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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

Understanding SLAs

As an architect, once you’ve gathered and understood the non-functional requirements for a solution, you must design an architecture that balances the quality of service and the cost to implement and operate it. With your solution becoming a service or a product, you need to convey a message to your stakeholders, customers, and users claiming at what levels you will fulfill the non-functional requirements. When quantified, these become service-level objectives (SLOs) – hence, quality of service targets. And by conveying these SLOs to your stakeholders, customers, and users, you get into service-level agreements (SLAs).

If you are delivering an in-house solution, the SLAs become the service quality that needs to satisfy your stakeholders. On the other hand, if you supply your solution to customers, the SLAs become part of the official and legal engagement between you and your customers. In the cloud, as everything is a service, the SLAs critically...