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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

Services

At the beginning of this chapter, we already defined what a service is: it’s a managed capability provided through the platform to be used as a building block in our solutions.

These can be business services that you can almost immediately incorporate into a business process providing industry-specific or line of business (LOB)-related capabilities, for example, Document and Reporting Compliance, Data Privacy Integration, Business Entity Recognition, and so on. Otherwise, they are technical services that do not directly relate to a business context; instead, you can use them to build technical elements and applications.

What we also need to clarify at this point is that in the SAP BTP context, a service can refer to different technical things, even though all of them are present together in a single service catalog/marketplace. Let’s see them.

Applications and subscriptions

An SAP BTP service can be an application that exists in a different provider...