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What is SAP Business Technology Platform?

SAP Business Technology Platform is a comprehensive platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering


from SAP that brings together a range of services and tools to support digital transformation
initiatives. It serves as a central hub for developing, integrating, extending, and operating
applications in a cloud environment. SAP BTP provides a unified foundation for building
intelligent enterprise applications and unlocking the value of data for businesses across
various industries.

Key Features and Components:


SAP BTP comprises several key features and components that empower organizations to
innovate and adapt to changing market demands.

Some of the notable components include:

Integration Suite: Enables seamless connectivity and integration of applications, data, and
processes both within and beyond the organization’s boundaries.

Extension Suite: Facilitates the extension of existing SAP applications or the development of
custom applications to meet specific business requirements.

Here you see the tools you used to and New solution with BTP

Benefits of SAP BTP:


By adopting SAP BTP, organizations can unlock several benefits, including:

Agility and Flexibility: SAP BTP allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing market
conditions and scale their applications and infrastructure based on demand.

Integration and Connectivity: Seamless integration of systems, applications, and data


sources enables improved collaboration, process automation, and data consistency.

Innovation and Customization: The extension suite empowers organizations to innovate and
tailor SAP applications to their unique business needs, accelerating time-to-value.

Enhanced Data Insights: With the analytics suite, businesses can gain actionable insights
from their data, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved operational efficiency.

Future-readiness: By leveraging intelligent technologies, organizations can stay ahead of the


curve and capitalize on emerging trends to drive innovation and maintain a competitive
edge.

Benefits of SAP BTP:


By adopting SAP BTP, organizations can unlock several benefits, including:

Agility and Flexibility: SAP BTP allows businesses to quickly adapt to changing
market conditions and scale their applications and infrastructure based on
demand.

Integration and Connectivity: Seamless integration of systems, applications,


and data sources enables improved collaboration, process automation, and
data consistency.

Innovation and Customization: The extension suite empowers organizations to


innovate and tailor SAP applications to their unique business needs,
accelerating time-to-value.

Enhanced Data Insights: With the analytics suite, businesses can gain
actionable insights from their data, enabling data-driven decision-making and
improved operational efficiency.

Future-readiness: By leveraging intelligent technologies, organizations can stay


ahead of the curve and capitalize on emerging trends to drive innovation and
maintain a competitive edge.
Five Key Pillars of SAP BTP
SAP BTP services and solutions can be broadly categorized in 5 pillars, which are:

 Application Development
 Automation
 Integration
 Data and Analytics
 AI

Below image summarizes major services falling under each pillar.

SAP BTP Environments


In SAP BTP, “environments” refer to the actual platform-as-a-service offering of
SAP BTP that enables us to develop, run, and manage our applications and
services.

Think of BTP environment as different playgrounds, each designed for specific


types of tasks and technologies. They provide a suitable space for different
kinds of software development and operations.

Each environment comes equipped with specific tools, technologies, and


runtimes that you need to build applications.

SAP BTP offers 3 major environments – Cloud Foundry, ABAP and Kyma. SAP
BTP offers one more environment as well called Neo, which is going to sunset .
History of SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP)
Although SAP BTP offering is relatively new, it consists of solutions that have been around
for years, and some of the BTP components go back quite a way.

The Application Development and Integration pillar of SAP BTP can trace its lineage back to
SAP NetWeaver Cloud (Neo) – SAP’s first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

Below image shows brief timeline.

Note: At this point, you may not understand terms like Cloud Foundry, Kyma etc. That’s
perfectly ok. We will learn these in our next blog.

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