Comparison · Industrial AI
Curiosity and SAP Joule
Inside the ERP, or around it
Curiosity connects records across vendors; Joule is SAP’s assistant and agents inside SAP applications.
Your data · your environment
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
SAP Joule
SAP’s AI assistant and agents, built into SAP applications such as S/4HANA and grounded in SAP business data through SAP Business Data Cloud and its knowledge graph. It works best where the process and the data already live in SAP.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
For a question about an order or a material, Joule sits where the answer is. The tickets, field reports, supplier notices and engineering documents around that material usually sit elsewhere, and that is the graph Curiosity builds, on your own infrastructure.
Every record, not only plant data
Sensor and asset data tell you what happened. The tickets, part records, supplier notices and field reports around them tell you why. Curiosity joins both.
Across vendors, not inside one
A plant runs systems from many suppliers. Curiosity connects them into one graph rather than adding intelligence to one vendor’s applications.
Tools your teams describe
Studio builds the app, dashboard or agent from a sentence, on the connected data, so a new tool is not a new project.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
SAP cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Agents on SAP business data
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Enterprises that run on SAP
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
SAP applications and Business Data Cloud
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
SAP regions
Customization
What your team can change
Your own code, interface, data model and configuration. SAP Joule as its own documentation described it in October 2026. Where it says Not available, the vendor documents no such capability.
Your own code
C# endpoints, AI tools and tasks, compiled in Studio
ABAP, Java and JavaScript on SAP BTP
Your own interface
Your own front end in C#, deployed from git
Fiori and UI5 apps, SAP Build low code tools
Data model
Typed node and edge schemas you define
CDS domain models in CAP
Configuration as code
Every change committed to git, pushed to your remote
Git and CI/CD pipelines for CAP projects
APIs and SDKs
REST API, C# and Python library, connector SDK
OData APIs, Cloud SDK for Java, JavaScript, Python
AI integration
What AI can build and reach
Whether AI can build on it, who reviews the result, and which models it runs. SAP Joule as its own documentation described it in October 2026.
AI that builds
Sudo drafts endpoints, tools, schemas and screens
Joule Studio builds agents and apps from natural language
Review before it applies
Every change a diff a person approves, in a sandbox
Low confidence code fixes left for developer review
Model choice
Any major provider, or an OpenAI compatible endpoint
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Amazon and SAP models
Models on your servers
Open weights on your servers, or air gapped
Not available
Assistant permissions
Built in tools search as the user, per record
Checks user identity and authorizations before answering
Agent protocols
MCP server and an OpenAI compatible API
MCP and A2A in Joule Studio, MCP gateway
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Industrial AI
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