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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

Implementing extensions

Do you need to implement an extension? We have started by asking this question on purpose. For business applications, there is a strong trend toward SaaS applications. With SaaS solutions, businesses expect to reduce the total cost of ownership by primarily staying away from the complexities of running the operations below the application layer. In such cases, companies are happy to give up on the flexibility of on-premise deployment models. As a result, we see the fit-to-standard approach is within the principles of most SAP S/4HANA transformation programs, where businesses intend to standardize their processes and align with the models put forward by the SaaS solutions. Some companies are much keener on standardization after the bad experience they’ve encountered due to the high level of modifications and customizations they’ve applied to their systems in the past.

On the other hand, as we learned in this chapter’s introduction, creating...