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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

Digital Process Automation

Businesses are always after automation opportunities to reduce time, effort, and cost. Automation also means fewer human errors, well-analyzed business processes, better-managed scalability, and more reliable business process insights. One use of automation is to offload labor-intensive but straightforward tasks, creating more bandwidth for tasks that generate more value and distinction with the human touch. Process automation can also become the glue for collaboration between business users by bringing together different ends of processes where human involvement is required. This significantly increases productivity and amplifies agility.

Being the enabler of the agility layer for businesses, SAP BTP includes SAP Process Automation, which brings together several aspects of digital process automation, offering a comprehensive toolset for the following:

  • The direct consumption of business users by providing a low-code/no-code platform
  • Building...