SAP Cloud Platform - Integration, Extensibility & Services

SAP Cloud Platform (SCP)
Integration - Extensibility - Services28 June 2020Andrew Harding 1

SAP CLOUD
PLATFORM (SCP)
A brief introduction to SAP Cloud Platform.
28 June 2020 Andrew Harding 2

28 June 2020
WHAT IS SAP CLOUD PLATFORM (SCP)
SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) is an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) which enables a number of
cloud-native capabilities backed up by enterprise level services and support.
SAP Cloud Platform is available in two commercial models:
• Subscription-based to get access to SAP Cloud Platform services for a fixed price defined time and
processing volumes providing predictable costs for business.
• Consumption-based to buy SAP Cloud Platform services through credits for variable/unknown processing
requirements which allow companies to start small and easily scale up as business requirements change.
The underlying infrastructure for SCP is provided by a choice
of major hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, as
well as by SAP themselves.
Andrew Harding Slide 3

28 June 2020
SAP CLOUD PLATFORM PROVIDES
SAP Cloud Platform (SCP):
• Has a strong security focus with data isolation, multi-tenancy, message-/payload-level encryption, signing
and certificate-based authentication.
• Comprises infrastructure services, such as cloud operations, data backup, compliance, and service-level
agreements (SLAs);
• Database services provided by the SAP HANA® business data platform including in-memory analytics, text
search, planning, predictive, and stored procedures, as well as other database offerings such as SAP ASE
and Progress.
• Application services, such as cloud portal, mobile services, document management, administration, and
development tools to build cloud base applications as well as extending SAP cloud/on-premise applications.
• Integration services enabling the integration of SAP applications between each other and other 3rd party
cloud-based applications.
• Intelligent next generation services such as Machine Learning, Conversational AI, IoT, Blockchain, as well as
more mature services such as Analytics, Translation, Tax calculation, Workflow process orchestration.
In addition SAP Cloud Platform is the foundation for S/4HANA Cloud & on-premise systems innovations such as
Co-Pilot (conversation AI & bot), Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Data Cleansing microservice.

28 June 2020
SCP ENVIRONMENTS
• Cloud Foundry (CF) is an open source, multi-
cloud application platform as a service (PaaS)
governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
• Has 65 members, Platinum members are: SAP,
DellEMC, Google, IBM, SUSE, VMWare, Pivotal.
• SCP deployment to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,
and Alibaba datacentres.
• SAP development focus is primarily in Cloud
Foundry with new technologies such as IoT,
Machine Learning, Intelligent RPA, Blockchain
and Conversational AI.
Neo
ABAP Cloud sub-environment of Cloud Foundry
enables side-by-side extensions to S/4HANA Cloud
and development of new apps.
• Neo (NetWeaver Ondemand) is SAP’s proprietary
application platform as a service (PaaS).
• SCP deployment to SAP datacentres only.
• Initially launched in 2012, is still maintained but
development focus and many services have
moved to Cloud Foundry.
Neo & CF 20
Neo only 33
CF only 54
Number of Services
as of 3rd June 2020
SAP are moving many
services from Neo to
Cloud Foundry (CF)
Kyma sub-environment of Cloud Foundry
enables Kubernetes-based extensions to SAP by
using microservices and serverless functions.

28 June 2020
SCP DATACENTRES
SAP Cloud Platform Neo (SAP only) and Cloud Foundry (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba) are located
worldwide to provide local regional access - dependant on services availability within the region.

28 June 2020
API BUSINESS HUB OVERVIEW
API Business Hub is the source library for digital content to enable side-by-side extensibility and
integration capabilities to SAP products via SAP Cloud Platform. The API Hub is a separate entity to
SAP Cloud Platform with content created by SAP and SAP Partners.

