INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
SAP simplifies app
development and accelerates
customer innovation
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AP SE has announced a new
consumption-based commercial model
for customers to easily acquire and
engage SAP Cloud Platform; the company’s
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Additional
updates include the next-generation SAP
Cloud Platform SDK for iOS, which allows
customers to easily extend enterprise
apps and processes to mobile devices. The
announcement was made at Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, held February 26 until
March 1.
SAP Cloud Platform is the foundation of SAP
Leonardo, SAP’s digital innovation system.
Together they enable rapid innovation and
empower customers to become ‘intelligent
enterprises’, ready for the 21st century.
“The new consumption-based commercial
model for SAP Cloud Platform makes it
even easier for our customers and partners
to build and extend innovative solutions
utilising our increasing portfolio of platform
and business services,” said Björn Goerke,
SAP Cloud Platform President and Chief
Technology Officer. “Innovations in mobile
delivery with consumer-grade experiences
via our new SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
give organisations more freedom and agility
to create and reinvent their businesses.”
model provides transparency into the usage
of each service consumed through regular
metering, reporting and detailed accounting
analytics on the customer’s cloud credit
consumption and balance. This makes it
easier for customers to identify, procure
and monitor needed services for their
applications on a timely basis.
The enhanced SAP Cloud Platform SDK for
iOS provides an engaging consumer-grade
mobile work experience with new controls
and tighter integration with the Xcode
integrated development environment, as well
as integration with other capabilities within
SAP Cloud Platform for delivering powerful
enterprise mobile apps. It also supports
consumption of SAP Leonardo services,
such as image recognition from a mobile
app. Customers can now access application
programming interfaces from SAP API
Business Hub within the apps, as well as easily
translate apps using SAP Translation Hub. In
addition, new analytic controls enable real-
time data analytics and visualisations within
mobile apps from SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud
Platform Big Data Services and the SAP HANA
business data platform. Additional updates
make it easy to use iOS device capabilities in
end-to-end processes for administrative tasks,
such as onboarding.
Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U.
(CEPSA), a Spanish multinational oil and
gas company, uses SAP Cloud Platform to
meet the emerging needs of oil and gas
energy users.
“We needed an innovative platform for app
development and SAP Cloud Platform SDK
for iOS was a natural choice,” CEPSA Chief
Information Officer, Joaquín Reyes, said. “By
integrating our SAP back-end applications
and developing iOS apps for order fulfilment
and payment processing, we were able
to streamline our business processes
throughout our entire value chain. As a
result, our employees, partners and service-
station managers are now able to improve
the overall customer experience.” n
SAP Cloud Platform: the foundation
for the intelligent enterprise
The new consumption-based commercial
model for SAP Cloud Platform provides a
simpler, low-touch customer experience for
configuring and using SAP Cloud Platform
services. Cloud credits are easily acquired
and available SAP Cloud Platform services
can be quickly activated using a single
provisioning cockpit. This allows customers
to innovate on their terms and at their own
pace. In addition, the new commercial
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