Explore the core capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform: Innovate quickly without compromising trust, security, and control
Explore how SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers a strategic path forward for organizations modernizing their application landscapes. Designed to unify data, AI, integration, application development, and automation into a single platform, SAP BTP provides the tools enterprises need to accelerate their digital agenda. تحميل الوثيقةExplore the core capabilities of
SAP Business Technology Platform
Innovate quickly without compromising
trust, security, and control
SAP Solution Brief | SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP Business Technology Platform
Innovate quickly without compromising
trust, security, and control
SAP Solution Brief | SAP Business Technology Platform
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The base to standardize, secure, and
scale enterprise innovation
Why ‘core’ platform capabilities?
Drive real business impact
Realize the built-in benefits
Transform complexity into
business velocity
Experience the advantages of a unified
core platform
Core platform capabilities: Features
and services
Add value at each touch point of the
enterprise landscape
Drive transformation with SAP’s
multi-cloud core services
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The base to standardize, secure, and
scale enterprise innovation
Why ‘core’ platform capabilities?
Drive real business impact
Realize the built-in benefits
Transform complexity into
business velocity
Experience the advantages of a unified
core platform
Core platform capabilities: Features
and services
Add value at each touch point of the
enterprise landscape
Drive transformation with SAP’s
multi-cloud core services
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of contents
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In today’s enterprise landscape, technology is
more than a support function; it is the backbone
of business transformation, operational agility,
and customer innovation. Organizations across
every industry are modernizing their application
landscapes, replatforming core systems, and
building new digital experiences. But they face a
critical dilemma: how do you innovate quickly
without jeopardizing trust, security, or control?
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers
a strategic path forward. Designed to unify data, AI,
integration, application development, and auto-
mation into a single platform, SAP BTP provides
the tools enterprises need to accelerate their digital
agenda. The core capabilities at the heart of this
platform are a set of essential services that help
standardize operations, enforce security, and
provide scalability across the enterprise landscape.
Why ‘core’ platform capabilities?
These are called “core” capabilities because they
form the key layer on which all cloud solutions from
The base to standardize, secure, and scale
enterprise innovation
SAP rely. These capabilities are not stand-alone
products or optional add-ons. They are built deeply
into the architecture of SAP BTP itself, providing
the underlying identity, security, interoperability,
lifecycle management, and operational services
that help make higher-level SAP BTP and SAP appli-
cations function consistently. “Core” reflects their
role as the shared technical backbone that supports
each environment, workload, and business process
running on SAP BTP.
The core capabilities of SAP BTP are used internally
within SAP to build and operate our flagship
cloud applications such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
SAP Build solutions, SAP Integration Suite, and
the SAP Analytics Cloud solution. Now, these
same capabilities are made available directly to
our customers and partners, enabling them to
build, extend, and integrate with the same level
of consistency, governance, and trust that
SAP uses internally.
In today’s enterprise landscape, technology is
more than a support function; it is the backbone
of business transformation, operational agility,
and customer innovation. Organizations across
every industry are modernizing their application
landscapes, replatforming core systems, and
building new digital experiences. But they face a
critical dilemma: how do you innovate quickly
without jeopardizing trust, security, or control?
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers
a strategic path forward. Designed to unify data, AI,
integration, application development, and auto-
mation into a single platform, SAP BTP provides
the tools enterprises need to accelerate their digital
agenda. The core capabilities at the heart of this
platform are a set of essential services that help
standardize operations, enforce security, and
provide scalability across the enterprise landscape.
Why ‘core’ platform capabilities?
These are called “core” capabilities because they
form the key layer on which all cloud solutions from
The base to standardize, secure, and scale
enterprise innovation
SAP rely. These capabilities are not stand-alone
products or optional add-ons. They are built deeply
into the architecture of SAP BTP itself, providing
the underlying identity, security, interoperability,
lifecycle management, and operational services
that help make higher-level SAP BTP and SAP appli-
cations function consistently. “Core” reflects their
role as the shared technical backbone that supports
each environment, workload, and business process
running on SAP BTP.
The core capabilities of SAP BTP are used internally
within SAP to build and operate our flagship
cloud applications such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
SAP Build solutions, SAP Integration Suite, and
the SAP Analytics Cloud solution. Now, these
same capabilities are made available directly to
our customers and partners, enabling them to
build, extend, and integrate with the same level
of consistency, governance, and trust that
SAP uses internally.
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Drive real business impact
Every enterprise, regardless of size, industry, or
cloud maturity, needs a set of core capabilities
to run cloud applications reliably and securely.
These include identity and access management,
continuous integration and delivery, secure
connectivity, audit logging, job orchestration, and
landscape administration. In most organizations,
these capabilities are manually stitched together
using multiple tools from different vendors, leading
to inconsistent user experiences, fragmented
governance, and increased risk.
SAP BTP helps eliminate this fragmentation by
providing unified, enterprise-grade core capabilities
that support each phase of the application lifecycle.
