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Content
What is SAP BTP?
Application development and automation
Artificial intelligence
Data and analytics
Extended planning and analysis
Integration
Why is it important?
How to try it?
Customer stories
Quick start: learning journey
Helpful resources
SAP Business Technology
Platform (SAP BTP)
is the platform that brings together application
development, automation, data management,
analytics and planning, integration, and AI
capabilities into one unified environment
optimized for SAP applications.
Main benefits of SAP BTP
ü Create personalized experiences that work with SAP
Applications. Product overview
ü Accelerate development with prebuilt connectors and
business content for SAP and non-SAP systems.
SAP BTP is the platform for SAP software landscapes
ü Foster collaboration between business and development
teams with built-in governance and lifecycle management. Accelerate the Optimize and automate
move to the cloud business processes
ü Run with confidence on a trusted, enterprise-grade
platform. Drive decisions Keep the
based on data core clean
The role of SAP Business Technology Platform in the SAP ecosystem

SAP BTP is a comprehensive

platform with:
• An intuitive, modern
development environment for
both, professional IT and citizen
and business developers
• Built-in data models,
integrations, workflows, app
templates, and AI business
services
• Self-service data discovery,
modeling, planning, and
Business Technology Platform analytics for business users in a
governed environment
Create personalized experiences Build faster with business context Run with confidence on a trusted,
that instantly work with SAP applications to meet change with agility enterprise-grade platform * Explore how SAP BTP covers each of these
topics in more detail in the following slides.
App Dev Automation Integration Data and Analytics AI
Build and innovate Optimize and automate Connect and simplify Give data purpose Infuse intelligence
 The role of SAP Business Technology Platform in the SAP ecosystem

Secure and compliant Broad ecosystem

Open and flexible Enterprise grade and scalable
Unified and simple Business centric

Business Technology Platform

SAP BTP as side-by-side

platform in the clean core
strategy: App Dev Automation Integration Data and Analytics AI

• Access to Innovation
• Upgrade Simplicity ➔ Visual low-code/ ➔ Workflow ➔ Process integration
➔ Analytics and planning ➔ Pretrained AI models
• Lower TCO (Total Cost of no-code experience management
➔ API-led integration
Ownership) ➔ Robotic process ➔ Generative AI and AI
➔ Pro-code tooling ➔ Event-driven ➔ Data management
• Enhanced Security automation
integration
workload management

• Improved Performance ➔ Process monitoring ➔ Hybrid integration ➔ Business data

➔ Operational database
• Data Simplification ➔ Digital experience and analytics and context
➔ B2B integration

“Clean” means up-to-date, documented, ➔ Automated document ➔ Data warehouse ➔ Responsible AI

➔ DevOps processing
unmodified, consistent, efficient and cloud ➔ Data integration and data lake
compliant.
Artificial intelligence
Joule Copilot

Benefits Joule is the generative AI assistant,

AI Foundation is SAP’s all-in-one revolutionizes how you interact with
AI toolkit, offering developers AI
ü Transform and optimize your applications SAP business systems.
that’s ready-to-use, customizable,
grounded in business data, and with ready-to-use, business-specific, pre- Joule serves as an Intelligent
supported by leading generative trained AI models Enterprise assistant. It provides
AI foundation models. ü Build powerful chatbots with our user- access to the SAP Ecosystem
friendly conversational AI service processes from anywhere and
Explore our SAP Business delivers a unified user experience.
ü Manage the AI lifecycle in one central
AI Quick Start Guide to place
learn more. SAP Build Code
ü Run AI responsibly with transparency and
Generative AI-based code
compliance
development with Joule copilot,
Solutions optimized for Java and
JavaScript application
development.
SAP AI Services SAP AI Core SAP AI Launchpad
SAP Analytics Cloud
Add intelligence to your Deploy and run AI models at Manage the entire machine Embrace the power of generative
applications using AI models scale without compromising data learning lifecycle in one central
AI to automate reporting,
pretrained on business-relevant privacy and cost-effectiveness. place.
data. discover hidden insights, and
Explore SAP AI Core product Explore SAP AI Launchpad create and develop business
Explore SAP AI Services. page. product page.
plans with Joule copilot.
 Application development
and automation
Benefits
Drive innovation with solutions ü Build apps faster with low-code and pro-code
including low-code and pro-code solutions
offerings for professional
developers and business experts. ü Automate your business with prebuilt workflows and
RPA bots
ü Design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity
ü Jump-start development with industry-specific
content

Solutions
Low-code Pro-code

SAP Build SAP Build Code ABAP environment

Create and augment enterprise Drive productivity using Develop and run ABAP cloud
apps, automate processes, and generative AI-based code apps and extensions.
design business sites visually. development with Joule copilot,
optimized for Java and JavaScript Explore SAP ABAP environment
Explore SAP Build product page application development. product page.
or start your learning journey with
the SAP Build Quick Start Guide. Explore SAP Build Code product
page.

