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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
Book Image

Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By: Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du

Overview of this book

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler of innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity. If you’re involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to familiarize yourself with SAP BTP to see the big picture for digitalization with SAP solutions. Similarly, if you have design responsibilities for enterprise solutions, learning SAP BTP is crucial to produce effective and complete architecture designs. This book teaches you about SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you’ll learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and find out how it operates. The next part covers integration architecture guidelines, integration strategy considerations, and integration styles with SAP’s integration technologies. Later, you’ll learn how to use application development capabilities to extend enterprise solutions for innovation and agility. This part also includes digital experience and process automation capabilities. The last part covers how SAP BTP can facilitate data-to-value use cases to produce actionable business insights. By the end of this SAP book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1 Introduction – What is SAP Business Technology Platform?
4
Part 2 Foundations
8
Part 3 Integration
12
Part 4 Extensibility
16
Part 5 Data to Value

Other SAP solutions for data integration

SAP Data Intelligence is the future for data management; however, this doesn’t mean it’s the only tool you can use for data integration. As a strategic product, its focus is primarily on innovative use cases, and the support for older version software may have limitations. Nevertheless, you have other options, especially if you want to leverage your existing investment on on-premise tools or are just not ready to transition to a new tool. Let’s briefly check out these other tools.

SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services, previously known as BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS), is a full-fledged on-premise data ETL tool. It supports powerful data transformation and quality features to move data between SAP and non-SAP systems.

If you have been an SAP customer for a while, you probably have SAP Data Services in your on-premise estate to handle data integration workloads as well as data migration requirements. Using jobs...