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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

SAP AI Business Services

SAP offers differentiated business-centric AI services through SAP AI Business Services. SAP AI Business Services is not a single product but a set of reusable business services and applications that provide the capabilities to automate and optimize business processes based on learning from historic data. It solves some specific business problems such as processing documents and business entity recognition.

Most of the SAP AI Business Services are delivered as SaaS offerings with their own UIs or as ready-to-use APIs that can be integrated into existing business processes. By embedding SAP AI Business Services, some SAP applications such as S/4HANA provide out-of-box integrations that infuse intelligence as part of the business application. SAP customers and partners can use SAP AI Business Services for their specific scenario with ready-to-use AI algorithms in your business context through SAP BTP, based on their own data.

Figure 14.5 summarizes the...