Feb 14, 2025
•3 minute read
SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP BTP: The Integration and Extension Layer Powering SAP’s Cloud Future
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is the technical foundation underlying SAP’s entire cloud strategy. As the integration, extension, and data layer connecting SAP applications to one another and to third-party systems, SAP BTP enables organizations to modernize without abandoning existing investments. Whether deploying SAP Integration Suite to replace aging middleware before the 2027 SAP PI/PO end-of-maintenance deadline, building clean-core extensions that protect SAP S/4HANA upgrade agility, or embedding AI through SAP AI Core, SAP BTP is where enterprise architecture strategy gets executed. SAPinsider tracks how organizations are putting SAP BTP capabilities to work across industries.
What Is SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP BTP is SAP’s unified cloud platform for database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies. Formerly known as SAP Cloud Platform, SAP BTP runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and supports runtime environments including Cloud Foundry, Kyma, and ABAP. Core services include SAP Integration Suite, SAP Build, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP AI Core. SAP BTP serves as the clean-core extension layer, enabling organizations to customize SAP functionality without modifying the ERP core and protecting upgrade agility across the enterprise.
SAP BTP: The Integration and Extension Layer Powering SAP’s Cloud Future
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is the technical foundation underlying SAP’s entire cloud strategy. As the integration, extension, and data layer connecting SAP applications to one another and to third-party systems, SAP BTP enables organizations to modernize without abandoning existing investments. Whether deploying SAP Integration Suite to replace aging middleware before the 2027 SAP PI/PO end-of-maintenance deadline, building clean-core extensions that protect SAP S/4HANA upgrade agility, or embedding AI through SAP AI Core, SAP BTP is where enterprise architecture strategy gets executed. SAPinsider tracks how organizations are putting SAP BTP capabilities to work across industries.
What Is SAP Business Technology Platform?
SAP BTP is SAP’s unified cloud platform for database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies. Formerly known as SAP Cloud Platform, SAP BTP runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and supports runtime environments including Cloud Foundry, Kyma, and ABAP. Core services include SAP Integration Suite, SAP Build, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP AI Core. SAP BTP serves as the clean-core extension layer, enabling organizations to customize SAP functionality without modifying the ERP core and protecting upgrade agility across the enterprise.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
Eneco Moves to Event-Driven Architecture with SAP BTP Integration Suite
Dutch energy company Eneco replaced batch processing with an event-driven architecture using the SAP BTP Integration Suite. SAP specialist Marco Verhoef led the shift, enabling data events to broadcast in milliseconds. The result: unified data governance, real-time routing for wind farm field technicians, and a clean AI data foundation. Full case study at SAPinsider.
NEC Builds an AI-Native Enterprise on SAP BTP
NEC’s April 2026 strategic alliance with SAP demonstrates SAP BTP’s role as an AI platform. NEC is deploying RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, SAP Business Data Cloud, and Joule agents to enable autonomous operations across finance, supply chain, and HR while maintaining a clean core. SAPinsider examined what this means for CIOs.
Ahlstrom Uses BTP Extensions to Accelerate S/4HANA Public Cloud Rollout
Global specialty materials manufacturer Ahlstrom deployed SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud at one factory in four weeks using SAP BTP clean-core extensions, with no modifications to the ERP core. The replicable model now targets 36 factories across 13 countries. SAPinsider covered how this approach is reshaping rapid-deployment methodology.
Layer Seven Security Deploys Cybersecurity Extension via SAP BTP Cloud Foundry
Layer Seven Security’s Cybersecurity Extension for SAP is now deployable through SAP Build Work Zone on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, moving beyond the embedded Fiori model. Controls are delivered through the SAP BTP extension layer aligned with clean-core architecture and SAP Fiori UX standards. SAPinsider documented the architecture and deployment approach.
Precog Addresses the AI-Readiness Gap in SAP BTP Data Environments
AI tools can access SAP data through SAP BTP, but often cannot produce reliable answers without business context. Precog’s Automated Semantic Modeling closes this gap by generating business-aligned models from user intent and data structure. SAPinsider explored why semantic modeling is a prerequisite for trustworthy AI output in SAP environments.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
Technology Leader’s Strategic Agenda for 2026
In SAPinsider benchmark research published March 2026 (survey: December 2025 through March 2026), SAP BTP led planned investments beyond core ERP at 48%. More notably, 53% of technology leaders identified SAP BTP development and integration as the single most critical skill to acquire in 2026, outpacing direct AI investment priorities.
