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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

What is SAP Business AI?

SAP Business AI brings Joule, SAP's AI assistant, and Joule Agents into SAP's cloud applications so teams can work with business context inside the tools they already use. Joule supports intent-driven work across business functions, turning transactional tasks into connected workflows, while Joule Agents take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end, drawing on the SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Business Data Cloud. Capabilities span finance, supply chain, procurement, HR and customer experience, with enterprise-grade security, GDPR-aligned data processing and tenant-level data isolation. Access is organized in layers: Base AI is included with SAP cloud subscriptions at no extra cost, while Premium AI capabilities are consumed through AI Units.

How to use SAP Business AI

  1. 1

    Activate Joule base

    Customers with existing SAP cloud subscriptions can activate Joule base for free to get started immediately.

  2. 2

    Follow the implementation learning journey

    Complete SAP's official learning journey on implementing Joule across your organizational system landscape for guidance on prerequisites, provisioning, configuration, security and activation.

  3. 3

    Monitor AI Unit consumption

    Use SAP for Me as the central hub to activate AI capabilities and track AI Unit consumption, balances and billing in near real time.

SAP Business AI Features

Joule AI assistant for intent-driven work across business functions

Joule Agents that take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end

Grounded in SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Business Data Cloud

Embedded AI across finance, supply chain, procurement, HR and customer experience

Role-specific assistance within SAP cloud applications

Enterprise-grade security with GDPR-aligned data processing

Tenant-level data isolation with no customer data stored in Joule

AI Unit consumption monitoring in SAP for Me

SAP Business AI Use Cases

  • Finance teams supporting risk management and forecasting

  • Supply chain and procurement teams optimizing planning, supplier management and inventory

  • HR teams enhancing recruiting and employee engagement

  • Customer experience teams improving insights, lead generation and campaign performance

  • Administrators activating and governing Joule across an SAP landscape

SAP Business AI FAQs

Joule is SAP's AI assistant that enables intent-driven work across business functions by transforming transactional tasks into connected workflows. It is grounded in SAP's harmonized data and trusted architecture.

SAP positions Joule as offering deep enterprise integration, business-context awareness and embedded functionality across SAP's cloud portfolio. It provides role-specific assistance with enterprise-grade security and GDPR compliance while maintaining data isolation within customer SAP tenancies.

SAP applies data masking and pseudonymization, keeps customer data within the customer's own SAP tenancy with tenant-level isolation, and stores no customer data within Joule. Processing follows GDPR requirements and SAP's data protection policy.

Customers with existing SAP cloud subscriptions can activate Joule base for free. SAP also offers an official learning journey covering prerequisites, provisioning, configuration, security and activation.

Joule Agents are ready-to-use AI agents that support decision support and task automation for non-deterministic workflows. They select from tools such as Joule skills, other agents and third-party applications, then reason on results to make recommendations.

AI Units are SAP's single virtual currency for accessing and running Premium AI capabilities, purchased annually via SKU 8019164. They sit in one shared pool and are consumed only when Premium AI actively performs work; unused units expire after 12 months.

All SAP-delivered autonomous enterprise agents in 2026 are priced at 0.02 AI Units per agent action. A task may require multiple actions, and no AI Units are consumed when an agent is not running.

Each assigned user is charged 35 AI Units per month, including a pooled allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month. Requests beyond the pooled allowance are billed at 2 AI Units per 1,000 requests.

SAP Business AI Official Information

Company
SAP SE
Website
https://sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence.html
Documentation
https://help.sap.com/

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SAP Business AI Pricing

Freemium

Base AI is included with SAP cloud subscriptions at no extra cost. Premium AI is consumed through AI Units purchased annually (SKU 8019164); unused AI Units expire after 12 months. Agent actions are priced at 0.02 AI Units per action.

Base AI

0/ included with SAP cloud subscription

Included at no extra cost for customers with an SAP cloud subscription, with no AI Units required. Gives every user access to Joule for everyday tasks and embedded AI in SAP applications.

  • Joule access for everyday tasks such as finding information and navigating applications
  • In-context guidance inside SAP applications
  • Embedded AI capabilities within SAP applications
  • No AI Units consumed

Premium AI

/ AI Units purchased annually

Moves beyond answering questions to doing work, centered on agents that take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end. Also includes high-value AI services and SAP Joule for Consultants.

  • AI agents that take action and run workflows end to end
  • High-value AI services included
  • SAP Joule for Consultants, the only remaining per-user offering
  • AI Units drawn from one shared pool across Premium AI capabilities
  • Agent actions priced at 0.02 AI Units per action

SAP Joule for Consultants

35AI Units / per user per month

A per-user Premium AI offering charged at 35 AI Units per user per month, including a pooled request allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month.

  • 35 AI Units per user per month
  • Pooled allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month
  • Requests pooled across all users
  • Additional requests billed at 2 AI Units per 1,000 requests
  • Assigned users can be adjusted monthly

Custom-built AI

0/ free through the end of 2026

SAP's platform for organizations building their own agents, applications and workflows beyond packaged offerings. Running custom-built agents in a productive Joule Studio runtime environment is free through the end of 2026.

  • Build your own agents, applications and workflows
  • Runs in a productive Joule Studio runtime environment
  • Free through the end of 2026

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