SAP Cloud Platform is 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 integrates data and business processes.
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Overview
SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform-as-a-service, which includes 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, like Java, JavaScript, Node.js and CloudFoundry for integration options.
SAP Cloud Platform is promoted to build and extend business applications with rapid innovation cycles.
SAP and Apple Inc. partnered to develop mobile applications on iOS using cloud-based software development kits (SDKs) for the SAP Cloud Platform.
The company is also in partnership with Cloud Foundry for a beta offering of SAP Cloud Platform that enables customers to test out and give feedback for the functionalities coming with Cloud Foundry.
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History
Initially unveiled as SAP NetWeaver Cloud belonging to the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio on October 16, 2012 the cloud platform was reintroduced with the new name SAP HANA Cloud Platform on May 13, 2013 as the foundation for SAP cloud products, including the SAP BusinessObjects Cloud. Adoption of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform has increased steadily since the platform's launch in 2012, with SAP claiming over 4000 customers and 500 partners adopting the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
On February 27, 2017 SAP HANA Cloud Platform was renamed SAP Cloud Platform at the Mobile World Congress.
Capabilities
SAP Cloud Platform contains many services. For a better overview, they were assigned to several categories. The following list contains all the categories defined by SAP:
Benefits
Some applications are available from the SAP HANA App Center, to extend and integrate applications, customize existing applications, and extend their mobile footprint with mobile-first apps. With SAP Cloud Platform organizations can better engage with customers and empower employees and developers can build applications which are running in the cloud, but still access data from the premises or other clouds.
SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition offers users easy and free way to explore SAP Cloud Platform and its capabilities. In addition to 1GB shared SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform provides users to:
- 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
References
External links
- SAP product page for SAP Cloud Platform
- SAP Cloud Platform website
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