SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Cloud Platform has been rebranded as SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).^[1]

SAP Cloud Platform

Type of site	Subsidiary
Industry	Cloud computing, web services
Parent	SAP SE
URL	hana.ondemand.com
Registration	Required
Launched	2012; 11 years ago (2012)^[2]
Current status	Discontinued

SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) was a platform as a service developed by SAP SE for creating new applications or extending existing applications in a secure cloud computing environment managed by SAP. The SAP Cloud Platform integrated data and business processes.^[3][4]

Overview

SAP Cloud Platform was an open platform-as-a-service,^[5] which included the in-memory SAP HANA database management system, connects to both on premises and cloud-based systems running SAP or other third-party software and relies on open standards,^[6] like Java, JavaScript, Node.js and Cloud Foundry^[7] for integration options.

SAP and Apple Inc. partnered to develop mobile applications on iOS using cloud-based software development kits (SDKs) for the SAP Cloud Platform.^[8][9]

SAP Cloud Platform was based on open source technology, developed & supported in partnership with SUSE.^[10]

The company worked with the Cloud Foundry Foundation for an offering of SAP Cloud Platform that enabled customers to test out and give feedback for the functionalities coming with Cloud Foundry.^[11]

History

Initially unveiled as SAP NetWeaver Cloud belonging to the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio on October 16, 2012^[12] the cloud platform was reintroduced with the new name SAP HANA Cloud Platform on May 13, 2013^[13] as the foundation for SAP cloud products, including the SAP BusinessObjects Cloud.^[14] Adoption of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform has increased steadily^[15] since the platform's launch in 2012, with SAP claiming over 4000 customers and 500 partners adopting the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.^[16][17]

On February 27, 2017, SAP HANA Cloud Platform was renamed SAP Cloud Platform at the Mobile World Congress.^[18]

On January 18, 2021, SAP Cloud Platform was officially removed from SAP's product portfolio to support SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).^[19]

Capabilities

SAP Cloud Platform contained many cloud services. For a better overview, they were assigned to several categories. The following list contains all the categories defined by SAP:^[20]

• Collaboration
  • SAP Jam
  • SAP Cloud Platform, gamification service
  • SAP Document Center
• User Experience
  • SAP Cloud Platform Build
  • SAP Fiori Cloud
  • SAP Cloud Platform Portal
  • SAP Cloud Platform Forms by Adobe
  • SAP Cloud Platform Rapid Application Development by Mendix
• Integration
  • SAP Cloud Platform Integration
  • SAP Cloud Platform Remote Data Sync
  • SAP Agile Data Preparation
  • SAP Cloud Platform OData Provisioning
  • SAP Cloud Platform API^[21] Management
  • SAP Cloud Platform Workflow
  • SAP Cloud Platform Business Rules
  • SAP Cloud Platform Connector
  • SAP Cloud Platform Smart Data Integration
  • SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging (Beta)
• Analytics
  • SAP Cloud Platform Predictive services
  • SAP Cloud Platform Streaming Analytics
  • SAP HANA for Advanced Analytics
  • SAP BusinessObjects Cloud^[22]
  • SAP Leonardo
• Internet of Things^[23][24]
  • SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things
• Security
  • Cloud App Security with SAP Cloud Platform
  • SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication
  • SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning
• Mobile
  • Mobile Service for development and operations
  • Mobile Service for app and device management
  • Mobile Service for app protection
  • Mobile Service for SAP Fiori
  • SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
• Business Services
  • SAP Business Services for YaaS
  • SAP Localization Hub, tax service
• Runtimes & Containers
  • Java
  • XSJS (SAP HANA extended application services, classic model JavaScript)
  • HTML
  • Cloud Foundry Services
  • SAP Cloud Platform Virtual Machine
• Data & Storage
  • SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services
  • SAP Cloud Platform SAP HANA service
  • SAP Cloud Platform ASE service
  • SAP Cloud Platform Document service
• DevOps
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
  • SAP Cloud Platform Web IDE
  • SAP Monitoring Service
  • SAP Translation Hub

Benefits

Some applications were available from the SAP HANA App Center (now merged with the SAP Store), to extend and integrate applications, customize existing applications, and extend their mobile footprint with mobile-first apps. With SAP Cloud Platform developers could build applications which run in the cloud, but still access data from the premises or other clouds.^[25][26][27]

SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition offered users a way to explore SAP Cloud Platform and its capabilities. In addition to 1GB shared SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform provides users to:^[28]

• Create column views using both HANA Studio and SQL commands via JDBC
• Connect to the HANA instance on SAP Cloud Platform easily via Eclipse
• Deploy the apps on Cloud Foundry based runtimes and backing services
• Connect to up to 2 on-premises systems
• Create unlimited HTML apps
• Test drive the Java applications

See also

• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform
• IBM Cloud
• Microsoft Azure
• Oracle Cloud

References

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18. Magyar, Judith (27 February 2017). "SAP's Cloud Platform Comes of Age with a New Name and New Capabilities". news.sap.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
19. "SAP Cloud Platform Rebranding". SAP. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
20. "Capabilities | SAP HANA Cloud Platform". hcp.sap.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
21. Kepes, Ben. "SAP Decides API Management Is One Of The 'Next Big Things'". Forbes. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
22. Howson, Cindi. . gartner.com. Gartner. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
23. Briodagh, Ken. "Insurers Benefit from Data Collection and Analytics from IoT". iotrevolutionworld.com. IoT Evolution. Retrieved Oct 13, 2016.
24. Gagliordi, Natalie. "SAP allots $2 billion for IoT investments, buys software firm Plat.One". zdnet.com. ZDNet. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
25. Lahl, Dan; Geall, Marc. "Demystifying SAP HANA Cloud Platform". sapinsider.wispubs.com. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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External links

• Official website