SAP Business Technology Platform

Solution introduction

A connected platform foundation for enterprise innovation

Applications stop sharing context, integrations multiply point to point, and customizations settle inside the core. SAP BTP resolves that in one governed environment for integration, development, automation, data and AI — extending the digital core without touching it.

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Integration

SAP and non-SAP systems connected once and governed centrally.

Extensions

Build what standard does not ship, side-by-side and Clean Core-aligned.

Automation

Repetitive work taken out of the process end to end.

Data foundation

SAP and non-SAP sources reconciled into one semantic layer.

Business AI

Intelligence placed where a decision actually gets made.

Governance

Identity, lifecycle and operations controlled in one place.

What it enables

What SAP Business Technology Platform enables

Nine capability areas, stated before any product name. Each one is work the platform layer takes on so the core systems do not have to — connecting applications, governing what gets built around them, and making the resulting data trustworthy enough for AI to act on.

Connected enterprise applications

6 capabilities
  • SAP-to-SAP integration
  • SAP and non-SAP integration
  • Cloud and on-premises connectivity
  • Application and data synchronization
  • End-to-end process continuity
  • Partner and B2B connectivity

Governed APIs and digital services

6 capabilities
  • API creation and exposure
  • API security
  • Reuse and discoverability
  • Traffic and lifecycle management
  • Partner and developer access
  • Agent-ready API governance

Event-driven business processes

6 capabilities
  • Real-time business events
  • Asynchronous communication
  • Decoupled applications
  • Event-triggered workflows
  • Distributed event streaming
  • Responsive business processes

Clean Core-aligned extensions

6 capabilities
  • Side-by-side extensions
  • Upgrade-safe application logic
  • Controlled custom development
  • SAP and non-SAP data access
  • Independent innovation cycles
  • Extension governance

Low-code and pro-code application development

6 capabilities
  • Visual application creation
  • Java and JavaScript development
  • ABAP Cloud development
  • Mobile and web applications
  • SAP Fiori experiences
  • Reusable application components

Business-process automation

7 capabilities
  • Approval workflows
  • Human tasks
  • Forms and business rules
  • Robotic task automation
  • Document processing
  • Cross-application orchestration
  • Event-triggered automation

Governed data and analytics

6 capabilities
  • SAP and non-SAP data connection
  • Semantic modelling
  • Business data products
  • Real-time and historical data
  • Analytics and planning
  • Trusted data for applications and AI

AI-enabled applications and agents

7 capabilities
  • Joule Studio
  • AI-agent development
  • Business-context grounding
  • Agent-to-system connectivity
  • AI-assisted development
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Security and human oversight

Platform governance and lifecycle control

7 capabilities
  • Identity and access
  • Application lifecycle
  • Transport and deployment
  • Monitoring
  • Environment governance
  • Developer and business-user controls
  • Cost and consumption visibility
Modules & capabilities covered

SAP BTP products and platform capabilities

13 modules · 123 capabilities · 33 named products — the full SAP BTP scope

Module 4.1

Application and Process Integration

Relevant product
SAP Integration Suite
Capability scope
  • Cloud Integration
  • Application-to-application integration
  • SAP and non-SAP connectivity
  • Hybrid integration
  • Process integration
  • Prebuilt integration content
  • SaaS and on-premises connectivity
  • Integration monitoring
  • Integration governance
  • AI-assisted integration development

SAP Integration Suite supports applications, APIs, events, data, processes, B2B scenarios, and AI-agent connectivity across SAP and third-party environments.

Connected VISCAP service
Consulting & implementation role

VISCAP’s role across SAP BTP adoption and innovation

01

Platform strategy and assessment

Assess what is already running, identify where BTP belongs, and set the roadmap, architecture principles and governance around it.

  • Current application and integration assessment
  • BTP use-case identification
  • Platform roadmap
  • Architecture principles
  • Clean Core strategy
  • Capability and licensing considerations
  • Governance planning
02

Integration architecture

Map the SAP and non-SAP landscape, then choose the patterns, APIs and events that connect it — and the governance that keeps it connected.

  • SAP and non-SAP landscape mapping
  • Integration-pattern selection
  • API strategy
  • Event-driven architecture
  • B2B integration
  • Hybrid connectivity
  • Integration governance
03

Extension and application design

Decide what gets built, where it gets built and with which tools — keeping every extension outside the core.

  • Extension use-case assessment
  • In-app versus side-by-side decisions
  • Low-code versus pro-code decisions
  • ABAP Cloud considerations
  • User-experience design
  • Application architecture
  • Clean Core controls
04

Automation and process design

Find the processes worth automating, design the approvals and handovers, and plan for the exceptions.

  • Process discovery
  • Workflow assessment
  • Approval and decision design
  • Automation prioritization
  • Human and system task orchestration
  • Exception and governance planning
05

Data and analytics enablement

Connect SAP and non-SAP data into one modelled foundation that reporting, planning and AI can all read from.

  • Data-landscape assessment
  • Semantic modelling
  • SAP and non-SAP data connection
  • Reporting and planning direction
  • Data governance
  • AI-ready data considerations
06

AI and agent readiness

Establish whether the data, processes, permissions and oversight are ready before any agent is pointed at a system.

  • Business-use-case assessment
  • Data and process readiness
  • Joule and agent opportunities
  • Agent-to-system connectivity
  • Security and permissions
  • Human oversight
  • AI governance
07

Platform rollout and operations

Stand the platform up properly — accounts, identity, transport, monitoring and the release discipline that keeps it running.

