At SAP Sap­phire & ASUG Accel­er­ate, we had an oppor­tu­ni­ty to sit down with Bry­on Banks, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent for the SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (BTP). He talked to us about some of the key com­po­nents of this offer­ing and inte­gra­tion plays into the SAP BTP.

Banks not­ed that while many SAP cus­tomers did not ful­ly under­stand how the SAP BTP would help facil­i­tate their jour­ney to SAP S/4HANA, SAP is work­ing to con­tin­ue edu­cat­ing its cus­tomers on ​“the appli­ca­tions, ser­vices, and how they could gain insights from [the SAP] BTP.”

“There is a great amount of atten­tion on the [SAP] BTP cam­pus. Cus­tomers under­stand they need the plat­form,” he told ASUG. ​“Cus­tomers are still learn­ing more about [the SAP] BTP and they know they need to learn more.”

Banks did touch on some of the key com­po­nents in the SAP BTP that he encour­aged cus­tomers to lever­age, includ­ing automa­tion and AI embed­ded in the solu­tion.” He also spent time dis­cussing the inclu­sion of App­Gyver in the SAP BTP, which offers cus­tomers low code/​no code options when design­ing appli­ca­tions for users across the entire enterprise.

Anoth­er major por­tion of our con­ver­sa­tion with Banks focused on the roadmap for the SAP BTP, which touched on the solution’s new inte­gra­tion strategy.

“Those on an [SAP] S/4[HANA] jour­ney, they want to know where [the SAP] BTP is going, what is the roadmap of inno­va­tion,” Banks said, before adding that plat­form is made to build and apply ​“cen­tral busi­ness rules, the cor­po­rate busi­ness rules for appli­ca­tions and process com­pli­ance in the end.”

Stick­ing with the top­ic of inte­gra­tion, Banks also encour­aged ASUG mem­bers to look into the SAP BTP inte­gra­tion tool that SAP unveiled at SAP Sap­phire, not­ing that it would help cus­tomers meet their needs for advanced inte­gra­tion capa­bil­i­ties — across SAP and non-SAP sys­tems and solu­tions. With the assess­ment tools, SAP cus­tomers get access to a ​“blue­print, to con­nect this sys­tem to sys­tem, that process to process” and that would ​“be more pre­scrip­tive and proac­tive” to their busi­ness chal­lenges and the oppor­tu­ni­ties they are hop­ing to achieve in the future. This assess­ment tool comes with prepack­aged uses, tools, and method­olo­gies. While the tool has just been released, it is now wide­ly avail­able through the SAP Dis­cov­ery Center.

Stay informed about the lat­est SAP BTP devel­op­ments by explor­ing our curat­ed insights and check out our SAP BTP con­tent col­lec­tion.