#SAP #Cloud Platform - #Cloud Foundry

#SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform as a service (PaaS) which provides customers and partners with in-memory capabilities, core platform services, and unique business services for building and extending personalized, collaborative, mobile-enabled cloud applications. #SAP #Cloud Platform is designed to accelerate digital transformation across your business by enabling your organization to build the exact application you need more quickly, easily, and economically – all without the requirement of maintaining or investing in on-premises infrastructure. Based on open standards, #SAP #Cloud Platform offers complete flexibility and control over your choice of clouds, frameworks, and applications.

#SAP Predictive service

#SAP Predictive service enables you to simply and quickly deploy robust predictive capabilities directly into cloud applications. Provide predictability into the hands of front line and back office users to transform business outcomes.

The #SAP Predictive service is a service available on the #SAP Cloud Platform for enabling applications with predictive capabilities. Using the service, an application can analyze the data stored in an #SAP #HANA instance to get insights and make predictions.

There are over 40 services offered by the platform and the count has been steadily growing. #SAP HANA #Cloud Platform becomes #SAP Cloud Platform. When the platform was evolving, the addition of HANA was a big differentiation. Apart from providing in-memory database services, few other key services in the platform were powered by HANA. However, in the last five years, the platform has evolved into a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service which enables customers to extend their on-premise and cloud solutions as well as build new digital apps in quick time frames. The name change also helped to clear confusion which existed among people that the platform was just HANA in the cloud.

#Cloud Foundry :

The introduction of Cloud Foundry within #SAP #Cloud Platform has provided more flexibility as developers are no longer restricted to building applications using runtimes like Java, XSJS and HTML5 and data storage like #SAP #HANA and #SAP ASE. #SAP Cloud Platform now supports developers to build applications using Java, Node.JS, Go, PHP, Python, Ruby etc. Developers can also import other community build packs and start building their applications too. The platform also offers open-source (based) and industry-proven data and storage technologies like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and RabbitMQ.

All major innovations for this year are going to be around the Cloud Foundry environment of #SAP Cloud Platform. Customers can begin to use IoT services, consume business services infused with machine learning capabilities and use the big data platform based on Altiscale. Announced at #SAPPHIRE, #SAP Cloud Platform would become the underlying platform for #SAP Leonardo, #SAP’s purpose-built set of solutions to assist customers in their digital transformation journey. #SAP Cloud Platform will power all the dimensions of #SAP #Leonardo – #machine learning, big data, #IoT, block chain and data intelligence.

The Cloud Platform made available in #SAP data centres (Neo environment) as well as other infrastructure providers like #AWS and #Azure (#Cloud Foundry environment). It’s important to note that all the services which are currently available in the Neo environment are not available in the #Cloud Foundry environment. #HANA is the only storage service which is available in all the environments. In fact, customers get the latest HANA 2.0 which is based on MDC in the Cloud Foundry environment.

The #SAP Predictive service offers two collections of REST ful web services that you deploy on the platform as one application:

Business Services

They allow to get insights from data to be used by business analysts. Each service answers a specific business question and therefore returns a specific type of insight.

Predictive Analytics Integrator Services

They allow non-predictive cloud applications to easily integrate and consume predictive models. These services enable the productive utilization of predictive models within the context of real-life business processes. You deploy this application on the instance of the #SAP Cloud Platform of your company or customer before using it.

Config Tasks:

• Enable and Deploy the Service
• Install #SAP Predictive Service Engine
• Create the Technical Database User
• Bind the Data Source

#SAP Cloud Platform Streaming Analytics:

The #SAP Cloud Platform Streaming Analytics service lets you process, analyze, and transform continuous streams of raw data into valuable insight. It can then act on this information, generating alerts and responses in real time. At the same time, you can capture any high value information in your #SAP #HANA database. Additionally, #SAP #Cloud Platform Streaming Analytics can be used in conjunction with the Internet of Things service to analyze incoming device data.