As SAP Business AI becomes part of transformation conversations, Enterprise Architects need a clear view of the tools that help their organizations explore possibilities, understand architectural prerequisites, and evaluate where AI can create tangible business value. SAP provides a rich ecosystem of accelerators, ranging from discovery catalogs to reference architectures and governance platforms, that help EAs direct discussions, frame options, and guide teams in the correct direction. While EAs are not expected to execute missions or configure features, they are responsible for distinguishing how SAP tools shape AI-driven solution design and for ensuring they adequately support the architecture and governance lifecycle. These tools help structure early AI discovery, enabling organizations to evaluate opportunities systematically and in an architecture-driven way.
Availability of these tools may vary depending on customer contracts, entitlements, and system access; some resources are publicly accessible, while others require specific subscriptions or licensed SAP services.
SAP Discovery Center & AI Feature Catalog
Discovering the SAP Business AI Feature Catalog and SAP Business AI Feature Estimator
SAP Discovery Center – Hands-On Guidance for Customer Exploration (EA ≠ hands-on)
The SAP Discovery Center serves as an entry point for organizations exploring SAP Business AI and SAP BTP’s AI services. It offers guided missions, activation steps, and exploration paths that help teams experiment safely and consistently. For Enterprise Architects, the Discovery Center is less about executing missions and more about understanding where organizations can begin exploration. EAs use the Discovery Center to frame exploration, not to perform hands-on activities, but to provide advisory guidance to assist teams in testing ideas, activating Joule, or utilizing specific AI services in a controlled, low-risk environment.
EA Focus:
EAs understand mission flows and use them to guide early exploration, without needing to maintain hands-on execution.
Fun Fact: Link = sap.com/disco
SAP Business AI Feature Catalog (embedded in Discovery Center)
Embedded within the Discovery Center, the SAP Business AI Feature Catalog provides a curated view of SAP Business AI features & agents across products, processes, and release stages. For EAs, this catalog transforms early discovery from a vague conversation into a structured dialogue. It enables architects to search for features by Business Process and Product Category, compare value and metrics, and review descriptions, setup guidance, and release status. The catalog also includes a built-in cost estimator to support early commercial discussions. During AI Discovery Workshops, the catalog serves as a reliable compass to help EAs map business needs to SAP-delivered AI features, ensuring conversations remain focused on the delivery capabilities of SAP.
EA Focus:
Use the catalog to identify relevant AI features, understand their value narrative through Value 3-Pager content, and guide structured discovery discussions.
SAP Discovery Center - SAP Business AI Catalog
SAP Architecture Center – Reference Architectures for Scalable AI Deployment
The SAP Architecture Center consolidates SAP’s latest reference architectures and design guidance for SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, identity, security, networking, extensions, and SAP Clean Core. For Enterprise Architects, this is a foundational resource. It provides proven architectural patterns, design considerations, and reusable templates that support enterprise design sessions and scalable AI adoption. Whether defining identity flows for Joule, outlining data-access patterns for AI agents, or validating Clean Core alignment, the Architecture Center helps ensure EA discussions are informed by SAP-endorsed best practices and reference architectures, while still allowing adaptation to organization-specific contexts.
EA Focus:
Use these assets to anchor architectural discussions, validate prerequisites, and ensure alignment with SAP best practices.
SAP LeanIX AI Agent Hub – Governance & Transparency for Agents (and Future Features)
Managing AI Agents using AI Agent Hub
As organizations implement AI Agents across SAP and third-party landscapes, maintaining transparency and control becomes critical. The AI Agent Hub in SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management provides Enterprise Architects with a central place to discover, manage, and govern AI agents across the business. The SAP LeanIX AI Agent Hub inventories available agents and maps them to applications, business capabilities, and process steps, helping EAs determine automation gaps, dependencies, risks, and lifecycle issues. Through integration with SAP Signavio, architects can also distinguish the processes AI Agents support and where new agents may drive additional value. With planned roadmap support for AI features, the AI Agent Hub increasingly becomes the EA’s visibility and governance layer for agentic AI, ensuring that agent deployments remain consistent, compliant, and strategically guided over time.
EA Focus:
Use Agent Hub to bring visibility and structure into AI/agent deployments — not to configure agents themselves.
SAP BTP-AI Best Practices
The SAP BTP AI Best Practices library translates AI possibilities into actionable architectural guidance by providing a curated collection of proven patterns and implementation guidelines for building robust, scalable AI solutions on SAP BTP. It offers two complementary perspectives: a Functional View, which includes a catalog of functional AI patterns, such as summarization, anomaly detection, and classification, with each supported by examples, descriptions, and thought-starter questions to spark new use-case ideas; and a Technical View, which organizes best practices by AI domains like generative AI and classical machine learning, showing the underlying technology and how it can be applied to real business challenges. The library also provides a direct link from functional AI capabilities to implementation guidance, helping teams move from an approach of "what AI can do" to a focus on "how to make it real." For Enterprise Architects, this resource clarifies what is technically feasible on SAP BTP and where deeper implementation guidance exists for engineering teams, making it an essential reference for aligning enterprise readiness, architecture, and data landscape with the appropriate AI patterns.
EA Focus:
Utilize BTP AI Best Practices to define what is possible on BTP, inspire use-case discovery, and guide your organization toward the appropriate technical implementation patterns — without delving into engineering details.
Lesson Summary
SAP’s accelerators and architectural tools support Enterprise Architects in guiding early discovery, shaping solution direction, and enabling scalable AI and agent adoption. By understanding how to apply resources such as the SAP Discovery Center, AI Feature Catalog, Architecture Center, SAP LeanIX AI Agent Hub, and SAP BTP AI Best Practices, you can structure AI strategy discussions, validate architectural prerequisites, and align solution design with SAP-recommended patterns. You are now equipped to use SAP’s enablement ecosystem to support informed, well-governed AI solution design.