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SAP Cloud ALM: the ITSM Console shows every call to the ticketing system

Ticket not created, alert not raised, mapping empty. With SAP Cloud ALM connected to ServiceNow or Jira Service Management, that used to mean digging through logs, matching timestamps and, when in doubt, opening a support case with SAP. The new ITSM Console under External API Management now shows …

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Joule Studio and NVIDIA OpenShell: how SAP plans to keep AI agents on a leash

An AI agent that gets things done in your ERP needs two minders. One who knows what it is allowed to do, and one who makes sure it doesn’t slip its leash. That is exactly how SAP and NVIDIA split the work: Joule Studio checks authorisations, roles and …

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Terraform and entitlements: where depends_on belongs

How do you make sure Terraform creates the service instance only after the entitlement? The accepted answer: depends_on belongs on the data source for the service plan, not on the instance. From provider 1.22.0 onwards, it also works directly via offering and plan names.

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Users and role collections via the MCP server: the origin key mistake

Three admin tasks, each done twice: once in the SAP BTP cockpit and once through the MCP server for administration. Checking access, onboarding users, creating and assigning a role collection. The most instructive part is about the origin key: pick SAP ID Service by mistake when your users …

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n8n or SAP Integration Suite? A view from SAP

Sooner or later, someone in a meeting says: ‘n8n could do that in ten minutes.’ Quite right. Automation done, APIs wired up, an AI workflow bolted on, all in ten minutes. And when an order fails to arrive?

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CAP in September 2026: services as AI agents, and the MCP adapter

The September release of CAP is all about AI. Nobody could have seen that coming. CAP services can now be built as AI agents, the MCP adapter (in beta since June) opens existing services up to agents, and vector embeddings have arrived for CAP Node.js too.

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Topics

01SAP BTPAccounts, entitlements, costs, CAP & RAP, AI services 02CloudRuntimes, architecture, operations, Kyma & Cloud Foundry 03IdentityIAS, IPS, user management, IdM migration 04AuthorizationAuthorization concepts, roles, security 05IntegrationIntegration Suite, APIs, Event Mesh

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Martin KochTrainer, architect and developer for SAP BTP, SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori – swapped the cockpit for SAP and stayed.Siegfried ZeilingerAuthorizations, identity management and IT audit for SAP – in other words: who is allowed to do what, and why on earth.Want to contribute?Guest posts from real projects are welcome. Please read our AI policy first.Suggest a post →