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SAP BTP best practices for enterprise architecture, account management, security, and operations, with verification evidence tracked in the repository ledger. Use when planning BTP implementations, setting up account hierarchies, configuring environments, implementing authentication, designing CI/CD pipelines, establishing governance, building Platform Engineering teams, implementing failover strategies, or managing application lifecycle on SAP BTP. Keywords: SAP BTP, account hierarchy, global account, directory, subaccount, Cloud Foundry, Kyma, ABAP, SAP Identity Authentication, CI/CD, governance, Platform Engineering, failover, multi-region, SAP BTP best practices

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SAP BTP Best Practices Skill

Comprehensive best practices for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) implementation, covering enterprise cloud architecture, account management, security, deployment, and operations.

Overview

This skill provides documentation-audited guidance for SAP BTP implementations based on the official SAP BTP Administrator's Guide and Best Practices documentation. Its last_verified date is intentionally stale until the source refresh and any live account checks are completed.

Source Documentation: https://github.com/SAP-docs/btp-best-practices-guide

Version: 2.3.0 Last Verified: 2025-11-27

Capability Index

Capability Status
Commands 1: /btp-architecture-review
Agents 0
Hooks No
MCP No
LSP No
Source Freshness last_verified: 2025-11-27; source refresh is still pending and must not be implied as current.
Verification npm run validate; live BTP account checks pending unless explicitly documented.

Keywords for Discovery

Platform and Architecture

  • SAP BTP
  • SAP Business Technology Platform
  • BTP architecture
  • BTP account model
  • global account
  • subaccount
  • directory
  • BTP cockpit
  • btp CLI
  • multi-cloud
  • Cloud Foundry
  • CF environment
  • Kyma
  • Kyma environment
  • ABAP environment
  • Neo environment
  • BTP region
  • BTP services
  • entitlements
  • quotas

Account Management

  • account hierarchy
  • account structure
  • subaccount setup
  • directory structure
  • account model
  • naming conventions
  • BTP naming
  • staged development
  • dev test prod
  • development subaccount
  • production subaccount
  • CF spaces
  • Kyma namespaces
  • labels
  • account administration

Security and Authentication

  • SAP Cloud Identity Services
  • Identity Authentication
  • IAS
  • identity provider
  • IdP configuration
  • SSO
  • single sign-on
  • principal propagation
  • user federation
  • identity provisioning
  • identity lifecycle
  • platform users
  • business users
  • role collections
  • RBAC
  • role-based access control
  • authorization
  • authentication
  • MFA
  • multifactor authentication
  • SAP ID Service
  • trust configuration
  • destination authentication
  • OAuth
  • SAML

Connectivity

  • Cloud Connector
  • destinations
  • remote systems
  • on-premise connectivity
  • hybrid connectivity
  • mTLS
  • certificates
  • destination service
  • connectivity service
  • API management

Deployment and Delivery

  • MTA
  • multitarget application
  • deployment
  • CI/CD
  • continuous integration
  • continuous delivery
  • SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • Project Piper
  • transport management
  • SAP Cloud Transport Management
  • CTS+
  • Helm charts
  • Docker
  • containerization
  • buildpacks

Operations and Monitoring

  • SAP Cloud ALM
  • monitoring
  • alerting
  • Alert Notification Service
  • Job Scheduling Service
  • Cloud Logging
  • health monitoring
  • real user monitoring
  • observability
  • automation
  • SAP Automation Pilot
  • go-live
  • operations

High Availability and Resilience

  • failover
  • high availability
  • HA
  • disaster recovery
  • multi-region
  • active passive
  • active active
  • data backup
  • resilience
  • redundancy
  • load balancing

Governance and Teams

  • Platform Engineering Team
  • Cloud Development Team
  • Center of Excellence
  • CoE
  • governance model
  • onboarding
  • knowledge transfer
  • DevOps
  • shared responsibility
  • cost management
  • billing
  • compliance
  • data protection
  • GDPR

