What is SAP BTP ABAP environment?
SAP BTP ABAP environment is the platform as a service for ABAP developers. It’s a cloud-optimized ABAP platform based on SAP HANA Cloud that serves as a development and runtime environment for cloud apps.
Key benefits
Extend SAP applications
Use the side-by-side approach to develop and run custom extensions for SAP S/4HANA
Accelerate cloud transformation
Reuse ABAP assets and knowledge to build breakthrough innovations in the cloud
Keep the core clean
Transform on-premise custom code to a separate platform to decouple it from the digital core and profit from independent release cycles
Key features
Development
- Develop ABAP cloud apps with Eclipse: Easily connect your ABAP cloud systems and leverage the rich toolset to develop your projects
- Create OData-based SAP Fiori applications: Build your own OData services using the ABAP RESTful application programming model optimized for SAP HANA Cloud
- Analyze ABAP code with advanced custom code migration tools: Use modern custom code migration tools to assess your custom code impact during conversion to SAP S/4HANA, migration to SAP BTP, and during your journey to clean core
Administration and Integration
- Role-based access: Use the role-based SAP Fiori launchpad to perform administration tasks in your ABAP system, such as user management and security setup
- Integrate with systems: Create extension projects between ABAP Cloud and other SAP Build tools, and easily integrate with existing on-premises systems and any SAP S/4HANA systems
- Integrate with external services: Integrate third-party services using HTTP with SAP BTP ABAP environment
ABAP AI capabilities
- Enhance classic ABAP code: Enhance code quality and accelerate code migration using Joule directly within the ABAP development tools environment
- Accelerate development: Generate code, business objects, application logic, data models, and unit tests using generative AI capabilities, and use the ABAP AI SDK to connect custom AI solutions
- Better understand code: Deliver contextual code explanation and generate documentation