SAP BTP Integration: Connect Data and Processes Without Middleware So AI Can Deliver Real Business Value
In today’s enterprise landscape, companies are being pushed to “be more intelligent” through artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven decision-making. Yet many organisations quickly realise a fundamental limitation: without seamless integration of systems, data, and processes, even the most advanced AI cannot deliver real business value.
The typical IT environment consists of fragmented systems, custom connectors, brittle middleware, and siloed data flows. These bottlenecks are not just technical. They are strategic barriers that limit growth and responsiveness.
SAP addresses this challenge through SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), which provides a unified, secure, and intelligent foundation for data, analytics, automation, and AI. A key component of this platform is the SAP Integration Suite, a modern and enterprise-grade integration platform that allows organisations to connect SAP and third-party applications, automate processes, and achieve AI-driven outcomes without the complexity of traditional middleware.
The Business Case for Integration Without Middleware
Traditional middleware often requires custom configurations, hard-coded logic, and expensive ongoing maintenance. Worse still, it creates silos between departments and slows down transformation projects. These point-to-point integrations become fragile over time, limiting scalability and innovation.
SAP Integration Suite simplifies this landscape by providing a single, comprehensive integration layer within SAP BTP. Instead of relying on multiple disconnected tools, enterprises can now manage application integration, API management, B2B collaboration, and event-based architectures from one central platform. The result is faster time to market, reduced technical debt, and fewer surprises during system upgrades or AI rollouts.
What Is SAP Integration Suite and Why It Matters
SAP Integration Suite is SAP’s enterprise integration platform as a service (iPaaS), included as a core capability within SAP BTP. It supports cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-on-premise, and third-party integrations across all major landscapes.
It includes:
- Over 10,500 business accelerators
- More than 3,400 prebuilt integrations
- More than 250 third-party connectors
- 99.95 percent uptime and multizone availability
(Source: Integration is Innovation – SAP Integration Suite, p6, p9; Top 5 Reasons SAP BTP Helps You Move to SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Suite, p3)
Integration Suite is built for scale, with support for modular architecture, elastic scaling, and real-time event processing. It connects seamlessly to both SAP and non-SAP systems, eliminating the need for hardcoded middleware or manual synchronisation. Organisations can confidently manage high-volume, mission-critical data flows while preparing for AI-enabled transformation.
Seamless Data and Process Integration with SAP BTP
SAP BTP provides the foundation for secure and unified integration across business units, platforms and cloud environments. Integration Suite, as a core element of SAP BTP, orchestrates complete business processes such as lead to cash, recruit to retire and source to pay, regardless of the backend systems in use. For example, CONA Services used SAP Integration Suite to consolidate multiple SAP and third-party solutions, cutting runtime integration costs by more than 50 percent. (Source: Top 5 Reasons SAP BTP Helps You Move to SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Suite, page 6)
The platform includes preconfigured content, event-based triggers, and an API-first architecture that enables organisations to move beyond middleware and adopt clean, modular integration patterns. This approach also supports SAP’s “clean core” principle, where business extensions are built side-by-side rather than embedded in the core ERP code, allowing faster upgrades and less maintenance risk.
Making AI Work for the Business with Integrated Data
AI needs real-time, contextual data to function. Without access to clean, structured enterprise information, AI tools remain disconnected from actual business outcomes.
SAP Integration Suite plays a critical role in unlocking AI value by providing a clean, governed layer of connectivity between systems, databases, and event sources. Through prebuilt APIs and data services, it enables SAP Joule and other AI agents to interact securely and efficiently with business processes.
For instance, De Agostini Publishing used SAP BTP to automate over 54,000 vendor invoices per year, achieving a 91 percent automation rate for purchase order-based invoices and saving 680 hours per month. (Source: Top 5 Reasons SAP BTP Helps You Move to SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Suite, page 9)
The AI in SAP BTP is trained on real-world implementation data and powered by a secure, enterprise-trusted AI layer. This enables:
- Automated invoice matching
- Predictive maintenance triggers
- Chatbot-assisted procurement
- AI-generated code and test cases
By removing integration roadblocks, SAP BTP and its Integration Suite make these outcomes attainable in real business scenarios.
Innovation Without Complexity
SAP Integration Suite allows IT and business teams to innovate without resorting to expensive, time-consuming system overhauls. With over 300 prebuilt business events and extensive support for event-driven architectures, enterprises can respond to changes in real time and automate cross-system workflows. Through SAP Build on SAP BTP, teams can create side-by-side applications using low-code tools and prebuilt templates, preserving the integrity of core ERP while extending functionality as needed.
For example, thyssenkrupp enabled over 100 HR teams worldwide to automate recruitment flows using SAP Build Apps, achieving 10 times faster app development without writing code. (Source: Top 5 Reasons SAP BTP Helps You Move to SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Suite, page 13)
This approach dramatically reduces technical complexity and allows innovation at scale, from departmental prototypes to enterprise-grade applications.
Security, Governance, and Compliance
Integration without governance can lead to data breaches, downtime, or non-compliance. SAP Integration Suite provides centralised API management, identity governance, and secure digital document exchange for both B2B and B2G scenarios.
Key features include:
- Role-based access control
- Monitoring and analytics for API usage
- Prebuilt compliance flows for electronic invoicing and regulatory reporting
- Automated encryption and secure authentication
By centralising control within SAP BTP, enterprises gain the flexibility to innovate without compromising on data privacy or regulatory compliance.
Business Outcomes Backed by Real Data
The benefits of SAP BTP and Integration Suite are not only theoretical. They are clearly measurable and proven in real-world use. According to studies cited by SAP:
- Up to 70 percent productivity improvements
- Up to 80 percent reduction in implementation costs
- Over 120 percent return on investment for businesses adopting SAP’s integrated suite
- Up to 648 percent ROI when integrating SAP Commerce Cloud and ERP with AI-powered tools
(Source: Enterprise Strategy Group study, cited in SAP internal analysis on AI-driven performance improvements.)
Organisations like Heineken, Hitachi, CONA Services, De Agostini, and Thyssenkrupp have demonstrated how SAP BTP delivers faster innovation, cost savings, and greater business agility.
Unlocking AI Value Begins with Integration – and Langia Can Help
True business innovation begins by connecting your data and processes in a way that allows AI and automation to make a real impact. SAP Business Technology Platform, with SAP Integration Suite at its core, is purpose-built to deliver this foundation. It eliminates the need for complex middleware, reduces time-to-value, and prepares your architecture for secure, scalable growth.
At Langia, we specialise in helping organisations make this transformation a reality. As an expert SAP partner with deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience, we guide you through:
- Mapping your integration architecture
- Replacing outdated middleware with SAP Integration Suite
- Connecting SAP and non-SAP systems using prebuilt accelerators
- Enabling AI adoption through clean data orchestration
- Building extensions and applications using SAP BTP and SAP Build
- Ensuring regulatory compliance and secure API management
Whether you are starting your move to cloud ERP or scaling AI across your value chain, Langia ensures your systems, data, and people are aligned for success.
Let us connect your landscape, simplify complexity, and make your business truly intelligent with SAP BTP and Langia by your side.
