Basics in Cloud Computing with SAP Cloud Platform

Define the cloud as a network of remote servers and software accessed over the internet to store, manage, and process data, using the renting analogy to explain online services.

Define computing as both the study of computers and the act of using them, and explain how cloud computing rents computational resources over the internet to process information.

Cloud computing delivers computational resources, including servers, storage, software, databases, and analytics, over the internet to store data and run applications.

Explore cloud computing services, including infrastructure, storage, applications, and analytics, and learn how organizations rent scalable resources to store data, run apps, and enable collaboration.

Explore how cloud computing delivers virtual desktops, data storage, databases, applications, servers, analytics, containers, and AI-driven automation, enabling scalable resources through cloud subscription services.

Unlock cost efficiency with pay-as-you-go cloud resources, no installation required and automatic maintenance. Access data and tools remotely for collaboration, analytics, backup, and disaster recovery.

Discover how digital transformation reshapes daily life by replacing manual processes with mobile apps, online services, and cloud storage to improve customer experiences.

Explore why businesses embrace digital transformation to improve customer experience, monetize new opportunities, and optimize processes with cloud platforms to stay competitive.

Explore examples of digital transformation in business processes, including mobile apps for self-engagement, data-driven product recommendations, social media connections, and self-service automated machines.

Explore how digital transformation reshapes business models to create new revenue opportunities, redefine customer engagement, and tailor decisions based on buying patterns and history, aided by evolving technologies.

Explore how digital transformation leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect devices via the internet, using sensors, real-time data, and automated reports that improve the customer experience.

Learn how IoT devices connect using a NIST-standard approach, from sensors and clusters to aggregators and communication channels, culminating in decision triggers for proactive alerts and digital transformation.

Define big data and why traditional rdbms struggle with IoT streams like a Google driverless car generating 4000 gb per day, and how Hadoop stores structured and unstructured data.

Discover how real-time analytics turns big data from IoT devices into immediate customer insights. See how structured and unstructured data, browsing history, and on-the-fly recommendations personalize experiences at scale.

Machine learning uses pattern-based cognition to deliver real-time analytics from massive data, including unstructured data, through pattern recognition rather than explicit programming.

Explore unstructured data, including social media comments, and learn how businesses turn diverse sources into structured data to enable real-time analytics and deeper customer insights.

Discover the ten business expectations from IT, including scalable resources, pay-per-use models, cost-efficient automation, high availability, disaster recovery, geo-location services, and data-driven insights from historical data.

Explain how business expects pay-per-use IT that shares resources efficiently, scales with demand, and supports rapid, low-budget innovation through proof-of-concept tests and fast go/no-go decisions.

Learn how high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-location based servers keep applications always up across regions, while enabling rapid deployment of new technology, big data analytics, automation, governance and security.

Explore the traditional IT landscape lifecycle, from vendor selection and procurement to data center setup, deployment, ongoing monitoring, and hardware upgrades, and contrast it with cloud simplicity.

Learn what cloud computing is, its benefits, and how information technology services—hardware, platforms, and software—are delivered over the internet on a pay-per-use model.

Understand the roles of cloud provider and cloud consumer and how usage-based pricing mirrors utility bills, guiding organizational benefits of cloud computing with SAP cloud platform.

Explore the benefits of cloud computing, including pay-per-use, self-service, scalable resources across locations, and centralized monitoring with disaster recovery and cost control.

discover cloud computing basics, including the cloud model, five essential characteristics, three service models, four deployment models, and market leaders, and how providers, consumers, and benefits interact in modern organizations.

Explore the first footprint of cloud computing and how Synergy Research Group's data show worldwide market share and annual growth among cloud providers, led by Amazon and Microsoft Azure.

Compare business expectations with cloud offerings, highlighting self-service scaling, pay-as-you-go, high availability, disaster recovery, geo-located servers, and AI, ML, IoT features in SAP cloud platform.

