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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

Defining Integration Strategy

Intelligent enterprises are integrated enterprises must be one of the most well-known mottos of SAP. With this, SAP underlines one of its strong suits in the on-premise world and declares its stance on having the same in the cloud.

For years, SAP products tackled complex integration scenarios well between a multitude of systems, including many line-of-business and industry solutions. Undoubtedly, the world has significantly changed since then. Today, things are much more interconnected, with many new paradigms resulting in many, more sophisticated integration requirements.

With the cloud, there are new types of challenges to solve. To begin with, SAP acquired several cloud companies in order to meet customer demands for cloud-based solutions. As such, the current SAP cloud product portfolio consists of many solutions built with different technology stacks and mindsets. Therefore, for many companies, it is not a trivial task to move all their applications...