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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

Summary

How did it go? We have gone through so many topics. First, we discussed non-functional design while concentrating on business continuity, data management, performance, capacity, scalability, and observability. For these, we set the stage first and then explained what SAP BTP provides for non-functional requirements and how you, as the consumer, can design solutions around the options you have.

In the second section, we touched upon SLAs that are primarily linked to the non-functional requirements around availability. After that, we showed you how you could find out the SLA’s SAP promises for SAP BTP services so that you can cascade them in your design’s resilience arrangements.

Finally, we talked about SAP support services, people you can interact with while getting support, and the primary resources you can use to get help.

This was the last chapter of the first part of this book. In the next chapter, we will start a new part, where we will delve into...