Do you remember what did
it take to do simple PoC based on some SAP solution? Usually it is not that
easy. While doing it on premise it is pain. Even in private cloud it is not
that easy. To solve things related to such a deployment and basically to enable
customers to deploy test, training, evaluation or demo systems easily SAP
introduced Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) or sometimes called SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud (HEC).
How does it work? With the
CAL it is possible to deploy SAP system from preconfigured SAP software
appliance. The final system will run in one of cloud (hosting) providers. In
most cases the provider is Amazon Web Services (AWS)
or Microsoft Azure. Of course one who
does the deployment must have an cloud provider account upfront as there is a
payment associated for running it on their infrastructure. But the point is to
do not lose the time while deploying. An access to the system is via web
interface so user needs web browser only.
What
systems are available at the CAL:
There are following types
of the systems to be deployed available in the library. Standard SAP solutions
like Business Suite on HANA, Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) products e.g.
ERP, CRM; technology components NW: ABAP Application Server.
NB: There is more to say about
pricing. Two use cases are here. Trial
– only fee for infrastructure to cloud provider exists. Subscription – It is bring in your own license (BYOL) for particular
SAP solution type of thing. Plus the license for CAL is applied. Of course fee
for using of infrastructure goes to the hosting provider on top of these.
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