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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 HANA Cloud

Applications are increasingly becoming data-driven, and data is generated by everything from enterprise applications and social media to smart devices. While companies are excited about the possibilities with all their data, how to manage data and extract value from it is becoming a common and urgent challenge. In the meantime, modern cloud design principles lead to an increasing number of distributed systems such as microservices architecture and cloud-native applications, resulting in increased complexity for integrating data.

In this chapter, we will introduce database and data management capabilities as part of SAP BTP and how they can help to address these challenges, such as accessing data, processing data, and how to get the maximum value from data. We will focus on the following topics:

  • Data-driven use cases
  • Data architecture concepts and patterns
  • SAP HANA Cloud
  • SAP HANA Cloud, HANA database

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