SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) – Everything you need to know and how it can help
In today’s era of volatility there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have others is agility, that’s it.
– Jeff Bezos
Every organization and industry is going through a transformation process in which existing business processes and models are reconsidered and challenged daily. Organizations are operating in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Unambiguous) environment and transformation to an intelligent enterprise is a must to bridge the gap effectively and match this pace of change. This is where SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) delivers operational value.
What is SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP Business Technology Platform brings application development, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities into one unified environment optimized for SAP applications. It enables businesses to create personalized experiences, meet change with agility, and run confidently on a trusted, enterprise-grade platform.
SAP BTP is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering from SAP; it comprises data management and cloud platform technologies to dynamically orchestrate the increasing volume of data and business processes across an intelligent organization. It provides the flexibility and independence businesses need by delivering technology to migrate assets to the cloud, integrate the IT landscape, and configure and extend SAP and third-party applications.
SAP Business Technology Platform is the unified, business-centric, and open data development platform for the entire SAP ecosystem.
- Unified: SAP BTP offers a unified experience that spans various scenarios around creating value from data, integration, and extensibility for processes in 25 key industries to meet business requirements for a more intuitive and simple development platform.
- Business-centric: SAP BTP offers a process and data-specific tooling that allows organizations rapidly build and extend SAP applications. Business services and prepackaged content help the organizations to meet domain-specific requirements and develop focused data analysis scenarios.
- Open: SAP BTP is open; hence organizations can choose how to build and extend –in SAP data centers, on hyper-scale cloud infrastructure, or on their premises.
SAP Business Technology Platform comprises:
- Application Development & Integration Suites
SAP’s Integration and Extension Suites are equipped to resolve business problems leveraging an incredible library of prebuilt business content, running on top of leading infrastructure clouds such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Alibaba Cloud. With SAP BTP, you can build, extend and enhance the digital landscape of your business without affecting core operations through integrations.
- SAP HANA & Data Management Suite
Despite access to massive data volumes, businesses often fail to derive value from this data as they are stored in disparate mediums, disrupting information flow. HANA is the first system to combine real-time transaction processing with real-time analytical capabilities, all on the same copy of the data. SAP surrounds HANA with several brilliant tools such as Master Data Management to ensure fantastic outcomes. SAP BTP is a portfolio of advanced technologies that help to transform your data into value rapidly and efficiently.
- SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Business technology platform ensures that enterprises get embedded analytics, predictive analytics, and collaborative planning in a single, flexible solution and achieve real-time insights into data through Artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and machine learning.
- Intelligent Technologies
The open and modular SAP BTP architecture includes the latest technologies such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, and Conversational Chatbots to ensure enhanced business processes so that companies can pace up with changing market demands and business needs.
How is SAP BTP accomplishing robust and meaningful business outcomes?
Leveraging SAP BTP, organizations can achieve agility, continual innovation, and business value through integration, data to value, and extensibility of all SAP and third-party applications and data assets.
Integration:
To thrive in the ever-changing market conditions, businesses need to revamp and keep modifying themselves, and with the growing need of cloud adoption, landscapes are becoming increasingly complex for organizations. The business processes remain disconnected and span from on-premise to cloud and multiple vendors. Copious amounts of data exist in various nonstandard formats that can be of significant business value, but first, it must be seamlessly integrated from various sources or applications.
SAP BTP helps organizations refine and enhance their business operation along the entire value chain. SAP’s Integration Suite uses a set of APIs and connectors to integrate niche applications across vendors, legacy applications, open-source technologies, and various platforms to deliver a unified user experience.
Data to Value:
An abundance of apps and analytic technologies allow organizations to collect extensive data, but a majority of businesses fail to get value from this information. Businesses thrive when the vast data volume is appropriately analyzed, and the results are put to best use.
SAP BTP provides augmented analytics that analyzes past and present situations to stimulate future conditions through which smart decisions can be made. It offers flexible user-first data management that allows the users to identify, connect and orchestrate data with internal and external data flows. It helps achieve a united view across on-premise SAP, cloud, and third-party data assets and gain advanced insights to make real-time decisions.
Extensibility:
Organizations must be empowered to build, extend and enhance their application landscape to stay relevant and ahead of the competition. SAP extension Suites allows organizations to access prebuilt extensions through an integrated digital marketplace. SAP BTP helps an organization achieve rapid innovation by customizing applications to meet unique business needs with app development capabilities, business process management, and intelligent business services.
In a nutshell, SAP Business Technology Platform is laser-focused on rapid business improvement. It contains all the ready-built, end-to-end tools (business workflows, integration packs, digital content, connectors, analytics, process workflows, etc.) to help businesses integrate across departmental silos, simplify business processes, and deliver results. SAP BTP, an open architected platform, helps extend your IT landscapes, bridging on-premise and cloud landscapes to build new functionality while leveraging your existing investments.
Key business advantages can be achieved by augmenting SAP S/4HANA with a combination of database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies – which are available through SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
