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SAP Platform Engineering

SAP Business Technology Platform - Enterprise Architecture and Development

We design and build on SAP BTP using CAP, Integration Suite, HANA Cloud, and Kyma to extend your SAP core without compromise. Our architects connect SAP to the broader enterprise ecosystem while protecting upgrade paths and maintaining clean-core discipline.

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500+
Enterprise Clients
10,000+
Engineers Deployed
50+
Countries Served
99.4%
CSAT Score
48h
Team Assembly

The Challenge

SAP landscapes are growing more complex while upgrade agility demands a clean core

Enterprises face mounting pressure to deliver process innovation on SAP while simultaneously eliminating modifications that block S/4HANA upgrade cycles. Shadow IT, point-to-point integrations, and custom ABAP code create fragile architectures that resist change and drain IT capacity at precisely the moment business agility is most critical.

73%
of SAP customers report upgrade delays due to custom code
18mo
average S/4HANA upgrade cycle for organizations with heavy modifications
$4.2M
average annual cost of maintaining legacy SAP point-to-point integrations
3x
faster innovation velocity for organizations operating on clean-core BTP architectures

Why QuickHire

Why Enterprises Choose QuickHire

01

Clean Core Architecture

We design all extensions as side-by-side BTP applications that communicate through stable SAP APIs. Your core remains upgrade-safe while custom capabilities evolve independently.

02

CAP Framework Expertise

Our developers are proficient in the SAP Cloud Application Programming model, delivering schema-first CAP services with built-in multi-tenancy, OData compliance, and HANA Cloud persistence.

03

Integration Suite Mastery

We configure SAP Integration Suite iFlows, API Management policies, and Event Mesh topologies that connect SAP to Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, AWS, and bespoke enterprise systems reliably.

04

Multi-Runtime Deployment

We architect workloads across Cloud Foundry and Kyma based on operational requirements, enabling simpler extensions on PaaS while reserving Kubernetes orchestration for event-driven microservices.

05

Analytics and AI Integration

We connect SAP Analytics Cloud and Datasphere to HANA Cloud and non-SAP sources, building semantic data layers and AI-enriched dashboards that surface insights within SAP business context.

06

Enterprise Governance

We establish BTP account hierarchies, identity federation with corporate IdPs, role collection frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines that scale from pilot to enterprise-wide rollout.

Challenges

Common Enterprise Pain Points

01

Upgrade Blockage from Legacy Custom Code

Organizations with thousands of Z-programs and user exits find S/4HANA upgrade projects delayed by years as each modification requires remediation or replacement. Without a systematic migration to BTP extensions, the technical debt compounds with each new business requirement added to the core.

02

Integration Sprawl Across SAP and Non-SAP Systems

Point-to-point integrations built outside SAP Integration Suite create an undocumented web of file transfers, RFC calls, and custom middleware that becomes unmaintainable as systems evolve. When a source system changes its API or data format, cascading failures across multiple downstream integrations expose operational risk that is disproportionate to the initial development investment.

03

Limited Internal BTP Expertise

SAP BTP spans CAP, HANA Cloud, Integration Suite, multiple runtimes, and a rapidly evolving service catalog that outpaces the learning curve of most internal SAP teams. Organizations that begin BTP projects without experienced architects frequently make account hierarchy and entitlement decisions that require expensive restructuring once workloads scale.

04

Multi-Tenant Extension Complexity

ISVs and large enterprises delivering BTP solutions to multiple subsidiaries or customers must implement multi-tenancy patterns at the CAP, HANA Cloud, and identity management layers simultaneously. Incomplete multi-tenancy implementations lead to data isolation failures that carry significant compliance and reputational risk in regulated industries.

05

Analytics Data Freshness and Semantic Consistency

Business intelligence teams often find that SAP data replicated into data warehouses loses the semantic context - organizational hierarchies, fiscal periods, and currency conversion logic - that makes the numbers meaningful to SAP-trained finance and operations users. Rebuilding this context outside SAP is expensive and fragile; the clean approach is to consume it through SAP Analytics Cloud live connections or Datasphere federation.

Our Approach

A structured BTP engagement that protects your SAP investment and accelerates business capability

We bring SAP BTP certified architects who have delivered CAP applications, Integration Suite deployments, and HANA Cloud implementations across industries. Our approach begins with governance and architecture definition before writing a single line of code, ensuring that every workload we deliver operates cleanly within your SAP landscape and supports rather than constrains future evolution.

01
BTP Architecture and Governance Design
We define your account hierarchy, runtime selection, entitlement strategy, and CI/CD pipeline before any development starts, establishing the foundation that scales to enterprise adoption.
02
CAP Extension Development
We deliver production-grade CAP services with CDS-defined schemas, OData V4 APIs, event-driven integration patterns, and HANA Cloud persistence that meet SAP best practice standards.
03
Integration Suite Configuration
We design and build integration flows, API policies, and event mesh subscriptions that connect your SAP systems to the broader enterprise ecosystem with monitoring, alerting, and replay capabilities.
04
Analytics and Data Platform
We implement SAP Analytics Cloud stories, Datasphere data spaces, and HANA Cloud models that give business users real-time insight grounded in SAP business semantics.

Delivery Models

How We Deliver

Architecture Advisory

Experienced BTP architects provide governance, code review, and decision support for internal teams building on BTP. Suitable for organizations with developer capacity but lacking senior platform expertise.

Timeline
Ongoing retainer
Team Size
1-2 architects
Focused Extension Delivery

End-to-end delivery of a specific BTP extension or integration scenario, from requirements through production deployment and hypercare. Fixed scope with defined acceptance criteria.

Timeline
8-16 weeks
Team Size
3-6 engineers
Platform Build-Out

Comprehensive BTP platform establishment covering account setup, multiple extensions, Integration Suite configuration, analytics, and internal team enablement for organizations making BTP a strategic platform.

Timeline
16-32 weeks
Team Size
6-12 engineers

Capabilities

Technical Capability Matrix

CAP and Application Development
CAP Node.jsCAP JavaCDS Schema DesignOData V4 ServicesSAP Fiori ElementsSAPUI5SAP Build AppsSAP Build Process Automation
Integration and Connectivity
SAP Integration SuiteCloud Integration iFlowsAPI ManagementEvent MeshB2B/EDI IntegrationSAP GraphOpen ConnectorsBTP Connectivity Service
Data and Analytics
SAP HANA CloudSAP Analytics CloudSAP DatasphereHANA Data LakeCalculation ViewsSAP BW BridgePredictive AnalyticsSmart Predict
Platform and Infrastructure
Cloud Foundry RuntimeKyma RuntimeBTP Account HierarchyIdentity Authentication ServiceCredential StoreSAP BTP CI/CDBTP Transport ManagementTerraform for BTP

Engagement Models

How We Engage

Choose the model that fits your programme governance, budget cycle, and team structure.

01

Staff Augmentation

Engineers embed directly under your management.

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02

Dedicated Developers

Full-time team aligned to your product roadmap.

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03

Managed Teams

End-to-end delivery with SLA-backed outcomes.

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04

Engineering Pods

Autonomous cross-functional pods per domain.

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05

Offshore Dev Centre

Permanent engineering base in India. Full IP ownership.

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06

Build-Operate-Transfer

We build and run it. You take ownership on schedule.

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Our Process

From Discovery to Delivery

1

Discovery and Landscape Assessment

Days 1-5

We assess your existing SAP landscape, integration patterns, and BTP entitlements to define the target architecture, identify quick wins, and establish governance standards.

2

Account Hierarchy and Environment Setup

Week 2

We provision BTP subaccounts, configure identity federation with your corporate IdP, establish role collections, and set up CI/CD pipelines aligned with your DevOps toolchain.

3

Pilot Workload Development

Weeks 3-6

We deliver the first CAP service or Integration Suite flow to validate the architecture, establish coding standards, and demonstrate value to business stakeholders.

4

Full Scope Implementation

Weeks 7-16

We execute the remaining scope across extension development, integration configuration, analytics implementation, and quality assurance with structured sprint reviews.

5

Production Deployment and Enablement

Ongoing

We manage go-live, conduct hypercare monitoring, and transfer knowledge to internal teams with architecture documentation, runbooks, and hands-on enablement sessions.

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Security & Compliance

Enterprise-Grade Security by Default

✓ISO 27001 Certified✓SOC 2 Type II Ready✓GDPR Compliant✓DPDP Act Ready✓NDA on Day 1✓MSA Available✓IP Assignment Clauses✓Escrow Options

Governance

Programme Governance

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Clean Core Compliance Reviews

Every extension undergoes architecture review to confirm it communicates exclusively through SAP APIs and contains no direct database dependencies on SAP core tables.

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BTP Security Baseline

We enforce IAS federation, credential store usage, audit logging, and network security policies across all BTP subaccounts and service instances.

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Cost and Entitlement Monitoring

We implement consumption dashboards and alert thresholds that track BTP credit usage by service and subaccount, enabling proactive cost management and renewal planning.

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Transport and Change Control

We configure BTP Transport Management with approval workflows that mirror enterprise change management processes, ensuring no unreviewed changes reach production environments.

Team Structure

Your Enterprise Team

Our SAP BTP delivery teams combine certified BTP architects, CAP developers, integration specialists, and analytics engineers who have collectively delivered BTP engagements for mid-market and Fortune 500 enterprises. Team composition adapts to engagement complexity, with architects maintaining cross-project governance standards while specialists execute workload-specific deliverables.

✓BTP Solution Architect
✓CAP Application Developer
✓Integration Suite Specialist
✓HANA Cloud Engineer
✓SAP Analytics Cloud Developer
✓Kyma/Kubernetes Engineer
✓SAP Security Architect
✓BTP DevOps Engineer

Project Lifecycle

From Kickoff to Production

01
2-3 weeks

Architecture and Governance

BTP account hierarchy design, runtime selection rationale, identity federation blueprint, entitlement plan, CI/CD pipeline design.

02
1-2 weeks

Environment Provisioning

Configured development, staging, and production subaccounts, role collections, IAS federation, credential store setup, pipeline deployment.

03
3-4 weeks

Pilot Development

First CAP service or integration flow in production, coding standards documentation, architecture decision records, team onboarding.

04
6-16 weeks

Full Implementation

Complete extension portfolio, Integration Suite flows, SAC stories, HANA Cloud models, test reports, performance benchmarks.

05
Ongoing

Hypercare and Knowledge Transfer

Production monitoring dashboards, runbooks, architecture documentation, developer enablement sessions, transition to internal operations.

Case Studies

Enterprise Outcomes

Manufacturing

A global manufacturer needed to replace 40 custom ABAP modifications blocking an S/4HANA upgrade.

We rebuilt all 40 capabilities as CAP extensions on BTP using RAP APIs from S/4HANA, completing the migration in 14 weeks and enabling a successful S/4HANA upgrade the following quarter.

14 weeksclean-core migration enabling S/4HANA upgrade
Financial Services

A bank required real-time integration between SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and a proprietary risk platform.

We designed an SAP Integration Suite architecture with event-driven flows and API management policies, reducing integration latency from 4 hours (batch) to under 30 seconds and eliminating three legacy middleware systems.

$1.8Mannual middleware cost eliminated
Retail

A retailer needed consolidated financial analytics across SAP and non-SAP data without losing business semantic context.

We implemented SAP Datasphere with live connections to S/4HANA and replicated feeds from Oracle and Salesforce, delivering SAC dashboards with consistent hierarchy and fiscal calendar logic across all sources.

