June 01, 2023

Episode 95: Introduction to SAP Business Application Studio – SAP’s integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud.

48 minutes

In this episode of the SAP BTP Talk, host Niklas Siemer is joined by Yuval Anafi, the lead product owner of SAP Business Application Studio, to discuss capabilities and features of SAP Business Application Studio, the next-generation development environment from SAP.

Yuval shares his experience at SAP and the principles behind SAP Business Application Studio, emphasizing standards, openness, flexibility, and guided developer experiences. He discusses how developers can get started, its support for various programming languages, low-code/no-code capabilities, and its connection with SAP Build. The conversation also covers its open-source foundations, compatibility with Visual Studio Code, upcoming roadmap items, and the integration of AI to enhance developer productivity.

Also in this episode:

SAP Business Application Studio is SAP’s next-generation development environment, focused on providing the best productivity tools for building enterprise-ready SAP applications.

The tool is based on open standards, offering flexibility and the ability to integrate with a wide range of community-driven tools and extensions.

SAP Business Application Studio provides guided experiences to help developers, especially those new to SAP technologies, be more productive.

The tool supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks, including ABAP, Java, Node.js, and more, making it a versatile development environment.

While ABAP coding is not currently supported within SAP Business Application Studio, the team is working closely with the ABAP tooling team to explore ways to extend the tool’s capabilities in this area.

SAP Business Application Studio is closely integrated with SAP Build, allowing for collaboration and reuse of building blocks across different tools and personas within an organization.

The open-source foundation of the tool, based on Microsoft VS Code OSS, ensures compatibility with the latest innovations from the Microsoft developer community and access to a vast marketplace of extensions.

Upcoming roadmap items include simplifying SaaS development on BTP, enhancing the consumption of SAP Business Events, and introducing visual storyboarding and graphical tools for Fiori UI development.

SAP is exploring the integration of AI and generative AI models within SAP Business Application Studio to assist developers in writing code more efficiently and with higher productivity.

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About Yunal Ranafi:

Yuval Anafi is the Lead Product Owner of the SAP Business Application Studio and the former SAP WebIDE. He and his team are working closely with SAP technology teams, SAP LOBs and SAP developer community, on defining the right solution roadmap.

Yuval is based at SAP in Raanana, Israel and he joined SAP at 2004 and had several roles and tasks across SAP, mainly around the SAP developer tools area, starting with SAP Visual composer, continue with SAP Gateway Eclipse tools, SAP Web IDE and SAP Business Application Studio.

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Links for more SAP Business Application Studio information:

SAP Business Application Studio Product Page

SAP Business Application Studio Community

SAP Business Application Studio Learning Journey

SAP Business Application Studio SAP Store

SAP Business Application Studio Road map

SAP Business Application Studio VS Code extension

Links for “What’s New” in SAP BTP Category:

SAP Business Application Studio remote development extension for Visual Studio Code

High-productivity experience for pro-code developers creating UI extensions for ABAP RESTful application programming

SAP Build Process Automation – Reusable Rules

SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime – Space quota page redesign and updates

What’s new for SAP BTP

SAP BTP road map items

Links for “Customer Story of the Month” Category:

More information about SAP Innovation Award participant 2023, Nestle S.A. and how they used SAP Business Application Studio here.

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Hosted by Niklas Siemer – Product Specialist SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP SE

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