Commercial Models

  • consumption-based
  • subscription-based
  • BTPEA
  • CPEA
  • Pay-As-You-Go
  • free tier
  • enterprise account

Integration

  • SAP Cloud Integration
  • integration testing
  • OPA5
  • SAPUI5 testing
  • Cloud Integration Automation

Lifecycle Management

  • application lifecycle
  • maintenance
  • retirement
  • Neo migration
  • updates
  • blue-green deployment
  • feature flags

AI and Machine Learning

  • SAP AI Core
  • generative AI BTP
  • RAG BTP
  • LLM BTP
  • prompt engineering SAP
  • content filtering AI
  • data masking PII
  • anomaly detection BTP
  • SAP Document AI
  • AI use cases BTP
  • agentic AI SAP
  • vector embeddings SAP
  • SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine

Use This Skill When

  1. Planning SAP BTP Implementation

    • Setting up a new SAP BTP landscape
    • Designing account hierarchy
    • Choosing commercial models
    • Planning team structure

  2. Configuring Account Structure

    • Creating directories and subaccounts
    • Setting up staged development environments
    • Defining naming conventions
    • Managing entitlements and quotas

  3. Implementing Security

    • Configuring SAP Cloud Identity Services
    • Setting up authentication
    • Implementing authorization
    • Configuring destinations and Cloud Connector

  4. Deploying Applications

    • Building MTA archives
    • Setting up CI/CD pipelines
    • Configuring transport management
    • Deploying to Cloud Foundry or Kyma

  5. Operating BTP Landscape

    • Setting up monitoring
    • Configuring alerts
    • Managing costs
    • Planning go-live

  6. Implementing High Availability

    • Designing multi-region architecture
    • Implementing failover
    • Planning disaster recovery

  7. Building AI Solutions

    • Implementing generative AI with SAP AI Core
    • Building RAG systems
    • Configuring content filtering and PII protection
    • Deploying anomaly detection models

Skill Contents

Main File

  • SKILL.md - Core best practices organized by lifecycle phase (~4000 words)

Reference Files (Progressive Disclosure)

Located in references/ directory:

  • account-models.md - Detailed account structure patterns and examples
  • security-and-authentication.md - Complete security guidance
  • deployment-and-delivery.md - CI/CD and transport management details
  • failover-and-resilience.md - Multi-region and failover implementation
  • operations-and-monitoring.md - Go-live and monitoring procedures
  • governance-and-teams.md - Team structure and processes
  • templates-and-examples.md - Complete code templates: Kubernetes RBAC manifests, MTA descriptors, Helm charts, CI/CD pipeline configs, multi-region GitHub links
  • ai-development-best-practices.md - AI patterns: Generative AI, RAG, content filtering, 20+ use cases catalog

Tracking

Source Documentation

This skill is based on content from:

Primary Source:

SAP Help Portal:

Related Resources:

Updates and Maintenance

Update Schedule

  • Quarterly Review: Check for documentation updates
  • On SAP Release: Review for new features and changes
  • Next Review: 2026-02-21

How to Update

  1. Check source repository for changes
  2. Update relevant files in skill
  3. Update version in SKILL.md frontmatter

License

GPL-3.0 License - See repository LICENSE file.

Related Skills

  • sap-cap - SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
  • sap-fiori - SAP Fiori development
  • sap-cloud-foundry - Cloud Foundry specific guidance
  • sap-kyma - Kyma environment specific guidance
  • sap-hana-cloud - SAP HANA Cloud development

Maintained by: Eduard Jiglau Email: hello@sap-ai-skills.com Website: sap-ai-skills.com *Repository: https://github.com/secondsky/sap-skills*

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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  "maintainer_email": "hello@sap-ai-skills.com",
  "website": "https://sap-ai-skills.com",
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  "last_verified": "2025-11-27"
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