Increase innovation and individuality in your company with SAP Business Technology Platform
Are you an innovative company and need to respond more rapidly to changes on the market? Are you looking for affordable cloud technologies on a standardized platform, and would you like to promote customization and innovation and create USPs to set yourself apart from the crowd? Then SAP Business Technology Platform is the perfect solution for you!
Highly complex IT landscapes, a wide range of applications and different sources of data, not to mention the company-wide integration of IT systems, pose major challenges for companies today. The increasing pace of digital innovation requires flexible action and corresponding smart technologies. This is the only way that companies can overcome dynamic market conditions and achieve sustainable growth. In this context, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is increasingly gaining in importance.
Thanks to the integrated platform, you can seamlessly connect your various business divisions and flexibly adapt your solutions to suit your individual requirements. SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere assist companies with data analytics and decision-making activities. SAP BTP’s Application Development feature offers ready-made templates and enables development of applications using no-code and low-code tools, which not only speeds up the implementation of new processes, but also significantly reduces the time to value. In addition, Business Technology Platform supports the development of pro-code solutions in the state-of-the-art technologies you know and trust.
Thanks to regular new features and microservices (e.g. in the areas of artificial intelligence, security, automation, mobility, etc.), you benefit from the innovative strength of SAP and the entire SAP ecosystem. Make the most of the potential of SAP BTP and successfully implement the digital transformation in your company!
What is the Business Technology Platform?
SAP Business Technology Platform is a technology platform on a standardized environment, where companies can flexibly choose the individual services they require. Business Technology Platform (BTP) provides an application development environment, integration tools, data and analytics, automation and everything you need to benefit from the latest developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence. BTP is optimized for SAP applications in the cloud and continues to offer connectivity to other applications / software solutions and additional data sources. It is compatible with both pure cloud-based IT landscapes and on-prem landscapes (hybrid approach).
SAP BTP (formerly SAP Cloud Platform) aims to provide companies with a range of tools, applications and extension options to drive forward innovation and automation in the company and to promote agility. It continues to support companies in the best possible way on their individual digital transformation journey with its comprehensive range of services – all combined on one platform.
How SAP Business Technology Platform could benefit you
- Standardized platform with a wide range of services
- Modern user interface and high usability
- Extension of existing SAP applications (SAP ERP, SuccessFactors, etc.) and integration of third-party systems
- Access to real-time data throughout the entire company
- Modern technologies with proven best practices
- Access to preconfigured data models, integrations and workflows tailored to your industry and business area
- Available from the major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud)
- Security and compliance in the cloud
- Cutting costs (hardware and operating costs) and easing the burden on the company’s internal IT department
- Availability of various business models (pay-as-you-go, cloud credits, subscription model)
SAP BTP – the standardized cloud platform for application development, automation, integration, analytics and AI
SAP BTP is a wide-ranging platform that offers an enormous number of solutions and takes aspects into account with a view to exploiting its full innovation potential. As illustrated by the graphic below, SAP pools all these aspects into five sub-areas. Under each of these sub-areas, users will find tools that companies can use to successfully customize their business processes:
App Development
Speed up the app creation process!
The importance of app development has increased significantly as many companies’ digital transformation has gathered pace. The App Development area is an important building block within Business Technology Platform. Using SAP BTP as a basis, we develop apps that are precisely tailored to your use cases, which extends your existing SAP system landscape without creating standalone solutions. BTP offers both low-code and pro-code tools in an intuitive, standardized development environment, making it suitable for developers of all qualification levels. While Business Application Studio provides professional developers with a modern environment for coding-based development of side-by-side extensions, the integrated no-code / low-code tool SAP Build Apps enables the creation of extensions and applications using visual programming and drag-and-drop functionality, saving development time and speeding up innovation.
Automation
Automate business processes the quick and easy way!
With SAP Business Technology Platform, you benefit from workflow automation – without any programming effort whatsoever. SAP Build Process Automation gives you a low-code / no-code tool with numerous functions available to automate and expand processes and thus make more informed decisions. Preconfigured workflows and RPA (robotic process automation) bots offer you complete business automation. Routine tasks, such as invoice processing (automated document processing), can be refined, optimized and fully automated with the help of RPA. AI functions allow you to extract data from documents with minimal effort and load it into forms.
Integration
Company-wide process connection
BTP provides a central, comprehensive integration platform for easy process integration. SAP Business Technology Platform’s Integration Suite is an Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solution that helps your company to seamlessly bring together applications, data and processes. Cloud solutions and on-prem applications can be integrated with both SAP and third-party landscapes (non-SAP systems). SAP Integration Suite offers a wide range of connectors, adapters and APIs to ensure smooth communication between different systems, which allows you to keep your existing applications and software and to integrate new technologies. Benefit from innovation and implementation in a cloud network of your choice. Optimize your business processes, enhance your efficiency and achieve better business results with the help of SAP BTP’s Integration Suite!
Data and Analytics
Understand data and use it more efficiently!
With BTP, you can merge and specifically evaluate data that is stored in different locations with a view to gaining a better overview and improving your understanding. Using this as a basis, you can make more informed decisions and plan ahead (in strategic, financial and operational terms) to achieve better business results.
BTP Data & Analytics Services include data storage, cataloging, preparation, modeling, sharing, analysis and planning, enabling holistic understanding and classification of existing data volumes in real time. Thanks to the integration capability in SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, analysis and planning can be extended to cover the entire company – for the likes of business intelligence, corporate planning or predictive analytics.
You can use ready-made content packages from SAP or partners to get off to a quick and easy start with comprehensive and informative reporting.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Business applications made smarter!
Artificial intelligence is also an integral part of all SAP solutions nowadays, taking into account three basic principles (relevant, reliable and responsible). With AI, you benefit from more efficient workflows, more precise analyses and optimized business results due to smart use of data.
SAP AI Core and SAP AI Foundation open up opportunities for companies to develop custom AI models, train them using machine learning and integrate them into the SAP portfolio. SAP AI Business Services are used to provide ready-made AI solutions that are designed to meet specific business requirements. SAP AI Launchpad is used to manage and scale all of the deployed AI solutions both centrally and efficiently.
SAP Business Technology Platform – in simple terms
Buzzwords such as “the cloud”, “intelligent enterprise” and “business technology platform” are on everyone’s lips nowadays. But what do they actually mean? In an informal discussion group, our ORBIS experts will briefly explain what this platform is all about and, in particular, how you can use your data from different applications more efficiently.
The video is only available in German.
We understand your requirements and promote digital innovations together with SAP BTP
Take your business to the next level with SAP BTP’s smart technologies and act with confidence and agility when responding to change! In addition to a wide range of functionalities, you benefit from maximum flexibility and an increased innovation speed in your company. Our SAP consultants focus on integrated management of your IT infrastructure. We are your partner across all business processes. Thanks to our cooperative relationship with our Microsoft colleagues, we have the expertise to advise you across all technologies (e.g. linking SAP ERP systems and Microsoft Dynamics through the SAP Integration Suite). As a strong partner, we will be happy to advise you on all aspects relating to Business Technology Platform and will find a custom solution for each of your projects.
Are SAP BTP and individual services the right fit for your company? Do you need help with technically implementing SAP development projects? Then get in touch with one of our consultants. We look forward to working with you to speed up your business with innovative technologies!
