How to get more
out of SAP Business
Technology Platform
App Development

SAP Business Technology Platform

Introduction

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is not just the foundation of all of SAP’s cloud services and products, it’s also SAP’s recommended platform for custom app development. To say it’s critical to understand its capabilities to ensure your business’s success is an understatement.

SAP BTP enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications that leverage SAP technologies and data and can integrate with other systems. It offers countless capabilities that your business needs, like database and analytics services, integration features and even predefined content, artificial intelligence, and security.

But while SAP Business Technology Platform offers numerous benefits to your business operations, it isn’t always the easiest to operate, nor the easiest to predict its costs for your operations. For example, SAP BTP doesn’t offer one comprehensive toolset for app development, but several technology stacks, services and development tools which are not integrated into each other. This means that your IT needs to have the bandwidth and skill sets to be able to build and maintain apps, making it a high-maintenance and high-cost endeavor.

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Neptune DXP and SAP BTP

That’s where Neptune DXP comes in. It’s not a replacement for SAP BTP, but it optimizes and complements SAP BTP to fit your specific needs when it comes to rapid application development. When you combine SAP BTP and Neptune DXP, easier and faster app development and new opportunities are just around the corner.

Through Neptune DXP, businesses are able to build apps that go beyond SAP BTP’s templates. It has no-code application building blocks as well as low-code templates that anyone with access can use to create apps you need when you need them. Providing you true no-code and low-code features within the same app development process.

To innovate at speed, your legacy SAP systems have to be simplified. While SAP BTP can do a lot of things, at the end of the day, it is only cloud-based. With Neptune DXP, you can manage on-site pain points in the cloud or on-premise, something SAP BTP cannot do yet. 

Neptune DXP also helps integrate SAP Business Technology Platform with other systems and addresses the functional gaps you’ll see with SAP BTP alone by facilitating custom code, offering partner solutions, and integrating solutions with an API-first approach. Furthermore, it brings PWA and hybrid mobile app capabilities including offline scenario support which makes it outstanding in the SAP

Conclusion

At the end of the day, combining SAP Business Technology Platform and Neptune DXP will truly provide you with added value for your enterprise app development. Neptune DXP addresses functional gaps because it was built for SAP-centric, hybrid landscapes and is the only No-Code/Low-Code app development platform that sits directly in SAP. Neptune DXP also ensures your apps will be future-proof and sustainable, allowing you to move to the cloud on your time (upgrading to S/4 on your own terms with continuous side-by-side extensions), supports your already existing IT strategy, landscape and architecture, and allows you to renovate existing custom code easily and in no time.

With the heavy investment companies put into SAP, achieving efficiency gains is on everyone’s action plan. Yet, considering that an S/4 migration for example is a very costly and timely undertaking, realizing efficiencies requires follow-up projects in later steps, that need to be executed quickly. This is where Neptune DXP with its no-code/low-code approach helps to make complex enterprise processes simpler.

Neptune not only lets you get the most out of SAP BTP, but it’ll save you time and money in the long run for any project or business demand to come.

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