Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

A practical handbook packed with expert advice on architectural considerations for designing solutions using SAP BTP to drive digital innovation

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Key Features
Guide your customers with proven architectural strategies and considerations on SAP BTP
Tackle challenges in building process and data integration across complex and hybrid landscapes
Discover SAP BTP services, including visualizations, practical business scenarios, and more
Book Description
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.

What you will learn
Explore value propositions and business processes enabled by SAP's Intelligent and Sustainable Enterprise
Understand SAP BTP's foundational elements, such as commercial and account models
Discover services that can be part of solution designs to fulfill non-functional requirements
Get to grips with integration and extensibility services for building robust solutions
Understand what SAP BTP offers for digital experience and process automation
Explore data-to-value services that can help manage data and build analytics use cases
Who this book is for
This SAP guide is for technical architects, solutions architects, and enterprise architects working with SAP solutions to drive digital transformation and innovation with SAP BTP. Some IT background and an understanding of basic cloud concepts is assumed. Working knowledge of the SAP ecosystem will also be beneficial.

Table of Contents
The Intelligent Enterprise
SAP Business Technology Platform Overview
Establishing a Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform
Security and Connectivity
Non-Functional Design for Operability
Defining Integration Strategy
Cloud Integration
Data Integration
Application Development
Digital Process Automation
Containers and Kubernetes
SAP HANA Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Intelligent Technologies