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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 BTP technology capabilities

SAP BTP brings together a comprehensive set of technical capabilities and solutions, (which includes database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies) into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments. Figure 2.1 illustrates how SAP BTP fits into the Intelligent Enterprise framework described in the previous chapter:

Figure 2.1: SAP BTP in Intelligent Enterprise

Now, let’s get into the details of the technology offerings in each area, starting with database and data management.

Database and data management

Organizations today are faced with the mandate of leveraging all the data assets to optimize business processes. The ability to collect, manage, and analyze data in real time is essential to compete in the digital economy. SAP’s database and data management solutions help to manage enterprise data for their data-driven transformation and...