What is SAP BTP?

It can be used in below scenario’s –

• An organization who wants to build new cloud Solutions.
• An organization who wants to extend SAP systems (e.g. S/4 Hana, SuccessFactors,

Key Features –

Creating a Seamless User Experience

For a smooth and congruous user interface across all SAP’s cloud applications, the Fiori design guidelines bring a harmonized look and feel to the suite. Imagine using different apps, but everything feels familiar and easy to navigate, just like moving from one room to another in your house, everything is where it should be.

Consistent Security and Identity Management

Managing security and identity provisioning across a suite of applications is no small task. SAP provides uniform mechanisms to ensure authentication, identity provisioning, and role provisioning across the suite to keep the data secure and your identities uniformly managed.

Streamlining Approvals with One Workflow Inbox

Think about scrolling through countless emails, trying to track different approval processes. SAP offers a solution with a seamless and integrated user experience including a unified view of approvals across multiple applications. Now, getting your feedback loop closed is as easy as one-two-click.

Harmonizing Data with Aligned Domain Models

Sharing and managing master data across the SAP portfolio is made easy by using common semantics to harmonize data models. This means making the transition from time-consuming replication and synchronization to smooth data sharing via a central master data service. This could mean you’re no longer toiling to ensure order or customer information is synchronized across applications, it’s all in one place, accessible and simplified.

Leveraging Embedded And Cross-Product Analytics

To make intelligent business decisions, you need informative and insightful data. SAP improves decision-making by integrating machine learning and cross-application insights available through the SAP Analytics Cloud. Imagine getting useful suggestions directly within your applications and using unified data analysis to uncover actionable insights.

Simplifying IT Operations with Coordinated Lifecycle Management

Your IT team will certainly appreciate the ease in their operations. SAP simplifies the provisioning, configuration, and monitoring steps for IT operators. Imagine your IT folks focusing more on strategic tasks, instead of getting consumed by day-to-day routine activities.

Guiding Innovation with End-to-End Process Blueprints

SAP shares a reference architecture of the solutions needed to evolve into an intelligent enterprise. This enterprise architecture provides a pathway to transition from your current solution landscape to your target state. It’s like getting a roadmap for your business’s digital journey.

SAP BTP: Commercial Models

Pay-As-You-Go

This commercial model lets you sign up to start using cloud services in your production environment with no upfront cost, no minimum usage requirements, and no financial commitments. Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) for SAP BTP helps you start small and grow without constraints. You can easily start with this commercial model through the SAP Store.

• Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP allows you to build applications in your production environment and pay only for what you use
• You can start small, build productive apps, and convert to the SAP BTP Enterprise Agreement once you have achieved predictable usage
• Respond quickly to changing business needs with confidence by delivering productive applications and scaling them fast
• With no minimum usage requirements, you can avoid over-provisioning
• Access to free tier service plans to try out services without any costs within your productive environment

BTPEA

SAP BTPEA (SAP BTP Enterprise Agreement) is a commercial model that allows for the consumption of cloud credits based on actual usage. These cloud credits get paid upfront like a pre-paid model.

• Get access to all services available under BTPEA and configure them in your global account with just one contract. This includes new features or innovations available after the contract signing date
• Choose how to spend cloud credits and monitor real-time service usage to better understand project costs
• Consume services based on project requirements, without having to change your contract, and only get charged for what is used
• Access to free tier service plans to try out services without any costs within your productive environment
• The BTPEA model provides an ongoing access to any new SAP BTP services added to the consumption-based service catalog.

Subscription

This commercial model lets you choose a fixed set of services for a fixed rate, regardless of actual consumption.

• The contract includes the exact services you can use in your project and will be provisioned in your global account for entitlements
• The entitled cloud services can be used up to the limit of your purchased subscription. To use more, you can increase your license volume
• You can add new services or modify your contract by contacting your SAP sales representative or by visiting the SAP Store
• You can optimize your cost by knowing exactly what you need, get higher discounts, and benefit from budget security throughout the contract period