Meet SAP Build Apps

Low-Code/No-Code unleashes hidden workforce in companies

Citizen Pro Citizen Citizen Citizen Citizen Citizen Pro Citizen

Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer

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How Can You Meet the Growing Application Need?
Scale Development by Empowering More Employees to Build Software

Professional developer
 Uses tools of choice to create cloud native
High
applications and reusable services
Professional developer
 Designs, develops, deploys, tests,
and hands over to production Citizen developer

Development democratization
 Understands the concept of a development
lifecycle, testing, and versioning
 Ensures governance and security

Citizen developer
 Creates and publishes low-code/no-code
apps and customizations with close links to
business contexts
Pro-code Low-code No-code
 Is unaware of testing, go-live, versioning, and Low
termination but learns through citizen Low Application volume High
development education
 Ensures governance and security through IT-
sanctioned tools and platform-supported processes
SAP Build Apps & Process Automation
Create and augment enterprise apps, automate processes,
and design business sites, all visually

Compose apps Automate processes Design business sites

SAP Build Apps SAP Build Process Automation SAP Build Work Zone

Build visually
Integrate smoothly
Collaborate effectively

SAP Business Technology Platform

 Create and Deliver Enterprise Applications Faster
No Matter the Skill Level

Build Visually
High
Professional developer
Citizen developer

Development democratization
SAP Build Apps

SAP Build
Standard IDEs* Process
Automation
Integrate Seamlessly
for low-code
development
Professional
experience

Pro-code Low-code No-code

Low
Low Application volume High

Scale Without *i.e., VS Code + extensions

Compromise
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SAP Build Apps
Build Full-Stack Enterprise-Apps in Minutes - Absolutely Zero Coding Required

Drag-and-drop the user interface

Access a pallet of user interface
controls, drag them into place, and
preview the final result in real time.

Create any logic without code

Drag-and-drop any logic function –
sensors, file operations, data functions,
animations, and more – onto a canvas.

Easily integrate data

Easily add your own data integrations
or get started with some of ours.

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SAP Build Apps
Enhance Business Agility and Foster Collaboration from Fusion Teams

SAP Build Apps

SAP Business
Stand-alone & Extensive UI component: Simplified data Formulas for Application Studio
SAP app theming, layout, modelling data transformation
extensions Fiori, native web REST + OData API connectivity
SAP Build Process
Automation

SAP Build
Work Zone

Development Multi-channel Visual process Enterprise Grade

SAP & Third Party continuum support: management DevOps
Citizen Dev → Pro Dev mobile & web & business logic governance on BTP
SAP BTP Authentication

Key News at SAP TechEd 2022

New Cloud Functions capability in SAP Build Apps
makes it easy to visually build serverless application business logic and data models, without the need to provision or manage underlying
compute. This enables users to visually build powerful applications that leverage the elastic nature of cloud.
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Who Will Benefit From SAP Build Apps?
User Roles

Professional Developer
 Design, develop, deploy, test, handover to production
 Can write the code to develop an app, including complex business applications
 Understand the concept of a development lifecycle, testing, versioning
 Aware of permissions and roles

Business Expert/Citizen Developer

 Design, develop, deploy, test, handover to production
 Design apps & processes. Imagine, create, and publish LCNC apps and customizations with close links to
business contexts. Examples can be simple analytical apps, processes, automations, and UI customizations
 Understand business processes to be improved

IT Admin
 Governance, operate, upgrade, technical monitoring, control
 Activities range from basic checks of processes and apps to publishing to coordination of the overall process
to get assets into productive environments
 Have the rights to manage the lifecycle of business applications and processes, quality control, and
governance

End User
 Consumes/uses apps and processes but does not create them
 Anyone who is consuming information, using an app or automation, and managing their individual
personalization of the tooling
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Key Capabilities
Powerful Features for Full-Stack No-Code Development
Visual User Experience from the Start

Easy access to all

SAP Build projects

Create and collaborate on projects

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Powerful Features for Full-Stack No-Code Development
Key Frontend Capabilities

Customizable design themes

Simplified UI creation with
and navigation
drag-and-drop functionality

Visual application logic Rich library of components and

with flow functions 400+ built-in formula functions

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Powerful Features for Full-Stack No-Code Development
Key Backend Capabilities

Cloud deployments, informative

migrations & project history

Visual data modeling for custom data persistency

Data transformations with extended entities
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Powerful Features for Full-Stack No-Code Development
Key Backend Capabilities

Business logic
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Powerful Features for Full-Stack No-Code Development
Key Integration Capabilities
SAP BTP Authentication

