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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
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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

Connectivity

Infrastructure connectivity is a significant element in IT as operations can only continue with several technical components communicating with each other. Furthermore, with recent IT trends, the IT estates of companies have become far more modular in terms of the variety of solutions used. Also, almost all large companies have hybrid environments due to the hosting options that came with the cloud movement, that is, on-premise versus the cloud.

The connectivity aspect adds a new dimension to security considerations as you need to make sure the communication is kept secure. When architecting solutions with SAP BTP, the essential technical elements that underpin the connectivity are generally already in place, for instance, your networking infrastructure, network security standards, and more. You need to build on top of this foundation. Let’s start with the challenge of establishing secure connectivity between SAP BTP and on-premise.

Connecting SAP BTP and...