This exercise will provide a brief overview of the SAP BTP and demonstrate how to access the SAP HANA Cloud service.
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The SAP BTP offers four functionality areas as shown below. We will be focusing on SAP HANA Cloud from the data and analytics area.
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The SAP BTP platform is organized by a global account and one or more subaccounts. If Cloud Foundry is enabled, there is an additional Cloud Foundry organization, plus one or more spaces.
Subaccounts are created in a specific data center. For trial accounts the options are Amazon Web Services in US East (cf-us10) as shown below or in Microsoft Azure in Singapore (cf-ap21).
Subaccounts can enable different environments such as Cloud Foundry or Kyma.
Environments constitute the actual platform-as-a-service offering of SAP BTP that allows for the development and administration of business applications. Additional details on environments can be found at Environments.
Previously, SAP HANA Cloud Central ran within Cloud Foundry. It is still available there although it is recommended to use the multi-environment edition which runs within the subaccount.
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The SAP BTP platform provides a set of services that can be used to build SAP business applications. One of the services is the SAP HANA Cloud database and another is the SAP Business Application Studio.
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The SAP BTP platform and the services running within it are available on multiple platforms in multiple regions. The available options can be seen within the service catalog of the SAP Discovery Center.
Notice above that the HANA service is available on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud in multiple data centers.
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Additional details on the available free tier, trial, and paid service plans such as Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA), Pay-As-You-Go, or Subscription can be found at Trial Accounts and Free Tier and Commercial Models.
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A space within the SAP BTP platform has a set of users and roles that provides access to the platform.
Details of the currently logged in user can be seen via the drop-down menu shown below.
This user is used to log in to the SAP BTP platform and into Cloud Foundry and is separate from the database user such as DBADMIN that is used to make a database connection to an SAP HANA database. Additional details can be found at User Roles.
You now have an overview of the SAP BTP and are ready to start using it with the SAP HANA Cloud database. Further details can be found in the learning journey Discover SAP Business Technology Platform.
Continue to - Exercise 1 - Overview of SAP HANA Cloud Central