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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

ML/AI in SAP Data Intelligence

SAP Data Intelligence is SAP’s data management solution to provide complex orchestration scenarios, data cataloging, data quality, and metadata management. It brings together data management capabilities that were previously available in SAP Data Hub and integrates them with ML capabilities from other SAP solutions. In Chapter 8, we already discussed the data integration capabilities of SAP Data Intelligence – here, we will focus on the ML capabilities of SAP Data Intelligence.

When all your data is already structured and in SAP HANA or SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, the built-in ML libraries discussed earlier might be sufficient. However, in many use cases, data is located across multiple places, with a mix of unstructured and structured data such as IoT data. SAP Data Intelligence is recommended for use cases when multiple disparate data sources need to be consolidated or orchestration of data pipelines to additional ML environments is necessary...