28 June 2020
API BUSINESS HUB OVERVIEW
API Business Hub contains:
• Integration packages - to enable connectivity with other SAP products/services and 3rd party
applications pre-built with configurable integration flows supporting many - A2A (Application to Application),
B2B (Business to Business) & B2G (Business to Government) scenarios.
• APIs - cloud HTTP-based APIs for use in Integration and Side-by-Side extension projects come in 2 types:
• OData - for synchronous* comms, good for direct A2A integration
• SOAP - for synchronous & asynchronous comms, good for B2B integration via EDI
On-premise still uses APIs based on the Remote Function Call (RFC) protocol, such as IDocs & BAPIs.
• CDS Views - provide read-only access to SAP Cloud solution objects for Side-by-Side extension projects
• Events Objects - triggered by a “business event” (e.g. invoice created) in S/4HANA or C/4HANA cloud to
inform other systems/extensions to react accordingly.
• Policy Templates - pre-built policy templates that can be applied to API Proxy definitions to control
security, message formats, data filtering, URL Masking, error handling, quotas, etc.
* SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Messaging enables decoupling of comms events to achieve asynchronous comms.

CLOUD PLATFORM
INTEGRATION (CPI)
Cloud Platform Integration enables data integration between SAP applications,
3rd party applications, other businesses and government organizations.

28 June 2020
SAP CLOUD PLATFORM INTEGRATION
SCP
Services
SCP Intelligent Technologies
Social
Networks
Public Authorities
On-Premise
Apps
Business
Partners
Cloud
Apps
SAP Cloud
Platform
Integration
many prebuilt
connectors
some prebuilt
connectors
SAP
Cloud
Apps
Document
Compliance
Statutory
Reporting
Integration
Advisor EDI
SAP Cloud Platform Integration enables business to connect SAP/non-SAP applications together, as well as
business partners and public authorities, and enables access to a multitude of cloud services.

28 June 2020
CLOUD PLATFORM INTEGRATION - BASIC ARCHITECTURE
The basic architecture for SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) digitally connecting SAP cloud and
on-premise S/4HANA solutions with the wider world of cloud based applications.
Cloud Integration cockpit provides the hub with central monitoring and security management
features to manage integration operations.

28 June 2020
INTEGRATION PACKAGES SAP SOLUTIONS
SAP Cloud
Platform
Business Suite
SAP Cloud
Connector
On-Premise
SAP Cloud Platform is the platform to integrate SAP Cloud products with each other, and
to SAP on-premise products.
SAP Best Practices
Contains scope items to easily integrate
SAP Cloud products with each other and
on-premise S/4HANA & Business Suite.
SAP API Business Hub
Contains many integration packages with
integraton Flows and value mapping templates
that can be configured/amended to integrate
cloud and on-premise systems.

28 June 2020
SAP BEST PRACTICES INTEGRATION FLOWS
JB1 - Core HR with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
SAP Best Practices comes with an increasing number of scope items covering integration flows that only
require configuration to become operable. These integration flows cover the replication of master data
(e.g. Cost Center) and end to end transaction flows across SAP systems, both on-premise and cloud.
1M1 - Travel Expense Processing with SAP Concur Expense Professional
Cloud Integration Automation Service (CIAS)
Introduced in 2018, provides a guided workflow to setup integration (e.g. JB1 & 1M1 above) that makes use
of customer specific system information (e.g. target URLs), reusable configuration settings between tasks,
automated technical configuration for some steps, and monitoring of the guided workflow tasks.

28 June 2020
API BUSINESS HUB INTEGRATION PACKAGES
API Business Hub contains many configurable integration flows to enable integration between SAP Cloud
and On-premise systems. The example below is the integration flow for replication of Cost Centers between
SAP ERP and S/4HANA with SAP SuccessFactors.

28 June 2020
API BUSINESS HUB INTEGRATION PACKAGES
API Business Hub contains configurable
integration flows to enable integration
between SAP Cloud and on-premise
systems with non-SAP systems, such as
Government systems for statutory
reporting and replicating data between
other cloud applications such as
Salesforce.
One of 9 integration flows to Salesforce to replicate/update sales orders,
accounts, products, etc. between the systems.
Replicate S/4HANA accounts to Salesforce
S/4HANA Statutory Reporting Submission for Great Britain

