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In what extent it makes sense to deploy the SAP Business Technology Platform? First of all, because the BTP is part of SAP S/4HANA Cloud - both for the Public and Private editions. The BTP handles basic functions such as access and authorizations. BTP also handles the deployment of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation. The BTP is the central hub for running an Intelligent Enterprise.
SAP BTP is platform-as-a-service ( PaaS) that delivers in-memory capabilities , core platform services and services for building and extending intelligent ,mobile-enabled cloud applications . Based on open standards, SAP Business Technology Platform offers complete flexibility and control over your choice of clouds, frameworks, and applications.
BTP helps in accelerating digital transformation by helping customers to quickly, easily and cost effectively develop the exact application they need without investing in on-premise or cloud infrastructure.
SAP BTP is a platform as service which is essential to connect SAP and Non-SAP systems to cloud infrastructure. It also provides capabilities of no code , low code. Automation , integration etc .
Application Development , Automation , Integration , Data and Analytics and AI are cornerstone of the BTP , providing customers with the tool and capabilities to modernize and digitize their business process , innovate at speed and scale and leverage AI to reduce TCO .
Application Development: SAP BTP enables developers to build, deploy and manage applications by offering great tools and technologies. BTP supports various programming languages and development models which gives flexibility to the developers. One of the tools is SAP Build code which is designed to build and extend applications on the business technology platform. BTP also provides application development options with low-code development which allows business users to create business application without extensive coding knowledge.
Automation: SAP BTP provides automation capabilities to automate the regular day to day task and business processes. SAP Build process automation supports automation of routine tasks .BTP provides capabilities to automate the workflow as well. Latest offering from SAP BTP is SAP work centre which can automate workflow from any business application on SAP Cloud ERP without compromising the security aspect.
Integration : SAP Integration suite of SAP BTP facilitates the connectivity between on-prem and cloud systems as well with customer,partner and other non-SAP systems. Integration is vital aspect of SAP BTP as it provides seamless communication and data exchange between different systems.
Data and Analytics : SAP BTP has great feature for data analysis , reporting and data visualization which helps organization to get the insight of their business process and help them to make smarter business decisions.
AI : SAP BTP has various AI tools and technologies such as SAP AI business service and Generative AI Hub which helps organizations to stays ahead in the competition by leverage these AI tool and technologies and fostering innovation .
Cloud ERP – SAP S/4 HANA Cloud is at the central and it is surrounded by other SAP solutions and every third-party application. In addition to SAP solution, there are numerous industry -specific applications available, which serve specific requirements to the industries such as oil and gas , automative , healthcare etc . These industry application solutions, which are developed by SAP or partners, are either developed on business technology platform or nitrated with it.
BTP is PaaS, platform as service which provide various tool and development framework in the cloud environment.
Three main Use-cases for SAP BTP:
Integration: A complex IT landscape includes on-premise and cloud systems, hybrid and SaaS application . BTP integrates the whole landscape seamlessly which is essential to enhance the business operations across the entire value chain.
Data-to-Value: SAP BTP provides great capabilities of data analysis for business to make informed decision and stay ahead in the competition.
Extensibility: Extensibility allows business to build new application and extend existing application at rapid rate . With BTP as underlying platform companies can stay agile and adapt rapidly to new business conditions and changing customer demands.
Application Development and Automation via SAP BTP :
Business Accelerator Hub:
The SAP Business Accelerator Hub offers you a wide range of sandbox APIs for several SAP products like SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP SucessFactors, SAP Concur, SAP Ariba etc.There are various APIs to perform various integration , innovation and extensions. Developers can try these APIs at SAP Business Accelerator Hub and all they need is API Key which can find by clicking on show API key on a specific API page .
SAP Integration Suite
The SAP Integration Suite service on SAP BTP contains four core capabilities as depicted in the figure below .
Data-to-Value
SAP HANA Cloud
What is SAP HANA Cloud? SAP HANA Cloud is a fully managed in-memory multi-tier cloud database as a service (DBaaS). As the cloud-based data foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP HANA Cloud integrates data from across the enterprise, enabling faster decisions based on live data. SAP HANA Cloud is one of the four pillars of the SAP Business Technology Platform and provides the data services to handle constantly growing data volumes in a central place.
SAP BTP Data Services
Data Management and Data Warehousing
Traditional databases provided storage capabilities and offered limited (if any) data processing capabilities. This means that applications would read raw data from the database and, using application code such as ABAP or JAVA, develop complex data processing code to run on the application server.
SAP HANA Cloud database provides sophisticated, multitier data storage and, also, advanced data processing capabilities so that instead of an application requesting raw data from the database, it can request information. Data processing is now pushed down from the application layer to the in-memory database of SAP HANA Cloud. This means, not only is data processing faster, applications are leaner as they do not have to handle data processing logic.
Calculation views are defined on top of tables to provide the data processing layer. Calculation views are usually stacked so that the lower calculation views provide opportunities for reuse by defining only the basic data layer. On top of those are more calculation views that add further calculations and semantics until they are ready for consumption by clients. Calculation views do not persist data but calculate results on-the-fly based on live data in source tables. Source tables can be local tables in the SAP HANA Cloud database or remote tables in any database.SAP HANA Cloud includes advanced data processing engines that combine with calculation views to natively store and process spatial, graph, hierarchy, and predictive data:
Predictive :Develop predictive models using in-built algorithms including machine learning.
Graph :Store and query highly networked data models such as supply chains or online communities (for example, LinkedIn contacts).
Hierarchy :Query hierarchies to extract valuable semantics such as ancestors, dependents, distance between nodes, or siblings.
Spatial :Store and query geometric data to add spatial information to analytics such as mapping.
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud is the key front-end solution in SAP Business Data Cloud, providing interactive data visualization, reporting, and planning. Its integration allows users to leverage standard Insight Apps, create custom dashboards, and connect to various data sources, including SAP Datasphere and Databricks. Additionally, SAP-managed live data connections ensure real-time access without storing data in SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP Business AI
SAP Cloud Identity Services
Applications and services in SAP BTP and even the SAP BTP cockpit do not store user information. Instead, a redirect for authentication to an Identity Provider (IdP) is required. This concept makes it possible to decouple and centralize authentication functionality from application capabilities and authorization management. The SAP BTP offers the possibility to use the SAP ID Service or custom Identity Providers from your IT landscape
SAP ID Service is the default identity provider in SAP BTP. It is a pre-configured, standard SAP public IdP (account.sap.com) that is shared by all customers. It has a pre-configured trust connection to all SAP BTP subaccounts. The SAP ID Service is fully managed and provided by SAP.
The SAP Cloud Identity Services consists of two services: Identity Authentication and Identity Provisioning. The Identity Authentication service is mainly responsible for the authentication & single sign-on, while Identity Provisioning service takes care of the identity lifecycle management, which includes both users and groups (things like create, change, delete, etc.).
