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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

Non-Functional Design for Operability

In the previous chapters, we touched upon two crucial elements of architecture design: security and connectivity. However, there are several more aspects you need to consider in your designs. In the first part of this chapter, we will discuss these design elements and how you can address them when designing with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Practically, your design is not merely for presentation purposes. Eventually, it needs to be realized as an implemented solution. As you know, the story never ends there, and the solution needs to be maintained until you don’t need it anymore. As an architect, although your mindset is geared toward the design aspects, it will always help to know how SAP BTP operates.

You can design more robust architectures by also considering the second half of the story. So, the latter part of this chapter will cover topics around support elements.

Therefore, in this chapter, we are going to...