Managing Cloud Foundry Environments

Managing Service Subscriptions

Managing Users on SAP BTP

Managing Users and Authorizations on SAP BTP

Managing Users and Authorizations in SAP BTP Environments

Managing Boosters

Managing Extensions

Maintaining Unified Customer Landscape

Managing Extensibility and Integration Concepts

Managing SAP Solution Integration

Managing SAP BTP Shared Responsibility Model

Managing the Data-to-Value Concept

Extending Applications Using SAP BTP Services

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe extensibility concepts in the Unified Customer Landscape (UCL).

Introduction

SAP BTP extensibility gives customers a safe, clean-core way to add new functionality on top of SAP cloud products—without modifying the underlying system. Consultants must understand these capabilities to design side-by-side extensions, automate integrations, and support event-driven scenarios across SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, and more.

This lesson covers the Unified Customer Landscape framework, how systems are registered and grouped into formations, and how extensions run automatically in Cloud Foundry or Kyma. By learning these concepts, consultants can help customers extend SAP solutions in a standardized, upgrade-safe way that fits SAP’s clean-core strategy.

Unified Customer Landscape

The extension capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) enables developers to implement loosely coupled extension applications securely, thus implementing additional workflows or modules on top of the existing SAP cloud solution they already have.

The Unified Customer Landscape service provides capabilities for automated extensibility and integration of SAP and third-party systems.

All standard SAP solutions are offered with customizing capabilities. Additionally, customers often have their own requirements for innovative or industry-specific extensions and the extension capabilities of SAP BTP can help them build, deploy, and operate their new functionality.

You can extend standard SAP solutions without disrupting their performance and core processes. When building extension applications, you can also benefit from the automation of the integration between the cloud platform and the extended SAP solutions.

You can also benefit from an automated integration between SAP systems or between SAP systems and a specific service in SAP BTP.

Using the Unified Customer Landscape service, you can maintain your customer landscape. The frontend representation of this service is the System Landscape page in the SAP BTP cockpit. The dedicated SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility and SAP SuccessFactors Extensibility services are also part of the Unified Customer Landscape capabilities.

To get a full list of terms related to the extensibility and integration concepts in the Unified Customer Landscape area, see Extensibility and Integration Concepts.

SAP BTP System Registration, Integration, and Extensibility

Registering and Deregistering Systems

To connect a system with a global account in SAP BTP, you need to have the system listed in the System page.

Integrating SAP Solutions

You can integrate several systems and services as part of the common business scenario. To do that, you create a formation in the SAP BTP cockpit that includes all systems that the scenario requires. Every formation has a type related to its purpose. Using formations is a standard way to enable the communication between systems.

Extending SAP Solutions

The extension capabilities of SAP BTP provide a standard way for extending SAP solutions and developing event-driven extensions and applications. This framework includes:

Simplified, standardized and unified extensibility and configuration for the SAP solutions.
Central catalog per customer for all connected SAP systems where data such as APIs, events, credentials and other is stored. You can benefit from business services and actionable events across end-to-end business processes.

You have the following options to extend your SAP solution using the SAP SuccessFactors Extensibility or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility services:

Extensions with automated configurations in the Cloud Foundry runtime: applicable for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, and SAP SuccessFactors.
Extensions with automated configurations in the Kyma runtime: applicable for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Cloud for Customer, SAP Commerce Cloud, and SAP Field Service Management.

If you have to group the systems of different SAP solutions in the same business case, you can set up the connectivity between all these systems and a global account in SAP BTP in a single formation in the SAP BTP cockpit.

Summary

Side-by-side extensibility uses SAP BTP for custom applications.
Stable APIs and business events connect extensions to SAP S/4HANA.
Clean core strategy prevents core system modifications.
Boosters and wizards automate extension setup processes.

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