SAP delivers two new programming models: the ABAP Restful Application Programming (RAP) model and the Cloud Application Programming (CAP) model. Whats the difference?
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The Extension Suite is a strategic approach for extending your cloud, on-premise, non-SAP, and SAP business solutions beyond what your core system provides.
SAP Extension Suite gives you the services, tools and capabilities to build and maintain extensions to your business apps in the cloud. Use it when you need to implement additional processes on top of your existing SAP applications.
The Business Technology Platform, or BTP for short, is a cloud-based PaaS (Platform as a Service) offered by SAP. The BTP provides application developers with a canvas where they can create applications and extensions to suit their customers customization needs.
The composable ERP will be far less static. Traditional skills in coding using specific languages, querying, complex report building and application architecture will be supplanted by general coding skills enabled by low-code/no-code platforms and integration building
Enterprise resource planning applications (ERPs) have routinely missed the mark in multiple ways. They have failed on the ability to plan, design and execute with real-time responsiveness. The result are systems that lack the agility to adapt in the face of challenge and result in businesses lagging behind rather than leading.
SAP NetWeaver Gateway is a technology that provides a simple way to connect devices and applications to SAP software based on market standards (REST and OData). It simplifies connectivity to SAP applications by allowing any programming language or model to be used without the need for SAP knowledge
SAP envisions BW/4HANA as an unrestricted data warehouse solution for the modern enterprise-level organization. Data warehousing is a consolidation of corporate and extra-corporate data than can be analyzed for decision-making and innovative new products. Look for future releases to integrate more tightly with Hadoop and provide big data lakes, machine learning, and intelligent data analysis.
SAP S/4 Hana Past upgrades include the 1511, 1610, 1709, 1809 and recently the 1909 releases. These upgrades are centered on machine learning and automation. In the SAP S/4HANA 1909 release, SAP went a step further and embedded these capabilities into the platform’s core. SAP calls this the digital core.
S4HANA Finance for group reporting is the on-premise version of SAP’s next generation software for financial consolidation and close. SAP delivers one major on-premise release each year. From a functional standpoint, the annual on-premise version inherits from all the features delivered in the cloud version each quarter.