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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 Process Automation

There is an increasing demand for companies to enable their employees to focus on business-critical activities rather than manual and repetitive tasks. One approach is to upskill the workforce to leverage process automation tools to improve productivity and reduce cycle time. Think about the use cases such as automating repetitive tasks such as copying and pasting into a spreadsheet, high-volume process steps such as entering sales order data, changing purchase orders, the employee onboarding process, and leave request approval.

SAP Process Automation is an intelligent process automation platform that provides a low-code and no-code experience to users for building applications and process extensions. It combines the capabilities of SAP Workflow Management and SAP iRPA. It helps business users (aka Citizen Developers) to build automation for their business processes without the need to depend on the IT department. In this way, it unleashes the power to have...