The authors of »Application Development with SAP Business Technology Platform«
Govind Bajaj
Govind Bajaj is an SAP business intelligence solution architect with more than 20 years of IT experience in managing and delivering complex data and analytics solutions. He has worked extensively with the design and development of advanced analytics and data migration solutions within SAP’s business intelligence (BI) portfolio of products, both on-premise and in the cloud. His areas of interest include machine learning, solutioning and developing AI-ready data platforms, and agentic AI. Govind can be found on Twitter @probajajand on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/govind-bajaj-a5a7589.
Arup Bhattacharya
Arup Bhattacharya is an SAP S/4HANA transformation leader at IBM with more than 24 years of global delivery experience, specializing in large scale, complex, and first of their kind programs. He’s an expert in migration strategies and generative AI-led optimization, consistently driving business continuity and delivery excellence across global clients.
Laboni Bhowmik
Laboni Bhowmik is an SAP integration and automation architect working at IBM since 2007. She has more than 15 years of experience with SAP solutions and technologies, including SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, SAP Manufacturing Execution, SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management, SAPUI5, and SAP BTP. Laboni has led several large-scale SAP manufacturing implementation projects for multiple global clients. She is also extensively involved in progressing IBM’s SAP Digital Manufacturing and SAP Cloud Platform competency, including designing cutting-edge industry solutions, development, publications, and mentoring.
Avijit Dhar
Avijit Dhar is a senior application architect at IBM India. He has more than 15 years of experience with leading the design and implementation of large-scale implementations, especially in the SAP manufacturing domain, and with growing IBM’s SAP Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning practice. He is a subject matter expert in user experience, IoT, machine learning, and other emerging technologies, and he has been involved in designing cutting-edge industry assets and solutions. Avijit has written two books with SAP PRESS: SAP Cloud Platform: Cloud-Native Development and Machine Learning with SAP. He has also written two E-Bites with SAP PRESS: Introducing Predictive Maintenance with SAP Predictive Asset Insights and Hands On with SAP AppGyver.
Anup Ghosh
Dr. Anup Ghosh is a distinguished engineer at IBM Consulting leading the development of SAP Business AI solutions and helping global Fortune 500 clients with AI-powered transformations. He's an active researcher with a number of patents and is a regular speaker at SAP TechEd and SAP Sapphire. Anup can be found on Twitter @itsAKG and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/anupkghosh.
Gairik Acharya
Gairik Acharya is a senior technical architect and associate partner at IBM with more than 22 years of IT experience. He is a recognized expert in ABAP, SAP HANA, OData, SAP Gateway, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, SAPUI5, and SAP Business Technology Platform. In his role as senior architect at the IBM SAP S/4HANA Center of Excellence group in North America, he has architected solutions for several global implementations for IBM's top-tier clients. He's a certified and recognized expert in SAP application consulting and is responsible for building new capabilities within the group. He's a frequent speaker at SAP TechEd, covering a variety of new technical areas.
Asidhara Lahiri
Asidhara Lahiri is a managing director at Accenture’s ATCI SAP practice, where she leads innovation and the enterprise architecture practice in SAP. She has worked as an enterprise architect at SAP India, creating roadmaps for customers’ transformation journeys to achieve intelligent and modern SAP landscapes. At her previous organization, she helped build cognitive enterprises for SAP-centric landscapes using intelligent workflows and architected complex SAP implementations for global clients in industries such as industrial products, consumer products, oil and gas, airlines, and utilities. She has more than 26 years of experience, out of which 23 are with SAP solutions, including expertise in areas such as SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, generative AI, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, data and analytics, data governance, integration, and DevOps. In her roles as design authority, lead architect, practice lead, and CTO, she has been responsible for solution review/design, strategy creation, practice building, and innovation. Asidhara has coauthored two patents and also coauthored SAP S/4HANA: An Introduction (SAP PRESS 2025). Asidhara can be connected with via www.linkedin.com/in/asidharalahiri.
Gairik Acharya, Aleksandar Debelic, Shubhangi (Deshmukh) Joshi, Aayush Dhawan
316 pages, hardcover
SAP BTP, ABAP environment (formerly SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment) requires specialized knowledge of language limits and development environment—let this book be your guide! Begin by provisioning a trial instance and setting up ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse. Then, walk
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Set up the SAP BTP, ABAP environment and see how the cloud changes the ABAP programming language
Develop complete applications, from backend services to the SAP Fiori frontend, and learn to test and monitor apps
Connect to on-premise and cloud systems with external APIs
How soon will your equipment need repairs? You'll learn how to use SAP Predictive Asset Insights to monitor the health of your equipment in real time and schedule maintenance when it is truly needed. Start by diving into key master
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E-Bite
Learn how machine learning facilitates predictive maintenance
Explore predictive models for distance, logistics regression, and more
Preview integration with your IoT devices and SAP S/4HANA
Take your UI to the next level with this all-in-one resource to implementing and developing SAP Fiori apps! Start by configuring the SAP Fiori components and setting up the necessary security measures. Then it’s time to dive into applications: enabling
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Implement SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA
Develop and extend applications with SAP Fiori elements and freestyle templates
Work with OData, SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Screen Personas, and more
Develop cloud applications customized for your business needs! Master the basics of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and its development environments; then get step-by-step instructions for developing and operating your own applications. Build your backend with Java, Node.js, or
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Build and deploy cloud applications on SAP BTP using Java, Node.js, and ABAP
Work with SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, cloud services, and more
Devraj Bardhan, Axel Baumgartl, Madalina Dascalescu, Mark Dudgeon, Piotr Górecki, Asidhara Lahiri, Richard Maund, Bert Meijerink, Andrew Worsley-Tonks
744 pages, hardcover
Whether you’re making the move to SAP S/4HANA, or just curious about what the suite has to offer, this introductory guide is your starting point. Explore your business processes in SAP S/4HANA, now optimized by AI: finance, manufacturing, supply chain,
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Learn what SAP S/4HANA offers your company
Explore your key business processes, elevated with AI
Assess the system architecture, extensibility tools, deployment options, and more
