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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.