  • BTP environment setup
  • Account and subaccount structure
  • Security and identity
  • Transport and lifecycle
  • Monitoring
  • Release governance
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Operational support
Connected VISCAP services

Services supporting your SAP BTP journey

All VISCAP services

SAP Consulting & Advisory Services

Assess the enterprise landscape, identify BTP use cases, and define the platform, Clean Core, integration, data, automation, and AI roadmap.

SAP Implementation & Rollout Services

Support BTP capabilities required within new SAP implementations, rollouts, and enterprise transformation programmes.

SAP Migration & Modernization Services

Modernize integrations, custom applications, workflows, data platforms, and legacy extensions as the SAP landscape evolves.

SAP Integration Services

Design and connect SAP, third-party, partner, API, event, data, and B2B integration scenarios through SAP Integration Suite and related capabilities.

SAP Data, Reporting & Analytics Services

Connect and govern business data, build reporting and analytics environments, and support enterprise planning and AI-ready data foundations.

SAP Application Management Services

Support the ongoing operation, monitoring, governance, lifecycle, and enhancement of BTP applications and integrations.

SAP Support & Optimization Services

Resolve platform issues, improve integrations and applications, strengthen automation, and refine governance and performance.

SAP Training & Change Enablement Services

Prepare developers, administrators, business users, process owners, and support teams to use and govern BTP capabilities effectively.

Industries

Manufacturing

Plant and enterprise integration, manufacturing-system connectivity and supplier integration

Event-driven production, quality and maintenance workflows, mobile apps and AI-ready data

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Consumer Products and FMCG

ERP, commerce and distributor integration with inventory and order visibility

Supplier connectivity, workflow automation, reporting and real-time business events

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Pharmaceuticals

Controlled system integration, data governance and workflow traceability

Quality applications, partner connectivity, reporting and role and access governance

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Chemicals

Plant and enterprise connectivity with batch and inventory data

Supplier and logistics integration, maintenance workflows and event-driven processes

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Professional Services

ERP, CRM, HR and project-system integration with workflow automation

Internal applications, employee and project workspaces, reporting and time connectivity

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Engineering, Construction and Projects

Project and finance integration with contractor and partner connectivity

Mobile field applications, approval workflows and document and task automation

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Case study

40+ point-to-point interfaces retired onto SAP Integration Suite

A chemicals group replaced bespoke interfaces with governed integration content, monitoring and partner management in one place.
Case study

Clean Core restored: core modifications rebuilt side-by-side on BTP
Case study

A semantic data layer over SAP and non-SAP sources with Datasphere
Case study

Event-driven order flow across commerce, ERP and logistics

Frequently asked questions

SAP BTP is SAP’s platform layer. It combines integration, application development, automation, data and analytics, and AI in one environment optimized for SAP applications and connected enterprise landscapes — the place you build and connect around the digital core rather than inside it.

Six areas. Integration — SAP Integration Suite, APIs, events and B2B. Application development — SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Code and the SAP BTP ABAP environment. Process automation — SAP Build Process Automation. Data and analytics — SAP Business Data Cloud, Datasphere, HANA Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud. AI and agents — SAP Business AI Platform and Joule Studio. And the platform governance holding identity, lifecycle and operations together.

By giving custom logic somewhere else to live. Extensions run side by side on BTP with their own release cycle, reading SAP data and processes through released interfaces. The core stays standard, so upgrades stay routine instead of turning into re-implementation projects.

Yes. It covers SAP-to-SAP, SAP-to-third-party, cloud-to-on-premises and partner or B2B scenarios, with prebuilt integration content, monitoring and central governance — so connections are designed once and managed in one place rather than rebuilt point to point.

An API is a request: one system asks another for something and waits for the answer, which suits synchronous lookups and actions. An event is an announcement: a system publishes that something happened and any number of subscribers react independently. APIs couple caller to provider; events decouple them, which is what keeps high-volume, real-time processes resilient.

It is ABAP Cloud running on BTP — a place for ABAP developers to build side-by-side extensions with the RESTful application programming model against released SAP data and process interfaces. Existing ABAP skills carry straight over, but the custom logic now has its own lifecycle outside the core.

SAP’s automation product: workflow design, approvals, forms, business rules, human tasks, robotic task automation and document processing — triggered by APIs or events, running across SAP and third-party systems, and monitored centrally.

In two layers. SAP Datasphere and SAP HANA Cloud connect, model and virtualize SAP and non-SAP data into governed business data products; SAP Analytics Cloud puts business intelligence, planning, forecasting and scenario modelling on top and embeds the result back into the applications where decisions are made.

Business Data Cloud is the data foundation within the BTP portfolio. SAP Datasphere provides the semantic modelling, integration and data-product capabilities inside it, and SAP HANA Cloud provides the multi-model database underneath for transactional, analytical and AI workloads.

SAP positions SAP Business AI Platform as the foundation that combines business data, process context, AI and governance. SAP BTP is where you build, extend, integrate and govern the AI-enabled applications and agents that run on it.

Yes. Joule Studio and the BTP AI capabilities cover custom agent development, Joule extensions, agent workflows, business-context grounding and agent-to-application integration — with model access, AI governance, security and human oversight treated as part of the build rather than an afterthought.

Yes, and it is one of the platform’s main jobs. SAP Integration Suite ships content for SAP-to-SAP scenarios, so ERP, HR and customer systems exchange data and events without a bespoke interface being written for every pair.

Across the whole arc — platform strategy and assessment, integration architecture, extension and application design, automation and process design, data and analytics enablement, AI and agent readiness, then rollout and operations. The team that sets the architecture is the team that builds against it.

Yes. We take on landscapes that already have integrations, custom applications and subaccounts in place — reviewing the architecture, modernizing what has drifted, tightening governance and cost visibility, and running ongoing application management and support.

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