Integrating and Maintaining UCL Components

The Unified Customer Landscape (UCL) is where SAP BTP discovers, registers, and organizes all SAP and third-party systems tied to a customer’s global account. For consultants, this view is essential: integrations, extensions, formations, boosters, and clean-core architectures all rely on an accurate and well-maintained system landscape.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how systems are discovered automatically, added manually, and surfaced through subscriptions. You’ll also see how UCL supports integration and extensibility by grouping systems into formations that reflect real business scenarios. Understanding UCL is critical for troubleshooting connectivity, validating customer architecture, and enabling event-driven extensions across SAP solutions.

The System Landscape page of the SAP BTP cockpit gives you a visual overview of your SAP and third-party systems associated with the given global account or a subaccount. There are different ways to add systems in the System Landscape ﹥Systems page: manually or automatically. If a system of your solution is associated with your global account or through a subscription in SAP BTP cockpit associated with a given subaccount, it will appear in the list automatically. Otherwise, you have to add your system manually. Systems are added to the list in one of the following ways:

• Auto-Discovered

  An auto-discovered system is a system (associated with the given global account) that has been discovered and added automatically to the list based on information of the existing system landscape. Any SAP system of the supported system types that is associated with the same customer ID, with which your global account in SAP BTP is associated, will be added automatically in the system landscape list.

• Subaccount ∕ ﹤my-subaccount﹥

  Specifies that the system has been added through a subscription in SAP BTP cockpit associated with a given subaccount. The subscription has been discovered and added automatically through the subaccount.

• Manually-Added

  Specifies that the system has been added to the list manually by the global account administrator, using the Add System button and completing the wizard. The system has been associated with the global account in SAP BTP.

Unified Customer Landscape also helps you integrate and extend your SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, and other SAP and third-party systems in one single experience.

In the SAP BTP cockpit, you get a comprehensive overview of all your systems associated with your customer ID. These systems can be registered or auto discovered. They are conveniently listed as a record in the Systems list. Moreover, Unified Customer Landscape lets you integrate one or more systems in a common business case by including these systems in a formation.

• Formations centralize connectivity by linking SAP systems with a BTP subaccount for unified oversight.
• Automated provisioning creates necessary service instances and communication arrangements for integrations.