Item: SAP Business Technology Platform
Rating: 7
Author: Ren Kamlage

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Technology Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am working as the SAP Platform manager responsible for implementing, running and administering SAP Business Technology Platform on the foundational level. "My" use case is to enable our functional teams to leverage SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP Business Technology Platform is open for all our SAP landscapes including full ERP suite, full aftersales/PS&L, warehouseing and so on.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to start / Implement
Connectivity is running well with S4 cores
Easy enabling development for new use cases

Cons

User Management is painful. Split in different layers, no real overview, services user management could be completely different
We are having several issues with licensing. Some licenses are getting lost out of nowhere (but we get good support from our SAP partners)
No clear 3 Tier on subaccount level, which means at the end we pay for one environment at least 3 times which we used to just pay once

Return on Investment

We are currently starting the SAP Business Technology Platform journey having ~100 Subaccounts.

Usability

Beside the negative side of user management and costs, it's a perfect enabler for functional teams or businesses to build easy, fast and innovative use cases.