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PLATFORM · SAP · JOULE

Joule is the lock-in,
not the unlock.

SAP's generative AI copilot, embedded across S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba and SuccessFactors. Sold as the modernisation path, architected to make leaving harder. You do not have to open by cancelling it — start by building the same surface beside it.

  • You own the prompts and the evals
  • No AI entitlement fee
  • Runs where you choose
Start an ignite buildRead the ERP agent brief
The estatereplaceable
  • Joule on S/4HANA CloudConversational surface
  • Joule on AribaWorkflow agents
  • Joule on SuccessFactorsCode drafting
  • SAP Business Technology PlatformGrounding index
  • ABAP workflowsModel layer
  • SAP audit recordsAudit-trail ledger
Joule · S/4HANA Cloud · Ariba · SuccessFactors · BTPyours on commit one
Why this domain exists

Joule is sold as the modernisation path.
It is built to make leaving harder.

SAP's published schedule ends mainstream ECC support in December 2027, and Joule is what the account team brings to that conversation. The capability is real. Its commercial shape is not.

Joule is SAP's generative AI assistant, built on SAP Business Technology Platform and embedded across S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba and SuccessFactors. It answers natural-language queries against SAP data, drafts ABAP, and automates workflows that write back into SAP transactions. Every interaction routes through SAP infrastructure, so every workflow built on Joule deepens the dependency on SAP's roadmap, pricing and terms.

Priced on top of what you already hold

The AI entitlement is added to the S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba and SuccessFactors licences you already signed. Coverage grows by adding entitlements, so the bill grows with the estate.

Routed through the vendor's platform

Every prompt, every completion and every audit record runs on SAP Business Technology Platform. The evidence of how your workflows behave sits inside the estate you are negotiating against.

Locked to the vendor's model selection

Joule ships SAP's model choice on SAP's release calendar. Swapping a model becomes a vendor conversation rather than an engineering one.

Seat stackSAP's published licensing model. The stack is theirs, not ours.
On top of what you holdPriced onto the licences already on the contract.
  1. The SAP licences already on your contract
  2. Joule priced on top of what you already hold
  3. Routed through the vendor's platform, on the vendor's model selection
STAGE 01Ignite

Build the surface beside the one you rent.

A conversational layer of your own, grounded on your own records, running next to Joule. Nothing retired, nothing migrated — the SAP contract is untouched on day one.

Natural-language query surface

The same conversational query layer, built against your data, your prompts and an eval suite your team can re-run. Every call auditable, every model choice yours.

Runs beside Joule on S/4HANA Cloud

Grounding on your own records

Retrieval over the transactions, documents and master data you already hold, so answers are grounded where the data lives rather than where the vendor indexes it.

Reads S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba and SuccessFactors

Model choice

Pick the foundation model that fits the workflow and swap it without a vendor migration. Joule ships SAP's model selection; you ship yours.

Runs beside Joule on SAP Business Technology Platform

Audit-trail ledger

Every prompt, every completion and every workflow change logged on infrastructure you operate. Evidence gathering becomes continuous instead of quarterly.

Runs beside SAP Business Technology Platform

Start an ignite build
STAGE 02Reforge

What your team already built on Joule, rebuilt as software you own.

The prompts, the workflow skills, the ABAP drafting and the integration plumbing your engineers have already invested in. Same logic, modern substrate — every line yours.

IN — what you run today
  • Joule on S/4HANA Cloud
  • Joule on Ariba
  • Joule on SuccessFactors
  • SAP Business Technology Platform
  • ABAP workflows
  • SAP audit records
SAIF

the saasinator AI Factory — glass-walled delivery

  • Brief
  • Build
  • Evals
  • Deploy
  • Transfer
OUT — what you own afterwards
  • Conversational surface
  • Workflow agents
  • Code drafting
  • Grounding index
  • Model layer
  • Audit-trail ledger

Product names are SAP's own. What comes out the other side is yours — source, models, prompts, evals and pipeline, transferred on commit one.

Prompt and skill rebuild

The prompts and workflow skills your team has already written against Joule, rebuilt as versioned assets with an eval suite your engineers read and re-run.

Joule · SAP Business Technology Platform

Workflow automation rebuild

Approval flows, exception routing and sequenced actions rebuilt as agents your engineers operate, writing back into the transaction only when a human signs off.

