[CONTENT] - SAP BDC, Business AI reference architecture

[jmsrpp]

Backlog for RA delivery by September 30:

1. Agents combining data products from SAP & non-SAP data
2. Consumption of agent output in Joule
3. Tie-in with A2A, via Joule and third party
4. Train anywhere, infer with SAP AI Core

[seeobjectively]

For the first flow (Intelligent Data Agents combining data products from SAP & non-SAP data), I have some thoughts:

• Data Products can be shared with and installed on HANA Cloud via delta share. The data on the share can be accessed via SQL using HANA's SQL on Files functionality
• For custom agents, Agent Builder on Joule Studio can be used to build Agents that interact with HANA databases by adding HANA as a tool.

I've done some quick whiteboarding to illustrate this possibility -

Some open questions/gaps

• Availability of business context when access is at a lower level via SQL (ie. what data is in the DP, which tables are available/related). To do this, another tool could be made available to the agent to get access to the UCL discovery service to get information about what data products are available
• Non-SAP data systems - what's supported outside of Databricks, custom data products and related functionality

Please feel free to comment on whether this is an oversimplification or if there are other approaches in mind.

[s-krishnamoorthy]

For # 3 , a demo for the PoV was shared earlier: sfsf-job-req-demo.mp4
Will keep the https://github.tools.sap/platform-adoption-advisory/business-dataagent updated as well , including a refactored readme of the initial version that's there . Thanks.

[jmsrpp]

We'll update the architecture flow to show consumption of DP from SAP BDC. Status quo refererence architecture is here.