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BTP Strategy
BTP Strategy covers the architectural decisions, governance, and technical planning required to adopt SAP Business Technology Platform as the extension and integration layer for a clean-core S/4HANA landscape, including account structure, service selection, integration patterns, security posture, and the trade-offs architects must justify to stakeholders.
Overview
BTP Strategy covers the architectural decisions, governance, and technical planning required to adopt SAP Business Technology Platform as the extension and integration layer for a clean-core S/4HANA landscape, including account structure, service selection, integration patterns, security posture, and the trade-offs architects must justify to stakeholders.
Lessons in this topic
- Why BTP Strategy Matters: Business and Technical PurposeIntroduces the business and technical drivers behind adopting SAP BTP as a strategic extension platform, and why an explicit strategy is needed rather than ad-hoc adoption.
- BTP Strategy: Consumption Cost Governance, Operating Model, and Multi-Year RoadmapLearn how to govern BTP consumption cost, define a sustainable operating model, and plan a multi-year roadmap that keeps extensions aligned with clean core principles as the S/4HANA landscape evolves.
- Deciding What Belongs on BTP: Extension Options and Trade-offsExplores the practical decision framework for choosing between in-app extensibility, side-by-side extensions on BTP, and standard functionality, with concrete trade-off criteria.
- BTP Integration Architecture: Connectivity Patterns Between Core and Side-by-Side ExtensionsExplains how BTP side-by-side extensions and core S/4HANA or ECC systems actually connect at runtime, covering Cloud Connector, destinations, and integration middleware choices.
- Identity, Authorization and Performance Trade-offs in a Multi-Tenant BTP LandscapeCovers advanced BTP strategy decisions around identity federation, subaccount/tenant isolation, authorization design, and performance/latency trade-offs that affect production stability.