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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, HANA Database

At the core of SAP HANA Cloud is the HANA database itself—the in-memory data platform. In this section, we will discuss topics you as an architect would like to know, from its system architecture, various development scenarios, data integration approaches, HA and BC, data encryption, feature compatibility, migration, and pricing, as well as its release strategy and data center availability. We have quite a lot to cover, so let’s start!

System architecture and server types

The HANA system is comprised of multiple server components running as different operating system (OS) processes and services in a host or a cluster of hosts. In SAP HANA Cloud, here are the core servers:

  • Name server: Owns the information of the topology of the overall system. In a distributed system, it knows where the components are running and where data is located.
  • Index server: Contains in-memory data stores. It segments all queries and contains several...