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Intelligent enterprise. If youve been active in the SAP world over the past few years, youve likely been hearing this term with increasing frequency. It may sound like a regular business buzzword; something more conceptual than achievable. How do you really transform your organization into an intelligent enterprise, anyway?
The answer is: implement a strong foundation. With SAP Business Technology Platform, you can innovate your business processes via a unified technology platform. Divided into pillars, much like the stone columns on the cover of this book, SAP BTP offers concrete technologies that support your major areas of transformation: application development and integration, database and data management, analytics, and intelligent technologies. All of the components are in place, whether youre building towards the cloud or keeping your operations either partially or completely on-premise.
Still, the foundation is only the beginningyou need architects to draw up completed blueprints and help you envision your intelligent enterprise. In this book, SAP professionals Smitha Banda, Shibaji Chandra, and Chun Aun Gooi combined their decades of expertise to both inspect the groundwork of SAP BTP (the tools, technologies, and services) and showcase what can be built on the foundation with practical use cases.
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Preface
Welcome to the first book on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The objective of the book is to provide a complete overview of SAP BTP. The book covers the products and services encompassed by SAP BTP, the architecture principles and design patterns to follow for development on SAP BTP, and examples of implementation scenarios and use cases. After reading the book, youll be able to articulate why SAP BTP is important for any organization thats interested in transforming the way they do business, what SAP BTP really is, and how its portfolio of products and services are used together to improve business outcomes. Reviewing the use cases described in the book will help you understand how SAP BTP is used in the real world and open your mind to the art of the possible. It can serve as your first source of information on SAP BTP and as a guide to get you started with SAP BTP implementation.
Target Audience
The goal of the book is to provide you with enough information to intelligently engage in conversations involving SAP BTP implementation and confidently get started with an SAP BTP implementation. Architects, whether enterprise, solution, technology, development, or integration, will get enough information from the book to help them build SAP BTP strategies for their individual organizations or the entire company. Project managers can understand the extent of effort involved in SAP BTP implementations so they can better manage SAP BTP projects. The use cases covered in the book will not only help architects and project managers but also business users and functional consultants to understand how the SAP BTP portfolio can be leveraged to create innovative business processes within and across lines of business (LoBs). While developers wont get many how-tos or code samples in the book, they can surely benefit from understanding the big picture.
How This Book Is Organized
Weve organized this book into three parts. processes and outcomes. The use cases will help you visualize what SAP BTP can do and help you realize that the possibilities are endless.
We recommend reading this book sequentially from .
Lets review whats covered in each chapter of this book. Well start with , which includes the following introductory chapters:
: Introduction
This chapter opens the book with a discussion of digital transformation, intelligent enterprises, and how SAP BTP fits into the picture. Well also cover the core technology pillars of SAP BTP.
: Account Setup and Administration
This chapter explains how to set up your SAP BTP account, including coverage of different licensing models, account types, and entitlements. Well also cover some administration activities.
Next, includes the following chapters about application architecture and design: