Discovering Application Development and Automation

Your company uses a wide range of SAP software within the intelligent, sustainable enterprise. Most of the software in this package is a cloud-based software as a service solution. You want to adapt some UI screens, extend existing SAPUI5 apps with APIs, build a custom development app running on SAP BTP, and your company wants to unify the digital experience of their employees.

In addition to that, your company has lots of business processes, procedures, and tasks inside of the several business areas of the daily business. Some of these processes and tasks are manual, some are partly automated. You want to reduce the amount of manual tasks and increase the amount of process automated tasks through using SAP Build Process Automation. These process automations can be achieved by business process experts, who are enabled as citizen developers through no-code based user experiences.

Due to the rising number of SaaS solutions in the market, you are not able to modify the software like in the old on-premise system. Even for on-premise systems, SAP recommends keeping the core of the software clean and use extensions instead of modifications. Through that, you need to use new concepts of custom development and extending the software portfolio in your enterprise. The app development capabilities of SAP BTP is a portfolio of solutions that helps you simplify the development of your application extensions or custom applications. It is optimized for SAP applications to extend the value of your existing SAP investments, but it is also open to extending third-party applications.

SAP delivers a wide range of tools and frameworks for professional development both for frontend and backend developers. In addition to that, SAP offers tools for low-code or even no-code development experiences. SAP offers a toolset to create a unified user experience for your end-users.

If you want to learn more about Application Development and its capabilities, see: https://www.sap.com/products/business-technology-platform/low-code.html.

When you want to automate your business process to make them more agile or reduce manual tasks, the automation capabilities of the SAP BTP can help you. The automation capabilities of SAP BTP enables you to build with simplicity, automate quickly, and improve agility with visual drag-and-drop tools and prebuilt, industry-specific content.

The next question is, how does all of this relate to hyperautomation?

Based on this market situation and the demand for talent in the technology sector, the IT industry must answer with business automation tools and no-code/low-code development tools. This allows employees who do not have coding or advanced tech skills to quickly develop helpful applications and tools. These employees assume the role of citizen developer.