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What Is the SAP Cloud Connector?
The SAP Cloud Connector is an application that can be installed on a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS environment, which provides a secure connection to the SAP cloud. This allows SAP cloud solutions to communicate securely with systems that are running on-premise, in a private cloud landscape, or an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. This is important for data security as it ensures that these systems do not have to directly be connected to the internet in order to communicate with applications running in an environment, such as the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
What Is the SAP Cloud Connector?
The SAP Cloud Connector is an application that can be installed on a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS environment, which provides a secure connection to the SAP cloud. This allows SAP cloud solutions to communicate securely with systems that are running on-premise, in a private cloud landscape, or an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. This is important for data security as it ensures that these systems do not have to directly be connected to the internet in order to communicate with applications running in an environment, such as the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
The SAP Cloud Connector can be installed on either a physical or virtual machine. An SAP BTP account is needed to configure the connection between the cloud environment and the Cloud Connector instance. Multiple Cloud Connectors can be deployed to connect to one or more SAP BTP regions or subaccounts depending on your landscape and needs. The SAP Cloud Connector can help achieve functionality, such as extending on-premise applications, allowing communication between cloud-based applications and on-premise systems, integrating on-premise systems with cloud applications, moving data from internal to cloud-based systems, and reporting on internal data using cloud-based applications.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- Use the SAP Cloud Connector to securely connect local systems with cloud-based applications.The SAP Business Technology Platform is the foundation for creating and extending your SAP applications in the cloud. But many organizations are looking to leverage data that isn’t yet available in the cloud. The SAP Cloud Connector offers a means of doing this securely. This article by Paul Modderman explains how you can leverage the cloud connector to ensure that the work that you are doing in the cloud is securely accessing your local data, and allow that information to be accessed and used in the cloud.
- The SAP Cloud Connector is the first step that you should take when extending your SAP applications. SAP encourages customers to use the SAP Extension Suite and SAP Business Technology Platform as the basis for extending their SAP applications. Whether this is extensions for SAP S/4HANA or a new application that uses the SAP BTP, ABAP environment and data from SAP HANA, the first step that this application typically needs is to connect to existing business data and processes. Martin Grasshoff explains in this article how to build that application using SAP Extension Suite, leveraging a connection to your existing data.
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A Smarter Approach to IntercompanyMar 27, 2023 — Companies are constantly, merging, shifting, growing, and reorganizing across borders. Finance and accounting teams must coordinate transactions among different parts of the business, which often span between different geographic locations. These sectors each have their own tax laws and regulatory bodies to appease, which may be in flux. Many large multinational organizations also have a disparate and siloed technological ecosystem, which can make it difficult to get on the same page.
In this article, you will learn why it is important to have a global view of all financial activity, and how organizations can achieve that visibility worldwide in real-time. You will also learn the importance of going “Beyond Zero” when it comes to the financial close, and how organizations can ensure that their solutions will integrate seamlessly with the rest of their ERP landscape.
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How to Protect Data at RestFeb 2, 2023 — Companies often prioritize data they are actively using within their cybersecurity planning and infrastructure. However, it is important that they do not overlook data at rest. Examples of data at rest include archives, online backups, client copies for quality assurance and development environments, and disaster recovery sites.
Though it may not be top of mind, stores of data at rest contains significant amounts of important information on vendors, customers, employees, and products. If penetrated, malicious actors can access bank account information, identities, corporate intellectual property, processes, and trade secrets.
In this article, you will learn about the three categories of tools and techniques that can protect this data: awareness and policy, data categorization, and automation. It will also show you how a methodical approach to security can envelop data at rest into a holistic security model.
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A “No Regrets” Approach to Financial TransformationNov 10, 2022 — As businesses look to the future and modernize their practices, digital transformation has become a top priority. Although IT and the business team often take center stage in digital transformation initiatives, finance and accounting teams and processes can play a critical role in delivering success.
Digital transformation, like a move to SAP S/4HANA, for example, should be approached as a journey. And as with any expedition, it helps to have a guide who has made the trip before, can lead you on your way and help find the solutions that make the most sense for your business.
