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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

SAP Process Automation

Like many other SAP BTP services, SAP Process Automation resulted from the evolution of predecessor SAP BTP services. With SAP Process Automation, SAP brought together the SAP Workflow Management service and SAP Robotics Process Automation under the same umbrella. If you have been using SAP BTP for a while, this includes the SAP Business Rules service, which was previously merged with the Workflow Management service. At the time of writing, these services are not marked for removal from the catalog; the newer offering may lack some of the advanced features at this stage. However, we can say that SAP Process Automation is the strategic option. As usual, we expect SAP to continue to support the older service offerings for existing customers if they decide to remove these services from the catalog.

Besides bringing these services together, SAP also positions SAP Process Automation to provide mainly an LCNC experience so that citizen developers can also build...