A short field guide to the latest SAP products in the AI area - what each one is, and where it fits. We keep this current as SAP ships.
SAP’s AI stack spans three layers: the assistant your users talk to (Joule), the tools to build agents (Joule Studio), and the platform and governance underneath (AI Core, AI Launchpad, Agent Hub, Agent Gateway). Here’s how they line up.
AI assistant / copilot
SAP’s generative-AI copilot, embedded across S/4HANA Cloud, SuccessFactors, Ariba and Concur. Users work in natural language - transactional, navigational, informational and analytical requests - inside the SAP apps they already use.
Learn more →Agent & skill builder
The first design-time studio for extending Joule - a skill builder and an agent builder (now GA) where developers describe what they need in natural language and get agent definitions, tools and MCP-server integrations. Part of SAP Build.
Learn more →Managed agentic platform
A fully managed, zero-infrastructure evolution unveiled at Sapphire 2026. Intent-based development for business users, a managed runtime (no cluster/storage/model management), and embedded orchestration via partners like n8n for multi-agent systems.
Learn more →Agent governance
A vendor-agnostic command center (part of SAP LeanIX) for discovering and governing AI agents, LLMs and MCP servers across the landscape. Auto-discovers agents from SAP, Microsoft, Google, AWS and others into a searchable, governed registry - the system of record before you have 100 agents.
Learn more →A2A interoperability
A publicly accessible gateway that lets external systems consume Joule Agents over Agent-to-Agent (A2A) patterns - so platforms like Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Copilot Studio and AWS Bedrock can delegate SAP-specific tasks to Joule. Announced at TechEd 2025; rolling out toward full bidirectional A2A.
AI Foundation · runtime
The managed, hyperscaler-agnostic execution engine on SAP BTP for running ML and generative-AI workloads. Handles full lifecycle of AI scenarios and exposes generative models through the Generative AI Hub. The heart of SAP AI Foundation.
Learn more →AI Foundation · control plane
The operational control plane for AI workloads deployed on AI Core - a single view over models, scenarios and runtime instances, keeping them traceable, measurable and compliant. AI Core and AI Launchpad are the two layers of the same enterprise AI foundation.
