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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
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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

SAP AI Core, SAP AI Launchpad, and SAP AI API

SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad are the two latest offerings from SAP to provide the unified AI consumption and lifecycle management of all types of AI scenarios. AI scenarios can be realized through the AI runtimes provided by SAP AI Core or using any framework, such as TensorFlow. The management of operations of AI scenarios such as versioning, training, deployment, and serving is provided through AI Launchpad. Together, they provide similar and additional functionalities to the SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation. Let’s start by understanding SAP AI Core.

SAP AI Core

SAP AI Core is SAP’s AI runtime for ML and AI workloads with integration in SAP BTP to deploy AI scenarios at scale. Operationalizing AI scenarios, such as bringing an AI model developed by a data scientist to production, is not easy. SAP AI Core is the solution to productize AI for Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) scenarios. However, SAP AI Core is...