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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

SAP Graph

SAP Graph addresses the same challenge of data being spread across several solutions, which are diverse in terms of their data models and technology stacks. This is similar to SAP ODM. However, SAP ODM’s approach looks at the subset of data and entities common across these solutions. SAP ODM provides the data model to be consumed by applications and mainly for master data exchange. In contrast, SAP Graph looks at the cumulative data model spanning all these applications to provide a unified API for accessing SAP data. With this, SAP Graph is technically middleware, and it actually uses SAP APIM under the bonnet.

Important Note

You may come across documents that say SAP Graph exposes data using SAP ODM. Although this was the intention during the incubation of SAP Graph, it looks as though the domain models for data exchange and unified API access had different requirements; hence, the implementation of the two drifted apart. Therefore, at the time of writing,...