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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

Account administration

We have talked a lot about SAP BTP so far, and we understand there are lots of new concepts that need to sink in. Undoubtedly, the best way this can happen is when you try it yourself. So far, it has been all about foundational concepts, commercial models, and the SAP BTP account model. Now, let’s look at the options around how you can manage all these. As an architect, you may not need to know the lowest-level details of account administration; however, having a high-level knowledge of it will help. So, we will keep it short and sweet. At the end of the day, you may want to know how to find your way around SAP BTP when designing architectures, and you may need to try things yourself.

You can manage your SAP BTP account mainly using three tools: SAP BTP Cockpit, the SAP BTP CLI, and SAP BTP APIs.

SAP BTP Cockpit

SAP BTP Cockpit is a web-based user interface (UI) that lets users manage SAP BTP account-model elements using screen controls. The UI...