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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

This chapter wrapped up the overall “data to value” offerings from SAP BTP. Throughout this chapter, we introduced a broader set of intelligent technologies, starting from the ML capabilities in SAP HANA through the APL and PAL. After that, we discussed the embedded ML/AI capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud and how SAP Data Intelligence supports the orchestration and governance of AI scenarios.

We also briefly covered SAP CAI for supporting the digital assistance experience and SAP Process Automation for workflow automation to enable business users to automate repetitive tasks without the need to depend on the IT department.

Of course, SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad are the core offerings to support advanced AI use cases such as deep learning, with SAP AI Core as the execution runtime and SAP AI Launchpad providing lifecycle management and monitoring operational AI scenarios.

Lastly, data is essential for any AI scenario. In this context, we explored...