Unit 2

Lesson 5
Analyzing Connectivity in SAP BTP

LESSON OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
● Analyze the connectivity in SAP BTP

Connectivity in SAP BTP

Why do we need Connectivity in SAP BTP?
As an intelligent, sustainable enterprise, you follow the clean core strategy. You want to build
side-by-side extensions or custom development projects, but integrate them to capabilities or
data from the internet or your on-premise system landscape. You need to connect them to
each other. For this, the SAP BTP offers connectivity functionalities.

Connectivity Services

Figure 30: The Two Connectivity Services

Connectivity in SAP BTP provides two services:

● The SAP Connectivity service
● The SAP Destination service

The SAP Connectivity service provides a connectivity proxy that can be used to access on-
premise resources through a Cloud Connector. Through the use of the SAP Destination
service, you can retrieve and store the technical information about the target resource
(destination) that you need to connect your application to a remote service or system
(internet or cloud connector).

What is the Cloud Connector?

The Cloud Connector connects SAP on-premise backends (or even supported non-SAP
systems) to SAP BTP subaccounts via an encrypted tunnel. The connection is bidirectional.
From an architectural point of view, the Cloud Connector is a possible single point of failure.

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