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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

Backend applications

Looking from a different point of view, there are some limitations to frontend applications:

  • They are used via clients (for example, browsers), which run on end user devices; therefore, they have restricted resources to run applications.
  • When they run within a browser, the data they use is exposed and easily accessible.
  • They run specifically for the end user.

So, how can you leverage a database application that holds common business data managed by several users? Or, how about a resource-hungry application that needs to run complex business logic concurrently accessed by several users? How can you securely check whether the user is authorized to make the change they attempted?

To handle requirements such as these, we need applications that run at the backend - that is, a (virtual) machine that runs possibly somewhere else and can deal with these requirements. In a traditional SAP Business Suite world, backend applications are mainly the...