Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform: An architectural guide to integrating and extending 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.

Table of Contents

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

Serdar Simsekler is passionate about delivering innovative and robust technology solutions for business needs. His focus areas are enterprise architecture, IT strategy, innovation, cloud architecture, integration patterns, and software architecture. Currently working as an SAP Architect at Deloitte, he supports the digital transformation of several clients. He also leads Deloitte UK’s SAP Cloud Architecture and BTP capability. In his previous Head of SAP Technology role at Centrica, he was responsible for developing the technology strategy for the entire SAP landscape of the enterprise. He likes reading philosophy and keeps self-nurturing his curiosity to learn new things. He lives with his wife and two sons in Surrey, United Kingdom.

Eric Du is a product and technology leader with broad experience in the enterprise space. As VP of Cloud Architecture at SAP SuccessFactors, he leads the architectural efforts for SuccessFactors’ cloud transformation in defining the target architecture, migration solutions, and cloud optimizations. Prior to this role, he focused on SAP’s cross-product strategy and co-led the North Star Architecture to shape the technology vision for SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise Strategy. Based in Silicon Valley, Eric is passionate about innovations, he serves the role of advisor and investor in multiple start-up companies. He lives with his family in Dublin, California.