Customizing SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Platform

Designing a Future-Ready Enterprise Architecture

Book Information

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Authors: Paresh Mishra, Vipin Varappurath
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• Pages: 383
• Language: English

Description

Build a flexible and sustainable environment for SAP S/4HANA development with this guide to SAP Cloud Platform services! Walk through the steps involved in designing your enterprise architecture, from evaluating your existing landscape to extending and enhancing SAP S/4HANA without disrupting the core. You’ll get a detailed look at how to use SAP Cloud Platform services for master data, data integration, business process automation, UX, and security. Future-proof your system!

• Enhance and extend SAP S/4HANA architecture with SAP Cloud Platform
• See how services for master data management, integration, and automation can optimize business processes
• Explore extension and development services for SAP S/4HANA customization

Key Highlights

• Enterprise architecture design
• Master data distribution
• Data integration
• Business process automation
• User experience
• Security
• Extensions
• Cloud-native applications
• DevOps
• Continuous monitoring

You'll learn about

• System Landscape Design:
  Use tools like SAP Process Mining and Spotlight by SAP to evaluate your existing landscape and identify gaps. Then, see how to design your future landscape using architecture design principles.
• Tools and Services:
  Dive into SAP Cloud Platform’s offerings! From SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite to SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, see how to optimize your landscape and your business processes.
• Development:
  Extend SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Platform Extension Suite and see how to develop cloud-native applications. Manage your DevOps pipeline and see how to monitor your applications through notifications and application logging.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Target Audience
• Objective of This Book
• Structure of This Book
• Terminology
• Global Account
• Subaccounts
• Directories (Beta)
• Cloud Foundry Organization
• Spaces
• Relationships among Global Accounts, Subaccounts, Organizations, and Spaces
• Acknowledgments
• Conclusion

• PART I Foundation

• 1 Future-Ready Enterprise Architecture
• 1.1 What Is a Future-Ready Enterprise?
• 1.2 Why Is SAP Cloud Platform Essential for a Future-Ready Enterprise?
• 1.2.1 Role of SAP Cloud Platform
• 1.2.2 SAP Cloud Platform and the Intelligent Enterprise
• 1.2.3 Elevate Your Enterprise Integration and Extension Experience
• 1.2.4 Pricing and Packaging
• 1.2.5 Service Catalog
• 1.3 Realms in the Future-Ready Enterprise
• 1.3.1 Business Foundation: Understanding Your Current Process
• 1.3.2 Future Aware: Architecting and Designing
• 1.3.3 Future Focused: Cloud Application Development
• 1.3.4 Trailblazer: Manage Innovations
• 1.4 Summary

• 2 Understanding Your Current Business Processes and Landscape
• 2.1 Current Business Processes
• 2.2 Future-Aware Business Processes
• 2.3 Tools and Frameworks
• 2.3.1 SAP Process Mining by Celonis
• 2.3.2 Spotlight by SAP
• 2.3.3 SAP API Business Hub
• 2.3.4 Ruum by SAP
• 2.4 Outcomes
• 2.5 Summary

• PART II Future Aware

• 3 Architecture and Design Considerations for a Future-Ready Landscape
• 3.1 Future-Aware Landscape
• 3.2 Cloud Architecture and the TOGAF Standard
• 3.3 Platform Advisory Methodology
• 3.3.1 Platform Capability Model Overview
• 3.3.2 Foundation
• 3.3.3 Future Aware
• 3.3.4 Future Focused
• 3.3.5 Trailblazers
• 3.4 Data Architecture Principles
• 3.5 Design Outcomes
• 3.5.1 Technology Platform Principles
• 3.5.2 Integration Principles
• 3.5.3 Development Principles
• 3.5.4 User Experience Principles
• 3.5.5 Database Requirement
• 3.6 Summary

