With the release of version 2508, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is taking a significant leap forward in enhancing user experience by offering Joule and Embedded AI features as part of its Base AI package.
These features are designed to streamline daily operations and provide a more intuitive interaction with your ERP system—all come at NO additional cost. They can be easily activated through the Base AI package or are already included in your standard cloud subscription, providing unrestricted access without the need for additional AI unit purchases.
Here's what you need to know about the scope of these AI features, along with guidance on how to activate them and set them up in your system.
Joule Base AI Features
Meet Joule, your all-in-one AI co-pilot in the SAP ecosystem, designed to simplify your work processes by providing an intuitive, personalized, and smart user experience. With skills and capabilities that cover a wide array of tasks, Joule supports approximately 80% of the most frequently used business processes in SAP cloud applications.
- Informational Capabilities: Joule delivers concise responses to user inquiries made in natural language, offering helpful content summaries to assist you effectively.
- Navigational Capabilities: It recommends relevant applications to ensure a seamless workflow, with over 500 navigation scenarios in SAP Cloud ERP.
- Transactional Capabilities: Joule provides detailed insights into business objects without needing to open specific applications, facilitating direct management of tasks with more than 45 transaction scenarios.
Activation Method: Easily activate Joule features by visiting the SAP Store.
You can self-order the free SKU through the SAP Store or contact your sales representative to place an order. Visit the SAP Store page to explore and activate Joule Base AI authorization.
For detailed steps and guidance, refer to the following resources
- Initial Setup
- Joule Onboarding Guide
- Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Additionally, SAP provides guided missions through the Discovery Center to help you complete Joule's configuration:
- Establish a Unified Joule Instance
- Activate Joule with SAP Cloud ERP
Embedded Base AI Features
These features are seamlessly integrated into your cloud ERP modules, significantly improving operational efficiency by automating and simplifying tasks.
- Smart Summarization: Generate intelligent summaries of business objects designed with Fiori Elements.
- Easy Filter: Use natural language to describe the data you need and filter reports effectively, applicable across more than 1,100 reports.
- Enterprise Search: Perform comprehensive searches using natural language.
Activation Method: To activate these features, users or partners need to register and accept SAP AI terms once, after which SAP will enable the AI features and inform you.
SAP offers comprehensive configuration and user guides for these capabilities:
Machine Learning Base AI Features
As part of the foundational AI package, these machine learning capabilities automate and streamline specific business processes, offering significant operational benefits without any additional cost or licensing requirements.
- Sales Order Extraction: Automatically create sales orders from unstructured data such as PDF or image format purchase orders.
- Sales Order Auto Completion: Provide suggestions for missing data fields in sales documents to expedite the completion of sales orders and customer return orders.
Activation Method: These machine learning features are part of the embedded AI capabilities and require no extra licensing. They are included in the standard cloud subscription, offering unrestricted access.
Leverage the full power of SAP's AI investments by exploring and activating these features today.
With the embedded AI features, Joule's capabilities, and machine learning scenarios, you can enhance user satisfaction, boost productivity, and save time, making your business operations more efficient than ever.
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