SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) Series: An Overview

As you stay abreast of the rapid advancements in SAP’s core products, the emergence of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) in presentations, webinars, and tech summits should come as no surprise. The dynamic evolution of technology, from the SAP Netweaver platform to the S/4HANA digital transformation and the SAP Cloud platform, has never been more palpable. So, what exactly is the SAP Business Technology Platform? Here’s a quick overview.

What is SAP BTP?

The SAP Business Technology Platform is a cohesive environment that incorporates artificial intelligence, a development environment, automation, integration scenarios, and data analytics under one roof.

Figure 1: SAP Business Technology Platform

Personalized environment to match your requirement

While the S/4HANA suite is all about digital transformation, it must also cater to your company’s specific needs and customizations. This necessitates an innovation platform that optimizes your SAP applications and delivers end-to-end processes tailored to your business users.

Reliable cloud platform that you can trust

The SAP BTP consolidates tools to foster innovation within a reliable and secure cloud platform. You can deploy your analytics workload and utilize extensions and interfaces in the SAP BTP Platform on any leading Cloud service provider, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Integrated platform for everyone

The SAP BTP platform caters to everyone. Developers gain a robust platform to expedite their development tasks and innovate. SAP Partners can leverage the power of integration in this new platform to reduce efforts and enhance the overall user experience. For customers, it can serve as an extension to their landscape to innovate on the cloud, integrate with existing landscape or legacy systems, and utilize content made available in the final outcome.

Key benefits of SAP Business BTP

• Enables cutting-edge developments to boost your business
  Accelerates your development projects through robust integrations
  Supports all major Cloud service providers
  Enhances data security and modern analytical capabilities
  Offers pre-built content ready to be consumed for your industry requirement

Summary

The SAP Business Technology Platform serves as a unified, optimized, and innovative platform for SAP applications in the cloud. It facilitates the personalization of business processes, analytics, automation, development, artificial intelligence, and faster integration on major cloud platforms.