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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

Summary

To recap, we have learned how containers and Kubernetes have helped to modernize software development and service delivery. We have also learned about the core components of Kubernetes, the object model on how we can interact with Kubernetes, and the support of custom resources and extension mechanisms.

Based on this, we have introduced how SAP embraces the cloud-native technology trend and contributes through its two major open-source projects: Gardener, focusing on multi-cloud Kubernetes provisioning and management, and Kyma, focusing on cloud-native application extension and development. Lastly, we have discussed the decision criteria for selecting the environment of choice for your use cases and how you can use this information to plan your projects to extend and build with SAP BTP.

Starting from the next chapter, we will focus on a new section of chapters on data to value. We will cover databases and data management capabilities, such as SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Data...