BTP Applications & Cloud Extensions
Extend SAP Business Suite with cloud apps that respect your clean core
BTP Applications & Cloud Extensions
Use SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to modernise workflows, UX and integrations without turning your core system into a science experiment. We design and deliver governed, upgrade-safe extensions that sit alongside SAP – not buried in it – so you can move faster without losing control.
For CIOs, Heads of Architecture and Digital leads who want innovation, but won’t tolerate wild-west customisation.
The current reality
Innovation colliding with technical debt
You’re under pressure to:
- Digitise manual processes and clunky spreadsheets
- Improve UX for employees, managers and partners
- Integrate SAP with modern SaaS and data platforms
- Deliver “something on BTP” to satisfy strategy decks
…but your architecture reality looks more like:
- A core system already heavy with Z-code and point-to-point integrations
- Multiple “one-off” sidecar apps, each with their own tech stack and support story
- Security, risk and audit teams rightly nervous about where data is going
- A backlog of “quick wins” that never quite make it past the design workshop
You know SAP BTP brings together data, analytics, application development, automation and integration in one platform, designed to extend SAP and third-party systems.
The gap is not a lack of tools. It’s a lack of governed, business-relevant use cases and extensions you can stand behind.
What’s at stake if you get extensions wrong
Left to evolve organically, “innovation” turns into:
- Upgrade risk – tightly coupled customisations that make every change programme slower and more expensive
- Shadow IT – well-meaning teams spinning up unsanctioned apps and automations around SAP
- Inconsistent UX – each process looking and behaving differently depending on which team built it
- Security and compliance exposure – data and identity flows that are hard to trace and even harder to audit
The result: architecture councils say “no” by default; business stakeholders lose patience; BTP is seen as a lab, not a strategic platform.
Our answer
BTP applications and extensions with governance built-in
BTP Applications & Cloud Extensions with Discovery is a solution-led way to use SAP BTP to extend your SAP estate safely:
- Pre-built BTP applications for common cross-industry and industry-specific scenarios (for example, workforce management, leave, rostering and safety) – delivered as reference implementations you can adopt and adapt.
- Co-designed cloud extensions that solve specific business problems while keeping SAP S/4HANA and ECC as systems of record, not experimentation.
- Architecture-first approach that starts from your target landscape, security model and integration standards – not from a blank BTP subaccount.
Behind the scenes, we use SAP BTP services for integration, application development, data and analytics and automation – but we keep the story at the level your executives and architects care about: clean core, clear patterns, controlled change.
Why Discovery for BTP?
This is about making BTP a trusted extension platform in your enterprise, not just another experiment.
Built and run by people who live inside SAP BTP every day
Your extensions aren’t side projects. They’re designed, built and supported by specialists who work exclusively with SAP BTP – across integration, security, data and UX – not generalists “having a go” between other work.
Industry-leading SAP BTP developers, not just slideware
Your apps are engineered by practitioners who are recognised across the SAP ecosystem for their BTP depth – the kind of people who speak at conferences, contribute to community content and help shape how BTP is used in the real world. You get hands-on experts who can talk architecture with your SAP Basis team and business value with your executives.
Proven apps in production, not experiments
Unified Leave, Work Schedule Builder, Casual Management, SafetyFactors, Pay Advice and Simplified Position Management are all live, supported and evolving in real customer landscapes. You benefit from patterns and hard lessons already tested at scale, rather than funding a one-off experiment.
Extension, not duplication
We design BTP apps to extend SAP – not to rebuild core HR, payroll or finance off to the side. That means clean integration, clear ownership and a support model your internal teams and partners can live with.
Keep the core clean, stay upgrade-safe
By pushing complexity to BTP, you protect your core SAP systems from customisation sprawl. Upgrades, cloud moves and vendor changes become easier, because the “clever bits” are where they belong – in a modern extension layer, not buried in core code.
Discovery BTP use Apps for your landscape
Below are SAP BTP applications Discovery has already designed, built and supports in production – concrete examples of how we extend SAP SuccessFactors and core HR to handle real-world complexity.
Unified Leave – person-centric leave management
For education and other multi-role workforces, Unified Leave replaces position-based confusion with a single, auditable balance per person. It applies complex school-holiday rules, supports staff with multiple roles, and surfaces clear balances in SAP SuccessFactors self-service – reducing payroll queries and spreadsheet workarounds.
Work Schedule Builder – complex rostering without award anxiety
Work Schedule Builder lets managers and HR build even the trickiest part-time, job-share or term-time patterns directly in SAP SuccessFactors, while real-time checks flag compliance issues before they hit payroll. That means faster schedule changes, fewer manual fixes, and more confidence that every dollar paid is correct.
Casual Management – end-to-end casual workforce flow
From vacancy to verified payment, Casual Management centralises recruitment, shift acceptance, attendance capture and payroll integration in one flow. Principals and hiring managers tap a vetted pool in minutes, casuals get a mobile-first experience, and leadership gains clear compliance oversight on who worked where, when and at what rate.
SafetyFactors – integrated Environment, Health & Safety
SafetyFactors EH&S for SAP SuccessFactors provides an integrated, mobile-enabled safety layer across the workforce. Incidents, hazards and safety observations are captured in real time, with workflow and notifications helping you manage environmental, health and safety obligations and support compliance with regulations and standards.
Pay Advice – single payslip experience across payrolls
Pay Advice consolidates payslips from multiple payroll solutions into one view in SAP SuccessFactors, so employees see a single, consistent experience even when back-end payroll is fragmented. That reduces HR queries and avoids duplicate portals or manual distribution processes.
Simplified Position Management – cleaner org structures at the edge
Simplified Position Management lets line managers create and maintain positions in SuccessFactors, with workflow back to HR or shared services for approval and any additional updates. Managers keep structures accurate as changes happen, while HR retains governance and data quality.
How we typically work with you
Every engagement is shaped around your governance and architecture model, but a typical path looks like:
- Landscape and opportunity scan
- Understand your current SAP landscape, BTP footprint and integration standards
- Identify 3–5 high-value, low-regret use cases that are realistic for BTP
- Reference architecture and guardrails
- Define target patterns for integration, identity, data and operations on BTP
- Agree on what “good” looks like for extensions in your organisation
- Design and delivery of priority use cases
- Co-design BTP applications and extensions with your architecture and security teams
- Build, integrate, test and roll out into production with proper change control
- Handover, enablement and iteration
- Knowledge transfer to your internal teams
- Optional ongoing support and enhancement model, aligned to your governance
Throughout, the emphasis is on repeatable patterns, not one-off hero projects.
Ready to make BTP a trusted platform in your enterprise?
Right now, BTP is on the roadmap, but not always in production. You have pressure to innovate, but also to keep the core clean, the auditors happy and the board calm.
The opportunity is to use BTP as it was intended: a governed platform to integrate, extend and automate SAP and third-party systems – in ways your architects, security team and operations people can all live with.
We’ll map BTP to your current SAP estate, highlight practical use cases, and show what a safe, sustainable extension strategy looks like for your organisation.