Introduction
Organizations nowadays need to respond to difficulties more swiftly and flexibly to reflect their competitive edge over the domain. Companies who are motivated by insights deliberately track the effects of their implementations before optimizing through iterative, agile cycles of testing
The goal of SAP BTP is to become the single, business-focused, open data and development platform for the whole SAP ecosystem. It enables SAP developers, customers, and partners to integrate, extract value from data, and expand in SAP landscapes with unparalleled development efficiency. Exploration and learning are ongoing processes. That said, it’s time to deep-dive into SAP BTP!
What is SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP BTP brings together intelligent enterprise data management, analytics, integration, and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments including hundreds of integrations of prebuilt third-party applications.
Customers can leverage the SAP Business Technology Platform to utilize the potential of data, including controlling its volume and scope (SAP S/4HANA), assuring its quality (SAP Data Warehouse Cloud), and eventually employing it to make wise business choices (SAP Analytics Cloud).
- SPAN: SAP Data Intelligence.
- AMOUNT: SAP S/4HANA, SAP IQ, SAP ASE service
- QUALITY: SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
- USAGE: SAP Analytics Cloud/ SAP BusinessObjects BI (Business Intelligence) Reporting
In other words, the SAP Business Technology Platform approach integrates all aspects of data processing into a single, unified experience, including databases, data management, data warehousing, analytics, and planning.
Solutions Embedded in SAP BTP
Every Intelligent Enterprise’s base is built on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), which incorporates a wide range of on-premise and cloud solutions for:
- Database and Data Management
- Analytics
- Application development and integration
- Intelligent technologies
Moving further let’s look into each one of them in detail.
Database and Data Management
Everything you require to store, access, analyze, integrate, and understand all required data in your landscape is incorporated into this solution. You can manage and use data as per your business requirements by utilizing the services and tools for database and data management.
The data management activity is significantly influenced by SAP HANA (High performance Analytic Appliance) and SAP HANA Cloud, which offer robust data management using an in-memory database, either on-premises or in the cloud. Alternatively, you can also utilize SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, which eliminates the need to physically move data into a single location and instead gives you a single view of it across all aspects of the enterprise. SAP Data Services, SAP Master Data Governance, SAP Data Intelligence, and other solutions are also embedded into this solution.
Analytics
With the use of analytics products, you can plan, forecast, and conclude quick judgments based on new information. Using machine learning techniques, you can leverage SAP Analytics Cloud to aggregate data from your operational systems, data warehouses, and data lakes and integrate it with third-party spreadsheets or external market data.
You can use the technology to automatically detect abnormalities and pinpoint the major factors influencing your performance metrics. You can also execute scenario-based planning choices and predict future events. Other pertinent analytics tools include SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and others.
Application development and integration
You can innovate, extend, and integrate agile business processes in cloud-based and hybrid environments through the application development and integration solution. Businesses can quickly extend their present application, combine various systems, or develop new solutions.
There are also numerous options to experiment and iterate using design thinking techniques to create the optimum user experience for the SAP Fiori interface. Building and extending SAP solutions can be accomplished by utilizing the numerous capabilities offered by SAP Extension Suite. Additionally, partners can create and market their add-ons to SAP systems through the SAP Store. You can effortlessly link SAP and non-SAP applications with SAP Integration Suite, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Intelligent technologies
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent robotic process automation, blockchain, and the Internet of Things are all part of the intelligent technologies using which you can automate any type of complicated, repeated chores that make up a sizable chunk of business operations using SAP technologies like machine learning and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP Intelligent RPA (Robotic Process Automation)). SAP BTP’s automation features can help businesses save a ton of time and concentrate on continuous innovation.
Environments Provided By SAP BTP
The platform-as-a-service solution; SAP BTP enables the creation and management of business applications and is comprised of environments. The environments that SAP BTP supports are as follows:
Cloud Foundry Environment:
The Cloud Foundry environment supports a variety of runtimes, programming languages, libraries, and services, enabling you to create new business applications and business services. You can make use of a wide variety of build packs, including original build packs created by the community and your own.
ABAP Environment:
A new area could be created in the Cloud Foundry environment for ABAP development. We refer to this as the ABAP environment. You are now allowed to build new cloud apps and add extensions to ABAP-based solutions like SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Existing ABAP-based extensions or custom code can also be converted for the cloud.
Kyma Environment:
Developers can add serverless functionality and containerized microservices to SAP systems using the Kyma environment, a fully managed Kubernetes runtime built on the “Kyma” transparent project.
Neo Environment:
You can create HTML5, Java, and SAP HANA extended application services (SAP HANA XS) apps using the Neo environment. The UI (User Interfaces) Development Toolkit for HTML5 (SAPUI5) can be utilized to create attractive user interfaces for contemporary web-based enterprise applications.
Commercial Models Offered By SAP BTP
SAP BTP provides two distinct business models.
- Consumption-based business strategy:
All services currently offered and covered by this model are accessible to your organization. Throughout your contract, you can choose between services and turn them on and off as your business demands. There are two variations of this business model:
Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP
Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA)
- Commercial subscription-based model:
Your company only subscribes to the services it intends to utilize. After then, you can utilize these services for a set fee, regardless of utilization.
Final Thoughts
For companies using SAP, the SAP Business Technology Platform is not a new idea. Instead, it’s a portfolio that includes the technologies that SAP users already utilize; just a few examples are SAP HANA, SAP PO (Process Orchestration), and SAP AI (Artificial Intelligence) Business Services. BTP encourages customers to use SAP services to produce solutions that aid in more effectively resolving complicated issues.
Our SAP-based consulting services can assist you in selecting the best solutions to meet your present and future demands. Get in touch with us to begin maximizing the value of your data!
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FAQ’S
Why is SAP BTP important?
SAP BTP is essential because: It offers the fastest way to convert enterprise data into business value, enables flawless integration of complex enterprise systems, makes it easy to achieve a “custom fit” when purchasing any of SAP’s software applications, and connects the operations with the newest technologies.
What are the various environments of SAP BTP?
The environments included in SAP BRP are the Cloud Foundry environment, ABAP environment, Kyma environment, and NEO environment.
What are the 4 pillars of SAP BTP?
The four pillars of SAP BTP are database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies.
What is the difference between SAP BTP and SAP Cloud Platform?
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is the new name for SAP Cloud Platform. Developed by SAP SE, the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) was a platform as a service for building new applications or extending pre-existing ones in a secure cloud computing environment under SAP’s management. SAP BTP replaces the SAP Cloud Platform so that the functions offered by SAP BTP are wider and more complex than SCP.
