SAP Cloud Platform

ABAP Environment
Detailed Solution Overview
Product Management SAP Core Platform
2018

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 WHY SAP Cloud Platform?
WHY ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform?
TABLE OF
SCENARIOS for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment CONTENTS
ROADMAP for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

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Why SAP Cloud Platform?
 Managing your digital transformation
with SAP’s Digital Enterprise Platform

AGILE LAYER
SAP SOLUTIONS Differentiate
Your Business SAP CLOUD PLATFORM
Digital
Transformation

Agile
DIGITAL CORE Business
Optimize Your Optimized
Core Processes Enterprise

DATA AS YOUR FOUNDATION

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Extensibility with SAP Cloud Platform

INNOVATIONS DE-COUPLING
Benefit from SAP HANA, Side-by-side approach adds flexibility for
SAP S/4HANA and upgrades and custom / partner driven
SAP Cloud Platform innovations innovation

DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY
AGILITY & RELEASE STRATEGY
High development productivity based on
Start today on SAP Cloud Platform and
tools, re-use of business services and first
connect to multiple backend releases
class integration with SAP solutions

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 When to use what?

Your Your Your

developers software scenarios
skillset assets and use-cases

DECISION CRITERIA

ABAP

Java Node.js and HTML5 BYOL ABAP

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Why ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform?
 Motivation

Customer Base Enterprise Readiness Transition to Cloud

Huge customer and partner base ABAP as proven environment for Growing market adoption of
running ABAP based solutions with enterprise ready business SAP S/4HANA Cloud with
custom code applications with competitive cost tailored extensibility for customers
of development and partners

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 TRANSFORMATION MARKET
TO CLOUD OPPORTUNITIES
FOR PARTNERS
WHY ABAP
IN SAP CLOUD
PLATFORM?
AGILE INNOVATION ON NEWEST
TECHNOLOGY POWERED BY SAP HANA

DELEGATE INFRASTRUCTURE AND

SYSTEM OPERATIONS

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 TRANSFORMATION TO CLOUD

MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
FOR PARTNERS
SAP CLOUD
PLATFORM ABAP
Develop ABAP cloud apps decoupled ENVIRONMENT
from the digital core
MAIN USE CASES
Leverage your ABAP know how in the
cloud
Commercialize your apps via SAP Cloud
Reuse your existing ABAP assets
Platform
Benefit from large SAP customer base
Network with ABAP community

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 AGILE INNOVATION ON NEWEST
TECHNOLOGY POWERED BY SAP HANA Benefit from newest ABAP
Programming Model
Exploit SAP HANA capabilities
Consume SAP Cloud Platform
services like SAP Leonardo SAP CLOUD
PLATFORM ABAP
ENVIRONMENT
DELEGATE INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAIN USE CASES
SYSTEM OPERATIONS
Regular delivery of innovations
by SAP
Scale with your business needs
Support for multiple cloud
providers

Pay per use

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 Vital parts of SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

SAP
CLOUD CLOUD ABAP PLATFORM AS A SERVICE BACKEND SYSTEM
COCKPIT PLATFORM

e.g. SAP S/4HANA

ABAP HTTP SERVICES AND NEW
Cloud, SAP S/4HANA,
DEVELOPMENT RESTful ABAP PROGRAMMING
SAP ERP, SAP
TOOLS IN MODEL utilizing
NetWeaver AS ABAP
ECLIPSE SERVICES SAP Fiori
ECOSYSTEM Core Data Services
User Management Cloud optimized ABAP language
IoT
EXTERNAL HTTP
… SERVICE
GIT CODE
MANAGEMENT

SAP HANA

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Scenarios for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP
Environment
 Side-by-side Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP CLOUD PLATFORM

SAP S/4HANA CLOUD

Your ABAP
extension OData

Application Connectivity
Clients

Custom Data
SAP HANA tenant

Corporate Identity Provider

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 Partner side-by-side apps (SaaS scenario)

Partner

SAP CLOUD PLATFORM

SAP S/4HANA CLOUD

commercialization

deployment
Your ABAP
extension

Connectivity

Custom Data
SAP HANA tenant

SAP App Center

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 Transformation of existing custom code to SAP Cloud Platform ABAP
Environment
DECOUPLE
USE
CUSTOM CODE FROM SAP APPLICATION CODE
SAP CLOUD PLATFORM SERVICES
Always read and write from
e.g. integration service, attachment service
backend system via remote interfaces
Adapt to whitelisted APIs

ADOPT
NEW RESTful ABAP PROGRAMMING MODEL MANAGE
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND DEPLOYMENT
Including SAP HANA,
Core Data Services Use Git and continous integration
and SAP Fiori

UTILIZE
ELIMINATE PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
USE OF DEPRECATED ABAP FUNCTIONALITY SAP Cloud Platform offers commercialization infrastructure
for partners

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Roadmap for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP
Environment
 Roadmap

2018

2019

General availability for

customers and partners with the
scenarios
Develop and run extensions Additional support for partners
for SAP S/4HANA cloud Productizing model for partners
Support custom code Integration with SAP App Center
transformation to SAP Cloud
Platform
SAP Fiori & RESTful ABAP
programming model
Whitelisted APIs
Cloud optimized ABAP language
Git integration

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