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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

Summary

We are now at the end of this chapter after going through so many foundational elements of SAP BTP. So, let’s go back to the beginning and fast forward for a summary.

First, we learned which environments you could have in SAP BTP and in which regions SAP BTP was available. Next, we discussed different options to buy SAP BTP and how they compared. Then, it was time to see how SAP BTP components were structured in its account model, and we discussed how to set up your own account model based on an example. In the subsequent section, we had a good overview of what a service meant and also learned about SAP Discovery Center. Finally, in the last section, we briefly discussed the administration tools you could use to manage SAP BTP.

Now that we have laid out the essential foundational elements, we will go more technical in the next chapter and discuss two fundamental aspects you need to consider in your technical designs: security and connectivity.