Building for Change:  Introducing the June 26 Release of Neptune DXP 

By Stefan Captijn, Director Product Marketing, Neptune Software

The pace of change facing organizations today is unlike anything we’ve seen before. 

Global supply chains continue to shift. Regulatory requirements evolve. Economic uncertainty impacts planning cycles. Customer expectations change faster than traditional software delivery models can keep up. At the same time, organizations are expected to innovate, modernize, automate and adopt AI, often with the same teams and budgets they had yesterday. 

The ability to respond to change is becoming one of the most important competitive advantages a business can have. At Neptune, we believe software development plays a central role in that ability. That is why our product strategy is ‘AI-first’. 

Not because AI replaces developers. Not because AI magically solves every problem. But because AI fundamentally changes how quickly organizations can translate business requirements into working solutions that make a difference on the shopfloor. 

The better and faster you can build, adapt and deploy applications, workflows and digital experiences, the faster your business can respond to the world around it. 

That philosophy sits at the heart of the June 26 release of Neptune DXP. 

AI is Changing Enterprise Development at Lightspeed 

IFor years, organizations have faced the same challenge. 

Business teams identify opportunities for improvement. Development teams translate those requirements into specifications. Projects enter backlogs. Priorities compete for resources. Months later, solutions arrive. 

The problem is not a lack of ideas. The problem is the time and effort required to transform those ideas into working applications. 

AI changes that equation. 

Natural language, AI-assisted development, autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows are making it possible to move from concept to execution significantly faster than before. 

Some refer to this as “vibe coding”. We see it as something more important. It is the democratization of enterprise software creation. 

Business experts, citizen developers and professional developers can increasingly collaborate to build solutions that are closer to the real needs of the organization, while maintaining the governance, security and enterprise controls that large organizations require. 

• The future is not no-code. 

• The future is not pro-code. 

• The future is a blend of AI, low-code and professional development working together. 

And that is exactly where Neptune DXP is evolving. 

Advancing Neptune as the Enterprise Application & AI Platform 

This release introduces seven major enhancements across AI innovation, SAP integration and platform modernization. Together, they further strengthen Neptune’s position as the Enterprise Application & AI Platform for SAP and beyond. 

Naia Build: AI-Powered Application Development 

Naia Build continues to evolve as the AI development assistant inside Neptune DXP. 

This release introduces major enhancements focused on developer productivity, governance and flexibility, including new interaction modes for asking, planning, debugging and task execution. Organizations gain greater transparency through auditability, usage tracking and governance controls while accelerating development with AI-powered wizards, reusable components and application-aware development capabilities. 

Support for multiple AI models, including Claude through Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), allows organizations to adopt AI on their own terms and align model choice with their business requirements. 

Naia Agent Studio: Enterprise AI Agents 

AI agents are rapidly moving from experimentation to production. 

With this release, Naia Agent Studio introduces enhanced reasoning capabilities, memory management, conversation grouping and on-demand charting. These capabilities help organizations move beyond simple chatbots and toward enterprise-ready AI agents that can reason, remember context, interact with systems and support real business processes. 

The goal is not simply to make AI conversational. The goal is to make AI operational. 

Bringing SAP into the Agentic AI Era 

One of the most significant innovations in this release is MCP Designer for SAP Joule. 

Organizations have invested decades building business processes, rules and workflows inside SAP. The challenge is that AI agents cannot automatically understand or execute those processes. 

MCP Designer for SAP Joule helps bridge that gap by exposing your SAP custom business logic as AI-ready services. This allows organizations to transform SAP business capabilities into governed services that can be securely accessed by AI-driven applications and agents like SAP Joule. 

For customers running SAP ECC and S/4HANA, this creates a practical path toward AI adoption without requiring extensive and expensive redevelopment of existing business logic. 

Opening Neptune to the AI Ecosystem 

Enterprise development is increasingly moving into AI-native environments. That is why this release introduces the Neptune MCP Server and Claude Code Plugin. 

Developers can now access Neptune capabilities directly from tools such as Visual Studio Code, Cursor and Claude Code, enabling AI-assisted application development from within their preferred development environments. Natural language can be used to generate applications, APIs, user interfaces and business logic while leveraging Neptune platform capabilities through MCP. 

This represents an important shift. Neptune is no longer just a platform where development happens. It becomes a platform that participates in the broader AI development ecosystem. 

Continuing to Modernize the Platform 

AI is only part of the story. The June release also delivers several important platform modernization initiatives. 

The new Visual Launchpad Designer introduces a more intuitive and visual approach to building branded digital workspaces. Organizations can create role-based launchpads faster, see changes instantly and improve user adoption through more engaging experiences. 

The Application Migration Wizard simplifies the journey from SAP Edition to Open Edition by automating discovery, dependency analysis, readiness validation and migration activities.  

This reduces risk and accelerates modernization efforts. 

Custom Font support enables organizations to create brand-compliant documents and outputs while maintaining consistency across digital experiences and business communications. 

Helping Organizations Adopt AI Their Way 

Perhaps the most important theme of this release is choice. Organizations are at different stages of their AI journey. 

Some are exploring AI-assisted development. Others are deploying enterprise agents. Some are standardizing on a specific AI model. Others are still evaluating their options. 

Our goal is not to force a particular path. Our goal is to provide the platform, governance and flexibility that allow customers to adopt AI in a way that aligns with their business, architecture and security requirements. 

Whether that means building applications with AI, creating AI agents, exposing enterprise business processes to AI systems or integrating Neptune into an existing AI ecosystem, the June 26 release provides another major step forward. 

Because in a world defined by constant change, the organizations that can adapt fastest will be the organizations that win. 

And software development is increasingly the engine that makes that adaptation possible.