Drag-and-drop simplicity Optimized for Java and JavaScript apps Optimized for ABAP apps
 Data and analytics
SAP data and analytics solutions can help you Benefits
easily integrate, model, manage, and use data
from anywhere. Because our solutions maintain the ü Access insights wherever your data
context of SAP data, you can get maximum value resides
out of your data to drive the most impactful ü Foster trusted AI across your business
business decisions.
ü Transform planning with a business data
fabric
Solutions
Planning and analytics Data management and data warehousing Operational databases

Take enterprise planning to the next level with Deliver an integrated, semantically rich data layer over underlying data Build apps leveraging analytical capabilities
an optimized, vertically integrated consumption landscapes to provide smooth and scalable access to data without (machine learning, graph, spatial), combining
layer for planning and analytics workloads. duplication. historical and real-time data.

SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Master Data SAP Datasphere SAP HANA Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud is a cloud solution Governance SAP Datasphere is an integrated and SAP HANA Cloud is a multi-model
for business intelligence, enterprise SAP Master Data Governance persona-driven data warehouse-as-a- database management system that
planning, and predictive analytics that service solution that helps business empowers the architects of the
is a central hub for master data
provides all analytics capabilities for all management and governance. and IT users better understand and future to build and deploy the next
users in one product. analyze their business data. generation of intelligent data
Explore SAP Master Data applications at scale.
Explore SAP Analytics Cloud product Governance product page. Explore SAP Datasphere product
page or start your learning journey with page or start your learning journey Explore SAP HANA Cloud product
the SAP Analytics Cloud Quick Start with the SAP Datasphere Quick Start page.
Guide. Guide.
Extended planning and
analysis (xP&A)
xP&A helps bring people and plans together to
Benefits
increase agility and performance, no matter what
ü Integrate smoothly with SAP and
events unfold. SAP delivers xP&A infused with
third-party data
trusted AI and smooth integration between the
plans, SAP applications, and mission-critical ü Harness the power of AI for everyday
business data. analysis
ü Transform planning across the
Generate one connected plan across lines of organization
business by unifying financial, supply chain, and
ü Plan with confidence based on
workforce planning.
trusted data

Solutions by line of business

Financial planning Supply chain planning Workforce planning Sales planning

Together SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Maintain business continuity by Powered by AI, SAP SAP SuccessFactors Territory and
Analytics Cloud and SAP synchronizing supply chain planning SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Quota streamlines sales planning
Datasphere provide a unified solution in real time across the business Cloud help analyze forecasts and and helps quickly respond to
that helps finance and planning with SAP Integrated Business workforce supply and demand to market changes and sales rep
teams analyze actuals, create better Planning for Supply Chain. put the right people in the right turnover.
business plans and forecasts, and place at the right time.
respond faster to change.
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Integration: SAP Integration Suite

Connect and automate business Benefits

processes to innovate now with proven
pre-built integrations, APIs, connectors, ü Integrate everything to accelerate innovation with a single, robust
and best practices. solution for multiple integration modes and enterprise-grade capabilities.
ü Accelerate connectivity for faster time to value with thousands of proven
integrations built and maintained by SAP, while applying a systematic
approach to integration that includes built-in support for best practices.
ü Connect everyone with automated processes in real-time, providing
situational awareness, scale, and high performance, regardless of
organizational boundaries.

Solutions

SAP Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite is an • Uses AI for task automation and
integration platform as a service predictive analytics
(iPaaS) that connects on-premise • Features flexible, scalable, event-
and cloud-based processes, driven architecture reduces
services, applications, events, and complexity and enables real-time
data across different landscapes. processing
Explore SAP Integration Suite • Allows quick adaptation to changing
product page. integration needs
 Integration: SAP Integration Suite
SAP’s hybrid integration platform for the intelligent enterprise

