Event-Driven SAP - by Atul Pandurang Joshi (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For decades, SAP landscapes have depended on batch jobs, rigid reconciliation cycles, and layers of custom code embedded deep within the ERP core. While this approach suited slower, more predictable business environments, it struggles to keep pace with today's real-time, data-driven enterprises. Organizations now operate on continuous streams of data from connected devices, digital platforms, and financial ecosystems--demanding immediate insights and responsiveness. As a result, traditional batch-driven architectures have become a bottleneck, limiting agility, slowing innovation, and increasing technical debt across SAP environments.

This book introduces the Agentic Shift: an approach where SAP S/4HANA stays the system of record, while SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) becomes the programmable layer for real time intelligence, event driven services, and automation. With clear patterns, reference designs, and practical strategies, you'll learn how to apply clean core principles, build event driven integrations with SAP Event Mesh and Integration Suite, and move from monolithic customizations to modular, scalable services. It also shows how to enable automation, use low code tools to speed innovation, and design SAP landscapes that run continuously--helping architects, developers, and leaders modernize at the pace of today's business.

You Will Learn How To:
- Understand limitations of batch driven SAP and why real time matters
- Apply clean core principles to cut technical debt and simplify upgrades
- Design event driven architectures with SAP Event Mesh and Integration Suite
- Shift from monolithic customizations to modular sidecar services on SAP BTP.

This book is for:

• Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and SAP BTP Practitioners

From the Back Cover

For decades, SAP landscapes have depended on batch jobs, rigid reconciliation cycles, and layers of custom code embedded deep within the ERP core. While this approach suited slower, more predictable business environments, it struggles to keep pace with today's real-time, data-driven enterprises. Organizations now operate on continuous streams of data from connected devices, digital platforms, and financial ecosystems--demanding immediate insights and responsiveness. As a result, traditional batch-driven architectures have become a bottleneck, limiting agility, slowing innovation, and increasing technical debt across SAP environments.

This book introduces the Agentic Shift: an approach where SAP S/4HANA stays the system of record, while SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) becomes the programmable layer for real time intelligence, event driven services, and automation. With clear patterns, reference designs, and practical strategies, you'll learn how to apply clean core principles, build event driven integrations with SAP Event Mesh and Integration Suite, and move from monolithic customizations to modular, scalable services. It also shows how to enable automation, use low code tools to speed innovation, and design SAP landscapes that run continuously--helping architects, developers, and leaders modernize at the pace of today's business.

You Will Learn How To:
- Understand limitations of batch driven SAP and why real time matters
- Apply clean core principles to cut technical debt and simplify upgrades
- Design event driven architectures with SAP Event Mesh and Integration Suite
- Shift from monolithic customizations to modular sidecar services on SAP BTP.

About the Author

Atul Pandurang Joshi has spent more than twenty years working on SAP digital transformation. He helps guide the modernization of utility systems, making them more reliable and ready for the future. His focus on Clean Core modernization comes from real experience. Over the years, he has seen how legacy custom code and technical debt can slow down progress and block innovation. Atul's work spans large-scale S/4HANA transformations, SAP BTP modernization, event-driven architectures, and reliability engineering in regulated industries. His perspective is shaped by hands-on challenges--recoveries, redesigns, and high-stakes delivery environments--which makes his guidance practical and grounded in outcomes rather than theory.