I Will Take One SAP Business AI To Go, Please

The "SAP Business AI" page shows up as part of the "All Products" list on the SAP website. But don't be fooled: SAP Business AI is not a product. I think SAP Business AI is what happens when you have a hodgepodge of AI and quasi-AI features that have accumulated into your product portfolio, and you want a sticky name that people can remember.

I'm not saying that SAP doesn't have AI in its products - of course it does. There are data science and machine learning-ish features like forecasting in SAP Intelligent Agriculture. There are (lots of) generative AI features enabling things like SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement. These are just a few of many.

But if you want to actually find out where AI meets up with products relevant to your business, you should ignore the SAP Business AI page. Instead, go to the Discovery Center AI catalog, pick the relevant thing in the "Products" drop-down, and click the tiles to get a very nice info view. Many of them even have pricing information! If you're a techno-dork, follow a similar path to the SAP BTP services page, and search for "AI Enabled". Same deal: click the tiles to find out more. The information is pretty good.

Maybe someday we'll get to a point where all software is assumed to have AI suffused throughout, and we don't really need to see whether some feature uses AI. Until then, I think we're going to have to do a lot of filtering. PM

This story previously appeared in the Boring Enterprise Nerdletter #73. Subscribe now to get new stories in your Inbox!