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This lesson is geared mainly towards administrators, but any roles involved could benefit from it.
SAP offers several strategic operations platforms. Many customers have invested in corresponding processes on these platforms, so it's essential that the SAP BTP tools and cloud services that drive DevOps can smoothly integrate there so that you can stick to existing, known processes. This investment allows you to handle hybrid solutions that span beyond SAP BTP.
In this lesson, you will learn more about the existing integration options for SAP BTP cloud services related to DevOps.
Motivation
To be able to operate end-to-end business solutions smoothly, it's essential that you can holistically handle all building blocks that form this solution, no matter in which environment they run. Think of an application running on SAP BTP that accesses data points from your on-premise or private-cloud back-end and maybe additional SAP Cloud systems. Although SAP BTP does contribute an important part, it's just one building block of the complete solution. Still, it might be crucial to control the delivery of interdependent changes along all involved solutions and environments in a synchronized way.
To operate such an end-to-end business solution, it's critical to get a holistic picture of the complete solution in one place, comprising all its building blocks, not only single parts. In case issues should come up, such a holistic central picture will allow you to identify which part of the solution should be investigated further, in order to identify the root cause and to solve it. A deep integration of local observability tools into central observability does allow you to directly navigate from the holistic overview of your solution into local monitoring for root cause analysis.
For a more efficient resolution of issues identified centrally, the additional integration of local technical operations automation (such as being offered by the SAP Automation Pilot service) can increase your operations efficiency. It allows addressing detected issues faster by triggering operation flows on SAP BTP directly, ensuring minimal disruption and enabling real-time, consistent, and reliable responses to incidents and system events. Those operation flows can be extended: users can design and customize their own operational flows using SAP Automation Pilot to streamline processes according to specific business and IT needs.
This is what central operations platforms offer in interplay with local observability tools, along with many other features. Get more insights in the following video:
