SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)
SAP·AE_HSc_SAPBTPConnectorGuide
Overview
The SAP BTP connector integrates AlertEnterprise Guardian with SAP Business Technology Platform — SAP's integration mediation layer (Cloud Integration / formerly SAP Cloud Platform Integration). BTP fronts multiple SAP HR / HCM-adjacent products via IFlows (Integration Flows) and exposes them to AE Guardian behind a unified REST API surface.
Categorization note: BTP itself is an integration platform, not an HR system. It's classified kind: hr here because in AE deployments its primary purpose is mediating HR data from SAP SuccessFactors, SAP SuccessFactors Learning (LMS), and SAP Fieldglass (sap-fieldglass). Customers running mixed SAP stacks use BTP as the integration tier to normalize all three feeds into Guardian.
Architecture: AE → ACF → SAP BTP Connector → Cloud Integration APIs → IFlows → SuccessFactors / SuccessFactors Learning / SAP Fieldglass. The connector authenticates to BTP and the IFlows handle the per-source integration logic downstream.
This is a 70-page connector guide — among the largest in the AE catalog — reflecting BTP's role as a complex multi-source mediation layer with multiple auth modes (OAuth 2.0 client credentials, SAML, API key, Basic auth) selectable per IFlow.
Architecture
Composed from this connector's actors + edges. Trust zones are color-coded; trust crossings render as thicker lines.
Authentication
4 methods supported
OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant is the most common authentication mode. Token URL pattern {tenant}.fgvms.com/api/oauth2/v2.0/token.
SAML authentication supported for SuccessFactors-backed IFlows.
API key auth supported for some IFlow configurations.
Basic auth fallback for legacy configurations.
Prerequisites
Everything that must be in place for this connector to work, with the owner who's responsible.
SAP BTP / Cloud Integration tenant with IFlows configured
customerAn operational SAP BTP tenant with Cloud Integration enabled and IFlows configured for the source systems of interest (SuccessFactors, SuccessFactors Learning, Fieldglass).
BTP service-binding credentials for AE
customerTenant admin provisions client credentials for the AE integration.
Known limitations
Documented constraints to set customer expectations before deployment.
Categorized as HR but actually an integration platform
informationalBTP itself is an integration mediation platform (closer in spirit to a kind: integration-platform connector). Classified kind: hr only because its dominant AE use case is HR data mediation.
HR specifics
- Sync modes
- full-load · delta
- Direction
- inbound
- Contingent worker support
- Yes
Mediated through IFlows — field mappings are IFlow-specific per upstream source.
- src/connectors/sap-btp/source.pdf — Full connector guide — 70 pages, updated 2025-08-28