SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is the SAP Cloud Platform?
The SAP Cloud Platform was a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that provided an environment for developing and running cloud applications that leveraged SAP solutions. As part of the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio when it was released in 2012, it became the SAP HANA Cloud Platform in 2013, and SAP Cloud Platform in 2017. SAP Cloud Platform initially was available only in SAP-hosted data centers, but later was made available on multiple environments via the Cloud Foundry open-source cloud platform. Capabilities and services that were offered as part of SAP Cloud Platform included:
- Analytics
- Business services
- Collaboration
- Data and storage
- Integration
- Internet of Things
- Mobile
- Runtime environments
- Security
- User experience
In 2021, SAP Cloud Platform was officially removed as a stand-alone offering from SAP and is now one of the core components of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). SAP Cloud Platform capabilities for application development and integration are now available as cloud services that run on SAP BTP.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
SAP Cloud Platform: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is the SAP Cloud Platform?
The SAP Cloud Platform was a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that provided an environment for developing and running cloud applications that leveraged SAP solutions. As part of the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio when it was released in 2012, it became the SAP HANA Cloud Platform in 2013, and SAP Cloud Platform in 2017. SAP Cloud Platform initially was available only in SAP-hosted data centers, but later was made available on multiple environments via the Cloud Foundry open-source cloud platform. Capabilities and services that were offered as part of SAP Cloud Platform included:
- Analytics
- Business services
- Collaboration
- Data and storage
- Integration
- Internet of Things
- Mobile
- Runtime environments
- Security
- User experience
In 2021, SAP Cloud Platform was officially removed as a stand-alone offering from SAP and is now one of the core components of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). SAP Cloud Platform capabilities for application development and integration are now available as cloud services that run on SAP BTP.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- SAP Cloud Platform is the basis for integrating data and applications in the cloud. Whether integration included SAP or non-SAP applications, the SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite (now the SAP Integration Suite, part of the SAP Business Technology Platform) provided for integration of on-premise and cloud-based applications and data. This video by Craig Stasila, Global Go-to-Market Lead for SAP Platform, explains SAP’s strategy for how to connect the components of your intelligent enterprise.
- SAP Cloud Platform was designed as the means via which organizations could create extensions for SAP S/4HANA without needing to create and maintain custom code. One of the main goals of many organizations moving to SAP S/4HANA is to remove much of the custom code that made upgrading and maintaining their older ERP systems complex and expensive. To achieve this clean core, SAP Cloud Platform provided the capability for organizations to create application extensions using ABAP or their choice of programming language. Reddy Venumbaka explains how SAP S/4HANA can be extended and integrated using SAP Cloud Platform, and now SAP Business Technology Platform, in this event session.
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Ensuring a Secure Internet of Things
The biggest challenge presented by the Internet of Things (IoT) is maintaining the integrity, authenticity, and privacy of critical business data. Security teams are faced with the daunting task of verifying that data sent from a multitude of devices are both accurate and safe. Learn what crucial security measures are needed for the age of…
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Q&A on SAP BI 4.2: What’s Happening with SAP’s BI Products, and What Does It Mean for You?
During this live Q&A session, Jayne, Ty Miller, Olivier Duvelleroy, and several other key product leaders from the BI product groups at SAP, including SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Lumira, SAP Design Studio, SAP Analysis for Office, and SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports, gathered to answer readers’ questions on the road ahead for SAP’s BI products,…
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Natura Seeks Sustainable Sales Order Tracking
Natura, a leading manufacturer of cosmetics, hygiene, and beauty products in Brazil, is passionate about sustainability. With ingredients that are 83% renewable in recyclable packaging, the company stays true to its roots and puts an emphasis on positively affecting the environment. But as the company continued to grow and sales orders came in at an…
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How to Use SAP BPC with SAP Cloud for Analytics
Learn about the decision points and advantages of a hybrid model that integrates SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Cloud for Analytics models. Key Concept SAP Cloud for Analytics is an integrated, cloud-based solution that can be used to extend or expand a company’s SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) environment (either on...…
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End-to-End Identity and Access Management in the Cloud
As businesses extend their technology deployments into the cloud, new security concerns arise as users start accessing business applications from an array of locations and devices. How do you protect your data? How do you ensure that users have access to the right information — and only that information? SAP addresses these concerns with two…
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Running SAP on the IBM BlueMix Infrastructure Platform: Live Q&A on IaaS Deployment Options
IBM offers SAP certified cloud infrastructure available in multiple locations globally with a choice for clients to choose a self service / IaaS model or fully managed by IBM on the BlueMix platform. IBM’s bare metal servers on BlueMix provide the best performance for SAP and HANA applications while allowing the capability to leverage Watson…
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Björn Goerke on Gaining a 360-Degree View of the SAP Customer Experience in Today’s Multi-Cloud World
Q: Ray Wang, Constellation Research A: Björn Goerke, SAP Cloud Platform Q: Björn, the CTO role has completely changed. It is really, really different. The landscape is crazy. The integration is all over the place. The technologies are changing fast. The business models are changing at the same time. What is so hard right now?…
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How a Digital Integration Hub Is a Business Game-Changer in the Experience Economy
Every SAP customer is concerned with ways to safeguard and optimize their many different sources of revenue. When rapidly evolving business environments are thrown into the mix, how can these organizations stay best informed to know that all the systems contributing to the revenue stream are communicating and integrating data properly? SAP recommends companies consider…
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SAP Cloud Platform: Helping Organizations Respond to Rapid Change in Real Time
In these new and challenging times, an organization’s ability to react and respond quickly to changing market conditions has never been more important. The SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) is SAP’s cloud application development environment that allows companies to quickly build new applications, extend existing ones, or integrate data and processes across the enterprise. Come to…
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Options for Extending and Integrating SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform is an open business platform designed to help you innovate, integrate, and extend applications. It is an ideal cloud platform to extend SAP S/4HANA and integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP and non-SAP applications. Join this session to discover how SAP Cloud Platform: - Enables you to extend SAP S/4HANA using ABAP and…
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