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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

Design examples

Now that we have covered quite a wide range of SAP Integration Suite capabilities, let’s illustrate their use with example designs.

A common cloud integration platform

Company A is investing heavily in executing its cloud transformation strategy and recently purchased SAP BTP. They have already migrated their SAP workloads to hyperscaler IaaS and there are hundreds of integration flows involving these systems.

When producing their integration methodology, they decided to build new cloud-relevant integrations in cloud offerings to achieve higher availability and better scalability. According to the company’s integration methodology, an integration scenario is cloud-relevant if at least one of the main participant applications of the integration flow is in the cloud. They also adopted the practice to migrate these integrations from the current on-premises integration platform to the cloud when there is an extensive change to the integration. They...