Slack Salesforce
Workday ServiceNow
Splunk Kafka
Google
SAP Business Accelerator Hub Third- Azure AWS
Governments 3,400+ prebuilt integrations | 3,900+ APIs | 600+ business events |
250+ connectors to SAP and third-party cloud apps party And many more connectors . . .
apps
Capabilities within SAP Integration Suite
Integration Assessment Cloud Integration
UN/EDIFACT Tradacoms
Define and govern your integration technology strategy End-to-end process integration
SAP Concur
SAP Ariba Open Connectors Edge Integration Cell ASC X12 Odette
Accelerate connectivity to third-party applications Deploy and run on private or on-premises landscapes
Odette EDIFACT
SAP Customer B2B
API Management | Graph Integration Advisor | VDA EDIFACT
Experience partners
SAP apps Expose your data as APIs, Trading Partner Management
manage the end-to-end lifecycle GS1 EANCOM
SAP S/4HANA Manage B2B scenarios and AI-based integration

SAP Integration Suite, Migration Assessment cXML JAIF EDIFACT

SAP SuccessFactors advanced event mesh1 Migrate and elevate integrations from
SAP Fieldglass Sense and respond to business events SAP Process Orchestration software to the cloud

Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Edge Integration Cell

Next-generation integration runtime for local integrations

Vendor-managed
AWS Alibaba Cloud Microsoft AKS Amazon EKS PostgreSQL, Private
multi-cloud offering landscape3
SUSE Rancher Red Hat OpenShift2 Redis

1. Optional separate license 2. Part of the road map, subject to change 3. Private landscape corresponds to on premise or private cloud
Why use BTP?

50+ cloud solutions 750+ partner cloud applications Key values:

from SAP (e.g. SAP Industry Cloud)
(e.g. SAP Ariba) Capacity-specific platform that
280+ industry cloud solutions from 1
sustainable enterprise solution drives business growth
layer consists of the central core -
SAP and partners
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, surrounded
either built on or integrated with SAP BTP
by other SAP solutions Enable more efficient use of
2 customizations and deliver
across-the-board employee value
According to IDC’s WW Future Scape’s top 10
By mastering SAP BTP, students Integration and connectors
intelligent ERP predictions for 2025: 3 enable insights across application
can be at the forefront of digital
innovation, unlocking business and service portfolio
value at speed and effectively
“By mid-2026, Accelerating agile and ai-
bridging the gap between 4
over 60% of large business and technology. powered innovation with limited
resources
organizations will have redesigned
their workflows around AI”.
How to try SAP BTP?

Sign up for a trial account on SAP BTP. NEW: SAP Build Sandbox for academia
Use the selector tool to choose the option that best aligns Designed for using in the classroom teaching as well for
with your needs. try-out and research purposes. This no/low cost pilot
offering provides academic users with flexibility in using
default/starter content, build up on it or develop and upload
their own content and share it with a wider community.
Currently deployed in the SAP Build Sandbox starter
content includes teaching materials on SAP Build Apps and
SAP Build Process Automation.

Contact your local UCC/ACC or country manager*

Get the trial here

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country manager to get started with teaching. If you are unsure who that is, please contact our team at [email protected].
 Customer story Europe

Goal: Why SAP?

The unified infrastructure of SAP BTP
Extending, automating, and Streamline enterprise operations to improve user experiences,
allows the extension and integration of
increase process efficiency, and better respond to emerging
innovating processes from the business needs in a dynamic, challenging environment
existing SAP business applications.
plant to the field to HR
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
70%
• Enhance existing IT investments with innovative cloud productivity improvement for handling
capabilities that enable streamlined and new processes from remote work requests
finance to plant operations, procurement, HR, and IT
25%
• Develop adaptable, secure, and efficient mobile apps for new
lower risk related to HR compliance
LoBs to streamline various operations on the go
and double taxation.
• Replace manual, error-prone processes using AI, workflows,
and business rules 80%
less time needed for delegation of
“SAP Business Technology Platform gives us authority in procurement
the unified look and feel and integrated architecture SAP BTP
we need. Leveraging it for building end-to-end
processes is a key advantage.
After: Value-Driven Results
Achim Löbke, Head of Architecture and
Optimization, Uniper SE • Unified IT infrastructure that maximizes current SAP software
investments and skills and eases maintenance and
development Uniper SE
Düsseldorf, Germany
• Mobile access to processes running in SAP applications, www.uniper.energy
allowing staff across LoBs to work on the go
Click here to learn more Industry: Utilities
• Process automation that saves time, increases accuracy, and
allows staff to focus on value-adding tasks Products and Services:
Power, heat, and natural gas
• Greater workforce flexibility that boosts desirability in a
competitive hiring market Employees: 11,000
 Customer story NA
Goal: Why SAP?
SAP BTP & SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Corvias: Supporting Diverse Simplify its IT architecture with a scalable, flexible, and future-
allows to unify data in one place,
ready solution; and reimagine back-office workflows to help
Infrastructure Needs of drive efficiency in combination with technology. enabling integrated purchasing and
accounting.
Communities
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Complex organizational structure with disconnected systems 10
for accounting and purchasing and a manual cost allocation Minutes to run a general ledger report,
process prone to human error down from seven hours

