In this blog, I am going to introduce you to SAP Cloud
Platform and the user experience-related services. SAP offers a comprehensive
platform as a service called “SAP Cloud
Platform”. SAP’s customers and partners use this platform and the services
to design, develop, and run business applications in the cloud.
They address 3 main issues:
2) Building new cloud business applications, leveraging SAP HANA in-memory technology for analytics or the innovative Internet of Things services.
3) Enriching the experience by integrating data coming from various non-SAP and SAP data sources.
SAP Cloud Platform offers a variety of enterprise
capabilities you need to succeed in the cloud and build better applications. In
your portal project, you may benefit from additional capabilities. For example,
you can connect to things such as sensors from machines or other assets.
SAP Cloud Platform offers various capabilities to support
the end-to-end process of building portal sites and applications.
You can use Build for early prototyping and user feedback,
and the UI theme designer for branding your portal. The actual development is
done with SAP Web IDE using SAPUI5-based UI controls and templates. The final
application can then be made available to your end users via a portal. If
needed, you can enhance the scenarios to make use of special mobile qualities
such as access to GPS, contact data, or camera for reading a barcode. You can
also inject collaborative features into the business process, enabling users to
share their feedback or comments.
The best way to learn more about the platform and experience
the comprehensive set of functionalities is via the trial environment. If you
have not registered yet, you can request a free personal developer account
right away (Follow my blog on how to setup a trial account on SCP).
Most of the platform’s capabilities and services are available
for testing and evaluation purposes. There are a few limitations on the number
of running Java apps, storage, and, of course, productive usage. Luckily, there
is a rapidly growing community that can help and share their experiences along
the way.
SCP Homepage
What you see on the first screen is the general layout of
the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. You will see menu items on the left side, you
have some navigation items on the top right like a settings dialog for language
and visual design, and you have a news area about recent enhancements and
notifications you get from SAP, and here also additional information, such as
the "Log out" button.
Then we have different data centers around the world that
you can choose from in case you go with the productive account. The trial
account is only available in the Europe data center.
So what you see here is my personal trial account that has
been created for me. Here as well, you see the limitations that come along with
the trial edition.
When we open the trial account, we jump directly into the
cockpit for administrating this particular account.
And on this overview page you see some high- level
information about the account, including the types of application that may be
created, or you are going to create over time, as well as subscriptions and
services.
Applications – We can create Java applications, HTML5
applications, or maybe HANA specific applications. And in this blog series we
will concentrate on portal based or ui5 based scenarios.
If you would like to understand the feature set of Cloud
Platform, you get a good impression by opening the Services menu, where we see
the different capabilities, such as the "Analytics" services, the
"Business Services", "Collaboration" with "SAP
Jam", "Data & Storage", "DevOps" is the main part
where we have, for example, "SAP Web IDE" and the "Git
Service", "Integration", "Mobile Services", and so on
and so forth.
The "Portal" is covered in the "User
Experience" section, along with, for example, "Build" and the
"UI Theme Designer".
SCP also have capabilities to administer and configure
topics like persistency, connectivity to other systems, security, the
repositories that are connected, and so on and so forth.
Prerequisites
Before you can build your first real portal project, you
have to perform a few initial tasks to set up your SAP Cloud Platform account
and the necessary infrastructure.
1) The very first steps are about adding account members and
assigning them to roles, such administrator, developer, or support user. Based
on your contract, certain resources and services are available in your account.
2) In most cases, you will need to set up and configure a
secure tunnel to your on-premise landscape, using the SAP Cloud connector.
3) The next step is to define connectivity destinations for
each system you would like to integrate – either in the cloud or on premise.
4) Afterwards, you can run the technical configurations for
authentication and single sign- on, authorizations, roles, and so on.
5) And usually, you would also create additional accounts,
for example for development, test, or production systems.
Once you have completed this initial setup successfully, you
can focus on the portal.
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