Demonstrating Joule in Action

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to showcase how Joule improves productivity and decision-making through real-world use cases.

Demonstrating Joule in Action

You have explored what Joule is and why it matters – let’s see it in action.

This lesson introduces how Joule integrates seamlessly into daily business workflows, enabling users to interact with SAP systems through natural language. Whether answering questions, navigating applications, completing transactions, or generating insights, Joule delivers real-time support that boosts productivity and decision-making across roles and processes.

Joule in Motion

Joule isn’t just embedded into SAP’s tools; it’s integrated into the way work gets done. Whether you're drafting an email, analyzing supply chain delays, or preparing for a client meeting, Joule meets users in the moment—with context, intelligence, and speed.

There are various ways you can interact with Joule, and how Joule can assist you.

  1. Informational, also known as Conversational Search: Do you have a question about company policy like travel expenses, or need to find details in a document? Joule can search both the SAP Help Portal and company-specific documents uploaded through the Document Grounding feature. It summarizes the findings and includes links to its sources. This is useful for finding quick answers without extensive searching.
  2. Navigational: If you know you need to go to a specific report or an application, but don't want to click through multiple menus, just tell Joule! It will take you directly to the right page or app, saving you time.
  3. Transactional: This is where Joule helps you get things done. You can ask it to create a new purchase requisition, approve a workflow, or update employee data. It helps you finish business tasks.
  4. Analytical Insights: For those of you working with data, Joule can tap into SAP Analytics Cloud to answer questions about your business data, presenting them as easy-to-understand charts and metrics. For example, you can ask "Show me sales by region for Q2 2025".
  5. Be creative: For example, you could ask Joule to come up with talking points for a meeting.

This lesson highlights real scenarios from across the business that demonstrate how Joule empowers business users, consultants and developers to:

  • Complete tasks faster
  • Make smarter decisions
  • Stay in the flow of work—without switching apps or losing momentum

Joule for Business

Joule for Business:

Currently, Joule provides support for more than 1,800 skills covering approximately 80% of commonly used transactions in a wide range of business tasks across Finance, HR, Supply Chain – out of box.

This video demonstrates the SAP Copilot Joule in Action.

Joule in SAP SuccessFactors offers an intuitive user experience where AI capabilities are powered by generative AI, allowing for quicker task completion. Users save significant time and manual effort in administrating team members, aggregating relevant information from various sources and triggering requests with a broad range of HR processes.

This video demonstrates how to boost your efficiency with Joule and AI in SuccessFactors.

Joule for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public and Private Edition empowers users to execute their everyday tasks more efficiently and express their business requirements in natural language in SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Users can quickly navigate applications, gain fast insights into critical business data, receive help based on SAP Help Documentation and run E2E business scenarios.

Joule is now integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, providing AI-powered productivity and natural language processing for business tasks.

Joule for SAP Digital Supply Chain allows users to search for information based on SAP Help Documentation and leverage transactional capabilities across various business objects.

Joule for SAP Ariba enables conversational AI across SAP Ariba applications, helping users complete tasks faster through natural language. In Q1 2025, Joule supports transactional and informational skills across Guided Sourcing, Guided Buying, and Supplier Management (SLP).

This video shows sourcing events in Joule for Ariba.

Joule in SAP Sales Cloud provides sales representatives with much faster access to information from Sales Cloud, as well as insights and analytical metrics from SAP S/4HANA. The solution empowers sales users to save significant time and manual effort by searching through appointments, fetching leads, and retrieving account information from SAP S/4HANA.

This video shows intelligent selling with Joule and Joule Agents.

Joule in SAP Signavio provides users with intuitive pathways to access important information and perform transactional and navigational tasks by leveraging natural language queries. Users reduce the amount of time required to locate relevant process assets or information, navigate between screens, and complete tasks. It accelerates issue resolution, improving productivity and enabling a stronger focus on value-added activities.

Learn how Joule streamlines access to SAP Signavio, enabling users to find information and complete tasks quickly with natural language queries.

Joule in SAP Concur enables employees to see the status of their expense reports, create new reports, complete, and submit existing reports, and search for SAP Help Documentation for Concur Expense in natural language. Employees can quickly review their expenses and receive help based on SAP Help Documentation from anywhere in SAP Concur and Joule clients of other SAP solutions.

Joule in SAP Fieldglass provides users with the ability to action work items, search and execute reports and get recommendations for templates by leveraging natural language queries. Joule saves users significant time and effort by using conversational AI to recommend job postings and Statement of Work (SOW) templates, accelerating existing workflows and processes.

Joule in SAP Fieldglass streamlines external workforce and services procurement through a conversational interface, aiming to simplify and accelerate each step of the process.

