SAP Business AI in Practice: Use Joule, Build on the Generative AI Hub and Design SAP Agents

For SAP functional consultants, BTP and ABAP developers, architects and centre of excellence leads. Know what SAP Business AI really offers as of November 2026: Joule, Joule Work and Joule Studio, what is free and what needs a paid tenant, Base and Premium AI, and how much authority to give an agent. Then put the developer half to work: build a masked, filtered pipeline with a model fallback in the shape of the Generative AI Hub’s orchestration, ground answers in supplier policies with citations and the HANA Cloud vector engine, check extracted invoices, predict missing material groups with SAP’s open tabular model against a baseline, design a Joule agent on paper with its approvals and cost ceiling, inspect SAP’s CAP MCP server, choose an SAP certification and write your own plan. Every lab runs free, on Groq’s free tier or in mock mode, with no SAP licence.