## 1 SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is an integrated offering comprised of the following technology portfolios: application development; process automation; integration; data, analytics, and enterprise planning; artificial intelligence. The platform offers users the ability to turn data into business value, compose end-to-end business processes, connect entire IT landscapes, and personalize, build and extend SAP applications. This reduces the overall total cost of ownership maintaining SAP landscapes and third-party software across endto-end business processes.
## SAP BTP in the Intelligent Enterprise
Nowadays, companies need access to live data to make informed decisions in real time and apply advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes. That's why a key part of SAP's strategy is integrating end-to-end processes - whether the solutions are from SAP, from partners, or from third parties.
At SAP, we drive integration across our solution portfolio, including the following business scenarios: lead to cash, source to pay, design to operate, and hire to retire.
The SAP Business Technology Platform provides integration capabilities to ensure connected end-to-end business processes across SAP and third-party applications. The following key aspects, called Suite Qualities, facilitate a consistent experience across applications:
- Seamless User Experience: SAP Fiori can be used to gain a common look and feel of many SAP solutions, which improves user experience and reduces interruptions. See: SAP Fiori .
- Consistent Security and Identity Management: SAP Cloud Identity services on SAP BTP enable you to manage identities and use the single sign-on capability across selected end-to-end processes. See: SAP Cloud Identity Services on SAP BTP.
- Aligned Domain Models, APIs and Events: Master Data Integration is a cloud service for master data integration. It provides a consistent view on master data across a hybrid landscape. You can use APIs for process integration among SAP solutions, SAP, and third parties, or by adopting an event-based integration strategy - all based on predefined integration content available on SAP API Business Hub. See: SAP One Domain Model , SAP Master Data Integration service , SAP Integration Suite on SAP BTP
- Embedded Analytics across Solutions: The analytical insights in various SAP solutions helps you make informed decisions. Embedded analytics from SAP Analytics Cloud are available e.g., in SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors.
- One Workflow Inbox: With the unified view of pending tasks across SAP solutions in both mobile and desktop environments, you can complete tasks faster. See: SAP Task Center on SAP BTP, SAP Mobile Start. For full workflow modeling and visibility capabilities
- leverage, see: SAP Process Automation on SAP BTP
- Coordinated Lifecycle Management: Harmonized provisioning, setup and operations, and monitoring solutions allow you to optimize implementation projects and reduce manual integration configuration
See: SAP Analytics Cloud
on SAP BTP.
effort. Automated provisioning and guided integration setup are available for selected scenarios in lead to cash, source to pay, recruit to retire, and design to operate.
See: SAP for Me , SAP CALM
- End-to-End Process Blueprints: Process blueprints that follow the Industry Reference Architecture standard can help you reduce planning effort for implementation projects and also support architecture decisions.
See: SAP API Business Hub
## Related information:
- SAP's vision for the Intelligent Enterprise
- SAP's Integration Strategy whitepaper
- SAP Integration Strategy community
## About This Guide
Get an overview of the basic platform concepts of SAP BTP and how they relate to each other. Learn how to manage your accounts and how to develop, extend, administer, and secure your cloud setup and applications on the platform.
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## Best Practices
Get onboarded to SAP BTP. Learn about basic concepts and see our best practices for your development projects, from setting up the correct organizational structure to creating an account and security model, to developing and operating applications: SAP BTP Administrator's Guide.
## Services and Solutions
Get an overview on the availability of SAP BTP solutions and services according to region, infrastructure provider, and license model. Access the service details pages for information on features, service plans, related tools, APIs, and documentation: SAP Discovery Center: Service Catalog.
## Neo Environment
To access the documentation for the Neo environment, see SAP BTP, Neo environment.
To learn more about why and how to migrate your scenarios in the Neo environment, see Migrating from the SAP BTP Neo Environment to the Multi-Cloud Foundation.
## All SAP BTP Resources
Access all of our resources on the product page: SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).