Extending SAP S/4HANA: Side-by-Side Extensions with the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK

Tailor your SAP S/4HANA system to your business needs with SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK. In this comprehensive guide to side-by-side extensibility, you'll learn to build, secure, and maintain applications that extend the functional scope and reach of SAP S/4HANA. Once the apps are up and running, integrate them with SAP S/4HANA customize and them further with in-app extensions. Optimize SAP S/4HANA for your business!

• Develop side-by-side extensions for SAP S/4HANA using the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK
• Test, secure, and maintain extensions in SAP Cloud Platform
• Leverage in-app extensibility to enhance side-by-side extensions

Develop Extensions

Use the SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK to create extensions applications, add a prebuilt or custom frontend, and integrate the app with SAP S/4HANA.

Maintain Extensions

Set up authentication and authorization to secure your app, build unit and integration tests for troubleshooting, and ensure your extensions are performing well with quality checks and monitoring.

Deliver Extensions

Implement a continuous delivery pipeline and use DevOps to deliver applications to users quickly and ensure their availability.

• Side-by-side extensibility
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK
• Cloud Foundry
• Security
• REST APIs
• SAP Cloud Platform SDK for service development
• Spring Boot
• Multitenancy
• Unit and integration tests
• In-app extensibility
• DevOps

About the Author

Johannes Wust is the head of SAP Cloud Platform Enablement, an organization dedicated to establishing SAP Cloud Platform as the best digital enterprise platform for the federated architecture suite. Johannes holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, and received his doctorate degree from the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering.