SAP Business Technology Paltform (BTP) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS), bringing together several tools in a single environment optimized for SAP applications:
- Application development
- Process automation
- Data integration
- Data storage and analysis
- Artificial intelligence
Keep The core Clean
SAP’s strategy is to minimize customization and therefore specific developments on S/4HANA (both Public Cloud and On-Premise). This makes it easier and more frequent to upgrade the ERP to take advantage of the latest developments made available by the publisher. To extend S/4HANA while keeping the core of the ERP ” clean “, SAP offers a multitude of innovative services for BTP.
SAP BTP – Development, Automation and Integration
The BTP platform enables you to develop new applications and deploy them on your SAP environments, or run them directly from the platform itself. Thanks to its three environment options (Cloud Foundry, Kyma, ABAP), the BTP offers a multitude of solutions to meet your specific needs, such as:
- Fiori application development
- Creation of partner portals
- Low-Code / No-Code application development
SAP Build Apps
SAP Build Apps is a low-code development platform for creating web and mobile applications. Citizen developers can create applications that work on all operating systems, all without writing a single line of code.
- Drag-and-drop creation of Web and mobile applications using an extensive library of customizable UI components, logic flows and formulas for data transformation.
- Manage ” backend ” data directly in the service or in direct integration with an ERP like S/4HANA thanks to APIs.
SAP Work Zone
SAP Work Zone is the successor to Launchpad. It enables the creation of digital workspace solutions to increase user productivity and engagement:
- Centralized access to relevant business applications, processes, information and communications in a single entry point that users can access from any device.
- Central access point to Fiori applications (portal)
- Theme management for customization to your corporate identity
- Integration with other services such as SAP Build Process Automation
SAP Business Application Studio
The SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) is the successor to the SAP Web IDE. It is a development environment that offers developers an experience similar to that of the leading IDEs on the market, accelerating the development and deployment of business applications thanks to :
- Wizards and templates
- Graphic editors
- Test executions
- Terminal access
ABAP environment
The ABAP environment enables the creation of ABAP applications and extensions in the cloud. This cloud environment offers a new RESTful application programming model, leveraging SAP HANA, SAP Fiori and SAP ABAP, optimized for the cloud with a set of standard APIs.
- SAP and third-party application extensions
- Eclipse-based ABAP development tools (ADT)
- Default integration with Git for code lifecycle management
Document Management Services
SAP Document Management Service enables document management throughout the enterprise. This service can be linked to any type of application thanks to its APIs, and also offers a Web application for viewing all stored documents.
- Document storage
- Document hierarchization
- Metadata management
- Custom API creation
- Business application integration
- Encryption support
Thanks to the workflow management and automation capabilities of its SAP Build Process Automation service, the BTP platform makes it easy to adapt, improve or even create business processes. To achieve this, intuitive Low-code / No-code tools are provided.
SAP build Process Automation
SAP Build Process Automation is a solution for adapting, improving and automating business processes. With powerful yet intuitive Low-Code and No-Code functionalities, the solution helps you drive automation by leveraging the expertise of citizen developers.
- Process creation with an intuitive graphical interface
- Creation of workflows based on web forms using drag-and-drop functionality
- Development and management of decision logic
- Automation of repetitive tasks within existing process flows using Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
One of BTP’s key strengths is the integration of processes, services, events and of course data from On-Premise or Cloud systems, into BTP services or other target systems. To achieve this, BTP hosts SAP Integration Suite, an iPaaS (Integration Platform-as-a-service).
Integration Suite
SAP Integration Suite, formerly known as SAP Cloud Platform Integration(SCPI) or HCI (Hana Cloud Integration), is a Cloud integration middleware enabling the integration of data within different systems, or the management and implementation of APIs that will make life easier for companies and different business processes on a daily basis.
The main functionalities of SAP Integration Suite, also known as ” capabilities ” are :
- Cloud Integration With Cloud Integration, it is possible to design and manage processes and data flows from SAP and non-SAP applications or systems.
- API management API management covers all actions relating to existing APIs (publication, management of connections between APIs) and non-existing APIs (creation);
- Open Connectors Open connectors simplify connectivity to over 170 third-party applications and solutions for collaboration, messaging, CRM, helpdesk and other scenarios.
- Integration Advisor Machine learning to solve Business-to-Business (B2B), Application-to-Application (A2A) and Business-to-Government (B2G) integration problems Integration Assessment Guided, reusable approach to enterprise integration strategy
- Migration Assessment Migration of existing integration scenarios to SAP Integration Suite. Estimation of technical effort and evaluation of different scenarios.
- Trading partner management Creation of standardized content based on partner information.
SAP Business Acceleration App
SAP Business Accelerator Hub is an SAP web application that enables accelerated integration with SAP Integration Suite.
- Discover products, categories, business processes, partners, APIs and integration scenarios between SAP and third-party solutions.
- Workspaces for working directly on the service
- API testing with rapid system configuration