Launching SAP Build and Collaborating with Coursera to Empower a New Generation of Developers, SAP Aims to Unleash Business Expertise

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SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) Today at the SAP TechEd conference, SAP SE launched a powerful new offering to catalyze business transformation by unleashing the expertise of those who know best – business users. Drawing on the unique depth and breadth of the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Build is a low-code offering that puts SAP’s world-class enterprise technology in the hands of business users, giving them direct access to the end-to-end processes, data and context they need to make smarter decisions and drive innovation quickly. The solution empowers SAP users of all skill levels to create and augment enterprise applications, automate processes, and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity.

“SAP Build uniquely brings together the world’s most powerful business applications with a platform that’s been truly designed to rapidly unleash business experts,” said Juergen Mueller, SAP Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board. “In a volatile business landscape, SAP Build and the full suite of innovations we’re launching today – from our new partnership with Coursera to enhancements across our enterprise portfolio to maximize productivity and shorten time-to-value – ensure customers can future-proof their business and extract maximum value from their technology investments.”

SAP Build brings the best of SAP’s low-code offerings together in a unified development experience. It gives business users full visibility into the dynamic range of their processes as well as real-time insights and easy to-use tools. With SAP Build, users can easily integrate systems; intelligently monitor, analyze, and automate processes; and build applications for the last mile of innovation – all without moving their data into an external system. The solution also includes 500+ pre-built industry and business-process templates to accelerate development.

“Given that the demand for contemporary digital solutions is greater than the ability of professional developers to supply them, IDC envisions that business professionals will become increasingly involved in initiatives to create digital solutions to solve pressing business problems, said Arnal Dayaratna, Research Vice President, Software Development, IDC. “Worldwide, IDC expects more than 100 million business professionals will become involved in the production of digital solutions over the next ten years as the importance of digitization continues to achieve increase importance. SAP Build’s low-code development platforms empower business developers to harness the conjunction of their domain expertise and technology skills to rapidly build and iterate on the development of digital solutions at scale.”

"Thanks to SAP Build, we easily built a better experience for our customers while dramatically reducing our development costs by 90%,” said Spencer Cook, XM Advocates Lead at leading experience-management company Qualtrics. “Our business experts were able to quickly build the application to enhance our customer reference program which is going to catapult customer satisfaction."

As every company becomes a technology company, SAP also recognizes the increasing premium put on the skills and insights only professional developers can deliver. We’re committing to upskilling two million developers worldwide by 2025 by tripling its free learning offerings on the SAP Learning site, partnering with world-class learning platform Coursera to expand paths to success with SAP, and empowering new audiences.

“I’m happy to announce that today SAP is launching an entry-level Professional Certificate on Coursera. This certificate is designed for learners of all backgrounds, no college degree or industry experience is required," said Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera. “It will prepare learners for entry-level job roles and in some of the most in-demand fields. We’re honoured to partner with SAP to increase access to job-related skills and to expand economic opportunity for everyone.”

These announcements come amid a host of innovations announced at TechEd to help our customers and partners continue driving the transformations they need to stay successful. From an all-new native web entry point for business apps, which increases productivity in the cloud and out of the box, to innovations across our intelligent application, digital supply chain and sustainability solutions, among others – at SAP TechEd 2022, we’re unleashing the power of business.

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