Application Development

In this chapter, we are starting a whole new part of our book in which we will cover how SAP BTP facilitates application development. With the cloud transformation of business applications, especially with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, businesses are encouraged to standardize their processes and leverage out-of-the-box functionality with the fit-to-standard mentality. However, the fast pace of change in IT and the impetus for innovation necessitate the development of extension applications to complement the core business solutions.

In the last decade, new application development paradigms emerged or gained traction. The open source movement has enabled large-scale collaboration, and together with connectivity and integration standards, it also improved the efficiency in interoperability between applications from different vendors. As a result, companies started using open source software in their commercial products, actively supporting their expansion...