You can use this case study as a guide to pick your way through some of the thorny issues of your financial transformation, use it as a way to kickstart a larger digital transformation, and have "no regrets" in how you transform the financial activities of your organization.
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BTP’s Integration Capabilities Allow Faster InnovationOct 21, 2022 — SAPinsider sat down with Thorsten Leiduck, SAP’s Senior Vice President and Co-Lead of the Global BTP Ecosystem, to discuss SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) and its capabilities to transform businesses.
He explains what is driving the adoption of BTP and the advantages that the cloud can offer to end users over traditional on-premise solutions. It is important to understand BTP’s integration capabilities, as well as the key features that give it an advantage over other platforms.
When we talk about business transformation and how to set up the next generation of the IT landscape, it’s really about the intelligent and sustainable enterprise. There are several key components that are relevant. One is a very strong platform layer that has core capabilities around data, data management, analytics, integration, the extensibility side and the intelligent technologies. This is basically the foundation for the application that is our S4 but also industry cloud, so industry solutions are very important.
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Integrating Legacy Applications with Modern AppsJun 29, 2022 — A vast majority of SAP customers are in some stage of modernizing their SAP and overall IT landscape to meet business demand for seamless workflows, integrated customer experiences and enterprise-wide analytics. Yet, often this modernization project is not uniformly applied across all applications. Simple ROI (return-on-investment) calculations fail to show positive impact for modernizing several […]
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Integration Is Essential to Intelligent Enterprise GrowthJan 7, 2022 — More intelligent enterprises are using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to get a leg up on their competition and adapt to abrupt market changes, such as the COVID-19-inspired shift to remote work.
The explosion in SaaS app use has increased cloud complexity. This complexity has created management, cost, integration, and security challenges for IT teams. To address these issues, many enterprises are modernizing their IT systems by automating operations using intelligent technologies.
With SAP Business Technology Platform, partners and customers can build, integrate, and extend business applications with a combination of technologies for database and data management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies. This article discusses how to use the SAP Business Technology Platform to integrate applications, data, and technologies to enable intelligent enterprises.
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Simply Securing a System Is No Longer SufficientNov 13, 2020 — By Robert Holland, VP Research, SAPinsider Securing an SAP system used to involve checking access and process controls and ensuring that the most recent SAP Notes had been applied. Now it involves not only ensuring that the system itself is up to date but must address cybersecurity and compliance issues as well. The Threat Landscape […]
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How a Digital Integration Hub Is a Business Game-Changer in the Experience EconomyJun 30, 2020 — Every SAP customer is concerned with ways to safeguard and optimize their many different sources of revenue. When rapidly evolving business environments are thrown into the mix, how can these organizations stay best informed to know that all the systems contributing to the revenue stream are communicating and integrating data properly? SAP recommends companies consider a Digital Integration Hub to deliver excellence at scale and tangible business value. Read this article and hear how the following SAP customers, among others, are following this advice to great success:
-- Learn how the San Francisco 49ers organization used SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite and SAP Analytics Cloud to integrate data in real time from several cloud-based and on-premise sources and present an integrated view to decision makers via an Executive Huddle cockpit.
-- Discover how Endress+Hauser used SAP Data Intelligence to evolve from maintaining data siloes to following an approach centered on data thinking.
-- Understand how Centrica plc, which supplies electricity and natural gas to millions of customers, used SAP Cloud Platform to provide digital access to customers to improve service, lighten the load on call center staff, and increase customer satisfaction.
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Achieve Excellence in Sales and Operations PlanningApr 24, 2020 — Sales and operations planning (S&OP) functions live at the tactical level of the planning hierarchy in an environment that synchronizes demand, inventory, and supply plans and considers profit objectives. S&OP has been discussed in multiple forums over the years because of the value it delivers to the organization as whole. In this article you will gain an understanding of key business drivers impacting S&OP processes and the stakeholders who are affected by decisions made as a result. This article will also review how to create a business case to justify an implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (IBP) and factors to consider when selecting a partner to implement SAP IBP.
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