Leveraging SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) for Enterprise Digital Transformation: Innovations, Impacts, and Strategic Outcomes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15680/IJCTECE.2025.0803008Keywords:
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), digital transformation, integration and extensions, data management and analytics, enterprise AI, automationAbstract
This article discusses how SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP) acts as a catalyst for digital transformation in today's enterprise. By bringing together tools for application development, data management, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence, BTP delivers a unified experience across multiple cloud infrastructures. Drawing on a range of recent case studies, white papers, and industry analyses, this work details BTP's architecture and key features, and explores how they enable us to more rapidly deploy business solutions, optimize workflows, and increase connectivity between SAP and non-SAP systems. The research also explores the strategic benefits BTP provides, including greater operational flexibility, improved decision-making benefiting from real-time insights, and better security within integrations and extensions. Through qualitative methods and comparative thematic review, the results reveal that BTP helps reduce development overhead, drives innovation, and helps organizations react more quickly to market changes. Finally, the article suggests a framework to measure BTP adoption through key performance indicators and makes recommendations for governance and risk management in AI-enabled transformation initiatives.
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