4xfaster financial close reporting cycle

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Frequently Asked Questions

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is SAP's unified, cloud-based platform that combines database and data management, analytics, application development, and integration capabilities in a single environment. It serves as the foundation for extending, integrating, and optimizing SAP and non-SAP applications across your enterprise landscape. BTP enables organizations to accelerate innovation without disrupting core SAP systems by building side-by-side extensions using modern cloud-native technologies. For enterprises already invested in SAP, BTP represents the strategic path to composable architecture and continuous business process improvement.
The SAP Cloud Application Programming model is an open-source framework of languages, libraries, and tools that accelerates the development of enterprise-grade services and applications on BTP. CAP provides built-in support for SAP Fiori, OData services, multi-tenancy, and seamless integration with SAP HANA Cloud, enabling developers to focus on domain logic rather than technical boilerplate. The framework enforces best practices such as schema-first design using CDS (Core Data Services), which dramatically reduces the gap between business requirements and technical implementation. CAP applications are portable across Cloud Foundry and Kyma runtimes, giving organizations flexibility in their deployment strategy as requirements evolve.
Cloud Foundry on BTP is a Platform-as-a-Service runtime optimized for running traditional application server workloads - Java, Node.js, and Python applications - with managed buildpacks and simplified deployment pipelines. Kyma runtime is a fully managed Kubernetes environment based on the open-source Kyma project, designed for containerized, microservices-based applications that require granular scaling and cloud-native orchestration. The choice between the two depends on your team's expertise, workload characteristics, and operational preferences - Cloud Foundry is typically faster to adopt for teams new to containers, while Kyma offers greater architectural flexibility for complex, event-driven scenarios. Many enterprises run both runtimes simultaneously, placing simpler extensions on Cloud Foundry and sophisticated microservices architectures on Kyma.
SAP Integration Suite is the enterprise integration platform within BTP that provides pre-built integration content, API management, event mesh, and B2B/EDI capabilities for connecting SAP and non-SAP systems. It includes over 2,000 pre-built integration flows for common SAP-to-third-party scenarios covering Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft 365, AWS services, and hundreds of other enterprise platforms. The suite's API Management component enables organizations to expose internal APIs securely, apply rate limiting and authentication policies, and monitor API consumption across partner ecosystems. Event Mesh enables asynchronous, decoupled communication between SAP and non-SAP systems using cloud-native messaging patterns that eliminate point-to-point integration complexity.
SAP HANA Cloud is the cloud-native evolution of SAP's in-memory database technology, serving as the persistence layer for CAP applications, SAP Datasphere, and custom analytics workloads on BTP. It provides a fully managed, multi-model database service supporting relational, document store, graph, and spatial data alongside a built-in data lake for cost-efficient cold data storage. HANA Cloud's column-store engine enables sub-second query response on terabyte-scale datasets, making it suitable for both transactional and analytical workloads in a single system. For organizations running on-premise SAP HANA, HANA Cloud offers a migration path that eliminates infrastructure management while preserving the performance characteristics that SAP applications depend on.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is the cloud-native analytics platform within BTP that unifies business intelligence, augmented analytics, and enterprise planning in a single solution. It connects natively to SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and HANA Cloud through live connections that return real-time data without replication, while also supporting blended scenarios that combine SAP and non-SAP data sources. SAC's planning capabilities enable driver-based financial planning, rolling forecasts, and multi-dimensional budgeting workflows that integrate directly with SAP financial processes. Its augmented analytics features - including Smart Discovery and Predictive Planning - help business users identify anomalies, simulate scenarios, and generate forward-looking insights without requiring data science expertise.
SAP Build is a suite of low-code and no-code tools within BTP that enables business users and fusion development teams to create applications, automate processes, and design work sites without deep programming knowledge. SAP Build Apps provides a visual application builder with drag-and-drop components and built-in integration with SAP backend systems. SAP Build Process Automation combines workflow management and RPA capabilities so business analysts can automate approval processes, document handling, and repetitive back-office tasks directly on BTP. SAP Build Work Zone acts as a unified launchpad that brings together SAP Fiori apps, third-party tools, and custom BTP applications into a personalized digital workspace, reducing context-switching for end users.
A well-designed BTP account hierarchy is foundational to governance, cost management, and security in enterprise deployments. Enterprises typically establish a Global Account at the root level, with Directory structures grouping subaccounts by organizational unit, environment (development, staging, production), and region to enforce cost allocation and access boundaries. Each subaccount hosts specific runtime environments, service instances, and application subscriptions, allowing granular entitlement management and independent lifecycle control. Proper labeling and tagging strategies applied at the directory and subaccount levels integrate with SAP BTP Cost Center Management and third-party FinOps tooling, enabling accurate chargebacks to business units. Establishing this hierarchy before the first workload deployment prevents costly restructuring that disrupts running applications and entitlement allocations.
SAP BTP Identity Authentication Service (IAS) acts as the central identity provider for BTP applications, supporting SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 protocols to federate with corporate identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and Ping Identity. Role collections and attribute-based access control enable fine-grained authorization that maps to SAP business roles, ensuring that BTP application permissions align with existing SAP authorization concepts. SAP BTP Credential Store provides a managed secrets vault for storing service credentials, API keys, and certificates used by BTP applications, reducing the risk of hardcoded credentials in application code. Audit logging and integration with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance enable continuous compliance monitoring and segregation-of-duties enforcement across BTP workloads.
