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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

SAP HANA Cloud is a managed offering of the in-memory HTAP database SAP HANA. It inherits the capabilities of SAP HANA such as multi-model support (relational, hierarchies, graph, geo-spatial, semi-structured data), advanced analytical processing, and flexible data integration. As a cloud offering, all infrastructure layers such as compute, storage, and networking are automatically provisioned and monitored; backups and upgrades are taken care of automatically, so you can benefit from the reliability, scalability, integrated security, and productivity improvement of unified cloud-based tooling.

HANA Cloud supports a variety of use cases. It can act as a gateway to all enterprise data with virtual connections and data replications, be the backbone of advanced analytics and reporting with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud, and be the runtime database for your enterprise applications such as SAP Intelligent Suite applications.

In a nutshell, HANA...