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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

Getting support

With a fast-evolving cloud platform in hand, having vendor support becomes much more important to keep pace with it. On the other hand, the cloud vendors are keener to interact more intensely with customers for strategic alignment. Their success is measured not only by how much they sell but also by how much their solutions are adopted and consumed. The competition in the cloud market makes this mandatory. Therefore, it’s advantageous for both the supplier and the customer to continuously monitor and maximize the consumption of cloud services. For the customer, this means they get what they pay for, while for the supplier, it increases the chance of the customer staying with them. Here, support quality is a key factor that accelerates adoption, eliminates roadblocks, and increases consumption.

Support services

SAP has a support framework that provides various channels for a diverse set of requirements. For SAP cloud, which also includes SAP BTP, there are...