Generative AI with SAP – Part 1: Introduction to SAP Business AI
Release of ChatGPT by OpenAI has changed everyone’s perception about AI and especially Generative AI. Generative AI is disrupting the entire world and SAP is no exception. It has dramatically changed SAP ecosystem, how business run, how decisions are made and how processes are optimized. From last couple of years, SAP is investing aggressively in AI, embedding generative AI capabilities into various SAP solutions as well as SAP BTP.
In this blog series, we will learn:
- How SAP is leveraging AI and generative AI across it’s portfolio.
- What SAP Business AI is and how SAP partners and customers can use it?
- What is SAP AI Core? What is SAP AI launchpad? What is Joule? etc.
- What role SAP BTP plays in SAP’s AI strategy? … and many more.
To make it easy to understand, the blog series is divided in small parts. Each blog requires maximum 10–15 minutes to learn.
- Part 1 – Introduction to SAP Business AI [Current blog]
- Part 2 – Components of SAP Business AI
- Part 3 – Joule, SAP’s Generative AI Copilot
- Part 4 – AI Foundation on SAP BTP
- Part 5 – Introduction to SAP AI Core
- Part 6 – Introduction to SAP AI launchpad
- Part 7 – Get Started with SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad
- part 8 – Hello World using SAP AI Core
- Part 9 – Overview of Generative AI Hub
- Part 10 – SAP HANA Cloud vector engine
- Part 11 – RAG, a real-life use case using SAP AI Core, Generative AI Hub and HANA Vector Engine
This is the 1st blog in the series, where will understand SAP’s AI strategy. We will also learn what SAP Business AI is and why it a game changer for SAP partners and customers.
Note: I will publish the subsequent blogs soon.
Target audience
Anyone who wants to learn AI capabilities and solutions provided by SAP and use that to build your own AI applications.
Prerequisite
None.
However, if you are new to generative AI, I will recommend you to spend few minutes reading my blog series Generative AI for Beginners first.
Let’s start! Before going into SAP Business AI, it’s important to understand few important concepts first.
What is AI?
Artificial intelligence is when machines/computers mimic the way humans think and make decisions.
AI enables computers to think as we human think.
In simple words — AI is when we enable computers to Think.
What is Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is:
- A subset of Artificial Intelligence.
- Which enables machines (or computers) to learn from data and make decisions.
What is Deep Learning?
Can the machine learn the way we human (human brain) learn things? — This was the idea behind innovation of Deep Learning.
Deep learning is a subset of Machine Learning (ML is again a subset of AI). At its core, deep learning is based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which is a computational models inspired by the structure and functioning of the human brain.
What is Generative AI?
Generative AI is:
- A type of artificial intelligence
- that can create new things, for example artwork, music, or even realistic images.
- without being explicitly told what to create
While traditional AI focuses on specific tasks or solving a problem, Generative AI is distinguished by its ability to exhibit creativity similar to human creativity. Generative AI is capable of generating new, unique content, ideas, or solutions as we human do.
To know more about these basic concepts, check Generative AI for Beginners.
