SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)

SAP BTP (SAP Business Technology Platform) is SAP's cloud technology platform for system integration, business application development and extension, process automation, enterprise data management, analytics, and AI. It helps companies develop a digital ecosystem around SAP without the need to make critical changes directly to the ERP system core.

SAP Business Technology Platform brings together the technological tools required to create new business services and modernize the existing IT landscape. It can be used to integrate SAP and non-SAP systems, develop enterprise applications, automate workflows, utilize data from multiple sources, and implement AI use cases.

For companies using SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, or other SAP solutions, Business Technology Platform creates a unified technology layer for the integration, extension, and evolution of enterprise systems.

SAP BTP Capabilities for Business Digital Transformation

SAP Business Technology Platform enables organizations to consolidate key technology initiatives within a single platform, ranging from integration and development to automation, data management, and artificial intelligence.

Integration of SAP and Non-SAP Systems

SAP BTP helps connect SAP solutions with third-party enterprise systems, cloud services, CRM, WMS, MES, HR platforms, banking services, and other data sources.

Integration scenarios enable controlled data exchange between systems, reduce manual operations, and create a unified digital enterprise IT landscape.

Development and Extension of SAP Solutions

SAP BTP enables organizations to build new enterprise applications and extend the functionality of SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions according to specific business requirements.

Extensions can be developed separately from the ERP core, allowing companies to expand functionality without excessive modification of the standard SAP system.

Business Process Automation

SAP BTP can be used to automate approvals, document processing, information exchange between systems, request handling, and other repetitive business processes.

Automation tools help reduce manual effort, accelerate task execution, and standardize processes across different business units.

Enterprise Applications and Self-Service Solutions

SAP BTP can be used to create enterprise portals, employee and partner workspaces, mobile applications, internal services, and other digital tools that work with SAP and external system data.

Data and Analytics

The platform allows organizations to consolidate enterprise data from multiple sources and use it for analytics, reporting, and the development of new digital services.

This provides a unified information foundation for decision-making and helps companies make better use of data already accumulated in SAP and other systems.

AI and Intelligent Automation

SAP BTP creates the technological foundation for implementing AI within enterprise business processes. The platform enables organizations to combine enterprise data, integrations, automation, and AI services to create intelligent business scenarios.

These may include AI assistants, automated information processing, decision support, intelligent operational automation, and new AI-powered business applications.

What Challenges Does SAP BTP Solve?

SAP BTP helps companies address technology challenges related to SAP landscape evolution, cloud transformation, new system integration, and business process automation.

Connecting Disparate Systems

The platform enables SAP and third-party solutions to operate within a unified digital ecosystem while ensuring stable information exchange.

Reducing Point-to-Point Integrations

Instead of maintaining numerous individual point-to-point integrations, organizations can build a centralized integration layer and standardize interactions across enterprise systems.

Extending SAP Without Overloading the ERP Core

SAP BTP allows new functionality, applications, and portions of business logic to be moved outside the SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA core. This simplifies future system development and supports Clean Core principles.

Automating Manual Operations

Approvals, data transfers, request processing, and other repetitive operations can be transformed into automated workflows.

Rapid Development of New Digital Services

The platform enables organizations to create enterprise applications, portals, workspaces, and other services that leverage the data and business logic of the existing SAP landscape.

Preparing the IT Landscape for AI

Combining data, applications, and business processes creates the technological foundation required for implementing AI solutions in enterprise environments.

How SAP BTP Functions Within the Enterprise IT Landscape

SAP Business Technology Platform can serve as a technology layer between SAP solutions, third-party systems, enterprise data, and new digital services.

Enterprise Systems

Organizations can continue using SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, CRM, WMS, MES, and other business systems as the primary sources of business processes and data.

SAP BTP as the Technology Layer

SAP BTP provides system integration, API management, automation, application development, data management, and connectivity for new technology services.

New Business Solutions

At this layer, organizations can build enterprise portals, mobile applications, automated workflows, analytics solutions, AI services, and other business-specific tools.

Growth Without Critical Changes to SAP Core

New solutions can evolve independently of the core ERP system while maintaining integration with SAP and other enterprise systems.

SAP BTP and the Clean Core Approach

Clean Core is an approach to SAP landscape development in which the standard SAP core remains largely unchanged, while business-specific functionality is implemented through standardized extension mechanisms.

SAP BTP plays a key role in this architecture by enabling side-by-side extensions, integrations, and new applications outside the ERP core.

Fewer Modifications to Standard SAP

Business functionality that should not alter the standard system core can be implemented as a separate service or application on SAP BTP.

Simpler Development and Upgrades

Separating extensions from the core ERP system reduces dependencies between custom functionality and SAP upgrades.

Flexibility for New Business Requirements

Organizations gain the ability to quickly create new services, integrations, and automation scenarios without making major changes to the core SAP system.

SAP BTP Implementation

SAP BTP implementation begins not with enabling individual technologies, but with defining business objectives, target architecture, and platform use cases. O-Digital helps organizations design SAP BTP architecture and implement solutions aligned with the company's existing SAP landscape.

IT Landscape and Business Requirements Assessment

The first phase identifies existing SAP and non-SAP systems, integrations, enterprise data, custom developments, and business processes that require modernization or automation.

SAP BTP Roadmap Development

Priority SAP BTP use cases, required platform components, integration architecture, and implementation sequence are defined.

Platform and Architecture Setup

The team configures the necessary SAP BTP environment, access rights, integration components, and technological foundation for future solutions.

Development, Integration, and Automation

Required integrations, applications, SAP extensions, workflows, data solutions, and other business scenarios are implemented according to organizational needs.

Testing and Go-Live

Before productive use, integrations, applications, processes, roles, and access rights are thoroughly tested, after which the solution is moved to the production environment.

SAP BTP Evolution

Following go-live, the platform can gradually expand with new integrations, automation scenarios, applications, analytics capabilities, and AI use cases.

SAP BTP Integration with SAP S/4HANA and Other Systems

One of the primary use cases for SAP BTP is creating an integration layer between SAP S/4HANA, other SAP solutions, and external enterprise systems.

SAP S/4HANA Integration

SAP S/4HANA Integration SAP BTP enables organizations to connect new applications, services, and automated processes to SAP S/4HANA using standardized integration mechanisms and APIs.

Integration of SAP Solutions

The platform can facilitate interaction between SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Analytics Cloud, and other SAP solutions within a unified IT landscape.

Integration with Non-SAP Systems

SAP BTP enables information exchange with CRM, WMS, MES, HR systems, banking services, external portals, cloud products, and other enterprise applications.

API and Event-Driven Integration

Modern integration scenarios can leverage APIs and event-driven mechanisms, enabling systems to exchange information and respond to business events across end-to-end processes.

When Should Businesses Use SAP BTP?

SAP Business Technology Platform is particularly relevant for organizations whose SAP landscape is actively evolving and where demand is increasing for rapid integrations, new applications, automation, and data-driven operations.

When Many Systems Need to Be Integrated

If SAP interacts with numerous external services and enterprise systems, SAP BTP can become the single technology layer for managing integrations.

When Custom Code Accumulates in SAP

If ERP changes become increasingly complex due to the amount of modifications, organizations should consider moving new functionality into side-by-side extensions and transitioning to a Clean Core approach.

When Businesses Need New Services Faster

SAP BTP helps organizations build new digital solutions without restructuring the core ERP system for every new business requirement.

When the Company Plans to Use AI

The platform enables enterprise data, business processes, integrations, and AI services to be combined within a unified and governed architecture.