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So it looks like the strategy by SAP as stated in this SAPPHIRE seems to be “apps are dead, custom built software is dead, it’s all about AI now”. They call it the “autonomous suite”

Which is a compelling narrative. Turning what used to be a development of months or years into a custom agent vibecoded within minutes that generates a dynamic UI in Joule for you is like catnip to management, for obvious reasons.

Question is what do you guys think about it. It’s obvious that what was shown in the keynote was heavily inspired by OpenClaw and other “agentic” platforms. But I can’t be the only one that saw those tweets about agents hallucinating and dumping millions into crypto or writing rude emails and so on.

They say their “knowledge graph” is the key to add the necessary context to the agent to reduce hallucinations. But there’s no known way to reduce hallucinations to zero. Are customers really going to be comfortable enough to hand over their most critical processes to a stochastic black box in the name of reducing costs?

The Joule demos at SAPPHIRE were impressive, but I left with one main takeaway: you need to be neck-deep in the full SAP suite for it to actually work as advertised. It feels exactly like the Apple ecosystem. It looks magical if you're running S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, and BTP together. But if your architecture is a mix of external systems (like Salesforce or Workday), the native context stops and the experience seems to break. What’s your take? Is Joule just SAP's ultimate lever to force full public cloud adoption, or will it actually play nice and deliver value in hybrid/multi-vendor architectures?

Can any one help me with list of Product development organisation using SAP.

Hi,

I’ve just published mcp-ABAP, an experimental MCP server for SAP ABAP systems.

It lets MCP-compatible clients interact with SAP through ADT APIs, with tools for ABAP source objects, DDIC objects, CDS DDL sources, packages, transports, activation, data preview, syntax checks, and ABAP Unit. It also includes experimental SAP GUI, SAP WebGUI, dashboard, and local knowledge-base tools.

The project is designed to run locally: configure your SAP systems in a local .env file or through the experimental dashboard, then connect it from your MCP client.

Dashboard and some messages are in spanish yet.

Repo:

https://github.com/jordirosa/mcp-ABAP

Has anyone explored or discussed infusing SAP Joule into a BW/4HANA Private Cloud Edition (PCE) landscape?

We are currently running on BW 7.5 on HANA and moving through a RISE migration. I’m trying to understand SAP’s direction for customers who are not immediately moving to SAP Business Data Cloud or Datasphere.

Is Joule expected to work only with BDC/Datasphere-centric architectures, or are there planned integrations/use cases for traditional BW/4HANA PCE environments as well? Also, would this require separate licensing/services, or is it part of the broader SAP AI roadmap for RISE customers?

Would love to hear thoughts from anyone working on BW/4HANA + RISE transformations.

Hey all

New here but working on a sap S/4 Hana implementation.

Hoping we could get some clarity on an important subject: FIORI performance and accessing data in SAP.

In ECC we typically accessed data via GUI, whether it be SE16 or other GUI ALV reports.

Most of the time we want to analyze and export line item reports for external statutory reporting requirements or for our auditors to upload into their external systems.

As we move to S/4, we’re being told to move away from GUI and use FIORI.

When we look at FIORI, SAP supplies Analytical Query reports in a Multi-Dimensional WebDynPro report format and also other reports in a classic FIORI Elements Analytical List format.

The data we specifically want to analyze and/or extract comes from ACDOCA so as you can imagine the data volume can be quite high.

SAP standard apps like the Journal Entry Analyzer or Line Items in General Ledger can be quite slow when you deal with a lot of fields and a lot of data.

We’ve asked SAP support about this and they’ve simply told us that we’re accessing too many fields and that FIORI is not good for exporting to excel and that we should either give users (eg auditors) access to the system or use other external tools to export the data.

This is confusing to us. Our implementation only uses SAP S/4 Hana. You would think that you would be able to export directly from the system without issue.

We’re not talking a lot of fields here. We can get the Journal Entry Analyzer app to time out with 40-60 fields in FIORI but it takes a second to load the underlying data from the CDS View using SE16N.

We’re also not talking a lot of data either (our dev environment has very limited data and we are hitting performance issues accessing it in FIORI).

SAP support tells us that our use case is unique to us. That no other customer requires this ability to access that many fields and export it.

We find this really difficult to accept because this is a pretty universal practice of wanting to analyze and extract data.

If we can’t do this from FIORI, moving forward how can we ever expect new tools like Joule to be able to analyze the data in real time? Joule won’t be in GUI.

