NewSAP Business Technology Platform, also named SAP Business AI Platform
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Attachmentscoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): drops a count-like contrast with a plugin the flavor does not have.Attachments
Cataloguing and lineagecore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a newer community server publishes Delta shares as data products in Business Data Cloud, a kind the text did not name.Cataloguing and lineage
Database connectorscoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted one entry behind the door; it now names the driver and SAP HANA, which now provides the capability on this door. State unchanged.Database connectors
Loading a warehousecore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): ERPL is a provider the text never named, and it loads from ABAP systems outside BW routines. State unchanged.Loading a warehouse
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Serve your application over MCPcoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted providers, and sap-security-mcp no longer provides this capability. The unmapped state is unchanged.Serve your application over MCP
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SAP CAP With Prostgres Serice in BTPpublishedA step-by-step walkthrough of a CAP bookshop project on @cap-js/postgres@cap-js/postgresThe PostgreSQL database service — the production option for running CAP off HANA, sharing the base service with the other three.sap official, cap, provisioning PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionPostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler optionA managed PostgreSQL from the underlying hyperscaler — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Alicloud — consumed through a BTP service binding.sap official, btp's trial plan through
mta.yaml, building the MTA archive and deploying it to Cloud Foundry by hand, then inspecting the deployed database with pgAdmin over an SSH tunnel. It updates an earlier post by Mike ZaschkaMike Zaschkamaintains 6 entries, created 12 pieces, contributed to 9 entriesindependent on the same topic to the package CAP now ships by default, though the manual build-and-deploy sequence it shows predates 
cds up folding those steps into one command by a day.Database connectorsSat 24
Edge Integration Cell : Design, deploy and manage APIspublishedWalks through creating an API artifact in API ManagementAPI ManagementAPI proxies in front of backend services, with security and traffic management policies attached to them, and Developer Hub where consumers subscribe.sap official, btp on the customer-managed Edge Integration Cell runtime, including the option to generate the artifact by importing an OpenAPIOpenAPIHanding a description of the service to clients and tools — an API portal, a code generator, a partner who wants a contract before they write anything.SAP and community, narrow by design specification rather than from a URL or by hand. It then attaches an Authentication policy and a Quota step capped at four calls per minute, deploys, and shows both the resulting 401 and the quota-breach error in the Monitor logs. The author frames it as the first of a series on Edge Integration Cell's policies.OpenAPI
SAP HANA Cloudprovides revisedThe capability was added on 2026-10-24 for administering a database instance; SAP HANA Cloud ships its administration tools, so it is the core answer on BTP.Database connectors
SAP-samples/hana-developer-cli-tool-exampleprovides, serves ecosystems, domain, provides revisedIts performance analysis, privilege grants and backup and recovery commands had no capability to sit under; Database administration was added for them the same day.Database administration
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Expose RFCs as MCP Tools in Integration SuitepublishedWalks through creating an MCP server in SAP Integration SuiteSAP Integration SuiteSAP's integration service on BTP: Cloud Integration for orchestration, API Management in front of it, and an MCP gateway that serves a managed API to agents.sap official, btp from an RFC source: an on-premise RFC destination labelled for Integration Cell inclusion, a search over the backend's function modules (minimum seven characters), and up to 50 selected modules each becoming a tool. Covers the resulting server's configuration (Source, Tools and Prompts, with no Resources section for this source) and the two scopes an RFC-based server's policy adds beyond an API-sourced one, API.invoke and ESBMessaging.send, plus the RFC receiver adapter used at runtime. Demonstrates the flow with a purchase-order scenario where an AI client calls BAPI_PO_CREATE1 and BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL1 as MCP tools.Serve your application over MCP
SAP Analytics Cloudlinks revisedSAP moved the What's New entries for SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud to the Business Data Cloud feed; the old BTP feed had stopped carrying them.Analytic modelling
SAP Business Data Cloudlinks revisedSAP publishes the What's New entries for SAP Business Data Cloud on its own feed; the entry linked none before.Cataloguing and lineage
SAP Dataspherelinks revisedSAP moved the What's New entries for SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud to the Business Data Cloud feed; the old BTP feed had stopped carrying them.Analytic modelling
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Bridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-21) in which one of the maintainers of sqlalchemy-hana, the open-source SQLAlchemy dialect published in SAP's GitHub organisation, opens up what sits between Python and SAP HANASAP HANASAP’s relational database platform, which stores application data and executes SQL and SQLScript in the database, available on-premise and as the managed service SAP HANA Cloud.sap official, btp. It walks the five dialect classes that render statements, types, DDL, identifiers and sequences, and the HANA specifics they absorb: the FROM DUMMY a bare SELECT needs, a limit injected when only an offset is given, string compiled to NVARCHAR, and quoted case-sensitive identifiers against Python's lowercase. The rest covers schema migrations with Alembic on HANA's transactional DDL, the recently added async support and vector types, and that HANA Cloud and HANA 2 are supported while HANA 1 is not.Database connectors
