Different Account Types offered in SAP BTP

SAP BTP provides different types of global accounts: enterprise, trial, and free tier. Account type
determines pricing, condition of use, resources, available services, and hosts.

1. Trial account: It allows individual developers to try out BTP platform for free. It is intended for
personal exploration, and not for production use. It allows restricted use of platform resources and
services. It has a time limit; it needs to be extended before the time limit reaches else it will be
deleted automatically.

2. Free Tire account: This account is open to customers, partners, and individual developers and
allow them to try out SAP BTP for free without time limits. These account types enable users to
test the scenarios and generally offer the option to upgrade to paid service plans. These accounts
also allow users to store data long-term and move projects to production. Many services which are
not available for trial account, are available for free tire account. Free tire services are tagged as
“FREE TIER” in “SAP Discovery Center”. As of now Free tire account is not available for all
countries.

3. Enterprise account: It is primarily used by SAP customers and partners. It enables production
use of the SAP BTP platform. It contains purchased entitlements to platform resources and
services.

Commercial Model

SAP BTP offers two different commercial models:

1. Consumption-based commercial model: Organizations receive access to all current and future
services that are eligible for this model. Organizations have complete flexibility to turn services on
and off and to switch between services as their business requires throughout the duration the
contract. This commercial model is available in two flavors: Cloud Platform Enterprise
Agreement (CPEA) and Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP.
2. Subscription-based commercial model: Organization subscribes only to the services that they
plan to use. Organizations can use these services at a fixed cost, irrespective of consumption.

Account Model

Accounts in SAP BTP are structured in two models.

1. Account Model Feature Set A: SAP BTP cockpit is structured according to global accounts and
subaccounts. One global account can have two or more subaccounts and each subaccount can have
one or more spaces. Subaccounts allow to structure a global account according to the
organization’s and project’s requirements with regard to members, authorizations, and
entitlements.
2. Account Model Feature Set B: SAP BTP cockpit is structured according to global accounts,
directories, and subaccounts. Directories allow to organize and manage subaccounts according to
the technical and business needs. A directory can contain directories and subaccounts to create a
hierarchy.
Here is a use case of the account model, which we have used in our SAP BTP.

Overview of Global Accounts and Subaccounts (Feature Set A):

The figure below depicts the relationship between a global account, its subaccounts,
environments, regions, entitlements, and quotas in feature set A. It shows the administrative
tasks to be considered at the global acccount level as well as at the subaccount level.

Overview of Global Accounts and Subaccounts (Feature Set A)

Overview of Global Accounts, Directories, and Subaccounts (Feature Set B)
If your global account is on cloud management tools, feature set B, the account structure
looks different. Feature set B introduces the new hierarchical element called directory, which
is essentially a grouping of subaccounts. Furthermore, subaccounts can have multiple
environments.

The figure below depicts the relationship between a global account, its directories,
subaccounts, environments, regions, entitlements, and quotas for feature set B.

Overview of Global Accounts, Directories, and Subaccounts (Feature Set B)