Smitha Banda is a senior business development manager at SAP and leads the SAP BTP practice for North America. She started her journey at SAP in 2005 as a consultant providing advisory, architecture, and development services to customers across the globe. She has always worked closely with customers and continues to do so in her current role. She has been instrumental in building the SAP BTP practice within SAP across all regions. She works closely with the go-to-market and partner enablement teams to build services and programs to support customers' SAP BTP needs. She and her team of SAP BTP experts, architects, developers, and consultants are involved in end-to-end SAP BTP implementations.

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... Preface ... 17

... Target Audience ... 17

... How This Book Is Organized ... 17

... Acknowledgments ... 20

... Conclusion ... 20

Part I ... Getting Started ... 21

1 ... Introduction ... 23

1.1 ... Digital Transformation and Intelligent Enterprises ... 23

1.2 ... The Role of SAP Business Technology Platform ... 32

1.3 ... Technology Pillars ... 39

1.4 ... Summary ... 55

2 ... Account Setup and Administration ... 57

2.1 ... Trial and Commercial Models ... 57

2.2 ... Services ... 61

2.3 ... Creating Your Account ... 67

2.4 ... Account Structure and Setup ... 72

2.5 ... Administration ... 76

2.6 ... Summary ... 85

Part II ... Application Architecture and Design ... 87

3 ... Architecture Design Patterns and Development Approach ... 89

3.1 ... Lean Enterprise Architecture ... 90

3.2 ... Architecture Design Patterns ... 107

3.3 ... SAP BTP Runtimes to Support Architecture Patterns ... 121

3.4 ... Development Approach ... 127

3.5 ... SAP Application Extension Methodology ... 136

3.6 ... Summary ... 138

4 ... User Interface ... 141

4.1 ... Overview ... 141

4.2 ... User Interface Access Channel ... 142

4.3 ... App Router ... 160

4.4 ... User Interface Development Tools and Technologies ... 161

4.5 ... Summary ... 173

5 ... Business Logic ... 175

5.1 ... Overview ... 175

5.2 ... Runtimes ... 176

5.3 ... Programming Models ... 185

5.4 ... SAP Workflow Management ... 191

5.5 ... Summary ... 211

6 ... System and Process Integration ... 213

6.1 ... Overview ... 213

6.2 ... SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology ... 214

6.3 ... API Management ... 239

6.4 ... Open Connectors ... 243

6.5 ... Integration Advisor ... 247

6.6 ... SAP Event Mesh ... 251

6.7 ... SAP Graph ... 255

6.8 ... Destination and Connectivity Service ... 257

6.9 ... Process Integration and Orchestration ... 261

6.10 ... Summary ... 264

7 ... Database and Data Integration ... 265

7.1 ... Overview ... 265

7.2 ... Data Persistency ... 266

7.3 ... Data Integration ... 280

7.4 ... Comparative Review ... 294

7.5 ... Summary ... 294

8 ... Analytics ... 295

8.1 ... Overview ... 295

8.2 ... SAP Analytics Cloud ... 299

8.3 ... SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ... 312

8.4 ... Comparative Review ... 318

8.5 ... Summary ... 322

9 ... Security ... 323

9.1 ... Overview ... 323

9.2 ... Authentication ... 324

9.3 ... Common Security Flows ... 329

9.4 ... Authorization ... 338

9.5 ... Cloud Connector ... 344

9.6 ... Identity Propagation ... 350

9.7 ... Summary ... 354

10 ... DevOps ... 355

10.1 ... Overview ... 355

10.2 ... Plan and Set Up ... 356

10.3 ... Develop and Test ... 363

10.4 ... Deliver and Change ... 366

10.5 ... Monitor and Operate ... 373

10.6 ... Implementation ... 378

10.7 ... Summary ... 380

Part III ... Use Cases ... 381

11 ... Identifying Use Cases ... 383

11.1 ... Types of Innovation ... 383

11.2 ... Identify Business Gaps ... 400

11.3 ... Extensibility Concept ... 403

11.4 ... Summary ... 421

12 ... Managing Multiple ERP Systems by Extending and Integrating SAP S/4HANA ... 423

12.1 ... Description ... 424

12.2 ... Architecture ... 426

12.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 431

12.4 ... Implementation ... 433

12.5 ... Summary ... 441

13 ... Managing Procurement Spend by Extending SAP Ariba ... 443

13.1 ... Description ... 444

13.2 ... Architecture ... 446

13.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 451

13.4 ... Implementation ... 453

13.5 ... Summary ... 457

14 ... Curating a Guided Prehire Experience by Extending SAP SuccessFactors ... 459

14.1 ... Description ... 459

14.2 ... Architecture ... 462

14.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 466

14.4 ... Implementation ... 467

14.5 ... Summary ... 475

15 ... Integrating the COVID-19 Risk Index with SAP Concur ... 477

15.1 ... Description ... 478

15.2 ... Architecture ... 480

15.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 484

15.4 ... Implementation ... 485

15.5 ... Summary ... 491

16 ... Integrating SAP Customer Experience with Qualtrics ... 493

16.1 ... Description ... 494

16.2 ... Architecture ... 496

16.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 500

16.4 ... Implementation ... 501

16.5 ... Summary ... 511

17 ... Building Multitenant Applications Using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model ... 513

17.1 ... Description ... 514

17.2 ... Architecture ... 514

17.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 516

17.4 ... Implementation ... 520

17.5 ... Summary ... 532

18 ... Building Cloud-Native Applications Using SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime ... 533

18.1 ... Description ... 534

18.2 ... Architecture ... 536

18.3 ... Selecting SAP BTP Services ... 538

18.4 ... Implementation ... 539

18.5 ... Summary ... 553

... The Authors ... 555

... Index ... 557