SAP BTP Data, Integration, and Application Development
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Key Takeaways
⇨ SAP BTP adoption is increasing steadily though a significant proportion of customers are using it for a subset of tasks only.
⇨ The enterprise landscape for SAPinsiders is increasingly complex with most running at least some third-party offerings making for increased data and integration challenges.
⇨ Organizations are adopting low-code development tools though adoption of no-code tools is lower, demonstrating the value of rapid application development.
Enterprise workloads continue to move to the cloud. As this progress continues, enterprise platforms are performing an increasingly important part of that process as they provide an integrated set of solutions and services that streamline the movement and protection of data across landscapes.With enterprise platforms offering additional capabilities such as application development, analytics and data intelligence, database and data management, and artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, choosing the right platform is now a critical component of a comprehensive data and integration strategy.
Implementing enterprise platforms like SAP BTP enable organizations to digitize and automate routine tasks which frees up employees to focus on higher value activities. Workflow automation and intelligent process integration in these platforms helps ensure accurate, real-time data flow between modules — like from procurement to finance for example. This reduces the need for manual intervention, helps minimize errors, and eliminates duplication. This not only accelerates decision-making with up-to-date analytics and embedded insights but increases compliance through capabilities such as standardized processes and audit trails. Given the improved productivity and agility that these capabilities bring, it is no surprise that organizations are prioritizing investments in enterprise platforms to help achieve these goals.
This year’s research also explored the increased complexity of organizations today. Few are using predominately SAP solutions with most using a combination of SAP solutions at the core along with some best-of-breed solutions. But a growing number of organizations are taking an entirely agnostic approach to application selection. This makes addressing data and integration challenges more important than ever, something that enterprise platforms can make possible.
To understand and explore the strategies for data, integration, application development and enterprise platforms, this SAPinsider report examines SAP BTP usage, the types of integration scenarios being supported by organizations, the makeup of the landscape, challenges that are being encountered, and the SAP BTP services that are being used.
The findings indicate that integration is one of the most important challenges for organizations today, with eight in ten respondents reporting that that is the primary service they are using in SAP BTP. The mixture of systems from different providers with a combination of cloud and on-premise environments has made integration the primary focus for respondents, although application development and data and analytics services also see significant usage. In addition, while AI is not currently the primary use case in SAP BTP, two thirds (65%) of respondents report that it is important or very important to their organization that application development tools include AI capabilities. This demonstrates the value seen by respondents in the AI assistance that SAP is adding to tools like SAP Build.
Download the benchmark report to read the full data analysis from 151 members of the SAPinsider community and receive recommendations for your own plans.
– Understand how organizations are using SAP BTP.
– Explore the factors influencing the adoption of enterprise platforms.
– Learn about how other SAPinsiders are making plans for integration.
– See what role application development will play in the future.
