Course description

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday business—not as a separate technology that sits outside enterprise systems, but as intelligence embedded directly into the applications, data, and processes people already use.

The Experiencing SAP Business AI learning journey helps participants understand how SAP brings AI into real business scenarios to improve productivity, automate work, support better decisions, and create more intelligent business processes.

The journey begins by building a foundation in SAP Business AI, helping learners understand the wider AI landscape and how SAP approaches AI from a business-value perspective. Participants then explore how SAP Business AI supports different roles through practical personas and business scenarios.

From there, the course introduces Joule, SAP's AI experience embedded into the flow of work, and explores how Joule can be extended across business processes. Learners also develop an understanding of AI Foundation, which SAP describes as its AI operating system for building, extending, running, and governing enterprise AI solutions at scale.

The learning journey then moves into Agentic AI and Joule Agents, demonstrating how intelligent agents can automate multi-step workflows, support decision-making, and coordinate activities across SAP's ecosystem.

Finally, participants explore SAP's approach to Responsible AI, including the importance of ethics, transparency, security, compliance, and human oversight when AI is applied to enterprise processes.

By the end of the journey, learners will have a practical understanding of not only what SAP Business AI is, but how its different components come together to create meaningful business outcomes.

Key Learning Outcomes

After completing Experiencing SAP Business AI, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the fundamentals of SAP Business AI.
  • Understand how AI addresses real-world business challenges.
  • Communicate the SAP Business AI value story.
  • Identify AI opportunities across different business roles and functions.
  • Understand how SAP applications, data, and AI work together.
  • Explain Joule's role within SAP's AI ecosystem.
  • Understand how the Joule experience can be extended.
  • Explain the purpose and value of AI Foundation.
  • Understand how organizations can build and scale enterprise AI.
  • Recognize AI opportunities across cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Understand the principles of Responsible AI.
  • Explain the importance of ethics, transparency, security, and human oversight.
  • Understand Agentic AI and its role in business transformation.
  • Explain how SAP's ecosystem enables AI agents.
  • Recognize how Joule Agents can automate multi-step business processes.
  • Connect SAP Business AI capabilities with practical business outcomes.
  • Understand how embedded AI can improve SAP S/4HANA Cloud processes.

Who Should Attend?

SAP's current learning journey associates Experiencing SAP Business AI with roles including Consultant, Presales, Sales, Customer Success Manager, and SAP Rookie.

The course is particularly suitable for:

  • SAP Consultants
  • SAP Business AI Consultants
  • SAP Presales Professionals
  • SAP Sales Professionals
  • Customer Success Managers
  • SAP Solution Consultants
  • Business Process Consultants
  • SAP S/4HANA Consultants
  • SAP BTP Professionals
  • Solution Architects
  • Enterprise Architects
  • Digital Transformation Consultants
  • Business Analysts
  • AI Transformation Professionals
  • Business Leaders exploring SAP AI
  • SAP professionals beginning their Business AI journey

What will i learn?

  • SAP Business AI & Enterprise Artificial Intelligence – AI-driven capabilities embedded across SAP solutions to support intelligent business operations and transformation.
  • Generative AI, SAP Joule & Joule Agents – Generative and conversational AI with intelligent agents designed to enhance productivity, user experience, and enterprise decision-making.
  • Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation – Autonomous AI agents, workflow automation, and AI-driven processes that streamline complex enterprise operations.
  • AI Foundation & Enterprise AI Architecture – Scalable AI foundations and architectures supporting SAP Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and hybrid AI scenarios.
  • AI-Driven Decision-Making & Business Value – AI-assisted insights, persona-based value positioning, and business intelligence focused on measurable enterprise outcomes.
  • SAP Cloud ERP & AI-Enabled Business Processes – Integration of AI across SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Cloud ERP scenarios to optimize finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, and other business functions.
  • Responsible AI, Governance & Human Oversight – Ethical AI adoption supported by governance frameworks, transparency, accountability, and appropriate human supervision.
  • AI Security, Compliance & Business Transformation – Secure and compliant enterprise AI implementation that enables sustainable, AI-driven business transformation

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of SAP and enterprise applications.
  • General awareness of common business processes.
  • Basic familiarity with cloud-based enterprise software.
  • A general understanding of artificial intelligence concepts is helpful but not essential.
  • Interest in business transformation, automation, and enterprise AI.
  • Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud ERP, or SAP BTP can be helpful for understanding the broader ecosystem.

