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SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAPs cloud strategy. It provides a unified platform for application development, data management, integration, and AI services — all with a common identity and security model. We help organizations to implement BTP as the backbone of their SAP cloud strategy, delivering end-to-end architecture, integration, extensibility, identity, and operations.

Account ModelCloud FoundryKyma / K8sIntegration SuiteCAPSAP BuildHANA CloudCloud Identity (IAS/IPS)Cloud Transport MgmtClean Core
SAP BTP Big Picture — platform overview

Architecture

SAP BTP — Reference Architecture
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The Four Pillars of SAP BTP

SAP Business Technology Platform organises its services into four capability pillars — all sharing a common identity layer, security model, and set of platform services. Every SAP cloud product (S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, and others) uses BTP as the extension and integration target.

Application Development
SAP BAS · CAP (Node.js / Java) · Kyma · SAP Build Code · SAPUI5 / Fiori Elements
Data & Analytics
SAP HANA Cloud · SAP Datasphere · SAP Analytics Cloud · Data Marketplace
Integration
Integration Suite · CPI · API Management · Event Mesh · Cloud Connector · Open Connectors
Artificial Intelligence
SAP AI Core · AI Launchpad · Generative AI Hub · Joule · Document Information Extraction

Account Model & Governance

BTP uses a four-level hierarchy to separate organisational units, landscapes, and cost management. Understanding this structure is the foundation for every BTP engagement — it drives how entitlements, users, and services are distributed.

BTP Account Hierarchy
Global Account
Your Company’s BTP Contract (e.g. “Acme Corp”)
Directory — Production
Production workloads, aligned to cost centre
Subaccount
PROD · ch20 (Switzerland North) · Azure
Subaccount
PROD · us20 (US West) · Azure
Directory — Non-Production
Development and test landscapes, isolated from production
Subaccount
DEV · ch20
Subaccount
TEST · ch20
Subaccount
Shared Platform Services

Entitlements define which services and service plans are assignable to a subaccount — controlled centrally at global account or directory level. Each service comes with one or more plans (e.g. standard, free, large), and entitlements can be quota-limited (e.g. number of HANA Cloud instances or API Management calls per month). We configure entitlement governance to prevent uncontrolled consumption and align costs to business units.

Runtime Environments

BTP provides three fully managed runtime environments within each subaccount. Selecting the right environment for each workload type is a key architectural decision we drive during the design phase.

Cloud Foundry
CF Runtime
  • CAP Node.js and Java applications
  • Multi-target application (MTA) bundles
  • SAP Integration Suite runtime environment
Kyma
Kyma Runtime
  • Containerised / Docker-based workloads
  • Microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Best for: complex, scalable, polyglot landscapes
ABAP
ABAP Environment
  • ABAP cloud-native extensions via RAP model
  • Tier-1 extensions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
  • Best for: ABAP-specific logic

How Customers Benefit

Zero
Upgrade Risk from Custom Code
Clean-core extensions on BTP are fully decoupled from SAP standard code. SAP S/4HANA upgrades proceed without regression-testing custom modifications — there are none.
1 Platform
Integration, Apps, Data & AI unified
Shared identity, security, and data services across all workload types. No separate middleware stack, no separate IAM tool, no separate BI platform to operate and license independently.
170+
Pre-Built Connectors via Open Connectors
SAP Integration Suite ships with ready-made connectors to Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Zendesk, and hundreds more SaaS platforms — substantially reducing the cost of custom integration builds.
Auditable
Transport Control with CTM
SAP Cloud Transport Management enforces gated promotion of integration content, MTA archives, and configuration from DEV through TEST to PROD — every change tracked, every release approved.
30+ Regions
Data Residency & Sovereignty
BTP runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud across 30+ regions. Subaccounts are pinned to specific regions for data residency, GDPR, and sovereign cloud requirements — configurable per workload.
CAP
Convention-over-Configuration Development
The SAP Cloud Application Programming Model provides multi-tenancy, XSUAA authorization, OData V4, and HANA database abstraction out of the box — development teams focus on business logic, not infrastructure plumbing.

How We Work

01

Discovery & Landscape Assessment

We review your existing SAP contracts, active BTP entitlements, integration touchpoints, current identity providers, and team skill sets. Output: a gap analysis and BTP readiness report with a prioritised service and architecture recommendation.

02

Architecture & Design

Global account structure, directory and subaccount design, environment selection (CF / Kyma / ABAP), security model, identity federation topology, Cloud Connector placement, and Destination configuration — fully documented and reviewed against SAP’s best practices before provisioning begins.

03

Foundation Build

Terraform-based BTP provisioning, Cloud Identity Services (IAS/IPS) configuration, Cloud Connector installation and system mapping, Destination Service setup, and CI/CD + Cloud Transport Management pipeline establishment — before any application or integration work begins.

04

Workload Delivery — Sprint-based

Integration iFlows, CAP applications, Kyma services, and SAP Build artefacts are delivered sprint by sprint — each deployed to DEV, validated in TEST, and promoted to PROD through the established CTM pipeline with formal approval checkpoints.

05

Observability & Hardening

SAP Cloud ALM integration for health monitoring, SAP Alert Notification Service for operations alerting, and SAP Audit Log Service for compliance and GDPR event recording. Security review against BTP’s shared responsibility model before go-live sign-off.

06

Knowledge Transfer & Handover

Live architecture workshops, full landscape documentation, operational runbooks for every deployed service, and a recorded walkthrough of the CI/CD and transport pipeline — your teams are self-sufficient before we leave.


Ready to build your BTP foundation?

Let’s design your platform.

Tell us about your SAP landscape, active entitlements, and strategic goals — we’ll scope a BTP engagement that gets you to a production-ready, upgrade-safe, and future-proof foundation.

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