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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

Non-functional design

In Chapter 4, Security and Connectivity, and Chapter 5, Non-Functional Design for Operability, we extensively covered important non-functional design elements. If you need to refresh your memory, just scroll back and have a look. Here, let’s briefly point out how SAP BTP application development services cater to some non-functional requirement categories:

  • Security: You can bind applications to the XSUAA service so that they can utilize the authentication and RBAC capabilities. This binding can be done by running ad hoc commands or can be specified as a deployment element. Through XSUAA, applications can be made accessible only after the user authenticates, including the identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities provided by SAP Identity Authentication Service and/or the corporate identity provider. Similarly, by adding security specifications, such as role and role template definitions, the application can check a user’s authorizations...