• 4 Master Data Distribution
• 4.1 Master Data Distribution Use Cases
• 4.2 Developing a Master Data Distribution Strategy
• 4.2.1 SAP Cloud Platform Master Data for Business Partners
• 4.2.2 SAP Cloud Platform Data Enrichment
• 4.2.3 SAP Data Quality Management, Microservices for Location Data
• 4.2.4 Data Attribute Recommendation
• 4.3 Compliance with Master Data Retention and Deletion
• 4.4 Summary

• 5 Process and Data Integration
• 5.1 Integration Use Cases and SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology
• 5.1.1 Process Invocation Use Case Patterns
• 5.1.2 Data Movement Use Case Patterns
• 5.1.3 User Consumption
• 5.1.4 Internet of Things Integration
• 5.2 SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity and Cloud Connector
• 5.3 SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite
• 5.3.1 Configuration
• 5.3.2 Cloud Integration
• 5.3.3 API Management
• 5.3.4 Open Connectors
• 5.3.5 Integration Advisor
• 5.4 SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging
• 5.4.1 Product Overview
• 5.4.2 Configuration
• 5.5 SAP Data Intelligence
• 5.6 SAP Internet of Things
• 5.7 Defining Integration Pattern Design
• 5.8 Integration with Legacy Applications
• 5.8.1 Creating User-Provided Service Instances
• 5.8.2 Service Management
• 5.8.3 Other Integration Methods
• 5.9 Summary

• 6 Business Process Automation and Optimization
• 6.1 Build Efficient Automations in Business Processes
• 6.1.1 Services and Products on SAP Cloud Platform
• 6.1.2 SAP-Delivered Scenarios
• 6.2 Robotic Process Automation
• 6.2.1 Cloud Factory
• 6.2.2 Desktop Studio
• 6.2.3 Desktop Agent
• 6.3 Business Process Visibility and Management
• 6.3.1 Activating SAP Cloud Platform Workflow Management and SAP Cloud Platform Process Visibility
• 6.3.2 Integrating SAP Cloud Platform Process Visibility with SAP Cloud Platform Workflow Management
• 6.3.3 SAP Cloud Platform Process Visibility Product Attributes
• 6.4 Automation Use Cases and Decision Matrix
• 6.4.1 Selection
• 6.4.2 SAP-Delivered Scenarios
• 6.4.3 Transformation Cases
• 6.4.4 Decisions and Criteria for Success
• 6.5 Summary

• 7 User Experience and Mobile Consumption
• 7.1 SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad
• 7.2 SAP Work Zone
• 7.3 SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services
• 7.3.1 Product Overview and Configuration
• 7.3.2 Mobile Card Kit
• 7.3.3 Mobile Development Kit
• 7.3.4 SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
• 7.3.5 SAP Cloud Platform SDK for Android
• 7.4 SAP Translation Hub
• 7.5 Summary

• 8 Security
• 8.1 Authentication Management
• 8.1.1 Cloud Foundry Environment
• 8.1.2 Default Authentication in SAP Cloud Platform
• 8.1.3 Identity Authentication Service
• 8.1.4 SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
• 8.2 Authorization Management
• 8.2.1 Cloud Foundry Environment
• 8.2.2 Neo Environment
• 8.3 Credential Store Service and Keystore Service
• 8.3.1 Cloud Foundry Environment
• 8.3.2 Neo Environment
• 8.4 OAuth 2.0 Application Protection
• 8.5 Secure Platform Operations
• 8.5.1 Predefined Roles and Functions
• 8.5.2 Custom Platform Roles
• 8.5.3 Platform Identity Provider
• 8.6 Identity Provisioning Service
• 8.7 SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance
• 8.8 Audit Logging
• 8.8.1 Cloud Foundry Environment
• 8.8.2 Neo Environment
• 8.8.3 Identity Authentication Logs
• 8.9 Summary

