What is the SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP BTP provides a set of services that include application development, automation,
integration, data and analytics, and artificial intelligence.
You create personalized solutions. You can build your own applications, extend and integrate
existing applications and services as per your business requirement.
SAP BTP is its capacity to support both cloud-native and hybrid solutions of the cloud while also
integrating with on-premise systems.
Application Development, Automation, Integration, Data and Analytics, and AI are
foundational pillars of SAP BTP
Application Development
We can create, deploy, and manage applications, it offers various development tools and
services to support different programming languages and development approaches.
One of them is SAP Business Application Studio, an integrated development environment
(IDE), designed for building and extending business applications on SAP Business Technology
Platform.
SAP BTP provides support for low-code/no-code development, enabling business users to
create applications without extensive coding knowledge.
Automation
We can streamline repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce manual intervention in
business processes.
Integration
Using BTP you can enable seamless communication and data exchange between different
systems, applications, and data sources. SAP BTP offers the SAP Integration Suite to
facilitate connectivity across on-premise and cloud environments, as well as with external
partners and customers.
Data and Analytics
We have BTP services for data warehousing, data modeling, and advanced analytics. data
could be stored, managed, and visualized with SAP BTP data management products such as
SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, and more.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
SAP BTP offers a comprehensive set of AI technologies and services, for example SAP AI
Business Services and Generative AI Hub
These solutions are, for example:
SAP Ariba
SAP SuccessFactors
SAP Concur
SAP Customer Experience
And more
SAP SuccessFactors is a cloud-based human resource software, which covers everything
from core HR, payroll, and people analytics to the four pillars of talent management: recruiting,
learning and development, compensation, and performance management.
SAP Concur provides travel and expense management services to businesses
Discovering Cloud Terminology
Cloud computing can lower your costs by allowing you to use only the resources you need on
demand. You don't need to build a big data center in your office for scalability and high
availability. You don't need to reserve an amount of computing resources in case you need it for
a prototyping project, or for a temporary higher load on your system. Cloud computing offerings
are available in different deployment models and service models. In addition to that, cloud
landscapes are clustered over several regions to ensure higher availability and lower latency.
With the increasing amount of cloud capabilities, the importance of virtualization and container
technologies is becoming even more relevant than ever before. Out in the market, there are a
lot of providers, also called vendors, for several cloud offerings. SAP is focusing on the
transformation to the cloud.
Cloud Terminology: Multi-Cloud
You can combine multiple products from several vendors from private cloud, public cloud, or
even on premise. It doesn't matter whether it's infrastructure, a platform, or software-as-a-
service, they are all on demand. You can combine and integrate them to each other through the
concept of multi-cloud. SAP is also supporting the approach of multi-cloud. That means you can
combine software from different regions, deployment models, and you can combine SAP
software with software from a third party.
Hyperscale
The well-known hyperscale’s are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and
Alibaba Cloud., but SAP BTP is the most interesting one in the scope of hyperscale’s.
SAP BTP is available in several regions with these providers. SAP supports multi-
cloud landscapes through this. The providers themselves may differ in up-time
availability, service offerings, or latency from data centers. SAP, in collaboration with the
hyperscalers, offers data centers in the following regions: Europe, U.S. East, U.S. West,
Singapore, and many more.
