The document discusses SAP's approach to extending functionalities within its cloud ecosystem using the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). It emphasizes the importance of extending both on-premise and cloud applications to maintain operational efficiency, create competitive advantages, and integrate diverse systems. The document also outlines the initial steps for getting started with HCP extensions, including training resources and implementation guides.

1. Krasimir Semerdzhiev / @evilyeti
Jan, 2016
Cloud Extensions with SAP HCP

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Agenda
Why extend anything?
What do we extend?
What’s an HCP extension?
How to get started?

3. Why extend anything?

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SAP Cloud Approach
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HANA
Enterprise Cloud
Private Cloud & Managed Svcs
HANA
Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud
Applications
SaaS
One Cloud Infrastructure
Many Opportunities SAP the cloud company
powered by HANA
Extend
On-Premise Apps
Build
New Cloud Apps
Integrate
Everything

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Why extend anything?
Mandatory
Things you need to do to
keep the lights running
Differentiate
Things you need to do
create a competitive
advantage
Beyond
Things you need do to expand
your capabilities
Go beyond delivered solutions and configuration

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HANA CLOUD
PLATFORM
Why extend anything?
What is a sample extension solution
SAP
Business
Suite
3rd party
systems
Customeron-premiseenvironment
SAPSaaSSolutionsinSAPDatacenters
SAP/Partner
provided Extension
solution

7. What do we extend?

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SAP HCP as THE Extension Platform
Major target groups: Partners + Custom Development
SAP PartnerEdge Partners
SAP OEM Partners
Startup Focus Program
partners
System Integration (SI)
partners
SAP Custom Development

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On-Premise
SAP
Business
Suite
 Custom
development
 Partner ecosystem
 openSAP courses
 Co-Innovation
 Custom developmentCloud Edition
SAP HCP as THE Extension Platform
What does SAP HCP extend?
Customerdemand
Extension/Integration maturity
 Explore
 Proof of Concept
 Initial alignment

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SAP HCP as THE Extension Platform
Guiding Principles: SAP HCP provides ONE SAP extensions experience
ONE unified experience for
SAP partners/developers creating extensions on SAP HCP
across all SAP products
The same development, onboarding, support and operations
ONE unified experience for
SAP customers using off-the-shelf partner extensions on SAP
HCP
across all SAP products
The same discovery, administration and management in the extended stack;
tightly integrated SAP HCP + SAP Store/HANA AppCenter

11. What’s an HCP extension?

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SAP HCP Extension Experience
Integration Layers
All SAP products are delivered highly configurable
In-app extensions via creation of custom business
objects and workflows
Additional scenarios and complex integrations
implemented on
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Enables consumption of data from SAP, Customer and
3rd party external systems Native
Application
Data Model
Custom
Business
Objects
SAP Hana
Cloud
Platform
Other 3rd
party
systems

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Extending SAP Products with SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Extending SAP Cloud Products
Initial provisioning + configuration
Authentication and identity
propagation
Read and write scenarios
Scalability
Integrated native
administration
Consistent branding and
theming
Integrated extensions marketplace
DOCUSAP
HANA
Firewall
SRM SCM ERPPLMCRM
Cloud Solution from SAP
SAP HANA
REST/OData APIs
Consumers
SAP
InternetHTTPS
3rd party
Cloud Services
SAP & 3rd party
On-Premise
systems

14. How to get started?

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How to get started?
Gradual evolution for every product
Release an implementation guide:
• Custom Development
• Implementation partners
Convince the product to expose
management APIs
• Trust configuration
• API management
• User/role management
• Theming + mashups
• Administration
Automate onboarding and installation
with SAP HCP Extension service

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How to get started?
Get yourself trained
Brightalk overview webinars
OpenSAP courses on HCP Extensions
Free read-only product demo API endpoints
• SuccessFactors BizX
• SAP Jam
• SAP Cloud 4 Customer
GitHub sample applications

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Thank you
Contact information:
Krasimir Semerdzhiev
Area Product Owner / SAP HCP Cloud LoB Extensions
@evilyeti