Is anyone else encountering performance issues with FIORI? How are you dealing with that?

We’ve been able to replicate these issues in SAP’s public test demo systems as well to rule out our system configuration being the issue.

You would think that SAP would want their products to be as performant as possible as it would make their products even more attractive and users would complain less about the noticeable performance degradation they see migrating from GUI to FIORI (SAP support has also confirmed this last point about GUI being much faster than FIORI).

We would love to hear the communities thoughts on this.

Is this really an ‘us’ (you’re using the system wrong) problem or an issue that others are also experiencing with SAP S/4 and FIORI?

Note: we have already engaged with multiple SAP resources on this issue over the course of many months and still cannot get a clear answer on how the system should perform and also how it can meet these data extraction requirements.

Thanks in advance!

I logged ticket on marketplace and seems some AI bot have me stupid answer without any proper analysis. It was high priority ticket. Anyone had such experience.

##Hiring## ##SAP Data Analyst## ##Urgent##

We are hiring for a remote Data Analyst position with an urgent need.

Role: Data Analyst

Experience: 5-8 years

Domain: Manufacturing

Skills required:

- SAP S/4HANA

- SQL

- Power BI

- Advanced Excel

- Manufacturing Data

- VSM & KPI Reporting

A strong analytical and data validation background is essential.

If you are interested, please send your resume to info@kloudflux.com.

SAP spend used to be relatively predictable. More of the innovation stack now sits in consumption-based layers: BTP credits, AI Units, Joule, Integration Suite messages, SAP Build, BDC. Where I work we've been hit by unexpected bills.

Trying to figure out whether there's a real need for something that sits in front of the consumption (Gen AI Hub calls, Joule custom agents, etc.) and actually reduces burn, not another dashboard, since SAP is shipping those natively and will only get better at it.

Hi!
I was wondering if anyone could recommend an SAP User Group I may be able to join, specific to manufacturing.

I’m new to SAP and have started working through some OpenSAP MicroClasses (per this sub’s Wiki), but would love to have a community to go to with specific questions. The megathread appears to be pretty stale, last activity was 2 years ago.

I see a few SAP groups in Linkedin, but they all appear to be Private.

Thank you all in advance! Sorry if this posting goes against the guidelines, but I don’t believe it does.

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I am new to approving FFID roles. Is there a mobile ios app that allows this? I dont want to have to worry about it when im commuting or off from work and have an approval pending.

Hey guys my old windows laptop is dying and thinking of upgrading it .. I was thinking of buying a MacBook for its built quality and long battery life… Now my question is … is MacBook compatible with Abap development work? i use SAP log On and forticlient VPN from company will it work well?

Does anybody use this? I've had staffing agencies looking for someone for me to hire for months and their exact words were "we've never heard of that version before". Seriously???

Hi,

ich hatte vor einem Jahr einen Burnout als SAP Berater. Nun arbeite ich wieder Teilzeit, allerdings fehlt mir komplett der Antrieb und die Motivation mich mit den Arbeitsthemen auseinander zu setzen. Früher wollte ich mich um jedes Problem oder Projekt am liebsten selbst kümmern. Ich wollte stetig meine Fähigkeiten ausweiten und besser werden. Das alles mit Freude und großer Motivation. Nun muss ich mich gefühlt zu allem zwingen. Kennt das wer? Wie seid ihr damit umgegangen und gibt es hier einen Weg zurück zu zumindest ein bisschen Freude an der Arbeit? Danke euch?

I have a VAT key for price schema . For a special sales order type I've to calculate tax with cost price as base instead of sales price. How do I do this clean?

I have been working on joule studio from april and I have never seen something pathetic either I am using a winded down version or the one's they are showing in their(SAP's) meetings and videos are sped up versions.My manager has been continuously nagging me to finish building an agent which I already have finished building the bloody thing just won't deploy and soon I found this is not just for me but an issue most others are facing as well.I connected my on-prem to joule studio and It used to work fine but for the past few weeks I am getting error there as well but I have checked if the issue was with my Odata url but that was correct as well so the issue should be again witn the idiotic studio.Since that method didn't work my only option now is to build an MCP server which I don't know anything about.

The only good thing that I got with joule studio was the ability to be patient whenever there is a loading error or the chat won't load while testing

Edit:if there are any joule studio Guru's out there do guide me through this 🙂‍↕️