Describing SAP Business Technology Platform

The diagram below offers an overview of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), a comprehensive solution designed to help organizations innovate, integrate, and efficiently manage business processes:

SAP Discovery Center

Explore SAP BTP with our comprehensive resources, including missions, reference architectures, a service catalog, and a Business AI catalog, designed to help you maximize the platform's capabilities.

For a first impression, navigate from the SAP Discovery Center - Home Page to the Service Catalog

SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Here, you can access a wide range of business content - including APIs, integrations, events, SAP Build resources, graphs, and more - to accelerate your development and integration projects.

For more information, see SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

The platform is built around three main pillars, each serving a critical function:

Application Development or App Dev & Automation

SAP BTP offers developer tools to extend, create, and automate applications, both SAP and third-party. SAP Build is the all-in-one developer tool for any development scenario, no matter what your coding level. It is an application development and automation solution with a comprehensive suite of code-first, low-code, and generative AI tools.

With SAP Build, you can accelerate time to value through generative AI and prebuilt solutions helping you stay within budget and ahead of schedule. Extend S/4HANA, both public and private editions, and other SAP cloud applications, to customize and personalize, delivering business-relevant apps with full data access to all your data.

Additionally, leverage SAP Build to automate business processes, from routine tasks to complex workflows, enhancing efficiency and reducing errors. Easily design digital workspaces and portals as well.

For more information, see the SAP Build Process Automation Product Home Page, and SAP BTP Application development and automation.

Data and Analytics

These capabilities on SAP BTP include SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC), SAP HANA Cloud, and SAP Master Data Management. Together, they empower organizations to derive insights from their data, facilitating informed decision-making and driving improved business outcomes.

• SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is a fully managed SaaS solution that consolidates and governs all SAP data while seamlessly integrating with third-party data. This allows line-of-business leaders to make more impactful decisions with enhanced context. SAP BDC combines the capabilities of SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse, along with those from SAP Databricks, line-of-business data products, and SAP's open data ecosystem partners, to create an integrated solution for SAP customers.

  With SAP BDC, you can harmonize all your mission-critical data with an open data ecosystem, leveraging a powerful semantic layer to give you unmatched knowledge of your business. And you can ensure data across applications and operations has a foundation for generative AI that is reliable, responsible, and relevant.

  Learn more on the SAP Business Data Cloud product page.

• SAP HANA Cloud is a multi-model database management system that enables architects to build and deploy scalable , intelligent data applications. It serves as the foundation for SAP's mission-critical solutions, including SAP Business Cloud, offering multi-model engines and enterprise-grade performance and reliability.

  Learn more on the SAP HANA Cloud product page.

• SAP Master Data Management improves the quality of your business-critical information with a central hub for master data management and governance. It helps you pull together master data and manage it centrally using a master data management layer based on SAP Business Technology Platform. Learn more on the .

  SAP Master Data Governance product page

For more information on all the data and analytics solutions for SAP BTP, see: SAP data and analytics solutions (=recommended starting point).

Integration

This is a crucial for organizations seeking greater agility to respond swiftly to changing business conditions. SAP Integration Suite provides capabilities and services to connect and integrate applications and processes across your business. It allows you to quickly integrate on-premise and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. This enables various parts of your organization and its external partners to collaborate effectively, meeting evolving market demands.

SAP Integration Suite offers a comprehensive solution to address various integration challenges, including application integration, API management, business-to-business (B2B) integration, event-driven integration, and regulatory compliance.

SAP Integration Suite provides more than 3,400 prebuilt integrations and connectors for both SAP and third-party solutions, facilitating rapid connectivity and expedited time to value. These integrations are developed and maintained by SAP and its partner network. . The suite's Integration Assessment capability, rooted in the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology, streamlines integration projects. It enables integration architects, practitioners, and business users, leveraging proven best practices for efficient and successful integration management and deployment.

For more information, see: SAP Enterprise Integration product page.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) services and lifecycle management are seamlessly integrated across the platform, enabling smart automation and advanced analytics.

AI Services

are pre-built, ready-to-use cloud-based capabilities offering artificial intelligence functionalities like image recognition, natural language processing, and document information extraction. These solutions can be seamlessly integrated into applications to enhance business processes with intelligent features.

AI Lifecycle Management

It consists of tools and processes that allow users to build, train, deploy, monitor, and manage AI and machine learning models throughout their entire lifecycle.

Business Data and Context

Ensures effective leverage of business data for all applications and processes.

For more information visit , see: Artificial Intelligence product page.

The foundation layer underpins all the aforementioned capabilities by providing essential platform services:

Runtimes and Application Lifecycle Management

Runtimes offer managed environments such as SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, Kyma, or ABAP environments, where applications are deployed and executed. Application Lifecycle Management encompasses the tools and processes used for developing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining these applications throughout their lifecycle on the platform.

Security and Compliance

Ensures data protection and regulatory compliance.

Persistency

refers to the managed data storage services provided by the platform, such as SAP HANA, SAP ASE, or other databases.

Connectivity

Enables secure and seamless connections between systems and applications.

Administration and Operations

Offers tools for efficient platform management and operation .

The SAP Business Technology Platform provides a robust foundation for application development, data and analytics, integration, and artificial intelligence. By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can innovate faster, make better decisions, and run their business processes more efficiently.

On the SAP Learning site, SAP offers a wide range of learning journeys in scope of SAP BTP, especially for software developers.

When you want to get an understanding of the big picture of SAP's Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise strategy and the SAP BTP with its building blocks, you should take a look at the learning journey Discovering SAP Business Technology Platform

For more information, see SAP BTP Product Page.