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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

API-based integration

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are at the heart of digital transformation, enabling the agility and openness required for rapidly interconnecting solutions. After all, they constitute a facet for data to be exposed and consumed between different layers of an enterprise’s IT estate, or between applications of different entities. Therefore, a crucial design principle for APIs is to reduce complexity for the sake of convenience while acting as a contract between the provider and the consumer. This is similar to your mobile phone hiding the complexity of an entire telecommunications mechanism behind a simple call button. When using your mobile phone, you abide by the implicit contract and use this interface to make the call.

Considering the significant role of APIs, it is inevitable for a provider to have a control layer between the APIs and their consumers. This is why APIM solutions emerged in the IT world. This gatekeeping layer controls access...