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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

Data architecture concepts and patterns

To support the data-driven use cases, architecture concepts and patterns have evolved over the years to solve specific problems. Let’s review them together, and later, we will discuss SAP data management capabilities in this context.

OLTP, OLAP, HTAP

The terms online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) look similar but refer to two different kinds of data systems. An OLTP system captures and manages transactions in a database, in the form of insertion, updating, and deletion of data frequently. Tables in an OLTP database are usually normalized, and data integrity must be taken care of in case of any transaction failure. In comparison, OLAP’s main operation is to extract multidimensional data for analytics, which has less frequent transactions but requires a longer time to process data as data needs to be denormalized and joined together by running complex queries to turn data into information...