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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

Thanks for staying with me. This was probably one of the longest chapters as we covered two major topics – DWC and SAC. This is because they are related to each other and, together, serve as the foundation for providing the necessary capabilities to turn data into insights and actions integrated into business processes.

We started this chapter by introducing DWC, its use cases, and the key concepts, such as Space. We also covered the various options regarding data integration – both federation and replication from on-premise and cloud data sources – and explained how DWC works with SAP BW through SAP BW Bridge, which is important for customers who have existing investments in SAP BW. After that, we discussed the different modeling capabilities, which include Data Builder for technical users and Business Builder for business users. We wrapped up the DWC section by explaining how to consume content from DWC in SAC.

Regarding SAC, we discussed the connectivity...