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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

Launchpad applications

So, you have one application, you know its URL that you bookmarked, and you launch it using this bookmark. That’s all good. How about when there are tens or maybe hundreds of applications that are relevant to your role at your company? Organizing them in your bookmarks wouldn’t work after a point. Here, you must think about the administration side of controlling the visibility of these applications for several users.

To overcome the problems we mentioned earlier, an effective approach would be presenting these applications on a launchpad-style page to improve the digital experience.

The SAP Launchpad service

With the SAP Launchpad service, you can establish a central point of entry for all users. You can configure how the applications are grouped and assign authorization elements to applications so that they are visible only to authorized users. As shown in the following screenshot, applications are represented by tiles that can show static...