SAP Build helps SAP Cloud ERP customers modernize with a clean core by moving customizations, integrations, and manual workflows into a managed, AI-powered extensibility and automation layer.
Organizations using SAP Build report substantial quantified benefits, including 58% faster extension delivery, 44% higher development team productivity, 71% fewer business process errors, and 32% more efficient process teams.
By unifying low-code/pro-code development, workflow automation, and AI within governed SAP BTP environments, SAP Build enables faster innovation, higher-quality processes, and significant revenue gains averaging $131.3 million per year per organization.
IDC Opinion
This IDC Business Value study examines the experiences of organizations using SAP Build to extend and automate their SAP Cloud ERP environments. The research finds that SAP Build and its AI-powered capabilities play a critical role in the interviewed organizations that are modernizing their ERP landscapes while enabling a clean core, accelerating the delivery of extensions and automations, and improving productivity across IT and business teams. Study participants consistently reported that SAP Build has enabled faster development cycles, higher process quality,
and measurable improvements to business outcomes, in addition to providing the foundation for moving forward with AI-powered use cases.
Interviewed organizations have experienced the following common benefits of using SAP Build for their SAP Cloud ERP environments:
• Faster and more efficient development of extensions:
Prebuilt templates, unified workflows, AI assistance, and validation accelerate extension development while reducing effort and reliance on custom code.
• Improved process automation and higher process quality:
Automated workflows replace manual steps, reduce cycle times, and improve data accuracy through real-time validation and AI-enhanced automation.
• Higher productivity for IT staff and business users:
Automation and streamlined processes free staff time, reduce rework, and enable focus on higher-value activities, while AI-supported insights support business decision-making.
• Accelerated modernization, integration, and innovation:
Clean-core extensibility and cloud-based tools enable faster modernization, simpler integrations, and quicker delivery of new capabilities.
For SAP Cloud ERP customers, SAP Build provides an AI-powered extensibility and automation layer that supports clean-core principles, which enables organizations to add differentiated capabilities without embedding modifications in the ERP core. By unifying extension development, workflow automation, and access control within a managed SAP environment, SAP Build helps teams standardize enhancement delivery, eliminate fragmentation across tools and custom code, and scale capabilities across IT and business functions. The results below demonstrate how this approach delivers measurable improvements in development speed, team productivity, process quality, and business outcomes while establishing a foundation for AI-enabled use cases.