Practical overview
When it fits
Use the repository when you want a working reference and tutorial for adapting GenAI and RAG patterns to an email customer-support application on SAP BTP.
Who it is for
- Developers building GenAI applications on SAP BTP
- SAP partners and customers exploring email-based customer-support workflows
- Teams evaluating SAP AI Core, LangChain, CAP and vector-based retrieval patterns
Documented uses
- Categorise incoming support emails and assess their sentiment and urgency.
- Extract key facts and configurable fields, such as location.
- Find similar historical emails using embeddings and SAP HANA Cloud’s Vector Engine.
- Summarise or translate email subjects and bodies.
- Generate potential customer replies influenced by configurable actions and services.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and identifies its license as Apache-2.0.
- The sample is built around SAP BTP and SAP CAP, with SAP AI Core and SAP HANA Cloud components in its documented architecture.
- The business scenario is travel-agency customer support, though the README says it can be adapted for other industries.
- The tutorial covers landscape setup, deployment, testing and extension in the reader’s own SAP BTP environment.
- The README documents a Paketo build workaround involving @cap-js/sqlite.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Follow the sample’s SAP BTP deployment tutorial
Progress through the repository’s documented setup, deployment, testing and extension stages for a single-tenant or multitenant version.
Before you start
- An SAP BTP landscape
- The repository’s tutorial chapters
Steps
Read the scenario introduction.
Set up the SAP BTP landscape using the tutorial.
Follow the scenario deployment chapter.
Continue to application testing and then the extension chapter.
Expected outcome
A documented path through setup, deployment, testing and extension of the selected sample version.
Guide limitations
- The tutorial requires the reader’s own SAP BTP landscape.
- The README notes a Paketo build workaround: install @cap-js/sqlite without saving it in the package dependencies from the relevant single- or multitenant code directory.
Compare options for Retrieval-augmented applications
These projects document a common task and share a project role. This is a source-based comparison, not an execution benchmark or a guarantee of interchangeability.
| Project | Documented purpose | Platform | Access and requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| GenAI Mail Insights | Categorise incoming support emails and assess their sentiment and urgency. | Cloud, Server | The repository is public and identifies its license as Apache-2.0. |
| Rag Powered AI Assistant Transforming Data Retrieval And Analysis Across The Web And Pdfs | Retrieve relevant passages from web and PDF content to answer a question. | Web | |
| LangChain in Supabase Edge Functions | Initialize and start a Supabase project locally. | Cloud, Server |
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 12 October 2026
- Original website title
- SAP-samples/btp-cap-genai-rag · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

