Course Information
Course Overview
From SCP to BTP: The Evolution of Enterprise Integration
This comprehensive course on SAP BTP Integration Suite Essentials equips learners with a strong functional and architectural understanding of how modern enterprises connect applications, data, and business processes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The course begins with an overview of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and highlights the strategic role of Integration Suite within the ecosystem. Learners explore the evolution of SAP’s integration capabilities—from SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) to today’s unified Integration Suite—and gain insight into why seamless integration is critical in organizations running distributed systems, legacy environments, and cloud-native applications. A key focus is understanding integration challenges in hybrid landscapes, including data security, API access control, and managing third-party connectivity.
The course dives into the full capabilities of Integration Suite, covering Cloud Integration for designing iFlows, working with adapters, transforming messages, and monitoring integrations. Learners also gain hands-on conceptual exposure to API-led connectivity: designing, publishing, and securing APIs with throttling, rate-limiting, and policy enforcement through API Management. The course introduces Open Connectors for simplified third-party SaaS integrations, Event Mesh for event-driven patterns and pub/sub messaging, and Integration Advisor for building industry-standard mappings and EDI/B2B scenarios. Connectivity across on-premise and cloud systems is explored through Cloud Connector, along with foundational security topics including OAuth2, certificates, SAML, and secure tunnel architecture.
Throughout the course, students learn various integration styles—process, data, event-driven, and B2B/EDI—each illustrated through business scenarios. They also examine how Integration Suite integrates with s4 hana and leading external systems such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. Real industry examples from Retail, Automotive, and Pharma demonstrate practical applications, helping learners understand how to design robust, scalable, and secure integrations that support digital transformation.
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 22 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction to SAP BTP & Integration Suite
- Section 2 Core Components of Integration Suite
- Section 3 Architecture & Connectivity
- Section 4 Cloud Integration (CPI)
- Section 5 API Management
- Section 6 Event-Driven Integration with Event Mesh
- Section 7 Open Connectors & Third-Party Integration
- Section 8 Integration Advisor & B2B/EDI Scenarios
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the core architecture and components of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and its integration capabilities, Explore Cloud Integration: design, configure, and monitor integration flows (iFlows) with built-in adapters, Implement secure authentication using OAuth2, certificates, and SAML, and set up secure connectivity via SAP Cloud Connector, Connect SAP and non-SAP systems (on-premise and cloud) using pre-built connectors and Open Connectors, Leverage API Management to design, publish, secure, and monitor APIs with policies like throttling and rate-limiting, Master event-driven architecture and SAP Event Mesh for scalable, real-time messaging across systems, Use Integration Advisor to create canonical mappings, handle EDI/B2B scenarios, and manage trading partners, Recognize different integration styles (process, data, event, B2B) and when to apply each in real-world scenarios, Apply integration solutions to real industry use cases across Retail, Automotive, and Pharma landscapes, Explore hybrid and multi-cloud integration patterns for digital transformation across enterprise systems