To put it in simple terms, BTP is solution Paas solution provided by SAP which offers different kinds of services ranging from analytics, data management, machine learning, AI, security and Integration. So, the main point is all of this is bundled together at one single place so if you are planning to develop a sap solution you could find all the different services at one place so that you don’t need to focus on hardware and platforms and you can focus on the business problem and solution.

Now let’s look at the key components.

components:

1. SAP HANA Database:
   • In-memory database for real-time data processing.
2. SAP Analytics Cloud:
   • Integrated analytics platform for business intelligence and data visualization.
3. SAP Cloud Platform:
   • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for application development, customization, and deployment.
4. SAP Cloud Foundry Environment:
   • Open-source cloud platform supporting the development and deployment of cloud-native applications.
5. SAP IoT Application Enablement:
   • Tools for building IoT applications and managing connected devices.
6. Integration Suite:
   • Tools for connecting processes and data across applications and systems.
7. SAP AI and Machine Learning:
   • Services for embedding machine learning capabilities into applications and processes.
8. SAP Identity Management:
   • Manages user identities and access controls.
9. SAP Single Sign-On:
   • Provides secure access to applications and data.
10. SAP Extension Suite:
    • Supports the development of extensions for SAP applications.
11. SAP Data Intelligence:
    • Enables data discovery, integration, and orchestration

So, there are too many things in the plate is it.?

Let me simplify it for you (oversimplified 😀)

You are a developer, and you want to develop a cloud application which is based on SAP? How will you develop? There can be 2 possibilities.

1. DO EVERYTHING By yourself

so, because application is on cloud, we need to have a cloud infrastructure for which you need aws azure or GCP and then get a sap instance (probably HANA) and then maybe a development environment like eclipse.

Once we are done with that then we may need different kind of services like authorization, logs security etc. why because these are very much required for our cloud applications, and we need to follow the 12-factor principle in cloud.

so, think about a moment all of this which I mentioned previously you have to configure it yourself which means you need to manage everything on your own and you are responsible for any issues which is quite challenging from an organizational point of view as you may need teams for all these things and managing it can be quite tricky.

2. Use BTP

If we are planning to develop a sap application on cloud BTP makes our life easy. why because it offers everything at one single place and sap is responsible for any issues or errors in your application. So, it provides the development environment (like eclipse, vs code etc.) and all the different microservices which are required and then you only need to focus on the business problem in hand rather than bothering about all the problems which we talked in the point above.

Since now we have a basic idea of BTP in the next blog we will see what different components are and how it can be used.