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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

Well, we covered quite a lot in this chapter. As this is the first chapter of “data to value,” we started this chapter by discussing typical data-driven use cases and data architecture patterns to support various use cases.

The key element of this chapter was SAP HANA Cloud. We first introduced the different components of SAP HANA Cloud, its server types, and tools to access and work with HANA Cloud. Then, we focused on different development scenarios, from using HANA Cloud as the database runtime, modeling with Calculation Views, and—more importantly—native development, especially with the HDI. We briefly discussed SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake as a built-in extension of HANA database for large- volume data processing.

In the next chapter, we will look at other products as part of the data-to-value offerings, especially SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud.