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How can I make the most of the potential in my digital infrastructure? Is my system architecture fit for purpose for the next three to five years?

Do you also face these challenges?

When it comes to system enhancements, companies need to consider sustainability aspects to ensure that they get a return on their investments. “Clean core” is a central principle here, as it enables the decoupling of the core system, simplifies updates, and improves scalability. The use of standard interfaces is also essential for hassle-free integration with existing systems.

To conserve resources and improve efficiency, it is essential to automate repetitive processes and process steps. This often requires developers, however, which makes implementation both expensive and time-consuming.

While artificial intelligence can be extremely valuable for businesses, not every use case will require AI integration. Businesses need carefully analyze the benefits they can achieve by applying AI to their specific use cases. Ideally, this will conserve resources while leveraging the greatest possible benefit from the technology.

Optimum data utilization starts with making the data visible and providing targeted access. Companies face the challenge of making meaningful use of a continuously generated stream of data from a variety of systems and sources – since data is not necessarily meaningful when viewed outside the correct context. 

Integration poses significant challenges to companies, particularly where data consistency is involved. Decoupled systems often result in heterogeneous data streams, which increase the risk of inconsistent or obsolete data. One especially demanding task involves keeping master data synchronized within multi-cloud environments, where different platforms must be integrated to avoid gaps in data and inefficient processes.

User administration is another area where businesses face challenges, as they increasingly make use of complex cloud or hybrid system landscapes. In such environments, users and their authorizations must be managed sensibly and uniformly, to ensure that everybody has the permissions they need in the overall process. Effective user management not only boosts security, but also efficiency itself within the enterprise. This means that end-user effort can also be reduced – with the rollout of single sign-on (SSO), for example.

Discover the added value of SAP BTP today!

  • Extension

    SAP Build Apps make it possible to create tailor-made apps without programming expertise. With over 500 predefined functions, data can be processed using OData and REST APIs and the apps can be deployed to web, iOS, Android, and other platforms.

    Simple enhancement: The platform offers ready-made content and integration for SAP and third-party applications, enabling you to embed and enhance existing investments.

    Cloud Application Programming (CAP) model: CAP simplifies the development of cloud applications through standardized approaches and tools. It supports the integration of SAP solutions and offers flexible coding options – in Java and JavaScript, for example – to write and operate cloud applications efficiently.

  • Automation

    SAP Build Process Automation enables the visual automation of workflows and processes with no-code functions. Business rule embedding, AI, and robotic process automation (RPA) can also be integrated uniformly using the drag-and-drop interface. 

    SAP Build Work Zone offers a central point of contact for access to business applications, processes, and information. Use drag-and-drop to create digital workspaces and integrate both SAP and third-party applications.

    Low-code/no-code and pro-code: These approaches are combined to promote rapid application development and process innovation – from citizen developers to professional developers. 

    Collaboration: Promotes communication, knowledge exchange, and improved cooperation between IT and business departments.

  • AI

    SAP AI Core comprises the execution and operation of AI assets and supports full lifecycle management for AI use cases. It also enables the integration of other SAP solutions.

    SAP AI Launchpad: SAP AI Launchpad helps companies that are looking to manage AI use cases across multiple instances of AI runtimes (like SAP AI Core). It also offers generative AI functions through the Generative AI Hub.

    SAP Build: With the SAP Build generative AI-based solution, companies can develop enhancements and automation more efficiently. As one example, AI can be used to generate code, application logic, and sample data that harmonizes with SAP-centric programming models.

    More solutions: In addition to the solutions described above, additional solutions from SAP BTP can also be used, such as translation, extracting information from documents, and personalized recommendations.

  • Data and analytics

    Integrated platform: SAP Analytics Cloud offers an integrated cloud platform for business intelligence (BI), planning, and forecasting. The platform facilitates user-friendly data visualization and interactive dashboards for the effective analysis of business data.

    Collaboration and planning: Collaborative functions are provided to enable teams to work together in real time, to make data-driven decisions. SAP Analytics Cloud also supports integrated planning and simulation for the development and implementation of business strategies.

