SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP BTP is the mandatory innovation layer for every SAP cloud customer — unifying application development, data & analytics, integration, and AI under one platform with shared identity, security, and governance. We design, provision, and operate BTP landscapes that are production-ready, upgrade-safe, and built for long-term extension.
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.
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.
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.
- CAP Node.js and Java applications
- Multi-target application (MTA) bundles
- SAP Integration Suite runtime services
- Stateless services, microservice patterns
- Best for: rapid CAP development with SAP defaults
- Containerised / Docker-based workloads
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
- Serverless Kyma Functions (Node.js, Python)
- Full Kubernetes flexibility with SAP add-ons
- Best for: complex, scalable, polyglot landscapes
- ABAP cloud-native extensions via RAP model
- OData V4 services authored in ABAP
- Tier-1 extensions for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Only released APIs — enforced by ATC checks
- Best for: ABAP-specific logic staying in ABAP stack
BTP Landscape & Transport Architecture
A production-ready BTP landscape isolates DEV, TEST, and PROD concerns across separate subaccounts and uses SAP Cloud Transport Management (CTM) to promote integration content, application MTA archives, and configuration through a gated, auditable pipeline.
The Cloud Connector creates an outbound tunnel from your on-premise network to BTP — no inbound firewall rules required. Destinations store named connection parameters (URL, auth method, proxy type, additional headers), decoupling application code from environment-specific connection details entirely.
Clean Core & Extensibility Model
SAP’s Clean Core principle requires extending SAP without touching its standard code — keeping your system stable, supportable, and upgrade-safe. BTP is the designated platform for all four extension types defined in SAP’s extensibility framework.
What We Deliver
BTP Foundation & Account Architecture
Global account structure, directory design, and subaccount provisioning aligned to your organisational chart and cost centres. Entitlement distribution, service plan selection, and region strategy across SAP’s 30+ hyperscaler regions. Security baseline: platform role collections, emergency access, audit log activation.
SAP Integration Suite
End-to-end deployment of Cloud Integration (CPI) iFlows, API Management products with OAuth 2.0 and rate-limiting policies, Event Mesh topic spaces, and Open Connectors. We apply SAP’s pre-built integration packages from the Integration Content Catalog and deliver reusable iFlow design patterns for your S/4HANA landscape.
Application Development — CAP & Kyma
Side-by-side extension applications built with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) in Node.js or Java — deployed to Cloud Foundry or Kyma, backed by SAP HANA Cloud, with OData V4 / REST APIs, XSUAA-secured endpoints, and Fiori Elements UIs. SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) as the development environment.
Identity, Security & Access Control
SAP Cloud Identity Services configuration — IAS as your corporate identity provider with SAML 2.0 / OIDC federation, IPS for SCIM-based user and group provisioning into BTP. XSUAA OAuth 2.0 setup for application-level security, role collection design, and platform user governance. SSO federation with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or Google Workspace.
Landscape Automation & DevOps
Terraform-based BTP provisioning (BTP Terraform provider), BTP CLI scripting, and SAP Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline setup. Cloud Transport Management configured for DEV→TEST→PROD promotion with approval workflows. Full Infrastructure-as-Code for repeatable, auditable environment creation and configuration drift detection.
AI & Analytics Enablement
SAP AI Core deployment for ML model training and inference workflows. Generative AI Hub configuration for LLM-backed business scenarios using SAP’s managed model access. SAP HANA Cloud data modelling, calculation views, and SAP Datasphere integration for a unified analytical data layer across SAP and non-SAP sources.
How Customers Benefit
How We Work
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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