SAP BTP: What is it all about

All SAP applications and Intelligent Enterprises are built on top of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). However, there still exist questions in the minds of customers of varying scales about the relatively newer and more advanced technology of SAP Business Transformation Platform.

What exactly is the SAP Business Transform Platform (BTP)? We have decoded a few points of them for you below, in this blog.

1. What is SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and how does it work?
   
   SAP BTP is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution centred on the intelligent enterprise. It is built around the four unshakable pillars of -
   • database and data management
   • application development and integration
   • top analytics and lastly
   • intelligent technologies
     The above modules incorporate all of the capabilities previously associated with the SAP Cloud Platform brand and integrates it with a more ambitious business performance goals, giving you a greater edge in terms of enterprise resource planning.
      
2. What can you do with BTP?

   Increases robustness, scale and security -
   By integrating SAP BTP with your business, you open the doors to several opportunities for your firm. It brings to you thousands of prebuilt interfaces to SAP and makes third-party applications available. Not just that, with API management securely unlocking your data and services you can take bigger risks and expand your business beyond your current scope. SAP BTP offers you the chance for an event-based integration that further offers a better scale and robustness.

   Automates processes -
   SAP BTP helps organisations like yours automate SAP S/4HANA procedures with prebuilt bots to speed up processes and cuts expenses, freeing employees to focus on higher-value work.

   Leverage data to bring actionable improvements -
   To generate real-time, actionable insights, SAP BTP lets you combine data from SAP S/4HANA and third-party sources. Furthermore, to make data-driven decisions, SAP BTP also helps you leverage its top-notch cloud data management tools and advanced analytics.

   Apart from these benefits, SAP BTP optimizes process of enterprise planning, and business intelligence solutions.

3. What are its services and how are they useful?
   • Business Application Studio -
     It's available as a cloud service and gives developers a desktop-like experience akin to major IDEs, all while speeding up time-to-market with high-productivity development tools like wizards and templates, graphical editors, and speedy deployment.
      
   • Credential Store -
     For SAP BTP-based applications, the SAP Credential Store service acts as a repository for passwords, keys, and keyrings. It allows apps to retrieve credentials and use them for external service authentication, as well as execute cryptographic operations and TLS communication. The SAP Credential Store is accessible through a REST API.
      
   • SAP HANA Cloud -
     SAP HANA Cloud is a database-as-a-service that offers the power and performance of SAP HANA natively in the cloud, including full capabilities to process various data types, federate data storage, and run powerful applications. It offers a relational data lake for large-scale data storage and processing. Using SAP HANA Cloud, you can set up and run a cloud-based database service easily, and bind it to applications running on SAP BTP or elsewhere. You can also access SAP HANA Cloud using a variety of programming languages and interfaces, and build applications and data models.
     
     With over eighty such services to work within and beyond, SAP BTP reaffirms its position in the world of resource management, as a cutting-edge tool of SAP.
     
     Customers and partners all over the world are increasingly leveraging SAP BTP to meet their business needs and create newer business innovations each day. It gives them an opportunity to compose and connect all of their end-to-end business processes via integration. SAP BTP also drives data to value by helping you gain superior insights and make informed decisions. Furthermore, customers are also provided with the benefits of Extensibility, as the SAP Extension Suite allows organisations to gain access to prebuilt extensions to an integrated digital marketplace.  This aids the innovation process more quickly. In addition to the same, SAP BTP enables you to streamline and automate business document processing.
      
4. Where to begin?
   A single contact at SAP will help guide you throughout the SAP BTP journey, paired with the SAP ecosystem.

As an SAP Pinnacle Award finalist, we understand the importance of SAP BTP that leverages disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analysis to integrate intelligent technologies, generate actionable insights and amplify results.

Are you ready to start your digital transformation journey? Visit us on our website today to gain a better insight of SAP BTP and take a step forward in achieving your goal in simple steps.