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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

Application Development

In this chapter, we are starting a whole new part of our book in which we will cover how SAP BTP facilitates application development. With the cloud transformation of business applications, especially with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, businesses are encouraged to standardize their processes and leverage out-of-the-box functionality with the fit-to-standard mentality. However, the fast pace of change in IT and the impetus for innovation necessitate the development of extension applications to complement the core business solutions.

In the last decade, new application development paradigms emerged or gained traction. The open source movement has enabled large-scale collaboration, and together with connectivity and integration standards, it also improved the efficiency in interoperability between applications from different vendors. As a result, companies started using open source software in their commercial products, actively supporting their expansion...