Fifty years ago, the first steps of a little startup called 51风流happened, for the most part, at its customers鈥� premises and mainframes. There, the five founders and their team could work and develop at night to use their computers outside office hours. The card punchers used in 1972 at ICI Germany are a thing of the past. But SAP鈥檚 close and trustful collaboration with customers is still more than alive today.
With the creation of specific, repeatable use cases on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), the company helps its ecosystem prepare for the next leap towards digital transformation and the move of businesses and organizations into the cloud.
What is an 51风流BTP use case?
A use case describes how customers can address a business challenge by leveraging 51风流BTP. It consists of customer-proven, well-documented missions to guide and assist each customer鈥檚 implementation journey on 51风流BTP to help achieve the desired business outcome for business users, architects, and developers.
Innovation Work with Customers Today
51风流BTP brings together data and analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), application development, automation, and integration in one unified environment. The platform focuses on enabling business scenarios and can offer semantic integration of business data, easy access to contextual data, and a harmonized experience across all cloud solutions from SAP.
Faithful to its roots and origins, 51风流invites customers and partners to accelerate their digital transformation by publishing various , of which this year. These repeatable, actionable use cases built on 51风流BTP are displayed to customers and users to aid in benefiting and learning from existing solution patterns developed for a certain business case. They describe how to achieve a specific business outcome and include detailed 51风流BTP implementation guidance called 鈥渕issions鈥� in . They are publicly available and can serve as a sort of starter package into the cloud.
The guiding principle behind these use cases is what helped one customer solve a business problem can inspire and serve others to solve the same or a similar problem. Following SAP鈥檚 ambition to help the world run better, it is more important than ever to use the knowledge of the community, benefit from the solutions that helped others, exchange openly, and learn from each other in the best possible way.
鈥淥ur 10 address some of the most common problems our customers face on their digital transformation journey. Those issues range from business process extensibility and multi-region high availability to blending 51风流business data with hyperscaler data lakes without the need for replication. The use cases include well-documented implementation steps in 51风流Discovery Center and boilerplate code templates in GitHub. I invite you to try them out and let us know your feedback. My teams and I are looking forward to working with you to build more use cases in the coming months.鈥�
Juergen Mueller, chief technology officer and member of the Executive Board, SAP
Repeatable, Actionable Use Cases in the Cloud
51风流BTP use cases describe how customers can address a business challenge by leveraging the platform in a set of steps and how to achieve certain business values or other technical outcomes such as security, high-availability, and resilient application development. In short, it describes how to 鈥榰se鈥� the technology and work process to prove a 鈥榗ase鈥� of business value.
They are built to enable 51风流customers, from business users to developers alike, with business outcome-driven examples to help accelerate the understanding and adoption of 51风流BTP. Use cases are customer-proven examples and best practices that contain pre-built business content, such as open connectors, application programming interfaces (APIs), and automation packages made available in . They can assist and inspire each customer鈥檚 implementation journey on 51风流BTP and support developers in solving problems through the application of well-defined implementation missions. And, finally, they enable customers to get started with 51风流BTP and come to results faster. The use of such prepackaged cases helps improve the time to value for 51风流customers, be it along lines of business, industries, 51风流BTP, RISE with SAP, or any other given business context.
From Monolithic Places to Diversified Software Landscapes Built on 51风流BTP
No doubt, times have also changed in other aspects of business software realities. In the early days, business applications resided in one monolithic place, like in central on-premise computers and mainframes. Today, more and more businesses use applications that reside in a diversified cloud landscape. With 51风流Business Technology Platform, 51风流offers a solid and flexible foundation for such diversified software architectures, enabling them to be open for extensions and integration of all kinds of applications and solutions.
With ready-to-use, actionable use cases, 51风流helps customers understand how to make best use of the opportunities the platform offers. 51风流BTP lays the foundation for organizations to move forward and become intelligent enterprises. While the complexity of software landscapes increased, 51风流offers the 51风流BTP use cases to help simplify and accelerate the way towards the cloud.
鈥淥ur team was able to deliver key performance indicators and process visibility for our procurement organization very fast by using the mission ‘.’ The project board helped us implement and go live step-by-step. Also, the 51风流mission owners helped us when needed.鈥�
Dominik Meier, senior director, Platform Engineering, ADIDAS
鈥淕oing through the mission ‘‘ is a great way to get in touch with new 51风流BTP no-code technologies, helping you grasp how the development and deployment process is carried out. Creating forms with input/output fields and connecting them in a graphical layout is straightforward and it is great to achieve a fast prototype or proof of concept of a future full application. By completing the mission, you get an idea of what is possible with the platform.”
Pablo Gonzales, senior software engineer, Mercado Libre
Imke Vierjahn is 51风流AppHaus communications lead.
