As SAP organizations across industries navigate IT system modernization and cloud migration, it’s crucial they choose the right support tools to streamline the process. SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) plays a central role, helping customers drive enterprise innovation and build tailored solutions inside and outside their SAP core—all on one unified platform.
Professional SAP BTP services are essential for realizing the full potential of the platform. Expert service providers ensure smooth integration, robust security, and ongoing technical support at every stage of the transformation process so that clients can focus on strategically leveraging BTP to meet their strategic business requirements.
In this article, we’ll fully explore the advantages of leveraging BTP to transform your IT environment, and how Protera’s industry-leading SAP BTP services can maximize performance outcomes for your business.
Quick Takeaways:
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SAP BTP is an integrated suite designed to enhance business innovation, streamline operations, and support digital transformation through unified IT management.
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SAP BTP has five key focus areas: application development, workflow automation, system integration, advanced data analytics, and AI. Collectively, these enable businesses to customize and extend their SAP environments efficiently.
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Protera offers specialized SAP BTP services, guiding clients through every phase of migration and modernization, ensuring smooth transitions and robust security.
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Protera also supports migration via RISE with SAP, helping clients establish a solid foundation for leveraging SAP BTP to innovate and improve.
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Protera uses a shared responsibility service model, ensuring its experts act as an extension of the client’s own team to address unique business needs and objectives.
Understanding SAP Business Technology Platform
SAP Business Technology Platform is an integrated suite of tools and capabilities designed to accelerate and optimize enterprise-wide digital transformation. In just three years since its initial release, SAP BTP has gained 15,500 customers and offers extensive pre-built solutions that include 3300+ APIs, 260 data and analytics platforms, 2600 integrations, and 300+ SAP Process Automation packages.
SAP BTP delivers value across five key areas of transformation:
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Integration: BTP enhances capabilities for SAP Integration Suite, a timely replacement for legacy PI/PO systems, which will reach end-of-life in 2027.
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Data to Value: BTP enables sophisticated data analytics capabilities so businesses can extract data from their SAP systems and make it available across multiple solutions.
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Application Development: Enables businesses to expand and customize applications outside the core SAP S/4HANA system and create tailored solutions to meet specific business needs.
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Automation: BTP helps automate the functioning of SAP systems with tools like RPA and other workflow automations.
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Artificial Intelligence: SAP BTP leverages AI and machine learning to power advanced business operations and intelligent decision-making processes within SAP systems.
Collectively, capabilities in these focus areas enable organizations to navigate the complexities of IT modernization, leveraging intelligent tools and data-driven insights for smarter decision making, effective risk mitigation, and ongoing performance optimization.
Protera’s SAP BTP Services
With more than 25 years of experience and partnership in delivering SAP service solutions, Protera has developed a deep understanding of the intricacies and best practices involved in migrating, modernizing, and maintaining SAP systems.
Today, this portfolio includes dedicated SAP BTP services that help clients leverage SAP BTP to extend and innovate enterprise applications. Clients choose Protera for their proven expertise, comprehensive support for migration and integration, and commitment to maximizing the value of enterprise data and SAP assets, including SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, and SAP HANA Cloud.
Protera delivers an extensive suite of SAP BTP services tailored to each client and their unique business needs. These include:
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Support Implementation & Migration: Guiding you through every step of your SAP BTP journey from initial setup to full-scale deployment
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Integration Services: Expertise in connecting disparate IT systems to create a unified and efficient environment
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Security & Compliance: Ensuring your SAP BTP setup adheres to the latest security standards and compliance mandates
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Monitoring & Administration: Constant oversight to maintain optimal performance
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Data Protection / Business Continuity: Safeguarding your business data against potential threats and ensuring continuous operations
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Application Lifecycle Management: Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of your applications to enhance efficiency
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Performance Tuning: Optimizing the performance of your SAP BTP environment to ensure it runs at peak efficiency
Through a shared responsibility model, Protera’s deep bench of SAP specialists act as an extension of your own team, working in partnership with your internal teams to handle all aspects of SAP BTP from its initial setup and migration to ongoing management and optimization.
Leveraging RISE with SAP Alongside SAP BTP
One of the key advantages of Protera’s SAP services is their comprehensive scope. For many clients, Protera provides end-to-end services that begin with legacy system migration via RISE with SAP, through to ongoing SAP managed services for continued operational and strategic excellence with BTP.
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RISE with SAP simplifies the journey to the cloud, providing the foundation needed for enterprises to fully leverage SAP BTP to innovate and improve. Protera provides support at every stage, guiding a smooth transition from legacy systems to the cloud, and addressing integration, extensibility, and data challenges along the way. Protera also acts as a liaison between the client, SAP, and their cloud provider, allowing businesses to focus on growth and innovation.
Get Started with Protera Today
The transformation journey looks different for every organization, but no matter where your business is in the process, Protera has the experience, expertise, and solutions to help you transform with confidence. Get started today by scheduling a discovery call with one of our experts, who can guide you in exploring how Protera can drive value for your unique enterprise with SAP BTP services.
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