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

Key Features

• Guide your customers with proven architectural strategies and considerations on SAP BTP
• Tackle complexities in building process and data integration across complex and hybrid landscapes
• Discover SAP BTP services, including data visualizations, practical business scenarios, and more

Book Description

SAP BTP is the technology foundation for SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise solutions. It aims to provide a unified and open platform experience with business centricity. Learning SAP BTP is essential for IT practitioners to understand the technology behind SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering.

With this book, you’ll learn to architect solutions using SAP BTP with 3 high-level scenarios – Integration, Extension, and Data-to-Value. The book covers integration architecture guidelines, considerations for producing an integration strategy, and elaboration of two main integration styles - process and data integration. You’ll be able to understand operational elements and familiarize yourself with enterprise-grade considerations, which will further help you design robust architectures. Later, you’ll learn how to use Extension Suite capabilities and their use cases to extend SAP BTP solutions for bringing innovation and agility at the organization level. You’ll also explore process automation options with workflow management and iRPA services. Toward the end, you’ll use data management capabilities to address challenges in integrating data and gaining insights for business.

By the end of this SAP book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP for operational excellence and deliver high value for your customers in the business context.

What you will learn

• Explore value propositions and business processes enabled by SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise
• Understand SAP BTP's foundational governance elements such as Commercial and Account Models
• Discover security and connectivity services that can be included in solution designs
• Get to grips with integration and extensibility services for building robust solutions
• Become well-versed with Workflow Management and iRPA for process automation
• Use SAP's data platform solutions to gain insights and support business decisions

Who This Book Is For

This SAP guide is for solution architects, technical architects, and enterprise architects working with SAP solutions to drive digital transformation and advise customers on innovation with SAP BTP. Knowledge of beginner-level cloud concepts such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and benefits of the cloud such as elasticity, reliability, and TCO improvements is expected. 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. As the Head of SAP Technology at Centrica, he develops technology strategies for the SAP platforms and presents them to C-level executives and business stakeholders. With his extensive experience in SAP, his role also functions as a hub among enterprise architecture, design, engineering, delivery, and operations. Having studied it in the past, he likes reading philosophy, and he keeps self-nurturing his curiosity to learn new things. He lives with his wife and two sons in Surrey, United Kingdom.<br /><br />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.