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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

Development platform types

Over the last two decades, the way we develop software has changed dramatically. This is a result of several technological advancements, such as cloud, mobile, IoT, AI/ML, and more. In addition, agility in developing software gained importance due to increasing competition, and the IT industry came up with numerous programming languages, paradigms, frameworks, and patterns. With all these, the tools used by developers needed to support much more than coding. We will talk about tools in the Application development tools section later; here, we want to discuss the rise of a new development platform type, along with all these changes.

Low-code/no-code development

One part of the story is about the tools and which convenience features they provide for developers. This includes hiding some of the complexity behind patterns, boilerplate codes, and reusability. For many scenarios, applications share similar components, and for the parts that differ from scenario...