SAP has experienced a rather extraordinary journey from its introduction as a small – scale software services to the present giant multinational corporation that manages business operations of thousand of clients on a daily basis. With the introduction of SAP HANA database and its latest module SAP S/4 HANA, SAP has effortlessly adopted cloud computing and presented a top – class software framework for enterprise resource planning (ERP) for streamlining business procedures. The SAP possesses multiple modules for cloud storage and ERP business according to the business requirements and thereby has successfully revolutionized business operations.
Cloud Computing on SAP – Business Technology Platform
SAP Business Technology Platform, abbreviated as SAP BTP, is a service offering of PaaS (Platform – as – a – service) which is focused on intelligent enterprise solutions. The SAP BTP is designed as an integrated cloud platform to merge business applications with data management, analytics, integration as well as extension capabilities to streamline business operations with SAP services.
- The SAP BTP Neo environment allows connections between users and ERP solutions using data from SAP’s own data centers.
- The SAP BTP cloud foundry environment focuses on any random data center which fulfills a list of specific requirements to allow further extensibility options for hyperscale vendors like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
Which Cloud Computing Trends Will Impact the SAP Business?
As the present cloud computing service provides a stable IT supports for business companies, further development processes are taking place to make cloud platform more secure and increase workflow rate. Recent development trends of cloud computing will create a significant impact on SAP cloud services.
Improved Cloud AI – There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes the most popular technological applications in online services. With the development of cloud AI, SAP will further improve its intelligent services. Machine learning (ML) is an aspect of AI and SAP provides SAP analytics cloud which is based on ML. The SAP analytics cloud combines elements of Business Intelligence (BI), smart planning and predictive analysis to provide suitable intelligent business solutions for enterprises. Further development of cloud AI would increase SAP performance and enable improved resource management.
Containerization Technology – This has quickly become a popular method among industries and enterprises for a better workflow. Using this technology, one can build an isolated user space known as “container” within the same platform to execute applications in isolated spaces. Containerization in cloud computing would provide portability, application version control, operational activity efficiency and development productivity. Utilizing containerization in SAP would deliver a seamless performance of data handling and management.
Serverless Cloud – Going serverless is considered as the next evolutionary step in the server architecture. It is a revolutionary model in the data center technology especially in technological components such as virtualization, standardization and modularity. It has been observed that serverless is one of the top five fastest growing PaaS services. A method to provide backend services of companies, a serverless vendor charges money based on computation usage and not on a fixed number of servers or bandwidth. Serveless computing in SAP would further improve the user experience and provide a cost – effective solution for new as well as existing clients.
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