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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

Summary

Well, this concludes our discussion on security and connectivity. Later in this book, we will continue touching upon security topics from different angles. However, what we have discussed so far should enable you to incorporate security in your SAP BTP architecture designs as a crucial ingredient.

In this chapter, you learned how SAP, as its provider, ensures the security of SAP BTP and how you can find out more about their compliance with the standards underpinning the security measures they apply. Because, as the consumer, you share the responsibility for securing the application and data layers, we discussed how you could achieve this when building your custom applications and when using SAP BTP services. As a closely related topic, we talked about data protection and privacy. Additionally, a large part of this chapter was about IAM. We briefly discussed IAM concepts at the generic level and then how SAP BTP implements its processes. Finally, we covered how SAP BTP securely...