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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

Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management for S/4HANA

ISLM is the standardized framework for the lifecycle management and operation of intelligent scenarios in the context of SAP S4/HANA. ISLM acts as the central cockpit to operate ML in SAP S4/HANA and it cannot be used outside of it. An intelligent scenario is an ABAP representation of an ML-based use case.

The ISLM framework offers the necessary support to standardize the integration and consumption of intelligent scenarios for both embedded and side-by-side scenarios, which allows application developers for SAP S/4HANA to create scenarios and perform lifecycle operations including training, deploying, and activating models directly within the business applications. The operations of intelligent scenarios are supported by the Intelligent Scenario Management application. Depending on where the ML model runs, ISLM supports both of the following scenarios:

  • Embedded: The ML model runs in the same stack as S/4HANA, leveraging...