SAP AI Services — prebuilt AI on BTP (Data Attribute Recommendation, Translation Hub, Personalized Recommendation, Document AI)

What "AI services" means on BTP

SAP's training material places a row of prebuilt services at the top of the AI Foundation map (C337). They were long marketed as SAP AI Business Services: task-specific, SAP-managed, called through REST APIs, billed per document, character, record or call. Their promise is that you consume a capability — extract, translate, classify, recommend — without owning a model. Since the generative AI hub arrived, part of that row has been re-absorbed into foundation models, and SAP pruned it in 2026. The four services on the classic slide now have two different statuses, and a consultant has to know which is which before drawing an architecture.

Why it matters

• A 2026 proposal built on Data Attribute Recommendation or Personalized Recommendation cannot be renewed after the current term — the customer inherits a forced migration.
• Translation Hub and Document AI are the two prebuilt services SAP keeps extending; both are also building blocks inside generative AI hub and SAP Build scenarios.
• Knowing what SAP names as replacement (SAP-RPT-1 for both, a real fit for DAR, a partial one for Personalized Recommendation) turns a sunset into a scoped migration offer.

Key points

• Status 23 Sep 2026: Document AI and Translation Hub live; DAR and Personalized Recommendation removed from Eligible Cloud Services on 31 Mar 2026.
• Removal = available until the end of the current subscription term, no renewal, maintenance until then.
• SAP names SAP-RPT-1 in SAP AI Core as the alternative to both DAR and Personalized Recommendation, with no mapping published; for ranked recommendations it is only a partial answer.
• Document AI = former Document Information Extraction (renamed 15 Jul 2025); technical identifiers unchanged; details in C332.
• Translation Hub = software translation + Document Translation; providers MLTR, company MLTR, SAP neural MT (40+ languages), LLM translation (54 languages, for non-SAP content).
• The orchestration translation module of the generative AI hub calls Translation Hub's Document Translation service.
• DAR had Data Manager, Model Manager and Inference apps with generic, AutoML, regression and hierarchical model templates.

Terms used on this page

SAP AI Business Services

Earlier umbrella name for SAP's prebuilt, task-specific AI services on BTP; SAP Learning now presents them as the AI services of AI Foundation.

Eligible Cloud Services

SAP's list of orderable and renewable cloud services; a removed service runs until the end of the current term and cannot be renewed.

MLTR

Multilingual text repository: SAP-verified translations of SAP application texts in SAP HANA, the first provider in Translation Hub; a company MLTR holds your own texts.

Document Translation

Translation Hub service for text and files with synchronous and asynchronous APIs, using SAP neural MT or LLMs; also the engine of the orchestration translation module.

Model template (DAR)

Predefined machine-learning pipeline (generic, AutoML, regression, hierarchical) used to train a DAR model on your dataset.

Next-item recommendation

Personalized Recommendation feature returning the items a user is most likely to select next, based on current context and interaction history.

SAP-RPT-1

SAP's relational pre-trained transformer for tabular classification and regression by in-context learning; SAP's named alternative to DAR.

Sources

1. SAP Help — Data Attribute Recommendation guide (PDF, 21 Aug 2026): removed from Eligible Cloud Services on 31 Mar 2026, SAP-RPT-1 as alternative
2. SAP Help — Personalized Recommendation guide (PDF, 13 Apr 2026): removed from Eligible Cloud Services on 31 Mar 2026
3. SAP Help — Feature Scope Description for Personalized Recommendation (next-item, similar-item, smart search, user affinity)
4. SAP Help — What is SAP Translation Hub (software + document translation, SAP neural MT, LLM translation via generative AI hub)
5. SAP Discovery Center — SAP Document AI service
6. SAP — SAP Document AI product page
7. SAP Learning — Describing SAP AI Foundation (Exploring SAP BTP course)
8. SAP AI Core — What's New (SAP-docs GitHub): RPT-1.5/1.6, Tabular AI Orchestration, masking_providers removal, Prompt Shield change
9. SAP AI Core docs (SAP-docs GitHub, 14 Sep 2026) — Orchestration Workflow V2: endpoint, modules, full example
10. SAP AI Core docs — Translation module (runs before input masking, after output unmasking)
11. SAP News — TabPFN-3.5 Plus now available in SAP AI Core (Sep 2026)
12. SAP Help Portal — AI Core service guide: metering and pricing for generative AI (2026)
13. SAP — SAP-RPT product page (2026)