Frequently asked question

The learning journey helps participants understand how SAP Business AI creates value across different business roles and processes. It covers SAP Business AI fundamentals, Joule, AI Foundation, Responsible AI, Agentic AI, and Joule Agents, while connecting these capabilities with practical enterprise scenarios.

Yes. Joule is a major part of the learning journey. Learners explore how the Joule experience can be extended and how Joule and intelligent agents can automate workflows and enhance decision-making. SAP currently describes Joule as an AI solution embedded into the flow of work across SAP and non-SAP systems, providing contextual insights, task guidance, assistants, and agents.

AI Foundation is the technology foundation supporting SAP's enterprise AI capabilities. SAP currently describes it as its AI operating system, providing infrastructure, tools, and services for building, extending, running, and governing AI solutions at scale. The course helps learners understand its role without requiring them to become AI developers.

Yes. Module 3: Boosting AI-Driven Business Transformation with Joule Agents specifically covers the role of Agentic AI, how SAP's ecosystem enables agents, and practical Joule Agent scenarios. This helps learners understand the evolution from AI that primarily assists users toward AI agents capable of supporting more complex, multi-step business workflows.

Yes. Responsible AI is an important part of Module 2. SAP's current Responsible AI approach emphasizes ethics, security, and compliance, alongside principles such as fairness, privacy, transparency, accountability, and human oversight. Learners will understand why these principles matter when AI becomes embedded in enterprise processes and decisions.

The course is primarily business and solution focused. It explains AI capabilities, SAP's ecosystem, Joule, AI Foundation, agents, business scenarios, and responsible AI without requiring learners to develop machine-learning models or write AI code. This makes it suitable for consultants, presales professionals, sales teams, customer success managers, solution professionals, and business users who need a strong understanding of SAP Business AI.

Yes. The source curriculum includes Customer Return management with SAP Business AI in SAP S/4HANA Cloud as a practical exercise. The demonstration shows how a dynamic recommendation model can be used to improve the customer returns process.

Advanced AI experience is not required. A basic understanding of SAP and enterprise business processes will help, but the journey is designed to progressively introduce SAP Business AI concepts, value, Joule, agents, AI Foundation, and Responsible AI. The current SAP Learning journey lists Discovering SAP as its prerequisite.

The course provides a broad foundation in the AI capabilities that are increasingly becoming part of SAP solutions and transformation projects.

  • Lesson 01
    Course Description

    This module provides the foundation for the entire learning journey.

    Learners begin by exploring today's AI landscape and understanding how artificial intelligence is changing the way organizations operate. The module then introduces the SAP Business AI value story, helping participants move beyond technology terminology and understand AI in terms of practical business challenges and outcomes.

    The source curriculum emphasizes understanding SAP Business AI fundamentals, identifying how AI can address real-world business challenges, recognizing its organizational value, and explaining how AI can enhance processes, decision-making, and innovation. 

    Summary:

    What You Will Learn

    After completing this module, you will be able to:

    • Understand the fundamentals of artificial intelligence in an enterprise context.
    • Explain the role of SAP Business AI.
    • Recognize common business challenges where AI can create value.
    • Understand how AI can improve business processes.
    • Identify opportunities for intelligent automation.
    • Explain how AI can support faster and better-informed decisions.
    • Understand SAP's business-focused approach to AI.
    • Connect AI capabilities with practical business outcomes.
    • Recognize the importance of trusted business data for enterprise AI.
    • Explain how SAP Business AI can support innovation across different functions.
  • Lesson 02
    Unit 1: Navigating the AI Landscape

    Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, and organizations are being introduced to concepts ranging from traditional machine learning and generative AI to AI copilots and autonomous agents.

    This unit helps learners make sense of that changing landscape.

    Participants explore how AI is moving from isolated analytical use cases toward intelligence embedded directly within everyday business processes. The focus is on understanding where AI can genuinely create value rather than treating every business challenge as an AI problem.

    Learners will begin to recognize the different ways AI can support organizations—from generating content and identifying patterns to providing recommendations, automating repetitive work, and helping employees make more informed decisions.

    This foundation prepares participants to understand why enterprise AI needs business context, reliable data, governance, and integration with actual business processes.

  • Lesson 03
    Unit 2: Exploring the SAP Business AI Value Story

    This unit moves from general AI concepts into the specific value proposition of SAP Business AI.

    Learners explore how SAP combines enterprise applications, business data, and AI to bring intelligence directly into business processes.

    The emphasis is on understanding business value rather than AI for its own sake.

    Participants learn how SAP Business AI can support employees across different business functions, simplify work, provide contextual insights, improve productivity, and help organizations make better use of the information already available within their enterprise systems.