28 June 2020
B2G - DOCUMENT COMPLIANCE
Governments are increasingly requiring digital integration with businesses to perform document compliance
functions, such as the registration of invoices to track sales tax collection. SAP Document Compliance
packages provides pre-build configurable integration to government portals to enable digital integration
without the need to build custom solutions.
SAP Document Compliance: Electronic Invoices and Payment Receipt Complements for Mexico
eDocument: Electronic Invoicing for Spain
eDocument: Electronic Transport Registration for Hungary
SAP Document Compliance: Electronic Invoicing for Colombia
SAP Document Compliance: Electronic Tax Register Books for Spain
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Integration With Norway Payroll
SAP Document Compliance: Transport Registration Option for Portugal
eDocument: Electronic Invoicing for Chile
SAP Document Compliance: Electronic Invoice Registration for Hungary
Other packages include:

28 June 2020
B2G - ELECTRONIC INVOICING FOR ITALY EXAMPLE
Integration Content
Package Overview
Provides SAP Cloud Platform Integration content as part of SAP Document Compliance for Italy.
It enables sending/receiving electronic invoices through the Exchange System (SdI) of the Italian
tax authorities for B2B & B2G invoices. It also enables receiving notifications related to outbound
and inbound invoices, as well as sending of outcome notifications related to inbound invoices.
Business Suite
S/4HANA Cloud
Configuration for:
OR

28 June 2020
OPEN CONNECTORS - CONNECT TO 3RD PARTY APPLICATIONS
Open Connectors provide a standard way of establishing program API connections
with other cloud based applications to enable Cloud Platform Integration (CPI).
• Provides API documentation.
• Harmonizes errors into standard responses.
• Allow you to connect using the event framework.
• Harmonizes authentication mechanisms that vary from one non-SAP
application to another.

28 June 2020
OPEN CONNECTORS - MANY AVAILABLE
eCommerce
Finance
HR
Social
Payment
ERP CRM
EmailCollaboration
There are currently 160+ Connectors to a wide variety of Cloud based applications.
If a connector doesn’t exist it can be created
with the “Build New Connector” wizard
Experience of implementing one or more connectors makes addition of more connectors easier/cheaper to
implement overcoming the cost/difficulty barriers that prevent many developments taking place.
Help Desk

28 June 2020
INTEGRATION ADVISOR - B2B & B2G
Integration Advisor - comes with CPI’s Neo enterprise license.
• Contains libraries of different industry standards such as
UN/EDIFACT, SAP IDoc and ASC X12, etc. to generate the MIG
(Message Implementation Guideline) for source and target.
• The machine learning-based proposal service generates best
proposals for the MAG (Mapping Guideline), with confidence
indicators, for different field types in a given business context.
• Central integration knowledge base of anonymized interface
customizations and mappings from other projects provides
community collaboration of tailored integrations that grows
over time.
• Automatic generation of documentation along with runtime
artefacts required for pre-/post-processing, conversion,
validation, and the mapping from source to target format.
• Export artefacts for implementation into a prepared integration
flow in any integration service.
Integration Advisor is a cloud-based design-time solution that accelerates implementation of integration
B2B/B2G scenarios by using a machine learning-based proposal service to reduce overall effort by up to 60%.

28 June 2020
INTEGRATION ADVISOR EXAMPLE
1. Library of systems to base integration on
2. Message Implementation Guidelines (MIG) proposals
3. Mapping Guidelines (MAG) linking integration MIG fields
4. Generate runtime integration flow artefacts to run in SCP

28 June 2020
CLOUD PLATFORM INTEGRATION - OPERATIONS VIEW
Monitor Message Processing shows number & status of
messages sent, failed, error, retry & completed within
specified time frame.
Manage Integration Content show number and status of
integration flows.
Manage Security tasks to setup secure connections from
tenant and remote systems.
• Security Material, e.g. user credentials.
• Keystore certificate entries for connection to remote systems.
• Certificate-to-User Mappings inbound connections.
• Connectivity Tests to receiver systems.
Manage Stores of temporary data storage.
• Data Stores to temporarily persist data.
• Variables used in integration flows.
• Message Queues active for tenant.
• Number Ranges used in B2B scenarios.
Access Logs to monitor audit logs.
Manage Locks entries in-progress repository.
The Operations view of Process Integration cockpit allows one to monitor and manage various aspects of
the configured integration flows usage.

