SAP BTP Developer’s Guide: Build, Scale, and Succeed with RISE

Introduction

In an ever-changing digital economy, companies are looking for powerful and flexible solutions that can normalize and adapt as quickly as they want to grow. Introducing an innovation that would be a gamechanger for organizations wanting to scale and fast track their transformation journey as SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) combined with RISE with SAP. For builders and developers, SAP BTP provides a complete toolkit for developing, integrating, and extending enterprise-grade applications efficiently

This guide discusses how SAP BTP empowers businesses for success with rearchitected processes, best practices, and strong tools to realize the maximum that RISE with SAP offers. Developers, by recognizing and using the synergetic effects between SAP BTP and RISE with SAP, can build solutions that power innovation, performance, and business.

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Understanding SAP BTP

SAP Business Technology Platform is a single, integrated platform providing capabilities to build, integrate, and scale applications expeditiously. It’s the foundation for enabling people to connect worldwide, data to be shared and accessed across different systems, and processes that are fueling business strategy transforming companies.

What is SAP BTP?

With SAP BTP, data management, analytics, application development, and integration capabilities come together to help businesses innovate quickly and transform processes. That reads to me as leaving the door open for a variety of data running in a variety of clouds. It’s an eminently flexible framework that can play on both newly built cloud-native environments and hybrid ones.

Key Features:

Integrated Development Experience:
With a unified development experience in SAP BTP, developers have access to various programming languages, frameworks, and tools for different business requirements. It enables developers to quickly build modern, highly-scalable applications.
A complete toolset – from machine learning models to data visualization tools, SAP BTP offers comprehensive resources to build, deploy, and manage enterprise applications.

Framework Highlights

Development Framework:

• Rapid Application Development: Application developers can build and deploy applications rapidly with SAP BTP, using pre-built templates and aligning to the industry standards.
• Cloud-Native Approach: The platform enables businesses to embrace modern cloud-native architectures, resulting in scalability, flexibility, and performance.

Architecture Best Practices:

• Efficiency and Performance: Businesses design applications that are efficient and performant on SAP BTP. The platform works cloud-based, microservices architectures that permit organizations to provision resources elastically.
• Scale and Reliance: SAP BTP is designed to operate at scale so it can grow with your business. Applications are readily scalable (horizontally) with containerized environments and Kubernetes orchestration.

RISE with SAP:

RISE with SAP extends the coverage of SAP BTP for organizations with an easy path to run any business in the cloud, harmonized processes, and integrated workflows.

What RISE with SAP Offers:

• Smooth move to the cloud: RISE with SAP helps facilitate cloud evolution so that you can more easily transition, move and run your applications in the cloud. It also links on-premises SAP systems with the cloud, giving businesses the option to grow without being held back by what they already have in place.
• Integrated business processes: RISE with SAP brings together integrated business processes that help companies run as efficiently as possible across everything from finance and sales to supply chain management.
• Data-Driven Insights and Analytics: Powered by SAP BTP, RISE with SAP provides robust analytics and reporting capabilities that enable actioning insights which can usefully inform decision-making and strategy.

RISE with SAP benefits:

• Cost Effectiveness: Enterprises can manage and optimize their IT infrastructure investment as cloud solutions reduce dependence on on-premises hardware and maintenance.
• Faster Innovation: With the agility of cloud environments and robust tools in SAP BTP, innovation happens without any constraints, and customers can deliver new features and updates faster to market.

Key Components of SAP BTP:

Analytics:
Complex analytics capabilities, including big data processing, insight generation, and decision making across the supply network are enabled by SAP BTP. Whether for real-time data analysis, business intelligence with embedded machine learning or due to machine learning integration – solutions such as the SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Intelligence play a significant part in all this.
Benefits:

• Real-time insights into business operations.
• Enable all levels of the organisation to make data-driven decisions.

Database Management:
Databases from SAP BTP With various database-management systems like (for example) SAP HANA, ensure that data is managed effectively and securely in accordance with industry standards.
Benefits:

• Provides high-performance, in-memory database solutions.
• Combines transactional and analytical compute to enable ubiquitous data management throughout the enterprise.

Scalability with SAP BTP:

With SAP BTP, businesses can scale apps in line with demand as their businesses grow, all without the headache of managing infrastructure. It provides the elasticity needed to ensure that it’s application ready for increasing business demands.

Scaling with Ease:
SAP BTP employs cloud-native capabilities in order to enable businesses to scale their applications and services elastically, providing excellent performance also under peak traffic conditions.

Resource Efficiency:
By scaling applications as required, companies can improve resource usage and lower operational costs using SAP BTP.

Security Aspects:

Security is one of the most critical items for organizations who are using cloud technologies, and SAP BTP has security integrated with it to keep sensitive data and compliance under environmental control.

Built-in Security Features:

• Data Encryption: All data including the one in motion and at rest in SAP BTP is secured, and encryption at the time of transit secures sensitive business data.
• Access Control: Control who has access to your critical system/personal data in SAP with Identity and Access Management (IAM). Only authorized users have the right to gain entry., etc.
• Regular Compliance Checks: SAP BTP also complies with a range of industry security policies such as GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. The system is also periodically audited for new regulations.

Conclusion

The SAP BTP Developer Guide provides developers with a flexible framework that enables the creation, scaling, and acceleration of your digital enterprise. With SAP BTP, integrated with RISE with SAP, companies can increase agility, streamline, and accelerate business processes to capitalize on new growth opportunities. The combination of SAP BTP and RISE with SAP delivers a platform for companies to flexibly, adaptably, and securely innovate and compete effectively.
Cremencing Solutions is an expert at SAP Custom Development and can provide custom solutions to enable your business with the power of SAP BTP and RISE with SAP. Our proficiency in SAP development means that your company can harness the full power of these game-changing tools and help the business achieve its digital transformation objectives.

Ready to innovate, scale, and succeed with SAP BTP and RISE with SAP? Cremencing Solutions is your source for maximizing your SAP environment. Speak to us today and let’s discuss how we can kick start your digital transformation with professional experts.

FAQs

What is SAP BTP used for?
A: SAP BTP is a full-stack platform for building, integrating, and running applications in the cloud–or connecting to, for example, on-premise systems. It can be used for working with data of different kinds – whether that be managing, analyzing, or developing applications.

How does RISE with SAP augment the use of SAP BTP?
A: RISE with SAP streamlines the move to the cloud by simplifying the effort to adopt and connect SAP BTP’s rich set of capabilities. It enhances enterprise efficiency, scales efficiently through analytics, and enables new innovations.

How to develop it best with SAP BTP?
A: It’s important to architect with cloud-native principles so you tap into the benefits such as scalability, security, and soft integration with SAP’s development frameworks that enable an organization to get application performance.

Resources

• SAP BTP Overview
  Discover what SAP BTP can do for your business.
• SAP BTP Developer Guide
  Learn about best practices and lessons learned for developers working on SAP BTP.
• Cremencing Solutions for SAP Custom Development
  Find out how to get SAP BTP and RISE with SAP implemented for your specific business.