Leverage AI directly on your BigQuery data from your SAP Agents

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Introduction

We are thrilled to announce the release of the BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP, a game-changing tool that brings the cutting-edge capabilities of Google Cloud's BigQuery AI/ML directly into your SAP ABAP environment. This powerful SDK empowers SAP developers to seamlessly integrate generative AI and vector search functionalities into their applications, unlocking new levels of intelligence and efficiency for your enterprise data.

For years, SAP systems have been the backbone of countless businesses, managing critical data and processes. Now, with the BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP, you can leverage the massive scalability and advanced AI/ML features of BigQuery to gain deeper insights, automate complex tasks, and build innovative applications on top of your existing SAP infrastructure.

BigQuery AI/ML SDK is embedded within our ABAP SDK for Google Cloud and is available with the latest version V1.10 of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

What can you do with the BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP?

This SDK is packed with features designed to make AI and vector search accessible and easy to implement within your ABAP applications. With the SDK, you can,

1. Invoke Gemini Infused Queries to analyse your enterprise data:

Imagine being able to ask natural language questions about your SAP enterprise data stored on BigQuery and receive intelligent, context-aware answers directly within your ABAP applications or Agents. The SDK allows you to harness the power of Gemini models on BigQuery data to:

• Generate insights and summaries: Automatically extract key information and generate concise summaries from large datasets. Think about summarising customer feedback or identifying key trends in sales data.
• Drive critical business decisions: Based on the Gemini based insights from your BigQuery data, take follow on business critical steps or actions from your SAP applications to drive valuable business outcomes.
• Perform intelligent data exploration: Use natural language to explore your data and uncover hidden patterns without writing complex SQL queries.

Refer to the link here for more details.

2. Generate and Manage Embeddings for Low-Cost Vector Database:

Leverage BigQuery as a powerful and cost-effective vector database for your enterprise data. The SDK enables you to:

• Generate embeddings directly from ABAP: Create vector representations of your SAP data (text, documents, product descriptions, product images, videos, etc.) using BigQuery's capabilities to leverage Embeddings models.
• Store and manage embeddings in BigQuery: Leverage BigQuery's scalable and cost-efficient storage to house your vector embeddings.
• Benefit from a unified data platform: Keep your enterprise data and vector embeddings in one place, simplifying data management and reducing complexity.

This eliminates the need for dedicated vector databases, offering significant cost savings and streamlining your AI/ML infrastructure. This also becomes crucial to drive accurate vector similarity search (next section) using the SDK.

You can now think of leveraging this module as a follow-on activity to replicating enterprise data from SAP or non SAP systems using our BigQuery Connector or BigQuery Toolkit, or any other tool. Refer to the link here for more details.

3. Invoke Vector Search on your Enterprise Data:

Unlock powerful semantic search capabilities across your enterprise data stored in BigQuery directly from your SAP ABAP Agents or applications. The SDK allows you to:

• Perform similarity searches: Find items that are semantically similar to a given natural language query or vector. This is invaluable for tasks like finding similar products, identifying related customer inquiries, or discovering relevant documents.
• Build recommendation systems: Leverage vector similarity to build personalized recommendation engines within your SAP applications.
• Enhance knowledge retrieval: Quickly and accurately retrieve relevant information from vast amounts of unstructured data.

You can use this feature to efficiently RAG your AI models or leverage the results to drive efficient business decisions. Information retrieved through vector search can also serve as a knowledge base for your ABAP based Agents. Refer to the link here for more details.

4. Leverage BigQuery to store and manage your enterprise queries:

To support all the above features you need a central repository of your enterprise for tools like BigQuery AI/ML SDK to refer and run queries. Out of the box, BigQuery AI/ML SDK leverages BigQuery as the primary query repository to save and manage your queries. Given the saved query name, the SDK invokes the query by fetching it and running it for the features described in the above section, based on the models selected by the developer.

Refer to the link here for more details.

Below diagram shows the developer flow and possibilities that you can achieve with the BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP.

Customer Use Cases:

The BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP opens up a plethora of exciting possibilities for SAP customers:

• Intelligent Product Recommendations: Enhance your SAP Commerce Cloud or S/4HANA with AI-powered product recommendations based on semantic similarity of product descriptions and customer behavior.
• Smarter Customer Service: Enable your customer service agents to quickly find relevant knowledge base articles or past interactions by performing semantic searches on support tickets and documents.
• Enhanced Procurement Processes: Improve supplier selection by identifying vendors with similar product offerings or sustainability initiatives based on document analysis.
• Optimized Logistics and Supply Chain: Analyze textual data from shipping manifests or delivery notes to identify potential bottlenecks or predict delays more accurately.
• Fraud Detection: Identify unusual patterns in financial transactions or customer behavior by embedding and comparing relevant data points.
• Personalized Marketing Campaigns: Segment customers based on their interests and preferences extracted from textual data like product reviews or social media interactions.
• Improved Internal Knowledge Management: Allow employees to easily find relevant internal documents, policies, and expert knowledge using natural language search.

Get Started Today!

The BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP empowers your SAP developers to build intelligent applications with ease. By leveraging the power of Gemini AI and vector search within the familiar ABAP environment, you can unlock new insights from your enterprise data, automate tasks, and drive innovation across your organization.

BigQuery AI/ML SDK is available with the latest version V1.10 of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

Stay tuned for more updates, detailed documentation, and tutorials on how to leverage the full potential of the BigQuery AI/ML SDK for ABAP. Let us know your use cases that you would like to explore by starting a conversation on our Google Cloud Channel. We are excited to see the innovative solutions you will build.