SAP BTP: Digital transformation and process optimization

Companies face the challenge of remaining agile and innovative in an increasingly digital environment. The need to flexibly adapt IT landscapes, use data efficiently and automate processes is constantly growing. At the same time, many companies struggle with fragmented and highly customized systems and complex integrations that slow innovation. This is where the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) comes in: It offers a scalable basis for optimizing business processes, accelerating innovation and driving digital transformation without having to make problematic adjustments to the core system.

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The most important thing in brief: Why SAP BTP is the right choice for your company

The SAP Business Technology Platform is the central innovation platform for companies that want to modernize their IT landscape and make it future-proof. It not only enables the integration of SAP and non-SAP systems, but also offers powerful tools for data management of entire IT landscapes as well as for data analysis automation and individual application development. Especially in combination with SAP S/4HANA, it expands the ERP functionalities with AI-supported automation and low-code/no-code development, but also through the secure connection of well-known Large Language Models (LLMs), which allows companies to make their processes more efficient and agile.

What is SAP BTP? The platform for modern business processes

The SAP Business Technology Platform is a modular cloud platform that helps companies transform their digital business processes. It acts as a technological and functional basis for the integration of different systems, the structuring and analysis of large amounts of data as an important basis for the use of AI and the development of new applications. What is particularly valuable is their ability to connect heterogeneous IT landscapes, use machine learning models and optimize processes with automation technologies – all with the aim of driving innovations faster and securing competitive advantages. The services offered by BTP can be combined according to customer requirements in order to achieve ideal added value.

Some of the services offered in SAP BTP are also further developments for (on-premises) products discontinued by SAP. For example, the Integration Suite is the successor to SAP PI/PO, Sap Build Work Zone is the successor to the Enterprise Portal and the workflow components have been merged into Build Process Automation.

Goals and advantages of SAP BTP: efficiency, innovation and flexibility

In order to master the challenges of digital transformation, companies need a flexible and powerful technological foundation. The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers exactly that by helping companies quickly implement innovative solutions, make processes more efficient and use data strategically. The following goals and benefits illustrate why SAP BTP is a central part of a future-proof IT strategy:

• Accelerate digital transformation: Rapid development and implementation of innovative solutions
• Optimize processes: Automation and increased efficiency through AI and machine learning
• Improve integration: Seamlessly connect SAP and non-SAP systems
• Promote data-based decisions: Use of real-time data
• Increase flexibility and scalability: Multi-cloud strategies and individual extensions

Structure and structure of SAP BTP

Die SAP Business Technology Platform is based on three central core areas that support companies in specifically driving forward their digital transformation:

1. Data & Artificial Intelligence (Data & AI)

This area includes powerful solutions for Data management, analysis and the use of artificial intelligence. The Business Data Cloud (BDC) presented by SAP contains various SAP BTP tools for data management, but also the non-SAP platform Databricks. This allows companies to process, combine, orchestrate and make comprehensive use of large amounts of data in real time, which is a valuable basis, especially for AI use cases. The SAP Analytics Cloud delivers deep insights through comprehensive business intelligence capabilities. Enable additionally SAP AI Core and AI Business Services the use of AI for automated processes and intelligent decision-making, based on comprehensive data. Joule, the digital assistant from SAP, is also connected and expanded via BTP.

2. Integration

Companies rely on a variety of IT systems – both SAP and non-SAP applications. The SAP Integration Suite ensures that all of these systems communicate seamlessly with each other by providing powerful integration services for cloud and on-premises solutions. With API-Management, Event-Driven Architecture und B2B-Integration Data can be exchanged securely and efficiently between different platforms. This creates a consistent and harmonized IT landscape that optimizes business operations.

3. Expansion (development)

Companies must constantly adapt and expand their business processes. The SAP Extension Suite offers a flexible basis for developing applications on SAP BTP and specifically expanding existing solutions – without changing the SAP core. With SAP Build Low-code/no-code tools are available that enable fast and agile development.

In addition, the BTP architecture includes organizational and technical components that form the basis for secure and scalable use of the platform. SAP-BTP-Base Services offer central functions such as identity management, authorization and monitoring. Governance functions ensure that Data guidelines adhered to, costs managed efficiently and IT security standards implemented can be. In addition, SAP BTP's multi-cloud strategy helps companies to flexibly operate their workloads in different cloud environments.

With this structured approach, SAP BTP represents a powerful platform that helps companies implement innovations faster, orchestrate their IT landscape efficiently and make data-driven decisions in real time.

Application examples for SAP BTP: This is how companies benefit in practice

Whether in IT, finance, sales or production – the following use cases show how companies can use SAP BTP to their advantage:

• Individual application development mit Low-Code/No-Code-Tools
• Data harmonization and deployment of cross-data lakes – also with and for non-SAP systems.
• System integration: Connection of SAP and non-SAP systems
• Real-time data analysis mit SAP Analytics Cloud
• Process automation through SAP Process Automation
• Use of AI for automated classification and forecasts
• IoT-Integration: Networking of devices for process control
• Financial planning: Automation of planning processes with SAP BPC
• Customer interaction: Development of chatbots with SAP Conversational AI

Automated financial planning with real-time data

A global consumer goods company uses SAP Analytics Cloud on SAP BTP to automate financial reports and forecasts. By integrating data from SAP S/4HANA and external market data sources in real time, the company can react more quickly to market changes and create more accurate forecasts.

Seamless system integration for e-commerce

A retailer uses the SAP Integration Suite to connect their SAP ERP with an external online shop and logistics service providers. Orders, inventory and shipping information are synchronized in real time, shortening delivery times and reducing stock-outs.

S/4HANA and SAP BTP: The perfect integration for maximum efficiency

The integration of SAP BTP into SAP S/4HANA expands ERP functionalities with tools for data management, analysis and intelligent technologies. Companies benefit from individual extensions via the SAP Extension Suite and seamless integration with other systems via the SAP Integration Suite.

Real-time data analysis with SAP Analytics Cloud and AI-based automation increase efficiency and decision quality. Support for cloud, on-premise and hybrid models offers maximum flexibility.

Conclusion: Shaping the future of digital transformation with SAP BTP

The SAP Business Technology Platform provides a powerful foundation for digital transformation. By combining data management, analysis, application development and intelligent technologies, SAP BTP enables the optimization of processes and the development of individual solutions. Especially in conjunction with SAP S/4HANA, the platform promotes efficiency, innovation and flexibility. The Business Technology Platform is at the heart of SAP's strategy and offers many opportunities for companies

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