Say hello to the SAP BTP Guidance Framework—a practical framework tailored to anyone using the SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP BTP acts as the technological backbone for building, integrating, extending, and innovating with SAP solutions. Whether you’re an enterprise architect, software developer, or administrator, SAP BTP offers significant opportunities for productivity and development.
Given the extensive options and tools SAP BTP offers, we created the SAP BTP Guidance Framework to help you fully leverage the platform. This framework serves as your compass, providing comprehensive guidance, simplifying your work, and helping you make smart technology choices.
The Guidance Framework provides clear direction and a structured approach to adopting SAP technologies. With this guidance, you can develop intelligent applications using advanced analytics, equipping your organization with a robust foundation to support agile innovation.
Let’s take a closer look at the main components:
Along your SAP BTP adoption journey, every choice makes a difference. Our Decision Guides help you identify the technology option that best fits your needs by providing navigation for architects, developers and administrators.
Which guides do we offer?
Integration architecture guide: supports you in evolving your existing integration architecture.Extension architecture guide: supports the advancement of your existing extension architecture and helps you determine which SAP technology should be used in a given scenario.SAP BTP Developer’s guide: improves the process of implementing a business application on SAP BTP.SAP BTP Administrator’s guide: how- to set up your landscape and lifecycle management for running applications on SAP BTP.SAP BTP Center of Expertise (CoE) guide: centralizing the strategy, governance and operating model to realize the potential of SAP BTP with the CoE, which has just recently moved to the SAP Guidance Framework.
If you are architecting solutions on SAP BTP, we offer curated solution templates. Our Reference Architectures are templates that outline consistent components and configurations for software implementations. They show how applications, data, and AI operate in both cloud and on-premises environments. These templates illustrate how different services interact and integrate with SAP, partner, and third-party applications. They provide a standardized approach that can be tailored to optimize systems and incorporate the latest cloud innovations.
To support this, we offer the SAP BTP Solution Diagram Repository on Draw.io, where you can create your own architectural landscapes. This tool allows you to visualize and extend your ideas, sparking inspiration and creativity, ideal for developers and architects working on future projects. Although still under construction, you can start exploring the new SAP Architecture Center, which was freshly launched at Sapphire 2025.
When it comes to the know-how in SAP BTP, our Methodologies offer you a guided approach toward increasing your cloud technology maturity level, covering both technical and organizational aspects. As an architect, you might be interested in:
SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology: offers a framework that includes integration use case patterns, architecture blueprints, and additional best practices for cloud and hybrid IT landscapes. Its scope isn’t limited to technical aspects, but also covers the organizational dimension of enterprise integration like setting up an Integration Center of Excellence and defining integration roles including their tasks.SAP Application Extension Methodology: provides a structured, technology-agnostic approach for customers and partners to define an organization-specific extension strategy. If you face complex challenges like ‘clean core’, ‘cloud readiness’, and ‘future proof’ concepts, you need to come up with a custom-tailored extension strategy for your organization. This methodology can help.SAP Data and Analytics Advisory Methodology: provides a comprehensive framework for enterprise and data architects to evaluate data strategies, develop solution architectures, and foster a data-driven culture in a structured four-phase approach.
Navigating decisions on your own can be tough, especially when it comes to security. To ensure secure technology implementation, we provide Recommendations for safe configurations. Developers and administrators can learn how to set up and monitor these security recommendations using SAP Cloud ALM. These guidelines assist in evaluating the security of SAP BTP configurations.
Discover DevOps with SAP BTP and learn about how these principles enable your development and operations teams to be more efficient. Especially for developers and administrators, this will be a helpful tool to optimize workflows and bring out the best in your team. You can browse through the capabilities and determine what fits best for you by filtering for DevOps in the SAP Discovery Center Service Catalog.
As you navigate the complex landscape of technology adoption, it’s clear that the right guidance can make all the difference. With the right resources, you can transform the challenge of technology adoption into an opportunity for growth and innovation. Whether you’re building from the ground up or fine-tuning an existing system, the SAP BTP Guidance Framework will help you move forward with confidence.
You Might Also be Interested In
The Guidance Framework is one of many learning and enablement resources when it comes to SAP BTP. If you’re interested in exploring other expert-curated resources, check out my other blog post, SAP BTP Resource Rundown, where you can find more information about other top assets and enablement sources.
Earlier this year the SAP BTP Guidance Framework was presented as a live YouTube series with role-based episodes. Take a look at the recordings:
SAP BTP Guidance Framework Series: How-to Empower Architects, Developers, and AdministratorsSAP BTP Guidance Framework: How-to Empower DevelopersSAP BTP Guidance Framework: How-to Empower Administrators
Stay Tuned
This blog post is just the beginning of a deep dive into the SAP BTP Guidance Framework. Coming next will be additional blog posts covering the different topic areas, written by the experts themselves. Stay tuned!
