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What’s New in SAP Build Q2 2025 - Release Highlights

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Q2 brought a wave of innovations to SAP Build, including improvements across governance, integration and user experience. We also had several announcements in the spotlight at SAP Sapphire 2025 around new AI capabilities, unified pricing, and of course Joule Studio, which lets you create custom Joule skills and AI agents. In case you missed it, check out our roundup of key updates from SAP Sapphire and the announcement of Joule Studio.

If you’re interested in shaping the future of SAP Build, we’ve introduced the SAP Build Discovery Initiative 2025. We’re looking for participants to meet with product teams, test early prototypes and bring your perspective to influence innovations from day one. Find more info here.

Now let’s dive into the Top 10 release innovations from Q2 2025!

Enhanced governance capabilities

1. Empowering business users to maintain rules through an application

In Process Automation projects, business users are often the content owners of decisions and the logic behind business rules. While the SAP Build Lobby is a powerful environment, it can also be challenging to navigate and maintain the content of separate artifacts. 

Now IT and dev teams can give business users access to decisions via a purpose-built application, which is opened in SAP Build Work Zone. By empowering business users to access the logic this way, it helps mitigate risks of unauthorized changes, while also reducing delays around the change management process.

Manage decisions through a purpose-built applicationManage decisions through a purpose-built application

2. Improved governance with approval flows & multi-node project transport

Strong governance frameworks are essential to ensure that your development activities remain secure and compliant. We have now released two features that support greater control and quality assurance:

  • Governance approval flows: This enables administrators to control who is authorized to create or transport projects across tenants or sub-accounts. The approval process is fully customizable, allowing organizations to implement quality gates aligned with their specific governance and compliance requirements.
  • Multi-node project transport: Approvers can now move SAP Build projects (apps, processes, automations) through a controlled Dev -> Test -> Production landscape, with approval steps and quality checks at each stage. This ensures dev teams are moving projects securely and efficiently across tenants.

Governance approval flowsGovernance approval flows

Seamless interoperability and AI-powered integration

3. Importing Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) to generate process artifacts automatically 

Great news for our automation enthusiasts – it’s now possible to import BPMN processes from other tools into SAP Build! BPMN is the industry standard for defining workflows, decisions, and interactions across systems and teams. 

Now process designers can migrate existing BPMN processes from SAP Signavio, SAP NetWeaver, and IBM to generate process artifacts automatically. This long-awaited transportability helps to speed up the logic creation significantly, as well as acting as the bridge between SAP Build and other process modeling tools. 

To get started with BPMN process imports, see the Help Portal.Import BPMN processes into SAP BuildImport BPMN processes into SAP Build

4. Improved SAP SuccessFactors integration with event discovery

From the SAP Build Lobby, developers can manage and connect SAP and non-SAP systems through the Unified Customer Landscape (UCL). Now in the UCL, developers can discover business events from SAP Cloud Application Event Hub, as well as SAP SuccessFactors solutions. This improved integration supports more relevant scenarios for HR processes, such as employee onboarding and compensation management. 

5. AI grounding in company-specific content for tailored responses

This feature makes it possible to base Joule copilot and other embedded AI capabilities on up-to-date documents and user-created content in SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition through the RAG (retrieval augmented generation) method. Rather than giving generic responses, it provides end users with more accurate and domain-specific content.

AI grounding within Joule copilotAI grounding within Joule copilot

6. Joule-based assistant to easily migrate SAP HANA applications to CAP

For simplified innovation across services, the SAP HANA Application Migration Assistant is a new extension available in SAP Build Code. This automates the conversion of XS classic applications into CAP-based services to accelerate modernization and help businesses adopt cloud-native architectures faster.

For more info, see Product Updates for SAP Build Code – June 2025 Edition

Optimized user experience and accessibility across devices

7. SAP Mobile Start as the unified mobile access point for users

SAP Mobile Start addresses the challenge of fragmented access to enterprise applications and information for mobile users. The connection of SAP Mobile Start with SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition ensures that users have consistent and secure access to business applications, tasks, and notifications, regardless of their location or device.

 8. Preview SAPUI5 updates for better UX management

To address the need for more controlled testing, we’ve introduced the ability to preview upcoming SAPUI5 versions in non-productive environments within SAP Build Work Zone. Admins can activate the preview in a staging or dev tenant, validate compatibility and confirm everything works as expected before go-live – ensuring agile development, reduced downtime, and better user experience management.

For more info, read the blog post.

SAPUI5 version preview in SAP Build Work ZoneSAPUI5 version preview in SAP Build Work Zone

9. Local Entry Point (LEP) to simplify access to standalone sites

The new Local Entry Point (LEP) concept of SAP Build Work Zone simplifies how SaaS application providers integrate business solutions into SAP BTP. Providers can generate a standalone entry-point site in the consumer’s subaccount, eliminating the extra efforts and complexity required to set up their own instances.

To get started, see the Help Portal.

10. Updates to Mobile Development Kit for enhanced UI, APIs and more

The latest release to SAP Mobile Development Kit (MDK) has brought several new updates for customers, including the newest version of Mobile Services Client in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Among the newest enhancements to UI is support for donut charts, providing a new way to visualize data and emphasize different aspects of datasets.

See all the latest updates: What’s New in Mobile Development Kit client 25.6

Ready to see these in action?

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To learn more and see live demos of the latest release highlights, join us for the next What’s New in SAP Build Q2 2025 Webinar! 

👉Register for your preferred time slot: