Drawing BTP Solution Diagrams

It was always a bit pain to deal with mockups and diagrams in SAP area to deliver authentic designs for customers as technical consultant. External utilities like Axure RP, own SAP tool the quickly died Splash etc. Big history of external tooling was utilized in the past. Today the main tool to deliver mockups is the Fiori Design Stencil library for Figma. Good news for drawing BTP Solution Diagrams are the libraries which are now included in draw.io. You can also use PowerPoint with manual installation or LucidChart as well. In this post we look at the setup of draw.io and BTP Solution Diagrams.

Looking for something else ? For OO design and ER Diagrams draw.io is also a good choice or more minimalistic approach is Dia.

Installation

We kick off with draw.io on windows desktop, but the tool is available on linux, mac and even online.

Download the exe installer and launch draw.io. Click on More Shapes.

Scroll down to Networking group, there You find SAP. Check and Apply.

Usage

Stage is Yours to draw .

Reference Architectures and Diagrams

Some idea needed ? You can look at the Reference Architectures within the Architecture Center. They contain many well designed diagrams for sampling.

Open the downloaded draw.io file.

It’s nice, isn’t it?

When SAP really wants to go with a beneficial AI solution, there is a room for introducing GenAI to speed up drawing BTP solution Diagrams. Searching, embedding, configuring and aligning diagram elements takes a lot of time when You are not doing this daily in practice.