Building your knowledge graph on SAP HANA CloudpublishedDevtoberfest 2026 session DAT-11, in which two enterprise architects explain what a knowledge graph is and then build one on SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp. The first half sets the join across three relational tables against an ontology of classes and predicates, the subject-predicate-object triple written as a turtle file, and a SPARQL query over it, and argues that the chain of relationships is what makes a recommendation traceable back to its reasons. The demo, taken from a Discovery Center mission, curates the ontology and the RDF files for an accounts receivable scenario in VS Code, ingests the triples into HANA Cloud with SQL and walks the resulting graph outward from a customer; that is the graph, spatial and document dataGraph, spatial and document dataStoring and querying data that is not plain rows, such as a network of relationships, a geometry or a JSON document, in the database that already holds the rows instead of in a separate store per model. Free-text search over entities is search; similarity over embeddings is retrieval-augmented generation.SAP only edge. It closes by separating three things that share the name: the HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine, SAP Knowledge Graph as the data, and the knowledge graph in SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp.Database connectors
Combining AI Agents with the power of SAP HANA embedded ML (part 1)publishedDevtoberfest 2026 session DAT-12, the first of two parts, in which Vitaliy RudnytskiyVitaliy Rudnytskiygave 1 talk, contributed to 6 entries does a data scientist's work against the embedded machine learning of SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp by talking to an agent. The session first takes an agent apart into its LLM, its tools, its memory and the loop between them, then stacks the Predictive Analysis Library under the hana-ml Python wrapper and that under the HANA AI toolkit, whose tools an agent calls from plain English in a notebook to preview a sales refunds table, split it into train and predict tables, run a time-series check and train an AutoML forecast, keeping what it decided in Markdown memory files. That is the agent toolingAgent toolingBuilding an agent into your own application — the tools it may call, the state it keeps between turns, and the framework it runs in. Distinct from MCP servers, which expose an application to somebody else's agent, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed to a coding agent.SAP and community, unassessed edge; the same toolkit is then started as an MCP server over stdio and over streamable HTTP and reached from a coding agent and from Joule Work's desktop, which is where the live demo partly fails and the failure is shown.Database connectors
Data Product Governance in SAP Business Data CloudpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-41) on data product governance in SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp, released as an MVP: every data product belongs to a domain, a consumer puts one in a cart and raises an access request with a purpose, a target location and acknowledged terms and conditions, and a data steward's approval becomes an access agreement recording who uses which data product where. The demo runs both sides in the BDC cockpit — domains, access management and data product management for the steward, catalog, cart and request for the consumer, with Databricks as the target workspace — and that is what the Cataloguing and lineageCataloguing and lineageFinding what data exists across the estate and what it promises — catalogs and data products, the contract a consumer can rely on, where a field came from, and what a column actually contains once you profile it. The question asked before modelling starts and again when somebody asks where a number came from.SAP and community, unassessed edge rests on. It also states the current limits: one default domain until custom domains and subdomains arrive, auto-approved requests for space copies, transports and intelligent content, stewards who cannot yet revoke an active agreement, and an install step still done by hand after approval.Cataloguing and lineage
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From APIs to Agent Tools: How MCP Gateway changes what Integration meanspublishedThe opening session of the Devtoberfest 2026 integration track, in which two product managers for SAP Integration SuiteSAP Integration SuiteSAP's integration service on BTP: Cloud Integration for orchestration, API Management in front of it, and an MCP gateway that serves a managed API to agents.sap official, btp set out why the suite puts an MCP gateway between agents and backend systems, and then build one. The demo turns an HTTP endpoint and its OpenAPI specification into MCP tools on the integration cell runtime, does the same on top of an existing API-centric integration, and shows the policies tab where authentication through an external provider, quotas, spike arrest and IP filtering sit, plus the trace of the JSON-RPC calls in monitoring and the agent they are earmarked against in analytics. That is where the serve your application over MCPServe your application over MCPExposing selected application data and business operations to an AI agent through the Model Context Protocol. An application may also integrate remote services through service integration, connecting its exposed contract with agent access to your systems. Development assistance belongs to agent access to your code.SAP and community, narrow by design and tool governanceTool governanceControlling what an agent may call, with which authorisations, and leaving an audit trail of what it did. The authorisation question that MCP exposure raises but does not answer.SAP and community, unassessed edges hold; RFCs and BAPIs as sources are stated as supported, and MCP federation, custom domains and edge integration cell as roadmap.Serve your application over MCP
