SAP Cloud Platform - Introduction
SAP Cloud Platform is a cloud service provided by SAP based on platform as a service (PaaS) to develop and deploy custom web applications. SAP is responsible for managing complete infrastructure of this platform including hardware servers, maintenance cost, component upgrades, and system lifecycle.
SAP Cloud service provides full range of service catalog including database, storage and data backup, reporting service and transaction layer to develop multi-platform software development. SAP Cloud platform customers can utilize this cloud environment for managing software development or can also use a hybrid model based on cloud and on premise environment.
SAP Cloud platform can be integrated with following to get data and development −
- SAP Applications
- 3rd party applications
- Internal solutions
Note that the above mentioned can be on premise or on cloud and can be easily integrated with SAP Cloud platform for application development.
SAP Cloud platform supports business critical solutions for software development and it includes −
- SAP Fieldglass
- SAP Success factors
- SAP Hybris
- SAP Ariba
- BusinessObjects
- SAP ERP Business suite
- Concur
You can migrate apps and extensions seamlessly to SAP Cloud platform including SAP Business suite and SAP S/4 HANA. All the data centers are managed by SAP itself, so you can expect the given key benefits associated with data center management −
- Security
- Compliance
- Availability
Why SAP Cloud Platform is Different?
SAP Cloud platform offers PaaS based in-memory and microservice based mobile enabled cloud applications. SAP Cloud Platform provides you an option to control your choice of clouds, frameworks, and applications.
To know more about SAP Cloud platform and services offered by Cloud service, you can navigate to this link − https://cloudplatform.sap.com/index.html
