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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

HANA ML

SAP HANA contains in-database ML libraries and related tooling for AI modeling and algorithms, based on relational data. There are a few different ways to support ML use cases, with the built-in functions of the Automated Predictive Library (APL) and the Predictive Analysis Library (PAL) and Python and R clients for SAP HANA ML.

APL and PAL

APL provides data mining capabilities based on the Automated Analytics engine of HANA through functions that run, by default, in the SAP HANA script server. APL functions provide the capabilities to develop predictive models, train the models, and run the models to answer business questions based on data stored in SAP HANA. PAL is another library that provides built-in algorithms and functions to leverage ML capabilities in HANA.

APL and PAL together provide a broad range of AI scenarios, such as Classification, Regression, Time Series Forecasting, Cluster Analysis, Association Analysis, Statistics, Social Network Analysis, Recommender...