SCP
EXTENSIBILITY
How to extend S/4HANA with new applications that have their own User Interfaces and workflow
integrations that provide enhanced functionality without creating dependencies that disrupt the
upgradability of the S/4HANA digital core using Side-by-Side extensibility.

28 June 2020
SIDE-BY-SIDE EXTENSIBILITY
Application
User Interface
Database (SAP HANA)
Side-by-side extensibility
via
SAP Cloud Platform
APP
UI
DB
User Interface
Application
Database (SAP HANA)
User Interface
Application
Database
S/4HANA
S/4HANA
Cloud
SAP
Customer, Partner
In-App extensibility
Classic extensibility
In-App extensibility
Classic customer and partner development
Side-by-Side is possible for S/4HANA on-premise, but you still have the option of Classic extensibility,
whereas Side-by-Side extensibility is the only option for customization beyond In-App extensibility in
S/4HANA Cloud.
Extension Modifications
Direct Link
S/4 functionality
SAP Cloud
Connector
• The APIs (OData & SOAP) for SAP cloud products are available in API Business Hub, whereas the
corresponding APIs in S/4HANA on-premise are detailed in SAP Help Portal.
• S/4HANA on-premise edition can be connected to Side-by-Side extensions built in SAP Cloud Platform
via SAP Cloud Connector to utilise SAP cloud services and integration with other systems.

28 June 2020
API BUSINESS HUB - APIS
ODATA APIs:
• Lists HTTP Get, Post, Patch, Delete operations that are
possible on the business object.
• Provides a Sandbox environment to Try out APIs to see
their output with formatted response for display to
business users.
API Business Hub is the source library to enable side-by-side extensibility with SAP cloud applications (S/4HANA
Cloud, C/4HANA ,etc.), S/4HANA on-premise and integration with 3rd party systems via OData and SOAP APIs.
SOAP APIs:
• Lists configuration details for API to be used with the
system (e.g. S/4HANA Cloud) to enable connection.
• SOAP APIs require a lot more configuration than OData
APIs, hence ODATA is quicker/easier to use if the
relevant ODATA API is available.

28 June 2020
SAP CLOUD SDK
• Available for programming languages Java and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Enables access to services in SAP S/4HANA Cloud via APIs listed in API Business Hub.
• Available for both Neo and Cloud Foundry environments of SAP Cloud Platform.
• Can handle field extensions that key users have created in SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
SAP Cloud SDK was originally named SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK with the goal to support developers in
building side-by-side extensions for SAP S/4HANA. Renamed at SAPPHIRE 2019, and its focus broadened
beyond S/4HANA to cover other SAP products such as C/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Business ByDesign, with
more planned in future.

28 June 2020
SAP CLOUD APPLICATION PROGRAMMING MODEL (CAP)
Originally SAP Cloud Platform SDK, was renamed and
reorganized to SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
(CAP) in 2018 with support for both Java and JavaScript.
CAP is intended to be technology agnostic, allowing
developers to quickly build initial solution designs before
then tying it to a specific technology such as SAP HANA.
SAP Business Application Studio is designed to work with CAP, and is the long
term replacement to SAP Web IDE, though is still in the early days of
implementation without all the features of SAP Web IDE yet.SAP Application
Business Studio
SAP
Web IDE
Developers can design models in SAP Business Application Studio by:
• Defining the data model with CDS.
• Defining the service with CDS.
• Add custom logic, Java or Node.js.
• Add Fiori UI via CDS annotations.
• Reuse existing services like S/4HANA with CDS Service SDKs.
Much of the detailed coding, e.g. database build, is generated by the studio.

