In the digital era, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key factor in helping businesses maintain a competitive edge and optimize business processes. AI Foundation in SAP BTP is a comprehensive suite providing ready-to-use AI services and models, supporting businesses in automating operational processes and conducting in-depth data analysis. By harnessing the power of AI Foundation, organizations can rapidly drive digital transformation and make more accurate strategic decisions.
1. What is AI Foundation in SAP BTP?
AI Foundation in SAP BTP is an ecosystem comprising integrated AI services and tools, enabling customers, partners, and SAP development teams to easily access and implement AI within their systems. This platform allows the development and expansion of applications with advanced AI capabilities without the need for building from scratch, ensuring reliability, security, and high scalability. In other words, AI Foundation is a solution suite designed for developers to seamlessly integrate AI into applications and extensions on SAP BTP flexibly and efficiently.
2. Key Components of AI Foundation
2.1. AI Services
AI Services are a collection of pre-built AI services on SAP BTP that help businesses quickly integrate AI into their workflows. These services are categorized into three main groups:
- Document Processing: Automatically extracts information from business documents, improving efficiency, reducing errors, and enhancing compliance.
- Recommendation: Includes personalized recommendations, data attribute recognition, and business entity identification, helping businesses optimize decision-making across various scenarios.
- Machine Translation: Automatically translates business documents and user interfaces, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
2.2. Generative AI Management
Generative AI Hub is a tool that helps businesses maximize the potential of large language models (LLMs) within SAP BTP. With Generative AI Hub, businesses can:
- Optimize AI development by orchestrating multiple generative AI models through SAP AI Core.
- Explore and experiment with new AI capabilities via an intuitive interface in SAP AI Launchpad.
- Access tools for prompt design, testing, and AI workflow optimization in a secure and reliable manner.
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2.3. AI Workload Management
AI Workload Management targets developers who aim to build AI models from scratch or operate AI processes in a standardized, flexible, and cloud-agnostic manner. The platform provides two main services:
- SAP AI Core: A powerful AI execution environment that enables cost-effective training and deployment of AI models at scale while supporting automatic scaling and flexible infrastructure selection tailored to business needs.
- SAP AI Launchpad: A central interface for managing and operating AI workflows across multiple environments, including SAP AI Core. This service offers centralized AI lifecycle management, performance tracking, and automated retraining when necessary.
SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad are unlocking new opportunities for businesses in AI adoption. Follow our in-depth series on these platforms on the CMC Consulting website to discover how they optimize processes, enhance operational efficiency, and maximize AI utilization!
2.4. Data and Business Context
The key differentiator of SAP’s AI system compared to other AI providers is its extensive business data repository from its customers. With solutions such as SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Datasphere, SAP provides essential business context for AI models, ensuring accuracy and real-world applicability.
- SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine: Specifically designed for generative AI use cases, allowing efficient vector data storage and processing, integrated with transactional data. This simplifies architecture, data management, and security by storing vectors and business data within a unified database.
- Predictive Analysis Library (PAL) and Automated Predictive Library (APL): These libraries support classification, regression, and time-series forecasting scenarios.
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2.5. Foundation Models
SAP BTP offers various powerful foundation models to support the deployment of generative AI applications, ensuring customers stay at the forefront of innovation while providing flexibility in choosing models that fit specific business needs.
So, what are foundation models? These are deep learning models trained on massive datasets using unsupervised learning techniques. They can be customized for tasks such as text generation, image and video creation, sentiment analysis, and information extraction. With broad applicability and cost-effectiveness compared to building models from scratch, foundation models have become a core technology in enterprise AI strategies.
3. Practical Applications of AI Foundation in SAP BTP
AI on SAP BTP is opening up vast opportunities for business process optimization, from finance and data management to supply chain operations. With machine learning capabilities, the Document Information Extraction service automates the recognition and extraction of data from invoices and financial documents, reducing errors and speeding up processing times. This represents a significant step in financial digitization, enabling businesses to save time and improve management efficiency.
Beyond finance, AI plays a crucial role in personalizing customer experiences. The Personalized Recommendation Service on SAP BTP leverages historical and behavioral data to provide relevant product suggestions. This not only helps businesses optimize their sales strategies but also increases customer satisfaction and conversion rates, contributing to sustainable revenue growth.
Additionally, SAP Datasphere integrates AI to enhance data quality, automatically detect and correct errors, and optimize analysis and reporting processes. Accurate and consistent data is a crucial foundation for businesses to make swift and effective decisions, especially in the highly competitive digital economy.
In the field of analytics and forecasting, powerful AI libraries such as Predictive Analysis Library (PAL) and Automated Predictive Library (APL) on SAP HANA Cloud provide deep data analysis capabilities. Businesses can leverage these tools to forecast trends, optimize business strategies, and strengthen market competitiveness.
AI also delivers significant value in supply chain management, where it analyzes data to optimize inventory control, predict demand, and reduce operational costs. With real-time data analytics, businesses can proactively manage logistics, minimize disruption risks, and enhance overall operational performance.
By integrating AI with SAP BTP, enterprises can not only improve operational efficiency but also establish a sustainable competitive advantage, unlocking new growth opportunities in the digital era.
AI Foundation in SAP BTP provides businesses with a robust platform to harness AI’s full potential, streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and creating a lasting competitive edge. From automating operations and intelligent data management to strategic forecasting, AI Foundation opens the door for successful digital transformation in an increasingly digitalized business environment.
With its AI strategy and the message "Enable your AI-X”, CMC Corporation is leading the way in AI adoption to enhance operational efficiency, optimize business processes, and develop intelligent operational models. Beyond strengthening enterprise competitiveness, AI-X also contributes to the sustainable growth of the digital economy. CMC Consulting is committed to supporting businesses in their digital transformation and AI adoption journey. To explore how AI Foundation on SAP BTP can create value for your business, contact CMC Consulting today!
Reference Article:
https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/generative-ai-with-sap-part-4-ai-foundation-on-sap-btp/ba-p/13806642
https://escotta.com/canal/sap-btp-ia-com-integrada/
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