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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
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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

SAP BTP runtime environments

There are several ways to build complex applications in SAP BTP. If, for example, you come from an ABAP development background, this may seem overwhelming. With ABAP, application development is quite formalized and many aspects such as authentication are taken care of by the underlying NetWeaver platform before the execution of the application becomes relevant. Before discussing the different types of applications that you can build on SAP BTP, let’s have another look at SAP BTP runtime environments.

You may recall our discussion on SAP BTP environments from Chapter 3, Establishing the Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP initially offered their proprietary Neo environment in the cloud, mainly supporting HTML5, Java, and HANA development. As you already know, although still supported for existing customers, the Neo environment is no longer strategic, and SAP is encouraging customers to transition to the strategic multi-environment...