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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

Overview of Intelligent Technologies

SAP Intelligent Technologies is a cornerstone of the Intelligent Enterprise strategy. SAP offers a full set of intelligent applications and services to help businesses with better decision-making based on data and intelligence. The intelligent technologies are embedded in SAP’s intelligent suite applications to support and optimize business processes. They are also exposed as part of SAP BTP for customers and ecosystem partners to extend and create new solutions that are innovative and provide competitive differentiation. As depicted in Figure 14.1, SAP’s intelligent offerings include the following:

  • HANA ML: This contains in-database ML libraries and related tooling for AI modeling and algorithms, for structured and tabular data.
  • AI Core and AI Launchpad: These are the foundation for AI runtime and the lifecycle management of AI scenarios. AI Core offers a robust environment for training and serving. AI Launchpad is a SaaS...