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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 Data Intelligence

Here, we discuss SAP Data Intelligence under the topic of data integration; however, calling it only a data integration tool would be a significant undervaluation. SAP positions it as an all-encompassing data management platform for governance, integration, orchestration, and processing of data. Besides, SAP Data Intelligence provides features to create, deploy and leverage ML models. For the sake of completeness, we will also briefly cover other SAP Data Intelligence features besides its data integration capabilities.

The following diagram depicts an overview of SAP Data Intelligence features and connection types it supports for implementing data management, integration, and ML use cases:

Figure 8.2: SAP Data Intelligence overview

Foundations

Before getting into the capabilities, let’s touch upon the architecture and foundation of SAP Data Intelligence. In fact, SAP Data Intelligence brings together the traditional data services...