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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

Summary

Well, this was a chapter with so much content, so you will need time for everything to sink in. With this chapter, we wanted to provide high-level content to architects so that they can consider application development options with SAP BTP.

We started by explaining the extensibility concept as SAP uses this aspect for application development. However, as we mentioned, it doesn’t have to be an extension application that is tightly dependent on standard solutions. You can build independent applications using powerful features of SAP BTP application development features and services.

Then, we talked about LCNC application platforms and SAP’s offerings in this area, including SAP AppGyver. For pro-code development, we continued by discussing three runtime environment options: Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma. After this, we came to the core of application development, where we covered different application types you can develop on SAP BTP, including frontend applications...