    Current SAP Learning describes SAP Business AI as intelligence built into SAP Business Suite, connecting applications, data, and AI so that AI can operate within the context of real business processes. 

  • Lesson 01
    Course Description

    Once learners understand the SAP Business AI value story, this module brings that value to life through different business roles, Joule experiences, AI Foundation, deployment scenarios, and Responsible AI.

    Participants explore SAP Business AI from the perspective of real people working across an organization. This persona-based approach helps learners understand that AI value differs depending on the role, responsibilities, priorities, and business challenges of each user.

    The module also explores how Joule can extend the AI experience, how AI Foundation supports enterprise-scale AI, and how SAP Business AI can deliver value across different deployment environments.

    Finally, learners examine SAP's Responsible AI approach and understand why trustworthy AI requires more than technical capability. The source curriculum identifies all five of these areas as part of this module.

    Summary:

    What You Will Learn

    After completing this module, you will be able to:

    • Explain how SAP Business AI supports different business roles.
    • Understand AI opportunities through persona-based scenarios.
    • Explain the role and capabilities of Joule.
    • Understand how the Joule experience can be extended.
    • Describe the role of AI Foundation.
    • Understand how AI Foundation supports enterprise AI development and operations.
    • Recognize SAP Business AI value across different deployment environments.
    • Understand the principles behind Responsible AI.
    • Explain why human oversight remains important in AI-enabled processes.
    • Connect SAP Business AI capabilities with practical organizational outcomes.
  • Lesson 02
    Unit 1: Introducing the SAP Business AI Narrative Through Personas

    AI does not create the same value for every person in an organization.

    A finance professional may need help understanding financial exceptions, while a procurement professional may benefit from faster supplier insights. HR teams may use AI differently from sales, supply chain, or customer service teams.

    This unit uses personas to demonstrate how SAP Business AI can support different roles according to their priorities and everyday responsibilities.

    Learners explore AI from the user's perspective:

    What is this person trying to accomplish? What slows them down? What information do they need? And where can AI make their work easier or more effective?

    This approach helps participants explain SAP Business AI through practical outcomes rather than generic AI capabilities.

  • Lesson 03
    Unit 2: Extending the Joule Experience

    Joule provides a conversational way for users to interact with enterprise information and processes.

    Instead of navigating through multiple applications or manually gathering information from different sources, users can interact with Joule within their flow of work to obtain contextual information, guidance, and assistance.

    SAP currently describes Joule as bringing AI assistants and agents together to streamline workflows, automate decisions, and provide connected intelligence across SAP and non-SAP systems.

    This unit explores how the Joule experience can extend beyond basic question-and-answer interactions.

    Learners will understand how Joule can connect with enterprise processes and how extensibility can enable organizations to create experiences that better match their specific business requirements.

    The objective is to see Joule not simply as a chatbot, but as an intelligent enterprise experience that can bring information, assistance, and action closer together.

  • Lesson 04
    Unit 3: Describing AI Foundation

    Enterprise AI needs a reliable foundation if organizations want to move beyond isolated experiments and scale AI across their business.

    This unit introduces AI Foundation, which SAP currently describes as its AI operating system.

    AI Foundation provides capabilities for building, extending, running, and managing AI solutions at enterprise scale. It supports areas such as AI agents, Joule extensions, generative AI models, document processing, business-context grounding, governance, and AI operations.

    Learners will understand why a unified AI foundation matters when organizations need to manage multiple models, applications, data sources, agents, and AI scenarios.

    The focus is on creating AI solutions that can scale while maintaining the security, governance, business context, and reliability expected in enterprise environments.

  • Lesson 05
    Unit 4: Realizing the Value of SAP Business AI Across Any Environment

    Organizations operate different SAP landscapes. Some may be moving toward SAP Cloud ERP, while others may operate hybrid or other supported deployment models.

    This unit explores how SAP Business AI can create value across these different environments.

    The source learning journey specifically highlights understanding how AI Foundation enables organizations to build, extend, and scale AI responsibly across SAP Cloud ERP and hybrid environments.

    Learners develop a broader understanding of how SAP Business AI can support both ready-to-use capabilities and more customized AI requirements.

    The goal is to help participants think about AI as part of an organization's wider technology landscape rather than as functionality limited to a single application.

  • Lesson 06
    Unit 5: Reinforcing Responsible AI

    As AI becomes more deeply integrated into business processes, organizations need to consider not only what AI can do, but what it should do and how its use should be governed.

    This unit introduces SAP's approach to Responsible AI.