SAP BDC and AI: A Perfect MatchpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-22) in which Business Data Cloud's CTO sets out how SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp feeds SAP's business AI platform: data products whose primary persistence is an object store and whose semantics are kept with them, the one domain model that links a supplier in Ariba to a supplier in S/4HANA, and the SAP knowledge graph, a triple store running in SAP HANA Cloud and queried with SPARQL, that SAP JouleSAP JouleSAP's unified AI engagement layer across SAP applications: Joule Work is where a user expresses intent, Joule Assistants coordinate agents across business functions, and Joule Agents carry out the tasks, provisioned on BTP as a formation against SAP Cloud Identity Services.sap official, btp consults before answering. The live demo asks Joule for the available data products and the top ten open purchase orders, with the data product query agent compiling SQL over virtual tables and a space rendering a dashboard, which is the cataloguing side of this: a central registry, the Unified Customer Landscape, that every activated data product is registered in. The Q&A covers where the knowledge graph lives and what a customer may extend, base policies that turn into filter conditions on an agent's queries, and Joule StudioJoule StudioSAP’s managed development environment for building custom agents, applications and workflows from business intent, in six phases from intent and specification to deployment on an SAP-managed runtime.sap official, umbrella as the place to build your own agents and data products.Cataloguing and lineage
SAP BDC in Business AI Platform: Contextualize and ReasonpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (DAT-31) that places SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp as the contextualise-and-reason pillar of the SAP Business AI Platform, between the build pillar of Joule Studio and Integration Suite and the govern pillar of AI Agent Hub. It covers data products described with open resource discovery and core schema notation metadata, a data product creation agent that assembles a derived data product for overdue billing documents from the billing document and customer products and shows its lineage and fields; the data products a line-of-business application brings being readable by Joule without a BDC subscription; and the SAP-managed knowledge graph that maps business entities and their relationships for agents, held as graph dataGraph, spatial and document dataStoring and querying data that is not plain rows, such as a network of relationships, a geometry or a JSON document, in the database that already holds the rows instead of in a separate store per model. Free-text search over entities is search; similarity over embeddings is retrieval-augmented generation.SAP only in the SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp knowledge graph engine as RDF triples queried with SPARQL. The closing demo has SAP JouleSAP JouleSAP's unified AI engagement layer across SAP applications: Joule Work is where a user expresses intent, Joule Assistants coordinate agents across business functions, and Joule Agents carry out the tasks, provisioned on BTP as a formation against SAP Cloud Identity Services.sap official, btp answer head-count and purchase-order questions, with the generated SQL passed through a data product query that adds the restriction policy defined for that user in cloud identity services, which is why the session stands for cataloguing and lineageCataloguing and lineageFinding what data exists across the estate and what it promises — catalogs and data products, the contract a consumer can rely on, where a field came from, and what a column actually contains once you profile it. The question asked before modelling starts and again when somebody asks where a number came from.SAP and community, unassessed as much as for the products it names.Cataloguing and lineage
SAP HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF) Basic FunctionalitiespublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session on SAP HANA data lake files, the managed object store inside SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp that is provisioned from HANA Cloud Central, priced per API call and per stored gigabyte, and reached with the same REST API whichever hyperscaler it runs on. Two product managers set up an instance with its IP allow list, client certificates and trusts, then upload, list, read and delete files over the WebHDFS REST API and the HDLFS command-line utility — the Object storageObject storageStoring application files as objects in a bucket or container backed by a cloud storage service. Connecting a file to a business record is the separate Attachments concern.SAP only half — and cover file versions with snapshots, access policies per file, and chunked upload with a server-side merge. They then link the instance to a HANA database and query a CSV file as a virtual table: SQL on files now runs through a file adapter in the database, while the older path through the data lake relational engine is deprecated.Database connectors
Strategy and Tool Updates on BW Modernization with SAP Business Data CloudpublishedDevtoberfest 2026 session DAT-13, in which a product manager for SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btp sets out the revised BW modernisation strategy, now called optimise, modernise and innovate, and the three tools that carry it. The data product generator transfers BW InfoProviders into local table files in a dedicated BW inbound space of SAP DatasphereSAP DatasphereSAP's cloud data warehouse: spaces, modelled views and analytic models over data brought in or federated from source systems, with the business context carried along rather than rebuilt.sap official, btp, where a data product is still created by hand in the data sharing cockpit; the query template generator turns BW query metadata into an analytical model template in the HANA space; the BW migration assistant, planned to start in Q4 for BW NetWeaver, takes the data flows and transformations below them, and is shown on slides only. That is the loading a warehouseLoading a warehouseGetting data into an analytical store and keeping it current — connections to source systems, replication and the other integration tasks, import jobs and their lifecycle, and the monitoring that tells you a load failed before a report does. Distinct from replication, which is an application reading data that lives elsewhere as if it were local rather than a warehouse being filled.SAP and community, unassessed edge, and the demos cover the BW/4HANA cockpit, the ABAP program for the NetWeaver GUI, mass generation with semantics from the BW modeling tools, and the flattening operator for sharing data outside SAP.Cataloguing and lineage