Understanding the Cross-Functionality of SAP BTP

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the tool businesses are using to drive innovation and efficiency. SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is a comprehensive, industry-agnostic, and highly developed Platform as a Service (PaaS), cornering the market for its ability to drive automation, enhance business analytics, incorporate AI, and build data management systems.  

SAP BTP is a backbone of business functionality, providing a base framework companies can build off. From here, businesses can focus on their core operations, as opposed to devoting extensive resources to development and systems processes. SAP BTP gives businesses a competitive advantage, pulling them into a new age of analytics and platform management, managing workflows and business analytics that were previously inefficient and overcoming major obstacles for intelligent business operations.   

In this piece, we explore the cross-functionality of SAP BTP and how it can propel businesses into the future.  

INTEGRATED, UNIFIED ENVIRONMENT 

SAP BTP is the premier platform for business growth technologies. From business analytics to application development and extension, SAP BTP is comprehensive, well-developed, and customizable. It’s built to be compatible with both SAP and non-SAP business solutions, providing those who deploy SAP BTP with the ability to integrate all their information into one platform. This unique feature enables expansion and efficient data access without disrupting pre-existing solutions and platforms, driving business growth as a core functionality. SAP BTP does not act as replacement software – instead, it seamlessly integrates with any previously used software, acting as a web of software, that connects everything into one unified environment. This integrated, unified environment makes the transition to SAP BTP smooth, reducing the downtime often associated with transitioning business software.  

ELIMINATING DATA SILOS 

The benefits of integrating systems through SAP BTP are numerous – it is, without doubt, a revolutionary tool. The pay-as-you-go model allows for customizability and cost-effectiveness, and post-SAP BTP implementation, reduces the impact of downtime to ease business operations. For example, an oil company using the predictive analysis functionality of SAP BTP increased its ability to predict downtime by 77%, allowing customers 120 to 20 hours of advance notice.  

One of the benefits of implementing SAP BTP and integrating data sets is the elimination of data silos. Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot make analytical decisions without access to data, but when data is separated along different platforms into data silos, data analytics and AI integration become very difficult. AI and automation conjure images of growing, digitalized businesses with enormous competitive advantage – but without the data systems to support analytics, they are simply buzz words.  

Data silos are enormous barriers to automation and AI use, as well as efficient business growth. To create an environment where AI and analytics are supported and feasible, one must eliminate data silos and combine the data into one environment from which AI and machine learning (ML) can pull information and generate accurate analyses in return. Because SAP BTP can integrate SAP and non-SAP systems, it can pull data from each system, compile it into one environment, and support the use of AI and ML. The ability to eliminate data silos is revolutionary for businesses who wish to maintain a competitive advantage and continue their revenue growth and expansion, moving into the increasingly digital future.  

GETTING STARTED WITH SAP BTP 

SAP BTP is a uniquely capable platform for business process management and data integration.  The unified environment SAP BTP creates, across all avenues of business development, allows businesses to create extensive data reservoirs and enables the use of AI for data analytics and predictive analysis. This platform enables businesses to increase their efficiency, automate their processes, and free up time and resources to pursue their core operations. The extensive, pay-as-you-go interface allows SAP BTP to be an industry-agnostic solution, decreasing inefficiency and increasing the suite’s ability to respond to a multitude of problems across industries. 

Interested in learning if SAP BTP is the right solution for your business? Reach out to Crescense today.  

Contributions from Grace Leitner