SAP has released its latest Q2 2025 updates for SAP Build, introducing innovations designed to improve automation, AI integration, governance, and user experience across the platform.
As a trusted SAP partner, On Device Solutions has been helping organisations unlock the value of SAP technologies for many years. And, in this article, we summarise the key takeaways from the latest release and explain what they mean for businesses looking to streamline operations, strengthen governance, and empower users.
The SAP Build Discovery Initiative
SAP continues to invest in co-innovation with its customers. The SAP Build Discovery Initiative offers participants the opportunity to test early prototypes, share feedback, and influence the product roadmap from day one. The programme requires just one hour per month and provides flexibility for participants to pause or cancel at any time. For organisations keen to shape the evolution of SAP Build, this initiative represents a valuable chance to ensure new capabilities align with real-world needs.
Joule Studio – AI for Business Processes
One of the most exciting announcements was the general availability of Joule Studio, the low-code environment within SAP Build that enables businesses to create, manage, and deploy AI-driven use cases.
Joule Studio supports two core capabilities:
- Joule Skills (now generally available): modular, reusable logic blocks that tell Joule exactly what to do. For example, retrieving a tax statement, starting a workflow, or pulling a sales order. These are deterministic, rule-based actions that deliver precise results.
- AI Agents (planned for later in the year): intelligent copilots capable of reasoning, planning, and acting across SAP and non-SAP systems. These will solve broader business problems by taking multiple steps independently.
This distinction ensures businesses can tackle both straightforward, rule-based tasks and more complex, cross-system challenges.
Practical Use Cases
Early customer pilots identified five key use cases for Joule Skills:
- Navigation skills – helping employees quickly locate policies, documents, or product guides.
- System transactions – automating structured tasks such as expense submissions, order management, or ticket creation.
- Decision assistants – offering actionable insights for credit risk evaluations, performance forecasts, or warehouse planning.
- Data access – retrieving key data points like shipment tracking, financial insights, or stock levels.
- Workflow execution – guiding users through structured processes such as approvals, maintenance requests, or supplier contract renewals.
These capabilities allow organisations to extend Joule in a way that reflects their own processes and priorities.
Strengthened Governance Capabilities
Governance was another key focus this quarter. SAP Build now introduces:
- Approval flows for IT administrators – ensuring that projects and transports across tenants are reviewed and authorised before moving forward.
- Multi-project transport management – enabling structured oversight of project migrations between environments.
- Enhanced governance requests dashboard – offering IT admins visibility over approval status and project history.
These features reduce risk, ensure compliance with internal policies, and provide transparency throughout the development lifecycle.
Manage Decisions App
A new Manage Decisions App allows business users to make logic updates directly – without needing developer intervention. By restricting access to specific decision artefacts within projects, organisations can empower business users to make the necessary changes while preventing accidental modifications to other assets.
Features include one-click deployment, built-in design validation, and full version history. This innovation reduces delays, streamlines workflows, and enhances collaboration between business and IT.
Improved Interoperability and Integration
Q2 also brings significant updates in integration:
- SAP SuccessFactors integration with Event Mesh is now available out-of-the-box, simplifying the design of event-driven processes such as onboarding workflows.
- BPMN Import Support enables businesses to import models from external tools directly into SAP Build Process Automation, significantly reducing development time while maintaining documentation accuracy.
These improvements make it easier for organisations to connect SAP Build with their existing landscape and accelerate automation initiatives.
Digital Workplace Innovations
Several enhancements were introduced to strengthen the digital workplace:
- Document Grounding: Joule can now draw on company-specific knowledge stored in SAP Build Work Zone, ensuring AI responses are relevant, reliable, and traceable to official documents.
- Mobile Start Expansion: SAP Mobile Start now serves as the unified mobile entry point for all Work Zone editions, including advanced and SuccessFactors, eliminating the need for separate apps.
- UI5 Preview Mode: Organisations can now test upcoming UI5 versions in non-productive environments before rollout, helping prevent disruption when updates reach production.
- Local Entry Point for SaaS Solutions: A new service plan for Work Zone enables developers to provide a launchpad-style entry point for BTP-based solutions, reducing the complexity of delivering role-based access and integration.
These updates collectively enhance trust, mobility, stability, and extensibility across the SAP Build digital workplace.
In conclusion, Q2 2025 marks an important milestone for SAP Build, with significant strides in AI-powered automation, governance, and user empowerment. Joule Studio’s general availability provides a practical way for organisations to embed AI in business processes, while new governance features ensure compliance and control. Additions such as the Manage Decisions App, BPMN import, and digital workplace innovations further strengthen SAP Build’s value proposition.
This article naturally follows on from our recent blog post, SAP Build Delivers Transformative Gains for SAP Customers, which showcased the platform’s ability to accelerate development timelines, lower total cost of ownership, and empower organisations to achieve more with fewer resources. Together, both articles chart SAP Build’s journey from game-changing promise to real-world impact, reinforcing how businesses can both innovate faster and govern with greater confidence using SAP Build.
For organisations seeking to optimise their SAP investments, the new updates reinforce SAP Build as a powerful toolkit for automation, AI, and digital workplace transformation. To explore how these innovations could benefit your business, get in touch with On Device Solutions today. Our SAP experts can help you identify practical use cases, accelerate adoption, and ensure you get the most value from your SAP Build journey.
