SAP Business Technology Platform BTP

By establishing the foundation for a connected, integrated digital landscape, SAP BTP supports your business throughout its journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise. The platform includes technologies that deliver substantial value individually. But the platform’s real advantage is best revealed when applying a combination of technologies to solve business challenges and innovate creative solutions.

Digital Transformation Challenges

• Complex, hybrid IT landscapes
• Limited usability of large data volumes
• Pressure to innovate due to volatile markets and evolving digital business models

Value Drivers of SAP BTP

• Process and data integration
• Value from data
• Extensibility and innovation 

By enabling BTP applications to share SAP data and processes, BTP enables process and data integration. Even if your IT landscape hosts a highly diverse mix of on-premise and cloud solutions, you can integrate niche applications across vendors, legacy applications, various platforms, and open-source technologies to deliver a unified user experience. 

SAP BTP is a private cloud area that replicates cloud technology but is limited in use to a single customer. It is controlled by the customer and can connect to their entire internal infrastructure.

• BTP is a “Walled Garden”​
• Connections are not limited to S/4 Hana​
• BTP is connected to via APIs​
• BTP Can pull information and data from S/4 using CDS views​​
• A single BTP can connect to multiple instances of S/4 HANA

SAP BTP provides application development and integration tools, which enable businesses to build new applications, extend existing ones and integrate them with third-party systems and partner-built apps. Arco Tax Determination is a custom built application that resides on SAP BTP.

• Arco is deployed to a customer’s BTP system​ ​
• Arco uses a custom built connector-kit which is installed on a customer’s S/4 Hana system
• The Arco connector kit can be installed in options 2, 3 and 4