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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

Understanding Kyma

If you have some applications that you’d like to extend in a cloud-native way, with the flexibility to use different technologies that can be scaled independently, or use event-based architecture and serverless functions, Kyma could be of interest to you.

So, what is Kyma?

Kyma is an open-source project designed natively on Kubernetes for extending applications using serverless computing and microservices architecture. Based on many years of experience in extending and customizing different SAP applications, Kyma was donated by SAP as an open-source project in 2018, with a mission statement to enable a flexible way of extending applications and with all the necessary tools to build cloud-native enterprise applications. Technically, Kyma picked the best projects from the growing CNCF community and glued them together to offer an integrated and simplified experience, equipped with the following out-of-the-box capabilities:

  • Connecting any existing...