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SAP Cloud Platform: Product Overview
SAP Cloud Platform: Product Overview
Product Overview
SAP
October, 2017
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88% 168
of the companies have
private companies in the
disappeared, merged, or
Billion Dollar Startup Club
contracted since 1955.
Source: Dow Jones VentureSource and
Source: Steven Denning (Forbes) The Wall Street Journal
60% 70%
equal
are new companies
compared to 2006
Source: Forbes
4,4 ZB 44 ZB
(Source: Siemens)
(Source: IDC)
Computing Capacity
107 Single-Threaded 8 NVIDIA V100 GPUs How we watch
Performance * 960 TeraFLOPS
106 How we talk
105
GPU
How we shop
(Source:NIVIDIA)
104
103 CPU How we play
Google TPU is 15-30x
102
faster How we ask
101 30-80x TOPS/Watt
1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
(Source: Google)
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Technical Market Trends
90% of modern BI
ISV development mechanism
will include AI or to connect data, algorithms,
ML. and decision services. platforms.
– IDC – IDC – Gartner
How to sense?
run win
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Cloud
Sensors/Things
Standardization Differentiating
IoT Analytics
Machine
run / buy learning win / build
Standardization Differentiating
Big Data Blockchain
SAP Leonardo
Extend Build
Cloud & On-Prem Apps Differentiating Digital Apps
Quickly add new functionality to your Rapidly build and run new cloud apps,
existing cloud and on-prem apps to business services and APIs to solve new
optimize your existing investments problems, engage new customers, and drive
Integrate
new revenue
Extensibility puts
Extend your current cloud apps to add new features and
personalization unique to your business, your people and goals
innovation & agility
in the hands of our Run your business on all devices, at all times through
customers beautiful, engaging mobile experiences your team can use right
now
Build modern
Build brand-new apps and microservices to meet new
challenges, attract new customers and drive new business for
cloud apps and you and your customers
have
application creation and expand the developer talent pool
Connecting People
Maximize the value of digital experiences with tools and
content in one integrated and comprehensive offering
to the Digital
Business World Manage user engagement across all channels, enabling
innovation without disrupting core business processes
With SAP Cloud Platform, NTUC FairPrice has enabled collaboration and
contextual engagement for its huge supplier network, and mobilized its workforce,
achieving real-time sales visibility and improved productivity
Design and
implementation at a Faster
large conglomerate All information is held in one
operating in the
system providing a single view
for the customer.
retail industry by
Seamless SAP partner Scalable
integration of both AgilityWorks
Time to value is improved with
real-time integration and
Non-SAP survey automatic data synchronization.
metadata and
Reduced manual
More
responses back
into SAP Hybris processing time as Accuracy
Marketing both systems are
Deep integration with S/4HANA
Cloud Marketing data allowing
synchronized. faster and more accurate
reporting
Developed APIs to
integrate with a
popular online
trading platform Faster
and more than 30
Faster innovation cycles
with digital APIs
models
innovation
design and
project and upgrade cycles
monitoring and
the gateway to a cloud-first
strategy
upgrades, thanks
to automatic Minimal up-front Minimal
monthly upgrades investment and no
Up-front investment
Enables our
customers to
connect ANY Intelligently
machine or device Connected
Fully managed of ANY protocol
with the help of SAP
platform, with device Cloud Platform IoT
and connectivity we can onboard and
manage our SPS Robots
management, data from Mitsubishi Electric in
management, Build great IoT a fast and efficient way
“
Usage scenario: Internet of Things
”
integration of relevant data into any backend
application via the SAP Cloud Platform are key
advantages of the IoT service.
Thomas Lantermann
collaboration,
collaboration and contextual
engagement for its huge
and interactions supplier network and
future-proof
interfaces
5 Pillars
Indicative extension to
the core
SuccessFactors
application to ensure
SAP Cloud Platform the vision of employee • People
will serve as the central • Customer Centricity
Innovation
foundation for
•
• Agility
sensor-based • Integration
. Driveachievement and
Internet of Things
and machine job satisfaction with
learning peer-to-peer
technologies in recognition and
factories worldwide. rewards that attract,
motivate, and retain
employees.
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SAP Cloud Platform
Usage scenario: Extension – HR Transformation
“
#1
Decorative-coating
“Asian Paints’ strength has always had a deep understanding company in India and
one of the top 5 in the
of what customers need. As we move into the home decor
world
”
market – catering to individual consumers – that is truer than
17
ever. The right technology is critical to our success.”
