Boost your business performance with SAP BTP
Get the most from your SAP implementation by adopting a clean core and leveraging SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) to enrich, enhance and extend your applications, landscapes and processes.
SAP clients have been deploying SAP systems for almost forty years. However, the way in which these large-scale SAP systems were deployed and configured were they were heavily customized. So the days of coming in and saying, how would you like your business process to run? You know, we're talking to ten retail clients for example, ten banking clients; each of the banking clients could have done this in very different ways. What SAP is saying is we are releasing new versions of SAP to you through S/4HANA cloud additions. And what we're encouraging you to do is as you make the leap to the latest version of SAP S/4HANA, and you're looking to align the move to the cloud, come and do that with us under these RISE constructs, we'll make it commercially attractive to you. To re-license, get onto a new application stack called S/4HANA. It's in a cloud environment, so it's backed by AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. However, the way in which you architect your application and the way that you architect your business process does need to change. That is what SAP is referring to as the clean core; is the way that you handle purchase orders really that different to your competitors, for example? And again, unless it's a competitive differentiator, in most cases, the argument is no. However, if you do need to modify and adjust your business process, then don't go and do it in S/4HANA maybe right in Purchasing. Keep this core clean. So the core is S/4HANA. Use the Business Technology Platform as this integration layer, and push all of these changes out to the edge, where it's actually easier to maintain. So don't go in deep into the weeds of sales and distribution and marketing and over heavily customize your environments, because that's actually what's hindered business agility moving to the cloud and keeping up with your competition and things like that. So there's a lot of strong, business rationale for keeping the core clean. And one of the ways to do that is through the business technology platform. So combining the environment with a commercial construct, with a new application stack and with a way to do extensions and collaboration and connectivity through the Business Technology Platform, it really is quite a compelling value proposition.
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As the world moves to a more cloud-based computing solution, SAP needs a standard way to develop applications, deploy them for our customers, and that our partners and customers can share. And that's the BTP. The Business Technology Platform provide a new way for customers to develop standard SAP-like applications. SAP have the biggest, most comprehensive ERP system that you can imagine. But what customers often need is a way to implement their own processes and their own differentiators. Those things are hard in the standardized world of cloud, and that's what BTP provides. The ability to customize a standard application, but still have the same look and feel and security and user experience. There are a few things that SAP are striving for that really the BTP makes so much easier for our customers. The first is a consistent UI, the UI5 FIORI user interface is available as standard in the BTP. It's a quick thing to get deployed. But then on top of that, the BTP offers you standard security - so now you don't have to go and create another set of users. It offers a standard way to integrate into SAP applications. So you don't have to go and think about how to do that. And these things all save time and get you to value more quickly than if you are developing on a third-party platform. Many of our customers start using the BTP for integration only. So in the cloud, much of the integration between SAP applications and some non-SAP applications is provided as standard in the BTP. It's a fantastic accelerator to get to value from SAP cloud applications by integrating them with your on-premise or third-party cloud or native SAP Cloud. And then they tend to expand into application development. So once they've seen that we can integrate things, they realize, well, if I had a little education to solve this little problem, I could integrate it into my SAP landscape. And from there, they start building out their own application landscape. It's a real advantage if you can do all your customization in the cloud. Having an AppHaus in Africa is just a real game-changer for SAP customers locally. One of the challenges we've had with cloud adoption is to get people to change their thinking around how they are going to customize; how they're going to use applications. Having an AppHaus allows you to take your team out of their day-to-day jobs, put them in an environment which really opens up the space of possibilities and let them think differently about how they're going to customize, how they're going to use their ERP system. It's actually fantastic that we have an AppHaus in Africa now.
Why choose EPI-USE Labs for BTP development?
Why choose EPI-USE Labs for BTP development?
What customers often need is a way to implement their own processes and their own differentiators. Those things are hard in the standardized world of cloud, and that’s what BTP provides; the ability to customize a standard application, but still have the same look and feel, security and user experience.
Peter Blignaut, Customer Advisory Manager: Business Technology Platform, SAP