28 June 2020
ABAP EXTENSIBILITY
SAP Cloud Platform supports REST-based ABAP Programming (RAP) model which brings ABAP coding access to cloud
based services, but is restricted compared to on-premise ABAP:
• Restricted syntax: only a well-defined part of the ABAP syntax tree is allowed in a specific ABAP language version.
• Access only to “Whitelisted” APIs that will not interfere with S/4HANA Cloud quarterly updates.
• No support for legacy ABAP objects, such as SAP GUI, ABAP reports & custom maintenance view.
• Unsupported old technologies (e.g. list processing, dynpros, etc.) are not available for use.
S/4HANA on-premise Side-by-Side Extension in SCP
ABAP environment
ABAP dev tools
in Eclipse
SAP Web IDE
Git code
management
SAP applications
(SAP Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA,
SAP S/4HANA Cloud . . . )
ABAP persistence
(SAP HANA)
ABAP runtime
SCP Services
• User Management
• Destinations
• Documents
• Mobile Services
• Machine Learning
• IoT
External
HTTP service
There are tools to help transfer ABAP code to the cloud such as Custom Code Migration app that can analyse on-premise
ABAP code and semi-automated fixing issues found using Quick Fixes in ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse. Alternatively
you can build side-by-side extensions to S/4HANA on-premise that use SAP Cloud Platform.

28 June 2020
SAP CLOUD PLATFORM EXTENSION FACTORY
Extension Factory simplifies the building of value-added extension scenarios by:
• Providing one standard, secure way to connect systems to SAP Cloud Platform using trust enablement.
• Central repository for all system credentials, all APIs, and events of registered SAP solutions.
• Deployment of extension applications on different runtimes in your choice of hyperscaler.
• Supports one developer experience across all the SAP solutions.

28 June 2020
ORCHESTRATE PROCESSES WITH WORKFLOW
Build and modify workflow applications with web-based tooling:
• Model workflows in SAP Web IDE using industry-standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0).
• Embed workflows into custom-built applications using RESTful APIs.
• Connect to other applications via service tasks.
• Integrate business rules for decision management.
• Users can manage their workflow tasks using the “My Inbox” SAP Fiori application, or custom SAPGUI.
• Track running workflows and identify issues with workflow monitoring.
Example workflow to select/approve equipment for new employee
SAP Cloud Platform Workflow service enables organizations to tailor/orchestrate business processes,
extending cloud applications such as SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Concur, etc. to work with SCP
services (e.g. mobile services), and integrating with non-SAP cloud applications via Open Connectors.

28 June 2020
DEFINE BUSINESS RULES TO USE IN WORKFLOWS
Users can manage business logic by:
• Modelling business rules and formulas in tabular spreadsheet-like decision tables.
• Easy-to-use web-based business rules editor for managing business rule changes.
• Implement policy changes in applications without requiring application development.
Ease developers use rules to:
• Reduce code and management effort for developers by externalizing business policy, e.g. cost thresholds.
• Integrate Rules as a service into applications using the REST API.
Business Rules in Workflows are used to encapsulate and externalize business logic from applications so
as to enable users to manage business logic independently from application development.
Example business rules table to select equipment for new employee

28 June 2020
ENTERPRISE MESSAGING
Enterprise Messaging provides messaging/event-driven capabilities to decouple communications, and share
event data reliably across hybrid system landscapes, via an intermediary host using queue-based comms.
• Sending systems publish events to Enterprise Messaging, in turn Receivers subscribe to receive these events.
• Propagates Events across distributed landscapes, cloud & on-premise, ensuring updates are received with
asynchronous comms to prevent sender being blocked waiting for messages to be receive.
• Uses open standards and protocols-based communications - AMPQ, MQTT and HTTP REST.

CLOUD SERVICES
A brief overview of some of the SAP Cloud Platform services that can be used in
conjunction with SAP applications to provide additional functionality, support
integration/extensibility developments, and provide operational support features.

28 June 2020
SERVICES OVERVIEW
* marked services involve Machine Learning
Mobile
Services
Tax ServiceSAP
RealSpend
Document
Classification*
Document
Information
Extraction*
Business
Entity
Recognition*
Leonardo
IoT
Machine
Learning*
SAP Data
Intelligence*
SAP Cloud Platform contains many service to either enhance SAP applications or assist development, with
many more being added all the time. The following slides will go into greater depth on some of the major
services as highlighted by the green dashed box below.
Intelligent
RPA
Service Ticket
Intelligence*
Blockchain
Application
Enablement
Icons not enclosed with in a circle relate to 3rd Party features
Hyperledger
Fabric
Document
Center
Data
Retention
Manager
SAP
Conversational
AI
Data
Enrichment*
Translation
Hub*
Many
more
. . .
Market Rates
Management
SAP Customer
Order Sourcing
SAP
Analytics
Cloud
Streaming
Analytics
SAP Forms
by Adobe

28 June 2020
MOBILE SERVICES OVERVIEW
Mobile Services provides a back-end with centralised security and administration support for Mobile apps
and workflow integration to other systems/services via SAP Cloud Platform.
There are 3 types of app: SAP Mobile Cards; Mobile Dev. Kit apps; native OS SDKs for iOS and Android.

