Becoming an SAP BTP Solution Architect — Lesson 2: Integration, Extension, Data, Analytics, AI, APIs, and Event-Driven Patterns

Learning Objectives

• Explain the SAP structures, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing integration and extension patterns.
• Perform and validate data, analytics, and AI services using reviewable system evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where a technically valid design becomes unmanageable because tenant boundaries, identity, connectivity, and lifecycle ownership are undefined and select proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• Integration applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Extension applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Data applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Analytics applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• AI applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• APIs applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• and Event-Driven Patterns applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an architecture team translating business capabilities into secure, supportable, and economically sustainable BTP solutions. The walkthrough connects navigation, configuration or process logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the BTP architecture decision record and solution blueprint. It also tests the exception where a technically valid design becomes unmanageable because tenant boundaries, identity, connectivity, and lifecycle ownership are undefined.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled SAP exercise covering Integration, Extension, Data, Analytics, AI, APIs, and Event-Driven Patterns and preserve the verified result in the BTP architecture decision record and solution blueprint.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording settings, transactions, outputs, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, rule, setting, or process step most strongly influences integration and extension patterns.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain business, technical, control, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the BTP architecture decision record and solution blueprint should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, status, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “a technically valid design becomes unmanageable because tenant boundaries, identity, connectivity, and lifecycle ownership are undefined” as a hypothesis until system settings, logs, documents, and outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The BTP architecture decision record and solution blueprint connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, the boundary condition, integration behavior, and exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Integration, Extension, Data, Analytics, AI, APIs, and Event-Driven Patterns, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through the BTP architecture decision record and solution blueprint.