is the Bring Your Own Agent flow end to end (agent card, BTP destination, Joule dialog function), using our AIF Interface Monitoring agent as the example.
