The embedded use cases provide substantial value, but we also understand that customers may have custom scenarios based on their company goals, industry, and general needs.
And here you can count on us to unlock the power of Custom AI, with Customer Innovation Services.
We ensure you realize value from Cloud, Data, and AI, with Custom AI Adoption (CAIA) and with differentiated innovations tailored for your unique business needs. We do this by re-imagining business processes with Functional, Industry, and generative AI experts from SAP. We deliver these differentiated innovations with secure software development and support methodologies as standard in SAP Software. Leveraging the power of the SAP BTP we can focus on a clean core approach, ensuring continuous innovation adoption. Next, let’s take a deeper look.
Custom solutions in the AI space can have some risk and this is where SAP BTP comes in.
A critical element of SAP's AI strategy is the foundation it rests upon. Effective AI is built on a robust data foundation and seamless integration, particularly when it involves customized AI solutions on the SAP BTP.
When considering AI implementation, customers might initially opt for Large Language Models (LLMs) like openAI or an open-source model like Llama 3. That’s like starting on the first floor that has been built for you. You could potentially add three more stories, but this expansion might soon lead to financial concerns from your CFO due to the escalating investment required. This setup also places significant responsibilities on your team, including:
- Needing to deal with all the GPU clusters
- Taking care of capacity management
- Managing cost controls
- Providing security measures
- Thinking hard about data privacy, and more.
As your AI deployment progresses, considering a transition to a hyperscaler becomes an increasingly practical choice. Hyperscalers effectively mitigate many of the initial challenges, allowing you to begin at an advanced stage—the 5th floor—and continue to expand up to three additional stories before financial constraints become a concern again. You might get an 8-story building in the same amount of time as before. But still, you must deal with many complexities, such as:
- What if I have chosen the wrong model?
- How does that integrate into my SAP landscape?
- Do I need to replicate all the data?
- How do I deal with all the business authorization so that there are no data leaks?
- How will I integrate that with my identity management?
- And way more.
That’s where the value of SAP BTP comes in: SAP has solved all these challenges for you already, because we build our own applications this way, and our amazing suite qualities and integration are a fantastic foundation as well! With SAP BTP, we elevate your capabilities to the 20th floor, enabling the development of a 23-story application within the same timeframe as before.
You might ask how is that possible? Because SAP BTP has everything you need. SAP BTP has a great identity management and authorization integration, full master data integration, one domain model, stable APIs for lifecycle management, access to all the metadata and data. And of course, enterprise security and privacy are built in as well. At the core of SAP BTP’s offerings, you also find the generative AI Hub, enhancing our platform's capabilities further.
So how can you leverage AI as part of your transformation, and will it help make the transformation more efficient and effective? You can leverage AI to assist you in your transformation journey and we have a transformation suite with SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, and SAP BTP to help. This combination jointly helps us with maintaining the five clean core principles that ensure clean processes, extensibility, and data integration operations. Let's see how it works. Let's first start with the overall Joule story.
