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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

Environments and regions

In the SAP BTP context, environment is an overloaded term. So, when we say it, we may mean two similar but different things. Let’s define the first one: at its foundation, SAP BTP provides frameworks, technologies, execution models, and tools for customers to develop and deploy applications that we refer to altogether as a runtime environment or, shortly, an environment.

SAP BTP has had an extensive evolution since it was first released. In this journey, SAP introduced different environments to provide platform services as well as runtimes for applications. As a result, there are four runtime environments in SAP BTP, as outlined here:

  • Neo environment: This was the first and only environment when SAP BTP, then known as SAP Cloud Platform (SCP), was released originally. The technology underpinning this environment is SAP-proprietary and enables customers to develop and deploy HTML5, Java, and SAP HANA XS (JavaScript) applications. In addition...