Explaining Characteristics of SAP Business Technology Platform

The Cloud ERP is supported by the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), which provides a foundation where the integrations and extensions that enable customers to differentiate their businesses live.

Some services that run on SAP BTP are already included in the GROW and RISE with SAP packages. In addition, customers can tap into the expansive library of free integration packages and extension templates available on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub, and only need to pay for the service that's necessary to run the integration or extension on SAP BTP.

SAP Business Technology Platform has services that cover application development, automation, integration, artificial intelligence, and data and analytics. All services are listed in the SAP Discovery Center.

Some examples of SAP Business Technology Platform are:

• If a customer wants to automate the process of creating and approving business partners in their SAP S/4HANA Cloud (public or private) system, a developer can find and consume the Business Partner Creation Approval Process template that runs on SAP Build Process Automation. Because the customer organization already received several user licenses to SAP Build Process Automation through GROW or RISE with SAP, there is no additional cost for the customer.
• If a customer is using an SAP-certified 3rd party industry cloud solution to protect their brand identity and products from being counterfeited (e.g. Morpheus.Network Brand Protection), they also likely want to consume data generated from that application back into SAP S/4HANA Cloud for reporting and analytical purposes. To address this requirement, a developer from the customer organization can use the integration package, Data Ingestion for Industry Cloud Solutions Integration with SAP S/4HANA. There is no cost to use the package, but there is a cost for the industry solution app, and if the customer doesn't already have a license for the SAP Integration Suite, there will be an additional cost to subscribe to the service to run the integration package.