Whether you’re deploying low-code applications,
orchestrating APIs, building full-stack extensions,
or managing cloud-native microservices, our core
platform capabilities offer shared services that
help standardize, secure, and scale your efforts
within the SAP ecosystem.
Realize the built-in benefits
The core capabilities of SAP BTP enable you
to achieve the following benefits:
• Standardization: Reduce redundancy and
promote reuse with preintegrated services for
DevOps, observability, transport management,
and runtime governance.
• Security: Protect your cloud footprint and
make it audit-ready with comprehensive identity,
credential, privacy, and compliance controls.
• Interoperability: Connect SAP and third-party
solutions across on-premises, private cloud,
and hyperscaler environments using native
integration services.
• Operational scalability: Automate the provi-
sioning of services and subaccounts, enforce
policies, monitor usage, and align with financial
operations (FinOps) practices.
Our core platform capabilities are not simply
enablers; they are multipliers. They help ensure
that every investment you make in SAP BTP is
secure, governed, and future-proof. By adopting
these capabilities as the core of your application
strategy, you gain the flexibility to innovate
faster, the control to manage complexity, and
the confidence to scale globally.
Drive real business impact
Every enterprise, regardless of size, industry, or
cloud maturity, needs a set of core capabilities
to run cloud applications reliably and securely.
These include identity and access management,
continuous integration and delivery, secure
connectivity, audit logging, job orchestration, and
landscape administration. In most organizations,
these capabilities are manually stitched together
using multiple tools from different vendors, leading
to inconsistent user experiences, fragmented
governance, and increased risk.
SAP BTP helps eliminate this fragmentation by
providing unified, enterprise-grade core capabilities
that support each phase of the application lifecycle.
Whether you’re deploying low-code applications,
orchestrating APIs, building full-stack extensions,
or managing cloud-native microservices, our core
platform capabilities offer shared services that
help standardize, secure, and scale your efforts
within the SAP ecosystem.
Realize the built-in benefits
The core capabilities of SAP BTP enable you
to achieve the following benefits:
• Standardization: Reduce redundancy and
promote reuse with preintegrated services for
DevOps, observability, transport management,
and runtime governance.
• Security: Protect your cloud footprint and
make it audit-ready with comprehensive identity,
credential, privacy, and compliance controls.
• Interoperability: Connect SAP and third-party
solutions across on-premises, private cloud,
and hyperscaler environments using native
integration services.
• Operational scalability: Automate the provi-
sioning of services and subaccounts, enforce
policies, monitor usage, and align with financial
operations (FinOps) practices.
Our core platform capabilities are not simply
enablers; they are multipliers. They help ensure
that every investment you make in SAP BTP is
secure, governed, and future-proof. By adopting
these capabilities as the core of your application
strategy, you gain the flexibility to innovate
faster, the control to manage complexity, and
the confidence to scale globally.
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Transform complexity into
business velocity
Digital landscapes are becoming more
distributed, multi-cloud, and integration heavy
than ever before. This fragments development
processes, complicates operations, and
reduces visibility. Organizations frequently
struggle with:
• Hybrid landscape complexity:
Application workloads span multiple
cloud providers, on-premises systems,
and SAP solutions—creating hidden
operational gaps and governance
challenges.
• Administrative overload: A significant
portion of today’s IT budgets goes into
maintaining existing systems instead of
innovation.
• Tooling fragmentation: Development
teams face inconsistent DevOps processes,
disconnected runtimes, and manual
deployment steps across projects.
• Security and compliance pressure:
Rising regulatory demands require
integrated identity, data privacy, and audit
capabilities across the full landscape.
• Limited observability: Many enterprises
lack holistic monitoring across applications,
runtimes, and environments, making issues
hard to detect and resolve.
These challenges can slow transformation,
increase operational risk, and hinder the
ability to deliver consistent, scalable
digital services.
Transform complexity into
business velocity
Digital landscapes are becoming more
distributed, multi-cloud, and integration heavy
than ever before. This fragments development
processes, complicates operations, and
reduces visibility. Organizations frequently
struggle with:
• Hybrid landscape complexity:
Application workloads span multiple
cloud providers, on-premises systems,
and SAP solutions—creating hidden
operational gaps and governance
challenges.
• Administrative overload: A significant
portion of today’s IT budgets goes into
maintaining existing systems instead of
innovation.
• Tooling fragmentation: Development
teams face inconsistent DevOps processes,
disconnected runtimes, and manual
deployment steps across projects.
• Security and compliance pressure:
Rising regulatory demands require
integrated identity, data privacy, and audit
capabilities across the full landscape.
• Limited observability: Many enterprises
lack holistic monitoring across applications,
runtimes, and environments, making issues
hard to detect and resolve.
These challenges can slow transformation,
increase operational risk, and hinder the
ability to deliver consistent, scalable
digital services.