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SAP Cloud Platform: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is the SAP Cloud Platform?
The SAP Cloud Platform was a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that provided an environment for developing and running cloud applications that leveraged SAP solutions. As part of the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio when it was released in 2012, it became the SAP HANA Cloud Platform in 2013, and SAP Cloud Platform in 2017. SAP Cloud Platform initially was available only in SAP-hosted data centers, but later was made available on multiple environments via the Cloud Foundry open-source cloud platform. Capabilities and services that were offered as part of SAP Cloud Platform included:
- Analytics
- Business services
- Collaboration
- Data and storage
- Integration
- Internet of Things
- Mobile
- Runtime environments
- Security
- User experience
In 2021, SAP Cloud Platform was officially removed as a stand-alone offering from SAP and is now one of the core components of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). SAP Cloud Platform capabilities for application development and integration are now available as cloud services that run on SAP BTP.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
SAP Cloud Platform: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is the SAP Cloud Platform?
The SAP Cloud Platform was a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that provided an environment for developing and running cloud applications that leveraged SAP solutions. As part of the SAP HANA Cloud portfolio when it was released in 2012, it became the SAP HANA Cloud Platform in 2013, and SAP Cloud Platform in 2017. SAP Cloud Platform initially was available only in SAP-hosted data centers, but later was made available on multiple environments via the Cloud Foundry open-source cloud platform. Capabilities and services that were offered as part of SAP Cloud Platform included:
- Analytics
- Business services
- Collaboration
- Data and storage
- Integration
- Internet of Things
- Mobile
- Runtime environments
- Security
- User experience
In 2021, SAP Cloud Platform was officially removed as a stand-alone offering from SAP and is now one of the core components of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). SAP Cloud Platform capabilities for application development and integration are now available as cloud services that run on SAP BTP.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- SAP Cloud Platform is the basis for integrating data and applications in the cloud. Whether integration included SAP or non-SAP applications, the SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite (now the SAP Integration Suite, part of the SAP Business Technology Platform) provided for integration of on-premise and cloud-based applications and data. This video by Craig Stasila, Global Go-to-Market Lead for SAP Platform, explains SAP’s strategy for how to connect the components of your intelligent enterprise.
- SAP Cloud Platform was designed as the means via which organizations could create extensions for SAP S/4HANA without needing to create and maintain custom code. One of the main goals of many organizations moving to SAP S/4HANA is to remove much of the custom code that made upgrading and maintaining their older ERP systems complex and expensive. To achieve this clean core, SAP Cloud Platform provided the capability for organizations to create application extensions using ABAP or their choice of programming language. Reddy Venumbaka explains how SAP S/4HANA can be extended and integrated using SAP Cloud Platform, and now SAP Business Technology Platform, in this event session.
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Why Security Timing Determines Success in RISE with SAP TransformationsFeb 2 — Security timing often determines whether RISE with SAP transformations stay on track. This analysis examines how late risk discovery undermines migration, execution, and post–go-live outcomes, and why secure-by-design approaches change delivery discipline.
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SAP Business Data CloudDec 3, 2025 — Behind the hype: Discover what this innovative solution means for your business. SAP Business Data Cloud is at the heart of SAP’s vision for enterprise data. And it provides a powerful solution to some of our clients’ biggest business challenges. Bringing SAP and non-SAP data together SAP Business Data Cloud provides a central place for […]
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AWS Named Leader in SAP HANA Infrastructure Services by ISGJul 28, 2025 — ISG's latest report recognizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leader for the seventh consecutive year in providing effective infrastructure solutions for SAP S/4HANA workloads, highlighting its performance, automation capabilities, and cost savings of around 30% for U.S. enterprises migrating to AWS.
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Groupe Rocher’s sustainability strategy blooms with Boomi integrationOct 28, 2024 — Groupe Rocher, a sustainable beauty and lifestyle retailer, looked to keep up with demand and deliver a better customer experience using the Boomi low-code integration platform to align IT with sustainability goals.
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From On-Premise to Cloud Success: Cintas’ SAP Digital Transformation on Google CloudDec 4, 2024 — Cintas CIO Matt Hough and Google Cloud's Mike Harding discuss how Cintas modernized their SAP landscape with Google Cloud, achieving a 68% reduction in database footprint while enhancing innovation and user experience.
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And Boomi! You’re integrated: Composing an SAP partnershipAug 22, 2024 — Ed Macosky, chief product and technology officer at Boomi, talks SAP partnerships, the iPaaS offering, and why composability is here to stay. SAP users are making friends elsewhere. With SAP users very, very rarely able to stick to that one specific software ecosystem entirely, they bring in hyperscalers like AWS or Google Cloud, Azure or […]
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Modernize Your Close & Consolidation Process in an SAP S/4HANA EnvironmentJun 6, 2024 — Looking to transform your EPM processes to complete your digital transformation? No matter where you are in your S/4 HANA journey, modernizing your close and consolidation process can help unlock the full potential of your SAP-centric environment.
CCH® Tagetik, an SAP-partner, is certified to run natively on HANA. This enables your SAP-centric IT strategy to complete your digital transformation with a mature, unified approach to automated planning, close & consolidation, ESG, regulatory and tax requirements.
Join Hampton Clements, Solution Specialist at Wolters Kluwer, as we break down the most effective way to modernize your close and consolidation process and explore the upsides of leveraging a unified EPM platform that runs natively on S/4 HANA.
Register to hear the most effective way to modernize your close and consolidation process and explore the upsides of leveraging a unified EPM platform that runs natively on S/4 HANA and transform EPM processes to full digital transformation.
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Review The Options for SAP HANA Cloud MigrationMay 22, 2024 — Customers have options when moving SAP to the cloud. Whether running it natively in an IaaS environment, or in RISE, there are considerations that you may not be aware of. This webinar will review the options available, and help you do assessment based on considerations from Infrastructure perspective.
Join the webinar to understand the difference between the cloud migration options, IaaS vs RISE, availability of the key technical solutions in each option, operational procedure, and support process. Learn if you need to manage your systems if they are running in RISE and the lifecycle management work in RISE. In addition explore how to achieve highest level of high availability for your HANA systems What’s the typical use case of Edge Integration Cell.
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