Harish Lade, Vice President for Information Technology, Asian Paints Limited Countries of operation
Asian Paints has long been the leading decorative-coating manufacturer in India. And it intends to achieve the same level
of success as it moves into the home improvement market. Its customer base has traditionally been contractors buying
45,000
Local stores in India
from mom-and-pop shops – but now it must refocus to serve individual consumers. Working with SAP and Semos, Asian
Paints has the technological foundation it needs to expand and meet changing customer demographics.
selling Asian Paints
products
Problem Statement
Streamline
Seamless integration
for business processes
combining S/4HANA
and SuccessFactors • Project Management
Create full with non-SAP • Process Flow
transparency and technologies
•
•
Scheduling
Time Sheets
simplify analytics for
all aspects of the
overall process such Custom application
as usage and for time recording to
profitability per substitute standard
employee, and
weekly reports, ad-
hoc reporting
Data Ingestion
• Business critical functions
Internet of Things Pipeline Cloud
SAP IoT Application (IoT Gateway Edge) Integration
and more …
Enablement
• Digital twin builder
Cloud Platform Your IoT Data
• IoT app development & Sensor
BDaaS Swift I Cassandra* I SAP HANA
mashup embedded
things
• Data management
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Leverage Cloud Foundry to build new apps & microservices
Your Service 2
Leverage a wider range of using redis
programming models:
XSA
Your Service 3
• using MongoDB
• Java
• Node.js
Secure tunnel
Embrace a microservices
architecture in your applications Corporate Identity Provider
Customer Microservices
Experience
• Packages and exposes APL (Automated Predictive Consolidate All Analytics for All Users with
Library) functions/features as REST services on SAP SAP Analytics Cloud
Cloud Platform
• A collection of “ready-to-be-integrated web services” • Create dashboards without having to write a single
that deliver predictive analytics insights line of code
• Highly specific web services which respond to business • Prepare and model data from cloud and
needs on-premise systems
• Any existing or new cloud application can embed • Use the collaboration features to work together on
predictive analytics features dashboards and simply share it with customers
• Gain access to predictive capabilities without having to • Use the SAP Digital Boardroom for meaningful
be a data scientist insights, better decisions and immediate action
• Built natively on the SAP Cloud Platform, your data
is safe with a SaaS solution from the world’s largest
provider of analytics and enterprise applications
Business Security
Smart business analytics
Ecosystem
Analysis path framework
Business
Data protection & privacy ML business services
Globalization
Currency Services Consent Management Document services
Data Cloud Services Business Logging Business event handling
Translation hub Financial Market Data Personal Data Manager SAP HANA Text Analysis
Localization hub – tax service … … …
Unit of measure
Converts units, and provides APIs to maintain custom units and value helps
conversion
Smart business analytics Visualizes KPI’s & OPI’s as Fiori analytical applications
Analysis path framework Builds and enhances interactive analytical Fiori applications
Data protection & privacy A collection of services supporting the development of data privacy functions
Consent Management Manages consent information as legal basis to process personal data
Tax service Determines and calculates applicable country specific taxes for business transactions
Enables translation based on a range of Web services to access records in a multilingual database and by
Translation hub
using machine translation.
Features pre-trained machine learning models that can be used as a web service by calling simple REST
ML business services
APIs
Geocoding Features an API that offers geocoding, reverse geocoding and landmark geocoding services
Document services Connect business processes to SAP or non-SAP document management systems
Business event handling Features subscription to business events in SAP S/4HANA to be consumed in SAP CP based applications
Business Logging A tenant aware and authorization based service to create logs along your business flows
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Collaboration
Context-driven and engaging collaboration for modern applications
Big
Relational Databases
SAP HANA
• SAP HANA in-memory power for different workloads
(transactional, analytical and mixed)
• Predictive analytics and advanced processing for graph,
spatial, series and text data
NoSQL Databases
SAP ASE
• Disk-based relational data persistence MongoDB
• Maximum transactional throughput with minimal resources • Managed open source document-oriented database
• Supports dynamic schemas
PostgreSQL
• Managed open source database management system Redis
• Brings together the concept of object-oriented design and • Managed open source advanced key-value store
relational databases and cache
• High performance in-memory data structure store
with on-disk persistence
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Data and Storage
State-of-the-art data management for structured and unstructured information
Big Data
Object Store
• Supports the storage and access of unstructured
data as objects
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Dev/Ops
Continuous innovation for your applications using simplified Dev/Ops activities
Key Capabilities
• Agile development platform supporting continual collaboration
• Visual, graphical low-code toolset
• Rich Prebuilt SAP component and connectors
• SAP starter application and template with Fiori theme
• Integration with SAP cutting-edge innovation (SAP Leonardo)
• Seamless integration to SAP Cloud platform services
• SAP OData connectors for SAP system, like Business Suite, S/4 HANA
Key Benefits
