SAP's Business Technology Platform(BTP) for Intelligent Enterprises

What is the SAP Business Technology Platform?

SAP Business Technology Platform is the technological foundation for all SAP applications and the Intelligent Enterprise. Customers can achieve agility, business value and continual innovation through integration, data to value and extensibility of all SAP and third-party applications & data assets.

SAP BTP is key to our effort to provide customers the foundation of a fully integrated intelligent suite:

• Database and data management: This includes SAP HANA and SAP HANA cloud.
• Analytics: Including SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAC, and Business Objects BI.
• Application Development and Integration: Includes SAP Integration and Extension suites and SAP Process Orchestration.
• Intelligent Technologies: Including AI, ML, and IoT.

How Is SAP BTP Revolutionizing Business Operations? 

SAP BTP can be used to build and extend SAP applications quickly. Here are the top three scenarios:

1. Integration

Most organizations prefer best-of-breed applications. With the journey to the cloud, the system landscapes are increasingly complex and business processes remain disconnected.

Today, most businesses have processes spanning from on-premise to cloud, and across multiple vendors. Plus, to complicate matters, some organizations continue to support their legacy applications along with various platforms and open-source technologies. SAP BTP allows seamless integration by simplifying development and quickening deployment.

 These complex environments can only be managed with proper integration. While the value of these landscapes is decreasing, the complexity and cost of such integration are increasing.

 SAP BTP can help organizations to refine and enhance their business operations along the entire value chain. It can do this by connecting applications, data, and experiences across SAP and beyond.

SAP Integration Suite uses a set of connectors and APIs to securely connect and integrate business processes. This can accelerate an organization’s time to value in a secure, sustainable, repeatable, and cloud-centric capability.

 2. Data management

Today, we live in the age of data. But most organizations fail to get value from it. They gather the data and store it in disparate mediums. This only leads to a disrupted flow of information.

 Your business success depends on

·       how you analyze your data

·       and what you do with the results.

 SAP BTP allows you to transform your data into value quickly and efficiently.

 Data management is all about creating value from the data. If a business wants to exceed in today’s global economy, it must act on real-time business data. However, both the structured and unstructured data volumes create challenges for organizations.

 SAP BTP solutions are designed to provide flexible and user-first data management.

Ø It allows organizations to discover, connect, and orchestrate data with internal and external data flows.

Ø This enables business leaders to access near real-time data and drive insight and value back into their businesses.

 3. Extensibility

 SAP Extension Suite allows organizations to access prebuilt extensions through an integrated digital marketplace. SAP BTP empowers businesses to speed up integration, find real business value from data, and extend SAP landscapes to innovate.

 For example, the SAP Workflow Service. The SAP Workflow Service is part of the SAP BTP portfolio. This service allows businesses to extend their business processes. These extensions allow organizations to adopt business process changes quickly and in a non-disruptive way.

It provides unique monitoring applications that help monitor deployed workflows and their instances. Additionally, it also allows REST APIs to read, create, modify, or cancel workflow and task instances.

 Integrating SAP Workflow Management with SAP Conversational AI allows organizations to leverage digital support for their workflows, process cycle times, and recommendations. Plus, it allows them to reconcile both structured and unstructured workflows.

 This can increase the level of automation enabling businesses to better manage

•  overall complexity,
•  reduce manual effort
• and associated errors.