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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

Security in general

The need for security is a reality in the IT world. If you haven’t been to this side of it before, ask your company’s security team, at what frequency does a cyberattack hit the company? Don’t be surprised if the quantity is on a per-second scale.

Security implies there is something of high value that needs protection. At its core, it is the protected, confidential, or sensitive data that your company needs to keep safe. For example, data protection is related to regulatory compliance in the case of personally identifiable information (PII) such as in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). In the case of a data breach, a company could face severe penalties. More importantly, its prestige will be significantly damaged, which could have commercial consequences.

A cyberattack can paralyze a company’s mission...