Joule on S/4HANA Cloud and Ariba

ABAP drafting rebuild

Code drafting tuned to your repository, your style and your CI gates. The code your team reviews is the code that ships — no vendor-flavoured runtime around it.

ABAP · S/4HANA Cloud

Integration and audit plumbing rebuild

The connectors and audit records that carry AI work between systems, rebuilt as typed contracts running on infrastructure you operate and can inspect.

SAP Business Technology Platform

Coverage

Four surfaces. The same pattern in each.

Wherever your team has already built on Joule is where the entitlement bites hardest. These are the surfaces we rebuild, and what sits inside each.

Conversational surface
  • Natural-language query over your own SAP records
  • Grounding on S/4HANA Cloud, Ariba and SuccessFactors data
  • Prompts and eval suite your engineers edit directly
Workflow automation
  • Approval flows and exception routing as agents you operate
  • Write-back into SAP transactions on human sign-off
  • Order-to-cash, Procure-to-pay and Hire-to-retire on one layer
Code drafting
  • ABAP drafting tuned to your repository and your style guide
  • Review gated by your CI rather than a vendor runtime
  • The code your team reviews is the code that ships
Governance
  • Every prompt, completion and workflow change logged
  • Audit routed through infrastructure you operate
  • Model choice recorded per workflow, not set per estate
Functional areas this domain touches
HR & Workforce
Plan a rebuild
STAGE 03Liberate

The entitlement comes out. The workflows stay — as software you own.

Liberation is earned, not sold. By the time the Joule line comes off the SAP bill, you have watched us build the surface and run the evals that gate it.

The licence ledger

Illustrative

The commercial shape of an AI entitlement, as a buyer reads it

Basis of charge
An AI entitlement priced per user, sitting on top of the platform licence you already hold. Coverage is additive; so is the invoice.
Discount condition
Conditional on the term of the underlying platform agreement, not on the AI layer standing on its own merits.
Deployment
Vendor platform. The AI runtime, the grounding index and the audit record sit inside the estate.
On exit
Prompts, skills and workflow configuration sit inside the vendor's platform — not in an asset you hold.
Cost of staying————

Shape only — the direction of travel, not a quantity. Your own curve comes from your own renewal schedule.

Illustrative. This is our reading of a commercial pattern, not a quotation from any SAP agreement — no contract text, no clause references, no figures.

Joule replacement

The conversational surface across finance, procurement and people, running on software you own and retired into only once it is carrying the work.

Joule · SAP Business Technology Platform

Joule on Ariba replacement

Sourcing and supplier conversations answered against your own procurement records, without an AI line item on the procurement contract.

Joule · Ariba

Joule on SuccessFactors replacement

People queries, case routing and policy answers rebuilt as agents your own engineers operate against your own policy.

Joule · SuccessFactors

Plan a liberation
How it is built

Glass-walled from brief to transfer. Nothing behind a black box.

SAIF is our delivery method and it runs in the open. You watch the build as it happens, read the evals that gate every release, and keep every artefact — including the ones that record what did not work.

  1. 01

    Brief

    One workflow, scoped against your own data and your own renewal position.

  2. 02

    Build

    Agentic delivery against your systems, visible while it runs.

  3. 03

    Evals

    Every release gated on tests you can read and re-run yourself.

  4. 04

    Deploy

    Into infrastructure you control, alongside the system it stands beside.

  5. 05

    Transfer

    Your team runs it. We do not leave until they can.

You own it from commit one

Source, models, prompts, evals and pipeline. Not a licence to use what we built — the asset itself.

Two weeks to a working build

A working build against your own systems in two weeks. Fixed scope, fixed bill.

It runs beside the Joule entitlement first

Nothing is retired on faith. The Joule entitlement goes when the replacement is carrying the work.

See the methodology
Proof

What we will put in writing.

100%
IP transferred on commit one
0
AI entitlement fees on top of the SAP licence
2 weeks
to a working build · fixed scope, fixed bill
Our commitment

Every engagement starts with a scoped working build against your own systems. If it doesn't convince you, you pay nothing — and you keep the code either way.

The ask

Bring one Joule use case and your SAP renewal date.

Ten working days. Which capability to build first, what the entitlement adds to the SAP bill, and what owning the same outcome costs to build. You keep the analysis.

Start an ignite buildSee how we build
Fixed feeTen working daysNo commitment beyond the diagnostic