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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

Master data integration

Previously, we touched upon the importance of master data and the challenges around it. Many enterprises struggle to keep their master data consistent and clean across multiple systems. Moreover, data silos start to emerge in various systems, which eventually cause inconsistencies. As these data silos become disconnected, they become obstacles to innovation. As you can guess, in heterogeneous and hybrid landscapes, the problem may become chronic and complicated to resolve after a certain point. Companies serious about their master data use master data management solutions such as SAP Master Data Governance.

One approach to tackling this challenge better is introducing a well-organized master data integration mechanism. By doing this, you can designate a single source of truth and distribute the master data to other relevant systems with consistency, keeping the data quality high.

With heterogeneous and hybrid landscapes in mind, SAP handles the master...