Say hello to the SAP BTP Guidance Framework—a practical framework tailored to anyone using the SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP BTP acts as the technological backbone for building, integrating, extending, and innovating with SAP solutions. Whether you’re an enterprise architect, software developer, or administrator, SAP BTP offers significant opportunities for productivity and development.Given the extensive options and tools SAP BTP offers, we created the SAP BTP Guidance Framework to help you fully leverage the platform. This framework serves as your compass, providing comprehensive guidance, simplifying your work, and helping you make smart technology choices.The Guidance Framework provides clear direction and a structured approach to adopting SAP technologies. With this guidance, you can develop intelligent applications using advanced analytics, equipping your organization with a robust foundation to support agile innovation.Let’s take a closer look at the main components:Along your SAP BTP adoption journey, every choice makes a difference. Our Decision Guides help you identify the technology option that best fits your needs by providing navigation for architects, developers and administrators. Which guides do we offer?Integration architecture guide: supports you in evolving your existing integration architecture.Extension architecture guide: supports the advancement of your existing extension architecture and helps you determine which SAP technology should be used in a given scenario.SAP BTP Developer’s guide: improves the process of implementing a business application on SAP BTP.SAP BTP Administrator’s guide: how- to set up your landscape and lifecycle management for running applications on SAP BTP.SAP BTP Center of Expertise (CoE) guide: centralizing the strategy, governance and operating model to realize the potential of SAP BTP with the CoE, which has just recently moved to the SAP Guidance Framework.If you are architecting solutions on SAP BTP, we offer curated solution templates. Our Reference Architectures are templates that outline consistent components and configurations for software implementations. They show how applications, data, and AI operate in both cloud and on-premises environments. These templates illustrate how different services interact and integrate with SAP, partner, and third-party applications. They provide a standardized approach that can be tailored to optimize systems and incorporate the latest cloud innovations.To support this, we offer the SAP BTP Solution Diagram Repository on Draw.io, where you can create your own architectural landscapes. This tool allows you to visualize and extend your ideas, sparking inspiration and creativity, ideal for developers and architects working on future projects. Although still under construction, you can start exploring the new SAP Architecture Center, which was freshly launched at Sapphire 2025.When it comes to the know-how in SAP BTP, our Methodologies offer you a guided approach toward increasing your cloud technology maturity level, covering both technical and organizational aspects. As an architect, you might be interested in:SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology: offers a framework that includes integration use case patterns, architecture blueprints, and additional best practices for cloud and hybrid IT landscapes. Its scope isn’t limited to technical aspects, but also covers the organizational dimension of enterprise integration like setting up an Integration Center of Excellence and defining integration roles including their tasks.SAP Application Extension Methodology: provides a structured, technology-agnostic approach for customers and partners to define an organization-specific extension strategy. If you face complex challenges like ‘clean core’, ‘cloud readiness’, and ‘future proof’ concepts, you need to come up with a custom-tailored extension strategy for your organization. This methodology can help.SAP Data and Analytics Advisory Methodology: provides a comprehensive framework for enterprise and data architects to evaluate data strategies, develop solution architectures, and foster a data-driven culture in a structured four-phase approach.Navigating decisions on your own can be tough, especially when it comes to security. To ensure secure technology implementation, we provide Recommendations for safe configurations. Developers and administrators can learn how to set up and monitor these security recommendations using SAP Cloud ALM. These guidelines assist in evaluating the security of SAP BTP configurations.Discover DevOps with SAP BTP and learn about how these principles enable your development and operations teams to be more efficient. Especially for developers and administrators, this will be a helpful tool to optimize workflows and bring out the best in your team. You can browse through the capabilities and determine what fits best for you by filtering for DevOps in the SAP Discovery Center Service Catalog.As you navigate the complex landscape of technology adoption, it’s clear that the right guidance can make all the difference. With the right resources, you can transform the challenge of technology adoption into an opportunity for growth and innovation. Whether you’re building from the ground up or fine-tuning an existing system, the SAP BTP Guidance Framework will help you move forward with confidence.You Might Also be Interested InThe Guidance Framework is one of many learning and enablement resources when it comes to SAP BTP. If you’re interested in exploring other expert-curated resources, check out my other blog post, SAP BTP Resource Rundown, where you can find more information about other top assets and enablement sources.Earlier this year the SAP BTP Guidance Framework was presented as a live YouTube series with role-based episodes. Take a look at the recordings:SAP BTP Guidance Framework Series: How-to Empower Architects, Developers, and AdministratorsSAP BTP Guidance Framework: How-to Empower DevelopersSAP BTP Guidance Framework: How-to Empower AdministratorsStay TunedThis blog post is just the beginning of a deep dive into the SAP BTP Guidance Framework. Coming next will be additional blog posts covering the different topic areas, written by the experts themselves. Stay tuned! Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articles
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