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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
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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

In this chapter, we provided a very high-level look at process automation in the intelligent enterprise. Then, we covered SAP Process Automation, which is strategically positioned as an LCNC platform for creating processes, including workflow-type automations as well as robotic automations.

SAP Process Automation can provide remedies to many business pain points. It can be an enabler for reducing operational costs by automating tasks that are handled by people whose time can be channeled to activities that generate more business value. As such, SAP’s current strategy to rebuild its automation offering as an LCNC platform is meaningful as it addresses IT resource shortages while letting business experts efficiently utilize their process knowledge. Besides SAP Process Automation, SAP BTP also offers services such as SAP Task Center, Responsibility Management Service, and SAP AI Business Services (covered in Chapter 14, SAP Intelligent Technologies), which can help implement...