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Major SAPPHIRE NOW Announcements
Shine the Spotlight on Free Choice with SAP Cloud Platform |
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At
SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP announced major evolutions in SAP Cloud Platform
that deliver more openness than ever before. Now with a multi-cloud
architecture and the general availability of the Cloud Foundry
environment, you can not only use the infrastructure provider of
your choice, but the development languages and tools of your choice
as well -- all managed within a single, unified cockpit. Check out
the blog roll led by Bjoern Görke and others: |
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Bjoern Goerke: SAP Cloud Platform – A positive-sum game –
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Matthias Steiner: SAP Cloud Platform – The next level –
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Robert Wetzold: A new seamless SAP Cloud Platform experience –
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Sven
Kohlhaas: General availability of the XS advanced programming model
with Cloud Foundry on SAP Cloud Platform –
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Timo
Lakner: SAP Cloud Platform Trial now includes Cloud Foundry –
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Sindhu Gangadharan: The Fascinating World of IoT –
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The Digital Enterprise Marketplace
Launching at SAP PARTNER SUMMIT |
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SAP
has a very rich ecosystem of partners and developers and there is
an amazing amount of innovation taking place around our digital
core. SAP needs to make it easier for our customers to find these
solutions.
SAP App Center will act a single consolidated enterprise class
marketplace for our customers to find partner solutions that extend
or integrate with SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Hybris, SAP
Ariba, SAP Analytics, SAP Cloud Platform and many more SAP product
lines. |
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To
see the
introduction video. |
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New White Paper about Security in
SAP Cloud Platform Available |
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SAP
Cloud Platform is an essential part of SAP's digital strategy. From
experience, we know: people do business with partners they can
trust. Consequently, we combine a multitude of diligently designed,
planned, and implemented measures to provide our customers with a
cloud solution that has one of the highest levels of security in
the industry. |
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Read the white paper |
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UX Simplification with SAP Fiori
Cloud for SAP S/4HANA |
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For
SAPPHIRE NOW there were some key announcements on
Digital Experience Services and some
significant updates for SAP Fiori Cloud. SAP Fiori Cloud can
now simplify the UX renewal for SAP S/4HANA customers, as well as
traditional SAP Business Suite customers. 500+ ready-to-use apps
are available in the cloud for SAP S/4HANA Finance customers. In
addition we are now providing a 14 days' advance notification for
upcoming updates. |
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New Maintenance Windows for the SAP
Cloud Platform Services |
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The
harmonization of the Maintenance windows of the SAP CP services is
within the scope of the Simplify Cloud Program. SAP goal is to
offer zero down time maintenance for all SAP Cloud Solutions.
We are happy to announce that meanwhile the most of the CP Services
are offering a Zero down time maintenance. The rest of the services
have a harmonized down time maintenance through the APJ, Europa and
Americas time zones and have maintenance windows which starts each
Saturday, 11 pm (regional time zone) and has max. duration 4 hours
(with several exceptions).
The new SLA will be announced on the SAPPHIRE 2017 and on May 20,
2017 will become effectively.
Our customers and partners we informed via multiple external and
self-service subscription channels. |
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More
details about the new Maintenance Windows you can find
here |
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Are you an SAP PartnerEdge Build
Partner? |
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Are
you managing the portfolio, lifecycle or go-to- market of your SAP
technology-based applications or do you just want to retain a good
overview of all your registered apps? |
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Then
Manage My Apps will make it all easier and save you a lot of
time!
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Roadmap for SAP Cloud Platform
Extensibility |
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Released at SAPPHIRE, the premier version of the
Roadmap for SAP Cloud Platform Extensibility. This roadmap
compresses the larger SAP Cloud Platform focusing specifically on
the platform's technical foundation, enablement services and
prepackaged applications that relate to LoB extensibility. It helps
to contextualize extensibility for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4
HANA, SAP Hybris and SAP Ariba. |
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Rapid Mobile App Development Starts
Now |
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The
SAP Cloud Platform Mobile services team is excited to be releasing
a new product called SAP Enterprise App Modeler (SEAM) next month.
SEAM allows customers to run, customize and administer select
complex SAP mobile apps and will evolve into a Rapid Mobile App
Development (RMAD) framework. |
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Updated User Interface Technologies
Roadmap |
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Find
out about the latest developments as well as what’s planned for the
future of SAPUI5, SAP Fiori launchpad, SAP Screen Personas, and
much, much more. |
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View the roadmap |
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Introducing Digital Experience
Services |
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While Digital Transformation isn't a new term, the concept of
'Digital Experience' has been evolving over the past year as UX,
design, mobility, collaboration and content services have advanced
and consolidated in the cloud. All leading analyst firms are
talking about Digital experience as the evolution in enterprise
UX. |
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Your Fast Root to the Cloud |
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Have
you ever considered transferring your on-premise SAP Enterprise
Portal to the cloud? A cloud-based portal reduces complexity while
adding new dimensions and value to your business. SAP Cloud
Platform Portal brings rich functionality to your portal, providing
the much-needed agility that complex, on-premise systems have
historically prevented. |
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Start now with your
fast root to the cloud. |
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Data Management on SAP Cloud
Platform : Freedom of CHOICE! |
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The
introduction of a new Cloud Foundry environment into the SAP Cloud
Platform, brings in many open-source, Data & Storage
technologies.
This addition, expands the power of the Data Management portfolio
on SAP Cloud Platform, and provides our users with the freedom to
choose any service, based on their need.
Check out this
blog for more details. |
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Your Data Management Questions
Answered!! |
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"With great power comes great responsibility" – Similarly, "With
new technologies come new questions"!
We have tried to address many of your questions on the new Data
& Storage options in the SAP Cloud Platform, with our updated
Data Management FAQ.
Check it out! |
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SAP NPM Registry Launched: Making
the Lives of Node.js Developers Easier |
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To
make life easier if you want to develop a
Node.js application for our Cloud Foundry-based environment on
SAP Cloud Platform, we are launching the SAP NPM Registry
https://npm.sap.com where we publish @sap scoped modules.
Continue reading ... |
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Exploring SuccessFactors Cloud
Extensions at SAP Power Week |
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SAP
continue to enhance the integration between SAP Cloud Platform
(SCP) and SuccessFactors, making it easier to extend the
Cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software so to find out
more, Keytree headed to SAP Power Week. |
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Deploying Alf.io OSS Event
Ticketing app on Cloud Foundry |
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As
you may be aware that
cloud foundry capabilities on SAP Cloud Platform went GA at the
Sapphire last week. I tried signing up for it in my trial account
and it was a breeze. Following the modern etiquette of displaying
happiness by tweeting,
I said....But a platform is known by the applications that run
on it. I wanted to give this CF trial account a spin by doing
something non-trivial. My quest for finding a non-trivial app
landed me on an excellent open source solution for Event Ticketing
called
Alf.io. Think of it as your personal EventBrite with all the
capabilities a modern ticketing app would require including
payments, PCI complaint etc. They even have a
offline solution that you can host on Raspberry Pi and take it
to events. This seemed to be a perfect choice. |
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