The authors of »SAP Business Technology Platform«

Smitha Banda

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Smitha Banda is a senior business development manager at SAP and leads the SAP BTP practice for North America. She started her journey at SAP in 2005 as a consultant providing advisory, architecture, and development services to customers across the globe. She has always worked closely with customers and continues to do so in her current role. She has been instrumental in building the SAP BTP practice within SAP across all regions. She works closely with the go-to-market and partner enablement teams to build services and programs to support customers’ SAP BTP needs. She and her team of SAP BTP experts, architects, developers, and consultants are involved in end-to-end SAP BTP implementations.

Shibaji Chandra

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Shibaji Chandra is a seasoned consulting architect at SAP who has in-depth knowledge and expertise in SAP BTP. Shibaji has been working in the SAP space for more than 18 years and has extensive work experience with SAP’s cloud platforms and related services since 2013. Throughout the years, he has worked very closely with customers, provided solution architectures, and defined best practices, strategies, and methodologies. He has built several SAP BTP-based applications, and educated customers, partners, and internal SAP teams across the globe on SAP BTP-related topics.

Chun Aun Gooi

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Chun Aun Gooi is an SAP BTP architect and a developer at heart. He has more than 10 years of SAP experience in architecting, building, and enhancing enterprise software. He has been involved in a number of customer projects, built several proof of concepts for customers and reference architectures, and provided guidance and strategy to customers on various SAP BTP topics.
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    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Smitha Banda, Shibaji Chandra, Chun Aun Gooi

    729 pages, hardcover

    Discover SAP’s unified technology platform with this introductory guide! Get started with the building blocks of SAP Business Technology Platform: architecture design, runtime environments, and the development approach. Take a tour of the integrated tools and services for application development, More about the book

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    • Learn about SAP’s latest technology platform
    • Explore products, services, and tools for application development, automation, integration, analytics, and AI
    • Walk through customer use cases to see how SAP BTP can bring value to your business
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    Agentic AI with SAP

    Raghu Banda, Shibaji Chandra

    325 pages

    Tasked with adding agentic AI to your SAP workflows? Or simply an AI enthusiast interested in staying on the cutting edge? Learn to plan, build, and govern agentic AI systems for your SAP landscape with this guide! Prepare your environment More about the book

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    • Understand how agents work in the SAP landscape and prepare your environment for agentic AI implementation
    • Learn to decompose complex business processes into tasks agents can execute
    • Develop low-code and pro-code agents with Joule Studio and SAP AI Core
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    Clean Core for SAP
    Standardization and Custom Development for SAP S/4HANA

    Smitha Banda, Vani Krishnamoorthy

    350 pages, paperback

    Looking to understand the reality behind the “clean core”? Start by understanding the fundamentals of this approach, from standardized extensions and integrations through data management and operations. Then dive into creating custom extensions, following expert guidance each step of the More about the book

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    • Understand clean core guidelines for development, integration, data management, and operations
    • Use new extensibility models, extension patterns, and programming methodologies for compliant custom development
    • Address existing technical debt using SAP tools and services