What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Intelligent Enterprise, introduces you to SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise, its value propositions, and the business processes it can enable.
Chapter 2, SAP Business Technology Platform Overview, introduces the key pillars of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
Chapter 3, Establishing a Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform, contains information on the foundational concepts of SAP BTP so that you understand the terminology and fundamental information before delving into the details in subsequent chapters.
Chapter 4, Security and Connectivity, contains information about the security elements of SAP BTP, which will help you understand the platform foundation that provides services for IAM and other security requirements.
Chapter 5, Non-Functional Design for Operability, provides information on how to design for operability considering non-functional requirements. This chapter will cover the NFD elements collectively and refer to further details that will be discussed in later chapters. This chapter will also discuss how SAP BTP is supported by SAP, SLA arrangements, Trust Center, engagements, and more.
Chapter 6, Defining Integration Strategy, teaches you about structured elements for building an integration methodology and defining an integration strategy.
Chapter 7, Cloud Integration, helps you understand process integration better by explaining the available options in SAP Integration Suite and elaborating on various use cases. As cross use cases, the API-based and event-driven integration topics will be explained by focusing on APIM and Event Mesh. Finally, the Open Connectors capability will be explained to illustrate how streamlined third-party application connectivity works.
Chapter 8, Data Integration, helps you understand data integration better by elaborating on various data integration use cases, mainly introducing the capabilities of SAP Data Intelligence and briefly touching upon other data integration solutions.
Chapter 9, Application Development, provides information on the application development options that you can incorporate in architecture designs. This chapter will introduce the Extension Suite capabilities and other SAP BTP services for digital experience.
Chapter 10, Digital Process Automation, explains what SAP BTP offers for process automation.
Chapter 11, Containers and Kubernetes, introduces the cloud-native programming model in SAP BTP. This chapter also explores how to use open-source projects and the capabilities of SAP using Gardener and Kyma.
Chapter 12, SAP HANA Cloud, introduces SAP HANA Cloud for storing and processing data.
Chapter 13, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud, introduces SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for modeling business semantics and SAP Analytics Cloud for advanced analytics, looking at how to use them to gain insights and support business decisions with confidence.
Chapter 14, SAP Intelligent Technologies, introduces SAP’s ML/AI offerings to embed intelligence into your business processes.