Explore how the economics of cloud computing reduces operating costs, enables reliable services, lowers entry barriers, and supports universal access for rapid, global innovation.

Examine the five essential characteristics of cloud computing—on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service—and how providers embed these features in cloud offerings.

Learn how virtualization creates virtual machines from shared physical infrastructure using a hypervisor, enabling self-service, scalable cloud resources with elastic CPU, RAM, and hard disk.

Understand virtualization and how a hypervisor slices a physical server into virtual machines. See how cloud computing delivers VMs as an on-demand service via the internet.

Explore the five cloud computing characteristics—on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service—along with multi-tenant VMs on the SAP cloud platform.

Explore the three cloud service models: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service, abbreviated as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Understand infrastructure as a service as the cloud layer providing servers, networking, and storage managed by the provider, with pay-per-use metering and you deploy your own software.

Discover how platform as a service provides the operating system, runtimes, and pre-installed software to develop, test, and deploy applications, with built-in database access, automatic backups, and up-to-date software.

Learn how software as a service delivers pre developed cloud software via a subscription, with examples like Office 365 and Dropbox, where users access software without managing infrastructure or platforms.

Explore the four deployment models—public, private, hybrid, and community cloud—and learn how shared resources, data centers, and organizational control define each option in cloud computing.

Explore SAP cloud platform as a service, detailing IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings, Hana Enterprise Cloud, Hana Access, and SAP's shift from traditional SAP to cloud development.

Explore SAP cloud platform as a platform-as-a-service, highlighting capabilities across integration, analytics, IoT, mobile, and runtimes like Java and HTML5, and how enterprises build and deploy apps.

Explore how the SAP cloud platform digitalizes business processes by leveraging big data, machine learning, IoT, and AI to drive enterprise digital transformation.

Trace the evolution of SAP cloud platform from SAP Netweaver Cloud to SAP Hana Cloud platform and SAP Cloud Platform, highlighting Neo, multi-cloud options, open technologies, and Cloud Foundry partnerships.

Explore how SAP cloud platform fits into your organization with a new cloud deployment, an on-premise to cloud connector, and cloud-to-cloud deployment options.

Explore sap cloud platform as a service for developing and running business applications in a provisioned cloud environment, with runtime and container support, including IoT and mobile capabilities.

Explore SAP cloud environments, compare Cloud Foundry as an open source platform as a service with SAP Neo, SAP's platform, and understand why SAP focuses on Cloud Foundry.

Explore Cloud Foundry, an open source multi-cloud platform as a service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, partnered with SAP to offer runtimes, frameworks, and database services.

Discover SAP Neo within the SAP cloud platform, its partnership with Cloud Foundry, and runtimes like Java, HTML5, Hana, Ui5, plus MongoDB and Big Data.

Analyze the environment choices and compare Cloud Foundry with SAP Neo. Cloud Foundry offers options and aligns with industry standards, while SAP Neo is a managed platform as a service.

Cloud Foundry delivers open-source, multi-cloud runtimes with low memory needs and broad language support, while SAP Neo offers SAP-managed runtimes like Java, HTML5, Hana, and Ui5.

Explore SAP's cloud mission statement: intelligently connecting people, things, and business, and see how machine learning, real time data, real time analytics, integration, security, and IoT enable a connected ecosystem.

Explore the SAP cloud platform's capabilities, including analytics, data storage, integration tools, IoT, machine learning, and mobile runtime containers, with multi-cloud options and predefined business packages.

Discover SAP Cloud Platform with Cloud Foundry, development, operations, and commerce options, and explore data storage choices including relational databases like Hana, big data, NoSQL, and unstructured storage.

Explore SAP cloud platform development tools, including cockpit login, web IDE on the cloud with eclipse, maven plugin, cloud connectors, and the sdk for NIO and iOS.

Explore the data centers snapshot from Q4 2017, detailing SAP data center management, options for Amazon and Azure data centers, and the Neo and Cloud Foundry environments offered by SAP.