• PART III Future Creation

• 9 Developing SAP S/4HANA Extensions
• 9.1 Building Extensions to Differentiate
• 9.2 SAP Cloud Platform’s Extension Capabilities
• 9.3 SAP Cloud Platform Runtimes
• 9.3.1 SAP Cloud Platform Application Runtime
• 9.3.2 SAP Cloud Platform Serverless Runtime
• 9.3.3 SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment
• 9.3.4 SAP Cloud Platform, Kyma Runtime
• 9.3.5 Decision Matrix
• 9.4 Integrating Applications with Hyperscaler Services
• 9.4.1 Resource Provider
• 9.4.2 Service Broker
• 9.5 Summary

• 10 Continuous Integration and Delivery
• 10.1 Continuous Integration and Delivery Overview
• 10.1.1 Continuous Integration
• 10.1.2 Continuous Delivery
• 10.1.3 SAP Cloud Platform Services
• 10.2 Building a DevOps Strategy and Plan
• 10.2.1 Building Your Strategy and Landscape in SAP Cloud Platform
• 10.2.2 Managing Roles and Responsibilities
• 10.3 SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management
• 10.3.1 Multitarget Applications and Multitarget Application Archive
• 10.3.2 Set Up SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management
• 10.4 Project “Piper”
• 10.4.1 Overview
• 10.4.2 Configuring SAP Cloud SDK Pipeline
• 10.4.3 Integrate SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management with Pipeline
• 10.5 SAP Cloud Platform Continuous Integration and Delivery
• 10.5.1 Service Configuration
• 10.5.2 Access the Service
• 10.5.3 Configure GitHub Hook
• 10.5.4 Access SAP Cloud Platform Continuous Integration and Delivery from SAP Web IDE
• 10.6 Summary

• 11 Continuous Monitoring
• 11.1 Logging
• 11.1.1 Cloud Foundry
• 11.1.2 Neo
• 11.1.3 Application Performance Monitoring with Dynatrace
• 11.2 Alerts and Remediation
• 11.2.1 SAP Cloud Platform Alert Notification
• 11.2.2 SAP Cloud Platform Automation Pilot
• 11.3 Summary

• 12 Developing Cloud-Native Applications
• 12.1 Resiliency Principles
• 12.1.1 Service-Level Agreements
• 12.1.2 Availability and Resiliency Patterns
• 12.2 High-Availability Best Practices with SAP Cloud Platform
• 12.2.1 Cloud Connector High Availability
• 12.2.2 Caching Setup
• 12.2.3 Rate Limiting
• 12.2.4 Application Autoscaler
• 12.2.5 Application Resiliency
• 12.2.6 SAP Cloud Platform Application Deployment
• 12.2.7 Logging
• 12.3 Multi-Data Center Failover
• 12.4 Summary

• PART IV Final Steps

• 13 Trailblazing Enterprise Innovations
• 13.1 Industry Trends and Technology Trends
• 13.2 Industry Challenges and Reimagined Business Processes
• 13.2.1 High-Tech Industry
• 13.2.2 Consumer Products Industry
• 13.2.3 Industrial Machinery and Components Industry
• 13.2.4 Travel and Transportation
• 13.2.5 Banking Industry
• 13.2.6 Telco Industry
• 13.2.7 Utilities Industry
• 13.2.8 Engineering, Construction, and Operations Industry
• 13.2.9 Automotive Industry
• 13.2.10 Retail
• 13.3 Addressing Whitespaces and Gaps
• 13.4 Frameworks and Prioritization
• 13.4.1 Innovation Engagement Framework
• 13.4.2 Tools
• 13.5 Summary

• 14 Measuring Success
• 14.1 Farming Framework
• 14.2 Harmonization and Optimization
• 14.2.1 System Harmonization
• 14.2.2 DevOps for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• 14.2.3 Replatforming the System Landscape
• 14.3 Innovation Framework
• 14.4 Value Realization Engagement
• 14.4.1 Business Benefits
• 14.4.2 Planning Tool
• 14.5 Summary

• The Authors

• Index

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