28 June 2020
SAP MOBILE CARDS - GOOD FOR VERY SIMPLE APPS
Pros • Simple wallet style UX
• No coding / low coding
• Cross-platform with native
integration
Good For • Functionally reduced micro apps
• Basic actions like Approve/Reject
• Not possible to edit items
• Example: Fact sheets, approval apps
Skills • HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (optional)
Provides information only, e.g. basic templates
for SAP applications like Concur, or simple
workflow approvals with cards, each workflow
item is a card - accept or reject that particular
card the workflow to go one step further.
Download Mobile Cards app then subscribe to
individual mobile card apps.

28 June 2020
MOBILE DEVELOPMENT KIT - GOOD FOR ENTERPRISE APPS
Pros • Native look and feel
• Visual development approach simplifies dev.
• Simplified app development lifecycle with
predefined frameworks and screens
• Enforces UX consistency (apps look same)
Good
For
• Apps that require the best mobile UX
• Functionally complex apps
• Offline apps
• Apps require significant & frequent
customization
• Enables editing items and more advanced
actions than just Approve/Reject
• Examples: Field service and asset maintenance
Skills • Mobile development kit skills
• HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
Can incorporate more complicated workflow features than Mobile Cards with ability to
edit card data. Downloaded as a complete app with Mobile Development kit runtime.

28 June 2020
MOBILE SDKS IPHONE & ANDROID - GOOD FOR CONSUMER APPS
Pros • Native look and feel - full control
• Best performance
• Instant access to device-specific innovations
Good
For
• Apps that require the best mobile UX & performance
(special animations, etc.)
• Offline apps
• Apps that require native frameworks and access to more
than basic mobile device features
• Example: Field sales, self-service, consumer apps
Skills • Xcode/Swift & Android Studio/Java skills
The respective mobile SDKs, for iOS and Android, enable native app development
with the ability to consume services, data and workflows built in SAP Cloud
Platform along with integrated security authentication and app monitoring.
Downloaded as an individual app like any other iOS or Android native app.

28 June 2020
SAP LEONARDO IOT - OVERVIEW
The Internet of Things is now coming of age with the necessary infrastructure and sensor availability
making it practical to combine sensor data with ERP data to produce intelligent processes/decisions that
can utilise this new wealth of information, that in turn will lead to new business models.
SAP Leonardo IoT has four paths:
• Embed - device and telemetry data into SAP applications (e.g. S/4 HANA) for an IoT-enabled Intelligent Enterprise Suite.
• Extend - enable developers to extend existing SAP business processes with insight from previously unconnected devices.
• Evolve - partners and customers to create new IoT-enabled business models in the context of SAP business systems.
• Edge-Enabled - business processes that provides intelligent data processing at the edge, orchestrated from the cloud.
SAP Leonardo IoT runs business transactions correlated with device data, close to source of IoT data at the edge.
SAP Leonardo IoT

28 June 2020
SAP LEONARDO IOT - ARCHITECTURE
The two parts SAP Leonardo IoT are IoT Foundation in the cloud to centrally manage IoT devices as well as
provide integration with other applications, and Edge Services to manage sensor data locally in real-time with
support for time-critical business functions then only send only required/desired data to the cloud.
SCP Internet of Things
• Device lifecycle
management
• IoT Gateway for data
pre-processing
• IoT protocol support
SAP Edge Services
• Compute
• Storage
• Business critical
functions
SAP IoT Application
Enablement
• Digital twin builder
• IoT app development
• Data management

