“It leverages all the best practices and our SAP application programming models, which have been specially designed to extend and build around business applications,” Sandhu said, adding that a developer who has never built on SAP can give Joule for Developers a prompt and it will build the back end system, the front end UX, and the data model, allowing them to get started, “literally in minutes,” with a full application that they can customize. And if one of the more than 400 prebuilt line-of-business applications matches the functionality requested by the developer, Joule will recommend it.
He also pointed out that before the AI passes its output to the user, it runs it through internal checks to verify its accuracy and reduce the chance of hallucinations.
Joule for Developers differs from other AI coding assistants, noted Arnal Dayaratna, research vice president, of software development at IDC, in that “its deep specialization in ABAP that is attributable to SAP’s enhanced access to ABAP-specific training data.” Its integration with ABAP and SAP Build, he said, gives it “a unique capability” to support both pro code and no code developers.