SAP BTP Data, Integration, and Application Development 2025
SAPinsider research found SAP Integration Suite adoption grew from 63% to 80% year over year, driven by the 2027 SAP PI/PO end-of-maintenance deadline. Integration ranked as the most important SAP BTP capability (85%). Some 65% rated AI capabilities in application development tools as important or very important.
ERP Migration and Transformation 2026
SAPinsider research found SAP BTP is the most commonly deployed solution post-ERP migration, cited by 57% of respondents. SAP Business Data Cloud debuted on the list in 2026 at 24%. SAP BTP was cited as a key technology by 47% currently and 48% for the next 24 months.
Managing Customizations and the Clean Core Through SAP BTPAs SAP organizations transition to SAP S/4HANA, they face the challenge of maintaining a 'clean core' by minimizing legacy customizations, with solutions like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enabling seamless integrations and customizations without adding technical debt, while firms like xSuite provide certified solutions that align with these new cloud-focused practices.
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•5 minute read
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Jan 29, 2025
•3 minute read
2025 Plans for SAP Business AI2024 was the year of AI capabilities for SAP. SAP’s business AI-related capabilities accelerated rapidly in the last quarter of 2024 as SAP rolled out final iterations to features announced earlier in the year and also introduced new, expanded functionalities. While much of SAP’s business AI announcements were centered on generative AI copilot Joule—now integrated with more than 80 percent of the most-used tasks across SAP solutions—AI capabilities are now also available through SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and tools like SAP Build and SAP Signavio.
SAP's generative AI assistant, Joule, is now integrated with 13 SAP solutions, including SAP Mobile Start, enabling access on iPhones and iPads via Siri. In addition to generally available features, Joule offers early adopter care and private preview capabilities, such as SAP Consulting Capability, Joule, Analytical Insights, and Joule integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Joule is now generally available in both SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02, with new AI-assisted capabilities being added to each version.
SAP BTP now includes Documentation Information Estraction, access to multiple LLMs via Generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad. In addition, SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Build Code also include new business AI enhancements, while Joule is now in early adoption for SAP Signavio Business Process Collaboration Hub.
Customers should expect more business AI and AI-related announcements from SAP this year as well. That will start with a data-focused announcement that is likely to be made in the first quarter, with more announcements to follow during the year at Sapphire, TechEd, and during other major events. This is because for SAP, connecting AI directly to business processes is their biggest differentiator.
For SAPinsiders to be successful they should:
- Put in place an enterprise-wide business AI strategy.
- Evaluate generative AI’s value in RISE with SAP.
- Look for ways to leverage AI in the future.
Jan 15, 2025
•4 minute read
Discovery Center Uncovered – What’s in a Reference Architecture?SAP Discovery Center and its Reference Architectures offer organizations structured guidance and templated solutions to effectively leverage the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) for digital transformation by simplifying integration and maximizing innovation opportunities.
Jan 15, 2025
•3 minute read
Discovery Center Uncovered – What’s in a Mission?The SAP Discovery Center provides organizations with structured Missions that offer actionable pathways, practical guidance, and community support to navigate digital transformation and fully leverage the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform.
Jan 3, 2025
•2 minute read
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Dec 16, 2024
•2 minute read
Embracing Data-Driven Decision-Making: Users’ Reviews of SAP Signavio Process Transformation SuiteThe SAPinsider report reveals that organizations increasingly prioritize data-driven decision-making and agility, with SAP's Signavio Process Transformation Suite enhancing process management. To find out its real impact, SAPinsider gathered feedback from users in this blog.
Dec 4, 2024
•2 minute read
Transforming Customer Experience with SAP Fiori: How Platinum DB Consulting Drives UX Innovation for Digital SuccessBusinesses can enhance customer loyalty and boost ROI through improved user experience, with SAP Fiori providing a robust solution that supports application development across devices, and Platinum DB Consulting offering specialized services for effective implementation.
Dec 3, 2024
•1 minute read
Build, Automate, and Scale Without Compromising Core Agility with SAP BTPSAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP) empowers organizations like Thames Water to innovate and automate processes using a no-code environment, enhancing operational efficiency while preserving the integrity of their core ERP systems.
Dec 2, 2024
•3 minute read
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