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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

Mobile applications

For most of us, until we are awakened by a historical drama, we forget the fact that in the past, people used to live without mobile devices. They are such an integral part of our lives today; we learn, buy, pay, navigate, and entertain ourselves using these mobile devices. And indeed, we use them for business, too.

People, such as field engineers, depend on their mobile devices heavily to do their work. On the other hand, in the fast pace of business life, other roles also enjoy the flexibility that comes with mobility enabled by mobile applications. While rushing from one meeting to another, an executive can make use of mobile applications for most of the access they need to the business systems, such as approvals, worklists, analytics, and so on.

SAP BTP’s mobile offerings are mainly grouped under SAP Mobile Services, which includes mobile development tools, and comprise management elements such as the application lifecycle, discovery service, push...