• Build applications faster without coding, utilizing prebuilt components
• Foster continuous collaboration between business and IT
• Create beautiful, responsive applications for any device
• Make your business smarter, leverage SAP cutting-edge innovation
• Deliver continuously and deploy to SAP Cloud Platform
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Dev/Ops
development + operations
Artifact Repository
Key Capabilities
Empower users to manage business logic independently from application development
• Model business rules and formulas in tabular spreadsheet-like decision tables
• Provide an easy-to-use web-based business rules editor for managing business rule changes
• Embed SAPUI5 controls for decision tables into configuration apps for business users
• Implement policy changes in applications without requiring application development
Rapidly build decision logic for workflow and extension apps on SAP Cloud Platform
• Create rules to control process extensions for S/4HANA Cloud
• Model rules to control custom workflows for SAP Cloud applications such as SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer, SAP
SuccessFactors, Concur, or SAP Ariba
Benefits
• Rapidly build flexible smart applications in the cloud using SAP Cloud Platform Business Rules
• Digitize and automate decision making with business rules
Key Capabilities
Enhance productivity with coordinated and accountable tasks
• Automate and track tasks such as approvals, order fulfillment, or time-sensitive partner collaboration
• Manage tasks using My Inbox
• Impress users with simple, consumer-grade user interfaces using SAP Fiori
• Improve processes and track running workflows
Rapidly build and modify workflow applications with web-based tooling
• Model workflows in SAP Web IDE using industry-standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0)
• Embed workflows into your custom-built applications using RESTful APIs
• Connect to other applications via service tasks
• Integrate business rules for flexible and agile decision management
Benefits
• Rapidly build new workflow-based applications on SAP Cloud Platform
• Extend standard cloud application workflows
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API Management
Supports the end-to-end lifecycle of digital APIs for app development and open integration
Key Capabilities
• Support full lifecycle of APIs from design – develop – manage – monetize and SAP Cloud Platform
engage API Management
• 40+ out-of-the-box policies for traffic management, security, caching
mediation, transformation and service orchestration
• Comprehensive API-analytics with pre-built API performance and error reports APIs as digital Apps Ecosystem Marketplaces
with support to create custom reports building blocks powering digital interactions
• Developer portal to engage with internal, partner and public ecosystem of app
Design Develop Manage Monetize Engage
developers
• API providers to easily connect to S4HANA, ERP, SAP Gateway, SAP
Process Orchestration and Cloud Platform Integration and 3rd party services
Search, discover, experience and consume to right APIs from SAP and select partners for your
digital transformation projects
Key Capabilities
• Search, discover and consume application, platform and business service
APIs from SAP and select partners
• Test APIs in API Sandbox as well as productive environments
• Build apps and integration easily with code generation, tools integration
(Web IDE, API Management, Cloud Platform Integration)
Product Innovations
• 200+ APIs across SAP application and platform portfolio and select
partners
• Pre-packaged API best practices as templates for use in API
Management Key Benefits
• Add own production environments to test APIs and generate code • Simplified API discovery for developers with easy-to-use
interactive API documentation with Sandbox to easily test
• Code generation in Java, Javascript, Swift, SAPUI5 and ABAP to kick- and learn about the APIs
start usage
• Simplified consumption and enhanced developer
• Rich tool integration with Build, IOS SDK, API Management productivity with tool integrations, code generation and
interactive documentation
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Internet of Things
Connecting things with people and processes to reimage your business
• Collect and process sensor data at scale already at the edge or in the
cloud and store it on SAP Cloud Platform
• Integral part of SAP Leonardo IoT Foundation & Edge to build and run Internet
IoT applications in cloud
Deliver Rich Mobile Experience with Create Mobile Apps without Writing any Code
Mobile Services for DevOps with Enterprise App Modeler*
• Full-featured mobile app development platform for native, • Rapid mobile application development toolkit
hybrid and micro mobile apps. • Build rich, native mobile apps without writing code.
• Open tooling approach and component reuse • Tailor complex SAP apps; SAP Asset Manager
• HTTP REST API for service access
Hybrid and native options to mobilize SAP Fiori
•
Revolutionize Mobility with Instant Micro App
Creation with Content to Go*
* Included in Mobile Service for development and operations • Publish data into a “wallet “style app
• Instantly mobilize S/4HANA content
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SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation
Enable customers and partners to build the intelligent enterprise
Pre-trained Services
Business services
Ready to integrate
Lifecycle Applications
Functional services management Ready to use
•
•
Natural language processing
Image and video
Ready to train
• Tabular and time series
• Speech and audio
Time Predict
Audio,
Series, Recommend
Speech
Tabular Classify
Identify
Image, Natural SAP Leonardo ML Tag
Video Language … and more
Scalable and managed services Flexibility and agility Integration End-to-end coverage
We usually have different requirements to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud applications.
