With the new services, new applications should develop faster and existing SaaS and on-premise apps should be easy to expand. Especially the fields of mobility, IoT, e-commerce and collaboration profit from the novelties. "SAP is upgrading its own platform as it competes with the named and other players in the PaaS market," says Frank Niemann, an analyst at PAC in Munich. These other players include Microsoft (with Azure ), IBM and AWS , as well as ERP vendors such as the Swedish IFS.Starting today, the HCP will be available for the Internet of Things (IoT). For example, companies should be able to use sensor data to derive immediate measures from their analysis. With these services, customers and partners should be able to extend their solutions with device management capabilities, device read-out, and bidirectional data synchronization. Through an API management interface, secure connections to enterprise applications such as SAP can be established and controlled.
With regard to collaboration, there are now more SAP Jam Work Patterns. Provided context information supports workflows. With the HCP's gamification services, which are currently available as a cloud-based trial version, developers should also be able to use a workbench, SDKs and widgets to integrate game concepts into new and existing applications.The SAP Mobile Secure and SAP Mobile App Protection services are designed to make enterprise mobile environments more secure. They include application management features, as well as Remote Lock and Remote Wipe. The development, configuration and deployment of mobile applications should be made easier by an optimized workflow.
Previously available as a cloud-based trial only, the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition GUI will enable users to connect different SAP Fiori applications to their own systems. So you can test Fiori. The same in green is offered by SAP at Business Services. With test access to cloud-based business services, Walldorfer wants to enable their customers to bundle business functions based on best practices and deliver them as APIs, apps or services on the HCP.Public beta of "YaaS" - SAP hybris for commerce and marketing
After all, as a public beta version, the HCP version of SAP hybris is ready. Hybris is a purchased suite for omnichannel e-commerce and marketing . SAP hybris Commerce and SAP hybris Marketing belong to hybris as a Service (hence the name "YaaS") and can be extended with new functions. "This Hybris service is aimed at companies that want to develop services based on Hybris Front Office," explains Frank Niemann. "So it's a PaaS platform for the hubris software. It is logical that SAP also offers Hybris as a service for developers and ISVs, because customers and partners expect this. "Tax calculation on SAP HANA
In another test version, the Walldorfers present a tax calculation and evaluation service for HCP . By taking into account the legal aspects of the tax calculation in more than 75 countries, the service is intended to support compliance with tax reporting requirements on a global scale.
Genband is a Texas-based provider of real-time communications solutions that has introduced the SAP HANA Cloud Platform. CIO Darrin Whitney said the HCP has helped Genband improve service desk operations, "so we could meet or even exceed our service level agreements and lower licensing and operating costs."
