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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

Integration platforms are at the heart of heterogeneous and hybrid IT landscapes. To manage the complex nature of integrations in these kinds of landscapes, it’s very important to have a systematic methodology and produce a strategy that transforms and optimizes your integration platform.

In this chapter, we covered several topics that can help you build such a methodology and produce a complete strategy to achieve your transformation goals. We also established a common understanding before stepping into more practical examples for integration services.

We started by explaining SAP’s recommended Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISAM), which also helps standardize integration concepts and terminology. Following the SAP ISAM, we discussed integration domains and styles. Then, we finalized the first section by putting forward an overview approach for building a concrete methodology for your integration requirements.

Next, we covered SAP’...