Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform: An architectural guide to integrating, extending, and innovating enterprise solutions using SAP BTP

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.

1. The Intelligent Enterprise
2. SAP Business Technology Platform Overview
3. Establishing a Foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform
4. Security and Connectivity
5. Non-Functional Design for Operability
6. Defining Integration Strategy
7. Cloud Integration
8. Data Integration
9. Application Development
10. Digital Process Automation
11. Containers and Kubernetes
12. SAP HANA Cloud
13. SAP Analytics Cloud
14. SAP Intelligent Technologies