What is SAP AI Launchpad - and why you need it
Boidra Expert2 min read
If SAP AI Core is the engine that runs your AI workloads, SAP AI Launchpad is the cockpit you steer it from. It is the operations and generative-AI front end for the SAP AI stack.
What SAP AI Launchpad actually is
SAP AI Launchpad is a multitenant SaaS application on SAP BTP that lets customers and partners manage AI use cases (scenarios) across multiple AI runtimes - such as several SAP AI Core instances - from a single place. It also exposes SAP's generative-AI capabilities through the Generative AI Hub.
So one Launchpad can sit in front of many runtimes: dev, test and production AI Core instances, all administered from one UI.
The Generative AI Hub inside Launchpad
This is where most teams spend their time. The Generative AI Hub offers a suite of interfaces:
- Model library - the available general-purpose LLMs and SAP's own enterprise foundation models.
- Chat & prompt editor - experiment with prompts against those models interactively.
- Prompt management & Prompt Registry - the central service for the full prompt lifecycle: version control, revert, A/B testing, reuse across apps, and centralized governance.
- Orchestration - combine grounding, templating, filtering and model calls into one governed pipeline.
- Administration - manage access, deployments and configurations.
Why the Prompt Registry matters
Prompts are production assets, not throwaway strings. The Prompt Registry gives them version history, so you can track changes, roll back, run A/B tests and reuse a vetted prompt across multiple applications - with governance rather than copy-paste.
Why you need it
- You are running AI across more than one environment or team and need a single pane of glass.
- You want non-developers (analysts, ops) to work with generative AI safely, without touching the runtime API.
- You need prompt governance - versioning, reuse and audit - instead of prompts scattered across codebases.
AI Core makes AI run. AI Launchpad makes it manageable - and puts generative AI in reach of people who don't live in code.
Where Boidra fits
We help teams stand up the Generative AI Hub, structure a real prompt lifecycle in the Registry, and wire the agents we build so their prompts and models are governed here - not hard-coded and forgotten.
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