Visual cloud functions OData & REST API

SAP BTP Destinations integrations

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LoB Content & Use Cases
Improved Customer Experience with SAP Build Apps
Extend SAP Sales and Service Cloud with No-Code Apps and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

 Create no-code Delivered Value

Web Apps  Reduce TCO and time to value
Advance Search
while delivering comprehensive,
 App Switcher integrated and fluid service
Capabilities processes to your service
Direct Query
agents
 Integrate with
REST  Included in SAP Service Cloud,
Saved Searches SAP Build Apps provides a no-
APIs/OData code platform to build apps that
 Build Custom extend and connect processes
Fi Level Filters with a streamlined experience
Customer Objects
 Eliminates complexity related
 Embed Apps to processes orchestration with
Auto complete visual design approach, pre-
Using Mashups
defined data sources and
 Rapid Prototyping connectors
and UI Testing  Easily embeds apps into the
customer service process
directly within the SAP Service
Cloud solution

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Finance Use Case: Mobile Invoice Processing App
SAP Build Process Automation Consumption in SAP Build Apps

SAP Build Process Automation Human intervention takes places SAP Build Process
Scan & Submit your invoice
bots automatically extract and in SAP Build Process Automation Automation shares results
in SAP Build Apps
validate data by approving/rejecting invoice with SAP Build Apps

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Key Takeaways & What‘s Next
SAP Build Apps | Enterprise Features

SAP BTP Integration Visual Cloud Functions NEW!

Project sharing Data modeling

• Share SAP Build Apps projects with team members • Create custom data models and extend them in the cloud
• Specify user roles • Persist data for SAP Build Apps
• Multi-user editing is supported

BTP Destinations Business logic

• Connect SAP Build Apps to BTP Destinations • Build custom business logic in the cloud
to securely access SAP solutions and data • Deploy with a dev-staging-production pipeline

BTP Authentication
• Enable BTP Authentication for SAP Build Apps

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SAP Build Process Automation
Capabilities: Citizen automation and workflows for line-of-business builders

SAP Build Process Automation

SAP Build Apps

SAP Business
Processes and Application Studio
Forms and multistep Task Unified launchpad
workflows approvals automation and task center

SAP Build
Work Zone
SAP and
third parties Business rules Prebuilt Document Process visibility and
and decisions content understanding flexibility SAP Integration Suite

• New citizen automation user experience • Integrated AI-capabilities for document

(process builder, forms builder) information extraction at no extra cost
• Workflow management capabilities available • Content and reusable artifacts (such as bots,
(business rules, process visibility, process workflow components, process steps, actions)
flexibility)
• Unified launchpad and task center for citizen
• Embedded RPA capabilities to readily combine developer applications and automations
bot automations with workflows
Accelerate business transformation with
prebuilt content packages

 Jump-start automation development while

making use of best practices
Automations
 Select from a wide variety of prebuilt, directly
Line of business usable packages
Workflows • across lines of business
• industries
• shared functions
Industry Dashboards
 Content ranges from
• templated automations (bots)
• processes (workflows)
Forms
• process visibility dashboards
• form templates
• actions (called skills)
Shared services Skills
to complete automation packages combining
artifacts
SAP Build Process Automation
SAP Build Process Automation
Automate simpler, faster, and confidently

Process Builder

One Process Builder combining

Workflow, Rules, Robotic Automations &
Visibility in a simple intuitive modeling
language
Orchestrating forms, bots, business rules
Integrated in SAP Task Center

Forms & Document Extraction Automation Bots Business Rules Task Center
Automate paper based invoice posting
in SAP S/4HANA

Paper based invoices RPA robot downloads Extract invoice data using RPA robot creates RPA triggers workflow
coming via Email invoice attachment from embedded Document Invoices in the SAP for manually handling
Email Information Extraction S/4HANA calling API exception scenarios
service

Line of Business:
Procurement –
Accounts Payable
(applicable to all
Industries)
Zero touch multi channel sales order
processing

Workflow triggers for Workflow request sent to Workflow directly triggers

validating orders as per team for approval based an Action (API call) to
business rules on business rules create sales order in the
SAP S/4HANA

Web/App created using

SAP BAS/AppGyver

Chatbot interface created

using SAP CAI

Orders coming via Email

RPA robot downloads RPA robot creates RPA triggers workflow

order attachment from sales order in the SAP for manually handling
Multichannel Line of Business:
Email S/4HANA exception scenarios
Distributor/Retailer/Sales Sales – Orders &
Order Processing Contracts (applicable to
all Industries)
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