28 June 2020
SAP LEONARDO IOT - CLOUD FUNCTIONALITY
SAP Leonardo IoT Cloud provide central management function for IoT devices and the integration with SAP
applications to enable end-to-end intelligent business processes based on the wealth of IoT data generated.
Event Services
• Tracking of time series-related event history, severity, and status.
Analytic Services & Aggregation Management
• Define aggregates based on dimension, measures, & roles.
• Dedicated calculation views from SAP Analytics Cloud.
Streaming Rules & Rules on Persisted Data
• Fast processing of streaming rules in the ingestion pipeline.
• Rules processing on data with time windows & scheduling.
Actions, Integration, & Decision Support Services
• Action-driven business integration to embed IoT in LoB scenarios.
• Providing IoT context to processes and decision support for responses.
Data ingestion and Big Data storage
• Data Ingestion to validate/map data device to thing model.
• Big Data Storage with automatic data tiering and retention periods.
• Time Series Management with APIs to analyse data.
Enablement of Digital Twin for IoT devices
• Lifecycle Management of devices from onboarding to decommissioning.
• Master Data to provide context and Semantics based on models.
• Geo Services and Floorplans that support space hierarchies.
• Derive/Transform Data with calculations with a formula editor.

28 June 2020
SAP LEONARDO IOT - EDGE FUNCTIONALITY
SAP Leonardo IoT Edge services are designed to handle data collection associated with the numerous IoT
devices that are deployed locally in the workplace, then send only the required information to the cloud as
well as provide time-critical business decision making functionality.
Policy Service - deployment and lifecycle management of edge services
• Centrally set policies (e.g. auto-update of services at edge nodes).
• Governs topology of edge nodes & business actions.
• Manage, configure, & mass deploy micro-services to
edge nodes, centrally from the cloud.
Essential Business Functions Service
• Provides business data and process context at the edge.
• Extends ERP, C/4HANA and Asset Intelligence Network to the edge.
Streaming Service
• Analyse IoT data streams in real time based on business logic
 trigger business processes based on events/thresholds.
• Thresholds need to be set, and throttling rules need to be applied.
Persistence Service
• Locally store IoT data on IoT gateways  avoid transmission cost/bandwidth
and provides local access when there is no network connectivity.
• Ability to execute data retention expiration policies for locally persisted data.
Custom Edge Services - built by customer to meet business requirements.
Predictive Analytics - deploy, execute, and integrate with business processes.

28 June 2020
MACHINE LEARNING - EMBEDDED WITH S/4HANA
Finance
Cash Application (1MV)
• Payment advice extractor
• Goods receipt / invoice receipt monitor status approval
• Payables line item matching
• Intelligent accrual recommendation
• Detection of abnormal liquidity items
• … and more
Procurement
Contract Consumption (1QR)
• Proposal of new catalog item
• Proposal of material group
• Proposal of options for materials without purchase contract
• Propose resolution for invoice payment block
• Intelligent approval workflow
• Image based buying
• … and more
Sales & Distribution
Quotation Conversion probability rate (2YJ)
• Sales Forecasting
• Delivery performance / delivery in time
• Sales performance prediction
• … and more
Manufacturing
Predict delay in stock in-transit (20N)
• Demand-driven replenishment
• Defect code proposal (incl. text recognition)
• Early detection of slow and non-moving stock
• … and more
Use cases like image recognition, sentiment analysis, or language recognition require deep learning algorithms based
on neural networks in Leonardo Foundation platform on SAP Cloud Platform for Side-by-Side Machine Learning.
There is Machine Learning (ML) technology embedded within SAP S/4HANA that utilizes functions of HANA, and
pre-defined ML models as illustrated by the scope item examples listed below. Soon it will be possible to create
new predictive models using “SAP Analytics Cloud - Smart Predict” and push them into S/4HANA processes.

28 June 2020
MACHINE LEARNING  SAP DATA INTELLIGENCE
SAP Leonardo Machine Learning has been integrated with SAP Data Hub to create SAP Data Intelligence to
provide a complete service combining ML modelling techniques with the data required to produce intelligent
insights.

