Ask the Expert with Olaf Winkler – Recording now available

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To enrich your learning experience, we are piloting a new live stream format on the SAP Learning site. The  first season will focus on SAP Business Technology Platform and will run as an experiment to pilot this new learning format.

In every episode we welcome one expert to discuss one specific question. With only ten minutes per stream, the “Ask the Expert” episodes will be short and easy to consume. You will have the opportunity to interact with experts and peers in real-time in the comment section below and submit your questions. No registration is needed, just join the live stream on the SAP Learning site.

Tune in on October 25, 2022 at 9:30 am EDT, 3:30 pm CEST, 7:00 pm IST for the first episode with Olaf Winkler, BTP Product Management, SAP SE, where we discuss the question

“What is SAP BTP in a nutshell?”

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Welcome to the first Ask the Expert live stream!
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[David_Oexner]

Hi Team - Are there any best practices for integration with respect to high volume, technology like OData, REST APIs, how to design the APIs for supporting high volume?

[eheilmann]

Hi @David_Oexner , thanks for your query. We are currently evaluating your question and will revert back to you asap. 

Kind regards, Ellen

[Matt_Marples]

Ca  you explain layman's terms what activities happen in the datacenters when you create an account in SAP BTP for each step and decide to use one of the services (ABAP in the cloud or integration services) you provide. I'm familiar with on premise architecture but I'm struggling to link the steps in creating an account to datacenter activities.

[eheilmann]

Dear @Matt_Marples , thanks for your query.

SAP BTP offers users the ability to turn data into business value, compose end-to-end business processes, and build and extend SAP applications quickly.

The services and solutions of SAP BTP are available on multiple cloud infrastructure providers. The multi-cloud foundation supports different environments, such as Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma, as well as multiple different regions, and a broad choice of programming languages.

The central point of entry to the cloud platform is the SAP BTP cockpit, where you can access your accounts and applications and manage all activities associated with them.

Relationship between SAP BTP Accounts and Associated Activities

SAP BTP offers two types of global accounts: Trial accounts (completely free of charge) and enterprise accounts. Within an enterprise account, you can use both free and paid plans. Read here on SAP Help Portal about “Getting a Global Account”.

A global account is the realization of a contract you or your company has made with SAP. A global account is used to manage subaccounts, members, entitlements and quotas. You receive entitlements and quotas to use platform resources per global account and then distribute the entitlements and quotas to the subaccount for actual consumption. There are two types of commercial models for global accounts: consumption-based model and subscription-based model. See Commercial Models.

We highly recommend to leverage the BTP Onboarding Video Series to get more details and hands-on.

Especially to your question the following two episodes may of your interest :

• BTP Onboarding: Global Accounts
• BTP Onboarding : Subaccounts

[eheilmann]

Hi @David_Oexner,
again sorry for the delay in our response.

As an integration developer, you need to make sure that you design integration flows in a robust fashion in order to safeguard your company's mission-critical business processes.

An integration flow is enterprise grade when it's designed in such a way that it's qualified to implement parts of the mission-critical processes of an enterprise. A poorly designed integration flow can lead to errors. In the worst case, the integration flow breaks, resulting in a service disruption for the business process. It is your responsibility to design an integration flow in such a way that the overall availability of the business process isn't impaired. To fulfill this requirement, you need to embrace certain characteristics constituting an enterprise-grade integration flow.

How to embrace and ensure this, we recommend to have a look at our “Integration Flow Design Guidelines” and our “Guidelines to Design Enterprise-Grade Integration Flows”