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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

Process automation in the intelligent enterprise

Like many of the concepts we have discussed so far, the use of process automation is linked to the broader intelligent enterprise domains. Putting what you learned in Chapter 1, The Intelligent Enterprise, and Chapter 2, SAP Business Technology Platform Overview, about how SAP BTP is positioned as the foundation layer, you can learn how SAP Process Automation interacts with SAP Signavio, which offers a platform for modeling and governing business processes, as well as producing intelligence and insights from them. This can be an important element of SAP S/4HANA transformations as many companies go for the greenfield implementation option and redesigning business processes is at the heart of it. SAP Signavio and SAP Process Automation form the process transformation suite, which helps customers with the tedious task of dichotomizing their current processes and building adoption routes so that their processes fit the standard and can keep...