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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 Intelligent Technologies

Today, many enterprises are increasingly leveraging intelligent technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of their business processes, to forecast demands, augment employee productivity, and improve customer experience. As a result, businesses can prepare for new situations or address existing challenges more intelligently and proactively. Ultimately, AI enables humans to focus on value-adding tasks and reduce human errors, especially for repetitive and manual tasks. AI can have significant impacts on all aspects of business processes.

In this chapter, we will discuss the different product and technology offerings in ML and AI covering data preparation, training, inference, and AI operations. The following topics will be covered:

  • SAP HANA ML
  • SAP AI Core and AI Launchpad
  • SAP AI Business Services
  • AI capabilities in SAP Data Intelligence and SAP Analytics Cloud
  • SAP Conversational AI
  • SAP Process Automation
  • ...