    Agile, cloud-based data warehouse: Data warehouse as an SaaS for business and IT. This approach offers numerous adapter-based integration options for SAP and non-SAP systems and facilitates access to external tools from areas such as machine learning.

    Scalability and flexibility: A scalable, semantic business layer across various spaces ensures that usage remains both flexible and efficient.

  • Integration

    SAP Integration Suite: SAP Integration Suite offers a centralized solution for integrating a vareity of systems and applications, both within SAP environments and with third-party solutions.

    Seamless system networking: SAP Integration Suite allows companies to connect different systems together efficiently and ensure a smooth exchange of data.

    Predefined integration: SAP Integration Suite offers a wide choice of predefined integration flows and adapters that make it possible to deploy integration quickly and without extensive development work.

    Scalability and security: SAP Integration Suite makes sure that integration is both secure and scalable. As a result, it is more than capable of handling the growing requirements of a business while still maintaining the highest security standards.

  • Maintenance and user management

    SAP BTP: SAP BTP enables the precise management of users, permissions, and system resources by means of a clearly structured hierarchy with global accounts and subaccounts.

    SAP Cloud Identity Services is a group of services that enable system-wide identity and access management. These services aim to offer a seamless single sign-on experience for users in the cloud while also guaranteeing secure access to systems and data. 

    Scalability and security: SAP BTP administration is designed to keep pace with the growing requirements of a business. It features a high level of scalability together with compliance with the toughest security standards, to protect the integrity and confidentiality of user and system data.

Your benefits

Lasting system enhancements

Thanks to SAP Build Apps, companies do not need any programming expertise to develop custom-tailored applications that can be integrated seamlessly with existing systems. Ready-made content and the CAP model let you implement permanent system enhancements, simplify updates, and improve scalability.

Efficient process automation

Businesses can use SAP Build Process Automation to efficiently automate repetitive processes without tying up developer resources, saving both time and money. At the same time, SAP Build Work Zone provides a central platform for the simple creation and integration of digital workspaces to promote cooperation between IT and business departments.

Targeted used of AI

With SAP BTP, companies can integrate targeted AI solutions that meet their specific requirements, enabling them to support data-driven decision-making and automation. The platform offers a flexible, scalable environment to leverage artificial intelligence and ensure that resources are deployed efficiently.

Optimum utilization of data

SAP Analytics Cloud makes the data that is continuously generated by a variety of sources both visible and accessible. The agile, cloud-based Data Warehouse platform offers comprehensive options for integration, along with access to external tools for efficient data consolidation. This supports the analysis and utilization of data, as well as the identification of anomalies.

Harmonized integration

Businesses can use the SAP Integration Suite to connect their various systems seamlessly and therefore avoid inconsistent data and inefficient processes. Predefined integration options enable rapid rollout, while simultaneously ensuring scalability and compliance with the toughest security standards.

Cross-system user lifecycle

SAP BTP enables the centralized, scalable, and secure management of users and permissions in complex system architectures. This improves efficiency and security, particularly through the integration of single sign-on (SSO).

SAP BTP – why Scheer?

  • SAP BTP Expert Level: We have achieved Expert Level for the SAP Business Technology Platform as defined by the SAP Competency Framework. Reaching this level of expertise not only reflects our skills and abilities, but also the successful customer projects we have achieved with BTP.
  • SAP BTP expertise: Thanks to our comprehensive expertise in every facet of BTP, we can prepare optimum solutions in line with our own experience and SAP Best Practices and ensure their successful implementation.
  • Leading innovation partner: Thanks to our work with SAP and the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute, we can ensure that innovative topics are evaluated and deployed profitably. Our customers benefit from these innovations and the resulting solutions, as well as from our best practices.
  • Consulting services: Thanks to our comprehensive experience with end-to-end processes, we are capable of applying process-oriented thinking to multiple systems simultaneously while ensuring in-depth process knowledge within the individual systems.
  • A development partner in for the long haul: While we can achieve short turnaround times, we see ourselves as a long-term development partner who is able to assist our customers throughout their digital transformation. That's why we always work together with our customers to promote innovation and create custom-tailored solutions.

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