Preface

Digitalization has been a priority for all sizable companies to introduce efficiency, agility, and innovation. The world is changing so fast, and customers are becoming more demanding. Every company has its own digital transformation strategy to differentiate itself from the competition, and executives know that digitalization is vital for differentiation.

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler for innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity.

If you are involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to get yourself familiar 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.

Before reading a technical book, it’s important to align your objectives with what the book offers. Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform aims to provide a generalist view of SAP BTP capabilities. We were careful to provide design examples so that you can see in action the SAP BTP features we discussed.

There may be parts where we delve into more detail than usual or topics that we cover with briefer content than others. At the end of the day, we wanted to cover the end-to-end spectrum of SAP BTP services and provide as many primers as we could. This way, we hope you can see the complete picture of what SAP BTP caters to and get the right direction for further studying.

With this book, you’ll learn SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you will learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and 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 and business intelligence use cases to produce actionable insights.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value. Now, there is a lot to learn and time is precious. Happy reading!

Disclaimer:

Some diagrams in this book contain materials from SAP Business Technology Platform Solution Diagrams, Design Elements & Icons, used with the permission of SAP SE.