28 June 2020
SAP DATA INTELLIGENCE - SAP DATA HUB + MACHINE LEARNING
SAP has taken this approach to address the three key issues - managing the Data + Design + Deployment - to
convert Machine Learning into a tangible technology that can be effectively implemented to realise the
vision of the Intelligent Enterprise.
SAP Data Intelligence provides a holistic approach to manage the process of developing Machine Learning
models combined with Big Data to produce intelligent solutions that can be easily deployed in the
enterprise with future developments in S/4HANA aimed at exploiting this new powerful capability.

28 June 2020
SAP DATA INTELLIGENCE - SAP DATA HUB + MACHINE LEARNING
SAP Data Intelligence is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering on SAP Cloud Platform as a service with Data
Hub that can be deployed on any Kubernetes environment (hyperscalers, private cloud or on-premise).
SAP is pursuing a multi-cloud strategy supporting hybrid deployments offering Enterprise AI integrated with Data
Orchestration/Governance capabilities both as-a-Service (SAP Data Intelligence) and as a BYOL product (SAP Data Hub).
SAP Data Intelligence provides specific support for:
• Data Engineers & Architects to connect, discover and process any type of data (e.g. structured, unstructured, streaming)
and volume, then visually build data flows and data pipelines to orchestrate distributed data landscapes.
• Data Scientists can use ML framework of their choice (e.g. Python, TensorFlow, R or HANA ML), design models with
Jupyter Notebooks while managing different ML elements (e.g. data sets, pipelines & model versions) centrally.
• IT operations can easily deploy/monitor/re-train all models from within a unified control center, and at scale.
 SAP Data Intelligence allows organizations to move from a fractured approach - often dominated by data sprawl and
diverse toolset - to a continuous and integrated operation.

28 June 2020
SAP DATA INTELLIGENCE - AT THE HEART OF THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE
SAP Data Intelligence is intended to produce meaningful insights that can be used right across the enterprise:
• Feeding the models’ results into Data warehouses for visualization with analytics tools.
• Embedding the results into business applications.
• Automating a response through SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation.
• Driving personal interactions based on the models’ results with SAP Conversational AI.

28 June 2020
INTELLIGENT RPA (ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION)
Intelligent RPA consists of three components:
• Cloud Factory - store/schedule bots
• Desktop Studio - to create bots
• Desktop Agent - to run bots
Cloud Agent
Cloud
Project Development
Cloud Studio
Intelligent RPA in SAP Cloud Platform:
• Cloud Factory - already cloud based
• Cloud Studio - available now
• Cloud Agent - in the pipeline
Intelligent RPA & SCP Services:
• ML to provide greater automation by
learning how to handle exceptions.
• ML in OCR & ICR (incl. handwriting) with
document processing (identify fields)
services to handle variable document types.
• Conversation AI can now be also linked to
enhance RPA bot automations.
Intelligent RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is an example of a solution that is moving to be a SAP Cloud
Platform based service that will increasingly employ Machine Learning (ML) to improve productivity gains.

28 June 2020
CONCLUSION
SAP Cloud Platform provides three key capabilities for both Cloud and On-Premise based SAP customers,
Integration, Extensibility and Cloud based services.
Integration - the ability to easily connect with other SAP/non-SAP cloud based applications, business
partners, and government organisations who are increasingly looking to the cloud to automate their
business functions.
Extensibility - the ability to expand SAP applications into the cloud to utilise cloud based services such as
Mobile Services, cross-application workflows and integration with other cloud based applications.
Cloud based services - providing new AI-based technologies to improve productivity by enabling greater,
more intelligent automation of routine tasks, and new business models as the result of new technologies
such as IoT, Conversation AI, Blockchain, etc.
Irrespective of whether SAP customers decide to stay on-premise with S/4HANA, or move to the cloud, SAP
Cloud Platform provides many advantages that will be difficult to ignore. This is especially true with the
revolution in disruptive technologies such as AI/Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, etc.
defining new business models and creating new business opportunities.

THANK YOU
Andrew.harding@Itanta.com
28 June 2020
Andrew Harding 50

SAP Cloud Platform - Integration, Extensibility & Services

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (20)

Similar to SAP Cloud Platform - Integration, Extensibility & Services

Similar to SAP Cloud Platform - Integration, Extensibility & Services (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

SAP Cloud Platform - Integration, Extensibility & Services