Select the right set of languages, frameworks and compute power from the variety that SAP Cloud
Platform offers.
Virtual
…
Machines
XSA/XSC
Moscow
Toronto
Frankfurt St. Leon-Rot
US West (CA)2 Tokyo
Sterling
Chandler Ashburn Shanghai
US East (VA)
Riyadh
SAP CP Cloud Foundry environment SAP CP Service Availability per provider and region.
1) Beta
2) Location of Azure (GA) Data Center may change
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Infrastructure
SAP Cloud Platform and Data Center Certifications & Attestations
Differentiating business
Business Services / Enterprise APIs services
350,000+
76% of the world’s
Cloud solutions from SAP
provide the freedom for customers in more
85,200+ 130+countries
transaction revenue touches
an SAP system. to work from anywhere. employees in
23,300+ employees in
research and development
SAP Customers
87%87% 79% of the
SAP customers represent Our customers produce more
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Appendix
Why cloud? → Business Agility
minimum
IDEA viable X.Y
product
Total cost of Continuous
development (TCD) cloud-native delivery
Extensibility
Products for the
Workforce Engagement Asset Insights Customer Onboarding Supplier Engagement
Line of Business
Employer Experience Risk & Compliance Configure Price to Quote Product Insights
HR & IT Intelligence Finance & IT Intelligence Sales & IT Intelligence Suppliers & IT Intelligence
Extensibility
Extensibility Foundation Technology for
Technical Onboarding | Ext App and In-App Lifecycle Mgmt. | Connectivity and Security | SDK for Ext Apps | UI Integration IT & Developers
Locality to
Security, compliance, Availability of specific
exisiting cloud
regulatory requirements services
assets
(country- / industry-specific) (e.g. Big Data, IoT, ...)
(apps, services, data sets)
Multi-Cloud: Flexibility & Choice with an Agile PaaS for multi-cloud environments
With the multi-cloud capability, SAP offers a PaaS solution that can be used via different cloud provider
infrastructures.
Key Capabilities
• Generally Availability of SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment on
Microsoft Azure.
• Additional support for AWS Data Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• New Beta Availability of SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment on SAP Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform.
• Improved and additional services in SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry
environment (refer to respective services roadmap slides)
Benefits
• Additional choice of cloud-provider infrastructure to support your cloud-
strategy
• Meet regional requirements with a broader regional coverage
• Implement additional scenarios with extended and enhanced services
Multi-Cloud: Flexibility & Choice with an Agile PaaS for multi-cloud environments
With the multi-cloud capability, SAP offers a PaaS solution that can be used via different cloud provider
infrastructures.
Key Capabilities
• Generally Availability of SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment on
Google Cloud Platform.
• General Availability of SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment in SAP
Data Centers SAP Cloud Platform
• Additional support for AWS Data Center in Tokyo, Japan.
• Improved and additional services in SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry
environment (refer to respective services roadmap slides)
Benefits
• Additional choice of cloud-provider infrastructure to support your cloud-strategy
• Meet regional requirements with a broader regional coverage
• Implement additional scenarios with extended and enhanced services
Simplified Development
Monitor
• Easily build application prototypes with simple collaboration
between business users, designers and developers Plan
• Web-based integrated development tool that simplifies end-to- Plan Monitor
end full-stack SAP application development Configure
Monitor
• Rapid application development tooling, e.g. wizards, templates,
graphical editors, code assist, validations and more
• Advanced testing capabilities, including application preview, Develop
mock service and data, QUnit, OPA, etc. Dev / Ops
• Higher development efficiency through integration with SAP Deploy
Deploy
CP services, e.g. debugging service, Git source control,
automatic UI translation using SAP Translation Hub, SAP API
Business Hub as a service sandbox and more Test Build
• Easily build applications using leading industry build tools such
as Grunt and Maven
• Deploy from the SAP Web IDE directly to SAP CP CF
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Dev / Ops
Continuous innovation for your applications using simplified Dev/Ops activities
Simplified Operations
Monitor
• Unified and consistent deployment process for your projects
via MTAs, including alignment with the on-premise Plan
development processes via the CTS+ integration
Plan
• Flexible properties configuration with no need for re- Configure
Monitor
deployment
• Simple and easy start and stop for your applications
• Comprehensive and configurable monitoring and alerting for Develop
an easily health check of your solutions, e.g. Profiling Dev / Ops
service, Lifecycle management REST API, etc.
Deploy
Deploy
• Quick and easy problem troubleshooting via the detailed and
configurable application log
Test Build
• Transparency for the resource usage of your SAP Cloud
Platform accounts