SAP BTP: Applications, data and AI as drivers of your business success
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 companies can overcome dynamic market conditions and achieve sustainable growth.
This is exactly where the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) comes in. It connects your systems, accelerates the development of new applications and creates the foundation for data-driven decisions.
At the same time, SAP BTP forms the technological core of the SAP Business AI Platform. On this foundation, you can deploy modern technologies such as AI agents or generative AI in a targeted yet controlled way to achieve sustainable growth.
What is the Business Technology Platform?
The SAP Business Technology Platform is the technological basis for innovation in your SAP environment. On a single, standardized cloud environment, SAP BTP provides all the building blocks you need: application development, integration tools, data and analytics services, automation – and, not least, Artificial Intelligence capabilities.
SAP BTP serves as the cornerstone of the SAP Business AI Platform, enabling companies to securely develop and operate AI-supported solutions (e.g. smart assistants, chatbots).
The platform is optimized for SAP cloud solutions but also provides connectors to on-premise and third-party systems. This enables you to flexibly choose services and implement extensions in a clean-core-compliant manner (without modifying your digital core) – an agile, future-proof basis for your digital transformation.
Your advantages and benfits with SAP Business Technology Platform
Integration & Extensibility
- Seamless integration of SAP and third-party systems
- Extension of existing applications in line with Clean Core
Data & Transparency
- Real-time access to enterprise-wide data
- A unified data foundation for analytics and AI
Innovation & Speed
- Faster development with low-code, pro-code and AI support
- Preconfigured content and best practices
Flexibility & Operations
- Operation on leading hyperscaler platforms
- Flexible usage models (pay-as-you-go, credits)
Functions of SAP BTP
Companies use these tools to successfully customize their business processes:
Application Development
Speed up the app creation process!
App development on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) enables tailor-made applications as extensions outside the SAP core (“side-by-side”), so your standard solutions remain stable and update-capable. This gives you new functionality and unique competitive advantages, precisely tailored to your use cases – without creating standalone solutions.
SAP BTP provides developers of all experience levels with an intuitive, standardized development environment: from SAP Business Application Studio for professional pro-code development through to the no-/low-code capabilities within SAP Build, which evolved from the former SAP Build Apps functions. These tools support visual application development through drag-and-drop functionality and thus accelerate the delivery of new apps and extensions.
AI-supported functions can already be integrated today: SAP Joule increasingly supports the development process with code generation and test automation (AI-assisted development), and SAP will continue to expand these generative AI capabilities in the future through Joule Studio.
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 transfer it directly 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!
The result: end-to-end integrated processes, fewer system breaks and a foundation on which real-time data and AI functions can flow reliably. Benefit from a shorter time-to-integration and greater efficiency in your operations.
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.
SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) – the central foundation of your data landscape on SAP BTP – brings together SAP and non-SAP data into a consistent view. This creates the basis for smart analyses and reliable AI solutions thanks to context-rich data.
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!
With SAP BTP, you embed artificial intelligence directly into your business processes – for faster decisions, automated workflows and new efficiency potential.
SAP BTP forms the technological basis of the SAP Business AI Platform, where data, processes and AI are brought together. This enables you to securely develop, deploy and scale AI solutions – in a controlled enterprise environment.
With Joule, SAP’s generative AI assistant, you receive context-based recommendations directly within your applications. Joule Studio also lets you develop your own AI agents that take on tasks automatically while adhering to your business rules.
The result: intelligent applications that actively support processes, prepare decisions and make your company more productive.
Greater Agility, Greater Innovation: SAP BTP as a Driver of Your Business Success
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.
Is SAP BTP with its services (including the new AI components) the right fit for your company? Do you need support with the technical implementation or strategy? Then get in touch with us. Our consultants will be happy to help you accelerate your business processes with the latest SAP technologies and set them up to be future-proof!
