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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

Summary

This chapter focused on data integration, and we devoted most of it to SAP Data Intelligence since it is one of SAP’s strategic tools for data management.

To set the stage, we discussed what data integration is and how it differs from process integration. While covering SAP Data Intelligence, we have been a bit cheeky and also briefly touched upon its capabilities not directly related to data integration. We believe this makes sense to provide a complete picture of SAP Data Intelligence capabilities.

Although it’s strategic, SAP Data Intelligence may still need other components that complement its function, especially in hybrid landscapes and for protecting existing investments. Being one of the fastest-evolving SAP solutions, it may eventually become a one-stop shop for many data management requirements, from data governance to ML scenarios. However, there are other alternative solutions for data integration for now, and we concluded this chapter by briefly...