SAP BTP extensions follow the "clean core" principle, meaning all custom logic, additional fields, and process extensions reside outside the SAP S/4HANA system and communicate through stable, versioned APIs rather than direct database or code modifications. This separation ensures that SAP core system upgrades proceed without disruption to custom developments, dramatically reducing upgrade cycles from months of regression testing to days of API compatibility validation. Side-by-side extensions on BTP use SAP's extensibility APIs, RAP (RESTful ABAP Programming) services, and event-driven architectures to react to SAP business events and enrich processes with external data or AI capabilities. Organizations that have historically relied on modifications or custom Z-code within SAP find that BTP extensions provide equivalent functional outcomes with dramatically lower total cost of ownership over the long term.
SAP Datasphere (formerly SAP Data Warehouse Cloud) is the enterprise data fabric solution within the SAP ecosystem that enables organizations to establish a business data layer connecting SAP and non-SAP data sources while preserving business context and semantic meaning. It integrates natively with BTP services, allowing data flowing through SAP Integration Suite to be consumed and governed within Datasphere's data spaces. Datasphere's federation capabilities enable virtual data access across HANA Cloud, cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake and BigQuery, and on-premise SAP BW systems without mandatory data replication. Combined with SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere provides an end-to-end data-to-insight architecture that maintains SAP business semantics - organizational hierarchies, currency conversions, and fiscal calendar logic - throughout the analytics layer.
SAP BTP supports CI/CD through the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service, which provides pre-configured Jenkins-based pipelines optimized for CAP, SAPUI5, and Kyma applications with built-in quality gates and BTP-specific deployment steps. Integration with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI enables organizations to embed BTP deployments into existing enterprise DevOps toolchains without maintaining separate pipeline infrastructure. The BTP Transport Management service provides a change and transport system for BTP content analogous to the SAP ABAP transport system, enabling controlled promotion of configuration changes across development, test, and production subaccounts. Infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform with the BTP provider and the btp CLI enable repeatable subaccount provisioning, entitlement management, and service binding configuration across environments.
SAP BTP pricing operates on a consumption-based model where organizations pay for service usage through a Cloud Credits system, making right-sizing and workload scheduling important levers for cost control. Enterprises should conduct regular entitlement audits to identify unused service subscriptions and over-provisioned HANA Cloud instances, as idle resources continue to consume credits. Autoscaling configurations for Cloud Foundry applications and Kyma deployments ensure that compute resources scale down during off-peak hours, which is particularly impactful for development and test subaccounts. Organizations with predictable, high-volume workloads can negotiate CPEA (Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement) contracts that provide committed consumption at discounted rates compared to pay-as-you-go pricing, with flexibility to shift credits across BTP services as priorities evolve.
SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad on BTP provide the infrastructure for training, deploying, and managing machine learning models that integrate with SAP business processes. Pre-built AI services such as Document Information Extraction, Business Entity Recognition, and Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management enable immediate AI value in common scenarios like invoice processing, contract analysis, and demand forecasting without custom model development. Organizations can bring their own models from PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn frameworks and deploy them on AI Core, then expose predictions through BTP APIs that enrich SAP workflows with intelligence. SAP's Joule generative AI assistant integrates with BTP extensibility to enable natural language interaction with SAP data and processes, representing the next evolution of AI-assisted enterprise workflows that partners and customers can extend.
Enterprises typically begin SAP BTP adoption through a discovery and architecture workshop that establishes the account hierarchy, runtime selection, integration patterns, and governance framework before any development starts. Advisory retainer models are suited to organizations building internal BTP competencies, where consulting architects provide ongoing guidance, code reviews, and architecture governance rather than project-based delivery. Full-cycle delivery engagements cover requirements, BTP environment setup, CAP or Fiori application development, integration configuration, testing, and hypercare support for organizations that need a single partner to own the complete outcome. Many enterprises operate a hybrid model where consulting architects define standards and review critical decisions while internal developers or near-shore teams execute implementation under that governance framework.
A focused SAP BTP extension or integration project typically runs 8 to 16 weeks from kickoff to production go-live, with the range driven by integration complexity, number of target systems, and organizational readiness for change management. The most common delays stem from late access to SAP backend systems for API enablement, unclear business process ownership that stalls requirement sign-off, and underestimated identity federation complexity when connecting BTP to corporate identity providers. Organizations that establish a dedicated BTP Center of Excellence - even a small team of two to four architects and developers - sustain velocity across multiple parallel workstreams far better than those treating BTP as a series of isolated projects. Committing to a clean-core discipline from the outset prevents the gradual accumulation of workarounds that undermine the long-term value of the BTP investment.
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