This video shows AI-powered productivity for SAP Fieldglass provided by Joule.

Besides Joule for Business, Joule is also changing the way Developers and Consultants achieve more.​

SAP Joule for Developers

Image outlining that SAP Joule for Developers offers capabilities across four products- SAP Build Code, SAP Build Process Automation, ABAP environment, and SAP Build Apps.

SAP Joule for Developers: Accelerates Your ABAP Cloud Development

Joule can also unlock new levels of productivity for developers through SAP Joule for Developers. It helps you write better code, faster—whether you’re building apps, automating processes, or working with ABAP, Java, or JavaScript. It’s built directly into SAP tools like SAP Build and ABAP development environments.

SAP Joule for Developers understands how SAP development works. It can predict what developers need, give helpful suggestions, and take over routine tasks like creating documentation or test data. This means developers—whether using low-code tools or writing full code—can work faster, be more creative, and build high-quality apps and extensions, like those for SAP S/4HANA.

Main Capabilities:

  • Build Apps: Automatically create code, UIs, and data models in Java, JavaScript, or ABAP.
  • Improve Code: Refactor, test, and explain code with natural-language prompts.
  • Automate Processes: Describe workflows or rules in plain language, and SAP Joule for Developers generates them.

Joule for Developers capabilities in SAP Build Code can help generate a data model.

Joule for Developers is powered by LLMs that are specially trained for SAP, including one tailored for ABAP. This means it understands SAP-specific code, helping developers get accurate suggestions, code snippets, and explanations quickly. It also supports real-time coding help, smart code completion, and automation pipeline setup—based on your specific project and environment.

Capabilities include:

  • Suggest next lines of code based on what you’re working on
  • Explain SAP code elements like CDS views or modules
  • Assist with documentation and best practices
  • Help design workflows using APIs and connected systems

It is built to support end-to-end application development and automation across both low-code and pro-code environments.

With SAP Joule for Developers, developers don’t need to jump between different tools. Its AI capabilities are now fully built into the SAP development environment—whether you're working with ABAP, SAP Fiori, or SAP Build. Everything happens in one place, so you can stay focused and work more efficiently.

Key Benefits:

  • Smart help while building SAP Fiori apps or using SAPUI5
  • Integrated directly in tools like SAP Business Application Studio and Eclipse for ABAP
  • Automate processes and decisions right inside SAP Build using natural language

SAP Joule for Developers capabilities in SAP Build Process Automation help explain process workflows

SAP Joule for Consultants

SAP Joule for Consultants: Accelerate SAP Cloud Transformations

SAP Joule for Consultants is a conversational AI solution built specifically for SAP consultants. It helps teams deliver SAP projects faster, with higher quality and greater confidence—by making true expertise just a question away.

Consultants ask Joule questions in natural language—just like they would an expert colleague—and get real-time, expert-level answers tailored to project design, implementation, and customization challenges.

SAP Joule for Consultants delivers real value by tapping into SAP’s most authoritative and curated content—ensuring that every question is not only answered quickly, but precisely and with context-awareness. This trusted knowledge enables consultants to:

  • Increase productivity
  • Improve implementation decisions
  • Expedite high-quality project delivery

Key Capabilities Include:

  • Conversational Guidance: Ask questions in natural language—no need for complex syntax
  • Real-Time Answers: Instantly surface the most relevant SAP Notes, SAP Knowledge Base Articles, best practices, and more
  • Code Intelligence: Understand and explain unfamiliar ABAP and CDS code—over 250 million lines of ABAP and 30 million lines of CDS were used to train Joule’s models
  • Project Lifecycle Support: Joule helps across every project phase—from Discover through Run
  • Always Up to Date: SAP’s advanced content lifecycle management ensures that guidance is continuously curated and aligned with the latest SAP innovations

Trusted knowledge is the foundation for generative AI to truly transform project delivery. SAP Joule for Consultants provides an unmatched knowledge base, authoritative, exclusive, and expertly curated by SAP that no other AI assistant can offer.

The result is smarter consultants, better decisions, and faster project outcomes.

SAP Joule for Consultants is powered by a massive, unique knowledge base that includes:

  • 200,000+ pages of SAP documentation and learning content
  • Content equivalent to 100+ SAP Certifications
  • Proprietary content from SAP Activate, RISE with SAP best practices, SAP Community, and more

Lesson Summary

This lesson demonstrated how Joule enhances productivity and decision-making through real-world scenarios. Whether through embedded guidance, autonomous agents, developer tools, or seamless integration with Microsoft 365, Joule empowers users to act faster, smarter, and with greater confidence. You are now equipped to showcase Joule’s impact using relatable, outcome-driven examples that resonate with customers.