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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

When should you use Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes?

SAP BTP offers the Cloud Foundry application runtime, which is optimized for enterprise application developers to build stateless apps (that follows the 12-factor apps methodology) without worrying about the heavy lifting of deployment and scaling. Alongside Cloud Foundry, SAP BTP offers Kubernetes for both non-opinionated and opinionated workloads, supporting a broader range of technical capabilities and use cases. However, these additional capabilities come at the price of additional learning curves and effort in the day-to-day jobs of a developer. SAP’s strategy is to make use of the benefits of to suit the different needs of its customers.

Equally, making the decision about which runtime to use requires sufficient information about the technology roadmap and means committing to a specific set of tools, technologies, support, and processes, as migrating from one to another can be very challenging. So, between Cloud Foundry...