Hi, my name is Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
This video tutorial is part of a series about the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP
Integration Suite certification.
In this video, we will cover the Discovery Center
This video was recorded in March 2022.
For the latest tutorials on the topic, please check the playlist.
For information about SAP business technology services, in particular for pricing, the commercial
aspects, SAP provides the Discovery Center For the exam, you do not have to be intimately
familiar with this resource but there are a couple of things you need to know.
For more information about BTP services, we can take a look at the service catalog.
We can filter by capability, for example integration (14 services)
or filter by suite,
integration suite (11 services)
We are looking here at the services of the integration suite and one of the services
is ... integration suite.
First thing to note is that it is the box inside the box we care about for the exam.
In other words, the Intelligent Suite as BTP service.
Data Intelligence, Event Mesh (Enterprise Messaging), master data integration: these
are all beyond scope of the exam.
The integration suite as BTP service contains four tools: cloud integration, open connectors,
integration advisor, and API management.
On the overview page, they are listed a features of the suite, elsewhere the term modules or
capabilities might be used, and this all means the same thing.
Although in the past, some of these capabilities may have been available as stand-alone service,
API Management for example.
Today, they are only avaiable as part of the suite.
Of course, commercially anything is possible, but as rule when you subscribe to the Integration
Suite you get access to these four modules listed.
Five, to be precise, as Trading Partner Management was recently added a capability of the suite,
but this is beyond the scope of the exam as well.
You can ignore this.
Each module has a long and short description.
For example, Design, develop, and manage APIs references API Management which we can use
to develop, publish, promote, and oversee APIs in a secure and scalable environment.
Read more opens the feature scope description
With the features of the suite
Note that Cloud Integration features require 19 pages, whereas the Integration Advisor
only requires a single page,
same for Open Connectors
and API Management
this is reflected in the exam, to some extent, as well.
Most questions will be about Cloud Integration.
You don’t need to memorize the capabilities but you might want to download the document
and do a quick scan.
After watching this tutorial series, you should be familiar with most of the features, know
where to find it in the suite.
Next tab is Pricing.
Again, no need to memorise what feature is included in which plan, the different editions,
but you should be familiar with the commercial models.
Note also the Estimator,
You can add a plan to the Estimator to see its cost
The free plan cost 0 euro’s, for example.
CPEA (Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement), Pay as you go.
also a consumption based license model (in other, you pay for what you use)
Subscription,
you pay a standard fee, whether you use the service or not
and then there is also a trial service plan, for personal exploration
There is information on the discovery center about regional availability, but you won’t
get any questions on this,
same for missions, just know that they exist and serve to explore the features and functionality
a brief roadmap view, but for the complete roadmap, visit the road map explorer
and customer stories, again, no question asked.
That’s it.
We have covered what you need to know about Discovery Center for the Integration Suite
certification.
Brief excursion to SAP BTP Cockpit of the trial environment,
Enable Integration Suite booster
Here we have a marketing slide of the suite
with a number of products, services, listed inside an image of a cloud, representing the
Integration Suite
We recognise API Management, Integration Advisor, Cloud Integration, and Open Connectors; all
in scope of the exam
but SAP Graph, Data Intelligence, Enterprise Messaging (name has changed Event Mesh, are
not.
That’s it.
This video tutorial was recorded by Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
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