Agentic AI with SAP (E-Book)

Tasked with adding agentic AI to your SAP workflows? Or simply an AI enthusiast interested in staying on the cutting edge? Learn to plan, build, and govern agentic AI systems for your SAP landscape with this guide!

Prepare your environment for agent adoption using tools like the generative AI hub, learn to decompose workflows into agent-ready tasks, and select the right agentic pattern for your needs. Then build simple and complex agents using Joule Studio and SAP AI Core. Understand and mitigate the risks of autonomous systems and manage your fleet of AI agents with SAP LeanIX and SAP Cloud ALM. The agentic future is here!

• Understand how agents work in the SAP landscape and prepare your environment for agentic AI implementation
• Learn to decompose complex business processes into tasks agents can execute
• Develop low-code and pro-code agents with Joule Studio and SAP AI Core

In this book, you'll learn about:

1. Prepare Agents

   Walk through the critical underpinnings of autonomous systems, including designing event-driven data structures, exposing modular APIs, and establishing observability standards. Decompose complex workflows, such as source-to-pay or order-to-cash, into manageable tasks that agents can execute.

2. Build Agents

   Use SAP’s low-code environment, Joule Studio, to configure agent personas using natural language prompts, ground agents in your business context, and then test each agent’s performance. Create complex, bespoke agents using SAP AI Core, from integrating with LangChain and LangGraph to adding custom logic with OData services.

3. Govern Agents

   Implement threat modeling for prompt injection, establish auditable reasoning logs, set up an agent governance board, and more. Use SAP LeanIX to maintain a registry of active agents, SAP Cloud ALM to manage the technical lifecycle, and SAP Signavio to monitor the actual business value and process improvements delivered by the agents.

Highlights include:

• Agentic technology stack
• Enterprise architecture
• Architectural patterns
• Low-code agents
• Pro-code agents
• Joule Studio
• SAP AI Core
• Security and governance
• Operations
• Autonomous enterprise

About The Author

Raghu Banda is a senior director of AI product strategy at SAP Labs. He began his career as a software developer and architect in India before moving to the US in 1997. He joined SAP in 2001 and worked in various roles, including engineering development, customer support and implementations, product marketing, and product management.

Shibaji Chandra is a principal enterprise architect at SAP who has in-depth knowledge and expertise in SAP BTP. Shibaji has been working in the SAP space for more than 20 years and has extensive work experience with SAP’s cloud platforms and related services since 2013. He has worked very closely with customers over the years, providing solution architectures and defining best practices, strategies, and methodologies. He has built several SAP BTP-based applications and educated customers, partners, and internal SAP teams around the globe on SAP BTP-related topics.

Shibaji Chandra is a principal enterprise architect at SAP who has in-depth knowledge and expertise in SAP BTP. Shibaji has been working in the SAP space for more than 20 years and has extensive work experience with SAP’s cloud platforms and related services since 2013. He has worked very closely with customers over the years, providing solution architectures and defining best practices, strategies, and methodologies. He has built several SAP BTP-based applications and educated customers, partners, and internal SAP teams around the globe on SAP BTP-related topics.