SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) provides the foundation by bringing together data and analytics, Artificial Intelligence, application development, automation, and integration in one unified environment, optimized for SAP applications. SAP BTP with its integration and extension capabilities is the enabler of a clean core.
SAP BTP is essential for companies for four main reasons:
- To protect SAP applications and data from competitive encroachment.
- To enhance competitive differentiation for SAP's intelligent enterprise solutions, providing a higher value proposition of the intelligent suite through integration and continued innovation.
- To help companies speed up even the most complex accounting close processes, while meeting regulatory requirements and financial reporting standards.
- To win opportunities where new business models and opportunities are emerging.

The value SAP BTP provides can be categorized across four areas:
Accelerate a move to the cloud | SAP BTP can provide faster data migration, consolidated master data, and reduce risk with end-to-end functional, security, and performance testing:
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Extend and automate | SAP BTP can deliver business agility, minimize modification, build and automate low-code solutions, and accelerate innovation with cloud extensions:
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Connect end-to-end business processes | With SAP BTP Integration Suite, our customers can leverage over 2,500 prebuilt integrations and connectors for more than 700 third-party applications: SAP BTP provides substantial value during a RISE with SAP implementation by facilitating the integration of various applications across the customer technology stack. SAP Integration Suite, running on BTP, aids in connecting end-to-end processes, accelerating innovation, ensuring a faster time to value, and automating business processes. |
Plan and analyze | SAP BTP supports to plan and forecast using an integrated planning and analytics solution, with real-time views of data and the ability to anticipate change/trends proactively via artificial intelligence and predictive analytics: The fourth area of value that SAP BTP delivers during the customer’s SAP for RISE transformation is in planning and analytics. SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP HANA Cloud enable customers to plan and forecast seamlessly across all departments, get real-time, complete views of all their data, and provide one truth across plan and actuals. |