    Learners explore why ethics, transparency, security, compliance, accountability, and human oversight are essential when organizations use AI to support employees and business decisions.

    SAP currently organizes its Responsible AI approach around ethics, security, and compliance, with principles that include fairness, privacy and data protection, transparency and explainability, responsibility, and human oversight.

    The unit helps learners understand that responsible AI is not an optional layer added after implementation—it should be considered throughout the AI lifecycle.

  • Lesson 01
    Course Description

    The next stage of enterprise AI goes beyond answering questions or generating content.

    Agentic AI introduces AI systems that can understand goals, determine appropriate actions, work with enterprise tools and information, and help execute multi-step business processes.

    This module introduces the business value of Agentic AI and explores how SAP's ecosystem enables AI agents.

    Learners then examine Joule Agents and understand how they can automate workflows, support decision-making, and contribute to broader business transformation across SAP solutions.

    These three areas—Agentic AI, SAP's agent ecosystem, and Joule Agents—form the core structure of the module in the uploaded curriculum.

    Summary:

    What You Will Learn

    After completing this module, you will be able to:

    • Understand the concept of Agentic AI.
    • Explain how agents differ from traditional AI assistance.
    • Recognize business scenarios where AI agents can add value.
    • Understand how SAP's ecosystem enables intelligent agents.
    • Explain the role of Joule Agents.
    • Understand how agents can automate multi-step workflows.
    • Recognize the importance of business context for agent-driven processes.
    • Understand how agents can support business decision-making.
    • Recognize opportunities for cross-functional AI automation.
    • Explain how Joule Agents can contribute to enterprise transformation.      
  • Lesson 02
    Unit 1: Understanding the Role of Agentic AI in Business Transformation

    Traditional AI often responds to a specific request. Agentic AI can take a more active role by working toward an objective across multiple steps.

    This unit introduces the concept of Agentic AI and helps learners understand why it represents an important development in enterprise automation.

    Instead of simply asking AI to summarize information, an agent may be able to interpret a goal, identify the information it needs, coordinate relevant actions, interact with connected systems, and involve a human when approval or judgment is required.

    For organizations, this creates opportunities to rethink complex workflows that previously required significant manual coordination.

    Learners will explore how this shift from AI assistance toward goal-oriented AI action can influence business transformation.

  • Lesson 03
    Unit 2: Enabling AI Agents Through SAP’s Ecosystem

    AI agents become significantly more useful when they have access to trusted business context and can interact securely with enterprise systems.

    This unit explores how SAP's ecosystem provides the environment needed for agents to operate within real business processes.

    Learners will understand how applications, enterprise data, AI Foundation, Joule, integration capabilities, governance, and security can work together to support agent-driven scenarios.

    The emphasis is on understanding that enterprise agents cannot operate effectively in isolation. They need access to the right business information, tools, permissions, and processes.

    This connected ecosystem helps agents move from generic AI capabilities toward business-specific automation.

  • Lesson 04
    Unit 3: Showcasing Joule Agents

    The final unit brings Agentic AI concepts to life through Joule Agents.

    Learners explore how Joule Agents can support business processes that involve multiple activities, information sources, and decisions.

    SAP describes Joule as bringing AI assistants and agents together to streamline workflows and automate decisions, while its agent capabilities can support complex business processes and request user input or human approval when required.

    Rather than focusing only on the underlying technology, this unit helps learners recognize the business outcomes that agents can enable.

    Participants will be better prepared to identify processes where Joule Agents could reduce manual effort, improve coordination, accelerate decisions, and create more intelligent ways of working.

  • Lesson 01
    Customer Return management with SAP Business AI in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

    Practical Exercise Overview

    Customer returns can involve several decisions—understanding the reason for a return, determining the appropriate follow-up action, processing the request, and maintaining a smooth customer experience.

    The uploaded course includes a practical solution demonstration showing how SAP Business AI can improve customer returns management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud through a dynamic recommendation model.

    This exercise helps learners connect the broader SAP Business AI concepts with a realistic business process.

    Rather than viewing AI as an abstract capability, participants can see how intelligent recommendations can be embedded into an operational workflow to help users make faster and more informed decisions.

    Summary:

    What Learners Can Explore

    • AI-supported customer returns
    • Dynamic recommendations
    • SAP S/4HANA Cloud business processes
    • AI-assisted decision-making
    • Contextual business insights
    • Intelligent process support
    • User productivity improvements
    • Embedded Business AI
    • Customer service efficiency
    • Practical enterprise AI use cases 

Jittesh Purrohit

Lectures

14

Skill level

Beginner

Expiry period

Lifetime

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