• Desire to simplify workflows and get information to the right <10

people for better decision-making Hours to add a new company to the
• Need to create an integrated system to move data between ERP solution, down from 40–50 hours
processes without human interaction and improve efficiency

SAP S/4HANA Cloud & SAP BTP

“With SAP BTP, we have visibility into the full

cost stack across allocations, vendors, and the
general ledger. When we're making decisions and After: Value-Driven Results
trying to understand where we want to spend • Provided actionable information to decision-makers and
money, we know how much are fixed costs versus automated cost allocation
primarily direct or segment costs.” • Freed up staff to focus on improving working capital through Corvias
continual improvements Rhode Island, Massachusetts
David Screnar, Chief Financial Officer, Corvias • Reduced touch points for the accounts payable team from
www.corvias.com

seven to two in 75% of cases, with automated purchase Industry: Professional services
order management Products and Services:
Click here to learn more • Harmonized data security roles organization-wide and Infrastructure projects
lessened administrative work for site teams Employees: 1,000
• Delivered a flexible and scalable platform, allowing smooth
and swift assimilation of acquired or new companies
Get started with Business Technology Platform
Cloud platform integrating and managing data from SAP and third-party systems

Here's what you will learn

Learn how to integrate data to • Integrate and extend applications • Connectivity scenarios • Extensions with Application
value and extensibility of all • Incorporate analytics • Security, authorizations, and user Programming Model
SAP and third-party applications provisions in the cloud • Leverage AI, IoT, and machine
• Database Administration
and data assets learning
• Data management • Applications with SAP Fiori

SAP Business Technology

Platform Discover Explore Academic Deep Dive Certification
Learning Pathway
● Experience SAP BTP ● Discover SAP BTP ● SAP BTP community ● Build Side-by-Side ● Why a certification?
● Introducing Cloud ● Tutorial on SAP BTP Extensions on SAP BTP (short video)
● Quick Start Guide
Security on SAP BTP
● SAP BTP Explained trial ● Administrating SAP BTP ● SAP Certified
● Microlearnings ● Advanced free trial Associate - Solution
(short video) ● Becoming an SAP BTP
Aspiring Architect - Customer
● Lisen to podcast ● Use cases (free tier) ● Regional Academic Solution Architect Experience
Developers
episodes 11, SAP ● Upcoming events Conferences* ● Tutorials for developers ● SAP Certified
Pro-Code
BTP Talk
● SAP BTP’s demo Associate - Backend
Developer - SAP
Cloud Application
Programming Model
Free online courses (SAP Learning) Demo / free trials
Certification Events* Available for a fee
Additional resources Sustainability module
*These resources are available for SAP University Alliances member institutions. Contact your local
University/Academic Competence Center or your country manager to get started with teaching. If you
are unsure who that is, please contact our team at [email protected].
Updated Jan. 2025
Learning resource example – SAP Integration Suite
Curriculum
Degree / Field of Study Learning Material
Bachelor (2nd or 3rd year) / • Exercises, slides, a use case for a
Computer Science, Information
mini project.
Technology, Business IT
Learning Method
Practical exercises in the free BTP
Trial environment
Course Duration
Learning Topics:
30 to 40 hours of teaching and Exercises
personal work from students
1 Setup and configuration
Language
English, German 2 Navigation and discovery
Availability
3 Simple interface development
Globally*
4 Routing patterns and modularity
Learning Objectives 5 Events-based integration, filtering, and mapping
• Learn how to configure the
environment setup, develop 6 Splitter, enricher, and Request-Reply patterns
standard pattern integrations,
7 Error handling, persistence, and parametrization
monitor and operate the platform
• Independently build an integration Use case
8 End to end integration for a pharmaceutical company

*This resource is available for SAP University Alliances member institutions. Contact your local University/Academic Competence Center or your
country manager to get started with teaching. If you are unsure who that is, please contact our team at [email protected].
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