Presenting SAP Build Apps at a Glance

Your company wants to enable business users – who know best about everyday processes and how to improve them – to develop their own SAP extensions and apps, and to more closely collaborate with IT professionals in the development process.

SAP Build Apps (formerly SAP AppGyver) is a visual development solution to create enterprise apps without writing code. It lets you:

• Create apps by dragging and dropping pre-built components and then configuring them to your needs.
• Connect to all types of backend data, including SAP systems, via SAP BTP destinations.
• Create application logic, also by dragging and dropping flow functions and configuring them.

SAP Build Apps is primarily used to design mobile apps, so by default, the canvas where you build the app is the shape of a mobile phone. But you can set the canvas to any shape you want, so you can also design for tablets or web applications.

For developers or business users with a little bit of coding experience, SAP Build Apps also enables writing small JavaScript modules when such enhancements are needed.

SAP Build Apps lets you build either Web & Mobile Applications (the front-end UI and event logic) and Application Backends (back-end data and server-based logic).

Sometimes all or most of your data will come from SAP or external systems, and all of the logic can be done on the front-end. But many times, your app will need to manage its own data – extra business data not stored in the SAP system, user preferences, or a history of user actions, just to name a few possibilities. For these, you can build your own backend for your app.

IT developers have always built applications. Now, SAP Build Apps enables also the business user to join in building or collaborating on building applications to improve a company's business processes.

What's more, SAP Build Apps comes with the ability to share projects, so business users and professional developers can work on the same app together, vastly speeding up the time to develop that app.

If you're not entirely new to SAP's low-code / no-code toolset, you might be asking yourself, what is this SAP Build Apps? How is that different from SAP AppGyver?

SAP Build Apps is based on SAP AppGyver. It is available through SAP Business Technology Platform with additional capabilities for the enterprise, such as integrations with SAP systems, collaboration for teams of business users and IT professionals, and a rich pipeline of new enterprise features that are on the way.

SAP AppGyver Community Edition remains available through AppGyver.com, and it will continue to serve its 300,000 creators with the free service and a more limited feature set.

SAP Build Apps (formerly SAP AppGyver) is a visual development solution to create enterprise apps without writing code. It enables business users and professional developers to collaborate to build apps quickly and cheaply.