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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

Commercial models

SAP provides two main commercial models for enterprises to purchase SAP BTP, as outlined here:

  • Subscription-based model: In this model, customers subscribe to one or multiple services. At the time of purchase, you negotiate with SAP to use a fixed set of services during a fixed term for a fixed price. When the term expires, you can extend your subscription.
  • Consumption-based model: In this model, you do not need to fix the set of services you will be using, and you have two options, as follows:
    • If you establish a Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA) with SAP, you make an annual commitment to using SAP BTP over a fixed term with no restriction on which services you can use. SAP gives you a number of cloud credits you can consume by using SAP BTP services. During the agreement term, you can flexibly adjust what you are using by enabling, disabling, or ramping up/down the service utilization as long as you do not deplete your cloud credits. If you spend...