Describing SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP Business Technology Platform is an open platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that delivers in-memory capabilities, core platform services, and unique services for building and extending intelligent, mobile-enabled cloud applications. The platform is designed to accelerate digital transformation by helping you quickly, easily, and economically develop the exact application you need – without investing in on-premise or cloud infrastructure.

The SAP BTP is the technological foundation of the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise.

Based on open standards, SAP Business Technology Platform offers complete flexibility and control over your choice of clouds, frameworks, and applications.

SAP Business Technology Platform is used for three main scenarios in scope of the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise:

Integration

Complex IT landscapes include on-premise and cloud systems; SaaS applications and hyperscaler technology from SAP and third parties will be used to create a modern and digital enterprise.

Integration is essential to enhance business operations across the entire value chain by connecting all systems seamlessly.

Good integration will be the key for a good IT landscape.

Data to Value

It’s essential that organizations have a consolidated view across all their data assets and are able to achieve insight and make real-time decisions, especially during times of rapid change.

Good quality data and good technologies to work with that data, are key for the flexible and scalable business of tomorrow.

Extensibility

Companies need to stay agile and adapt rapidly to new business conditions and changing customer demands. Extensibility allows companies to build and enhance all their application investments, to meet their customer’s dynamic needs and provide continual value. You can deliver new features with agility and speed, using SAP BTP as the underlying platform.

You can use services like feature flags, continuous delivery or cloud transportation management. You have the choice of the runtime you want to use. Caused by the rising amount of cloud solutions in IT landscapes you need to think about extensibility and not thinking in modifications like in the old on-premise world.

At the infrastructure layer, SAP BTP consumes cloud infrastructure services such as computing power, storage, and network either from one of the major hyperscalers (Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure) in order to leverage hyperscaler economies of scale, or directly in SAP’s own data centers with hyperscaler-like infrastructure in order to leverage benefits such as built-in compliance or exclusive regional availability. The SAP BTP offers four functionality areas with lots of functions, services, and applications:

The application development capabilities of the SAP BTP is a portfolio of solutions, tools, and frameworks that help you simplify software development of your application extensions or custom applications. It offers functionalities for different levels of development experience and to increase the overall development productivity even with no-code through SAP Build or low-code capabilities in SAP Business Application Studio. For more information, see: https://www.sap.com/products/business-technology-platform/low-code.html

SAP Build Process Automation helps you innovate and adapt to change by making workflow management and task automation simpler and faster. The solution helps you build with simplicity by allowing business users to use intuitive no-code, drag-and-drop tools to create workflows and automate tasks. For more information, see: https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/process-automation.html

Our integration platform as a service (iPaaS) allows you to publish and connect processes and integrate data across your landscape and value chain. SAP Integration Suite helps streamline SAP and third-party solution integrations with thousands of prebuilt integrations, so you can take a systemic approach toward solving common integration challenges with a proven methodology. For more information, see: https://www.sap.com/products/integration.html

Data

Data solutions provide the ability to handle the growing amounts of data stored in multiple locations with controlled access for your entire organization to analyze and act on a single version of truth. Topics like SAP HANA Cloud and solutions for data integration, data cataloging and so on are part of this area.

Artificial Intelligence powers SAP Business Technology Platform, changing the way we live and work by optimizing processes, maximizing resources, and igniting innovation with the right combination of AI.

For more information, see: https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence.html

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: https://learning.sap.com/learning-journey/discover-sap-business-technology-platform

Product page from SAP BTP, see https://www.sap.com/btp.