Preface
Digitalization has been a priority for all sizable companies to introduce efficiency, agility, and innovation. The world is changing so fast, and customers are becoming more demanding. Every company has its own digital transformation strategy to differentiate itself from the competition, and executives know that digitalization is vital for differentiation.
SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler for innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity.
If you are involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to get yourself familiar 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.
Before reading a technical book, it’s important to align your objectives with what the book offers. Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform aims to provide a generalist view of SAP BTP capabilities. We were careful to provide design examples so that you can see in action the SAP BTP features we discussed.
There may be parts where we delve into more detail than usual or topics that we cover with briefer content than others. At the end of the day, we wanted to cover the end-to-end spectrum of SAP BTP services and provide as many primers as we could. This way, we hope you can see the complete picture of what SAP BTP caters to and get the right direction for further studying.
With this book, you’ll learn SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you will learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and 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 and business intelligence use cases to produce actionable insights.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value. Now, there is a lot to learn and time is precious. Happy reading!
Disclaimer:
Some diagrams in this book contain materials from SAP Business Technology Platform Solution Diagrams, Design Elements & Icons, used with the permission of SAP SE.
Who this book is for
This SAP guide is for technical architects, solution architects, and enterprise architects working with SAP solutions to drive digital transformation and innovation with SAP BTP. We assume our readers already have some IT background and an understanding of basic cloud concepts. Working knowledge of the SAP ecosystem will also be beneficial.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Intelligent Enterprise, introduces you to SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise, its value propositions, and the business processes it can enable.
Chapter 2, SAP Business Technology Platform Overview, introduces the key pillars of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
Chapter 3, Establishing a Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform, contains information on the foundational concepts of SAP BTP so that you understand the terminology and fundamental information before delving into the details in subsequent chapters.
Chapter 4, Security and Connectivity, contains information about the security elements of SAP BTP, which will help you understand the platform foundation that provides services for IAM and other security requirements.
Chapter 5, Non-Functional Design for Operability, provides information on how to design for operability considering non-functional requirements. This chapter will cover the NFD elements collectively and refer to further details that will be discussed in later chapters. This chapter will also discuss how SAP BTP is supported by SAP, SLA arrangements, Trust Center, engagements, and more.
Chapter 6, Defining Integration Strategy, teaches you about structured elements for building an integration methodology and defining an integration strategy.
Chapter 7, Cloud Integration, helps you understand process integration better by explaining the available options in SAP Integration Suite and elaborating on various use cases. As cross use cases, the API-based and event-driven integration topics will be explained by focusing on APIM and Event Mesh. Finally, the Open Connectors capability will be explained to illustrate how streamlined third-party application connectivity works.
Chapter 8, Data Integration, helps you understand data integration better by elaborating on various data integration use cases, mainly introducing the capabilities of SAP Data Intelligence and briefly touching upon other data integration solutions.
Chapter 9, Application Development, provides information on the application development options that you can incorporate in architecture designs. This chapter will introduce the Extension Suite capabilities and other SAP BTP services for digital experience.
Chapter 10, Digital Process Automation, explains what SAP BTP offers for process automation.
Chapter 11, Containers and Kubernetes, introduces the cloud-native programming model in SAP BTP. This chapter also explores how to use open-source projects and the capabilities of SAP using Gardener and Kyma.
Chapter 12, SAP HANA Cloud, introduces SAP HANA Cloud for storing and processing data.
Chapter 13, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud, introduces SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for modeling business semantics and SAP Analytics Cloud for advanced analytics, looking at how to use them to gain insights and support business decisions with confidence.
Chapter 14, SAP Intelligent Technologies, introduces SAP’s ML/AI offerings to embed intelligence into your business processes.
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