SAP BTP Feature Scope Overview
SAP BTP Feature Scope Overview
2023-07-17
2 Platform Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1 Account Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Service Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Connectivity, Extensibility, Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
2.5 Runtimes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.6 Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6 Browser Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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1 About This Document
Read this document for a high-level summary of the core platform features available for the SAP BTP, Cloud
Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma environments.
This document describes the features that are available in the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma
environments. The availability of some of them may depend on your license agreement with SAP.
To illustrate integration with other SAP offerings, the product documentation on SAP Help Portal might
include references to features that are not included with the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma
environments. Features that are not included in this feature scope description might require a separate license.
Note
• Beta features. Beta features are described in the documentation on SAP Help Portal.
• Packages and pricing. For more information, see SAP Extension Suite - Pricing and SAP Integration
Suite - Pricing .
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2 Platform Features
SAP BTP environments provide comprehensive application development services and capabilities that let you
develop new cloud applications, extend existing on-premise and cloud solutions, and integrate applications in
the cloud.
The multi-cloud foundation supports multiple environments, such as SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and
Kyma, as well as multiple different regions, and a broad choice of programming languages.
Note
Features of services that are separately licensed are described in the service-specific feature scope
descriptions linked from the service pages in the SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
For an overview of all available services and their features, see SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
The SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry, ABAP, and Kyma environments come with a set of developer and administration
tools that enable you to use the following features:
Account Administration
Feature Description
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Feature Description
Set up and manage your account model. Manage with di Use subaccounts to deploy applications,
rectories and use services, and manage your subscrip
subaccounts tions. Structure your global account by
subaccounts according to organizational
and project requirements. Optionally, or
ganize subaccounts into directories to
suit technical and business needs.
Manage entitlements and quotas. Manage enti Manage the assignments of product enti
tlements and tlements and quotas from your global ac
quota count to any of your directories and sub
accounts.
Manage users. Manage users on global ac Add users as account mem
count, directory, and subac bers and manage their au
count level thorizations.
Monitor usage information and costs. Monitor us Gather, store, and make usage information
age and con available for all services and applications in
sumption all regions in a cloud deployment, for the
costs purpose of central analysis, reporting, and
license auditing.
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Feature Description
Service Management
Feature Description
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2.3 Connectivity, Extensibility, Integration
Facilitate integration with on-premise systems running software from SAP and other vendors.
Connectivity between cloud applications and on-premise Access on- Easier, faster deployment of hybrid sol
systems. premise sys
utions compared to traditional reverse
tems
proxy approaches with no firewall configu-
ration changes.
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Feature Description
Connect to SAP solutions. Consume SAP Allow applications running in Cloud Foun
S/4HANA
dry and Kyma environments to consume
Cloud APIs
SAP S/4HANA Cloud APIs.
Note
For additional and separately licensed integration offerings, see SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
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2.4 Security
Security
Feature Description
Manage application authorizations and trusted connections Use a default Enable user management for your ap
to identity providers. identity provider plications using a pre-configured de
fault identity provider.
Retrieve the audit logs for your subaccount. Audit Log The audit log retrieval API allows you to re
Retrieval
trieve the audit logs for your subaccount. It
API
provides the audit log results as a collection
of JSON entities.
Audit Log The SAP Audit Log Viewer displays the audit
Viewer
logs for your subaccount, produced by SAP
applications and services you’ve subscribed
to.
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Feature Description
Scan business documents uploaded by your custom-devel Reduce mal Check your application and storage for
oped apps for malware. ware in your
malware. Integrate this service with your
environment
custom-developed apps running on Cloud
Foundry.
Note
For additional and separately licensed security offerings, see SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
2.5 Runtimes
Note
Most of the runtimes listed in the following table are separately licensed, that is, they are not included in the
overall SAP BTP contract. To learn more about the pricing options for these runtimes, see SAP Discovery
Center - Service Catalog.
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Runtimes
Feature Description
Develop and run applications and extensions using Cloud Develop poly Build on open standards with SAP Java,
Foundry. glot applica
Node.js, and Python buildpacks or bring
tions
your own language with community
Note
buildpacks for PHP, Ruby, Go.
Separately licensed
Manage the life Start, stop, scale, and configure distrib
cycle of appli
uted cloud applications using standard
cations
Cloud Foundry tools, our web-based ad
ministration user interface for SAP BTP,
and dev-ops capabilities.
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Feature Description
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Feature Description
Develop extensions using a serverless architecture. Holistic user The Extension Center business application
experience
provides a full-fledged user interface to
Note
build and manage your serverless exten
Separately licensed sions.
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2.6 Services
The following services are part of the overall SAP BTP contract.
Services
Feature Description
Control rollout of features Switch a func Using the Boolean feature flags, you can
tionality on
receive either true or false when evaluat
and off
ing the flag.
Export and You can export all the flags from one serv
import flags
ice instance and import them in another,
keeping all the settings.
Note
Services that are separately licensed are described in the service-specific feature scope descriptions linked
from the service pages in the SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
For an overview of all available services and their features, see SAP Discovery Center - Service Catalog.
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3 Product Availability
Platform availability • Latency: network latency depends on various factors, no precise information can be provided
on a general level
• Resilience: system can regain stable state after disruption
• Scalability: system responds to peaks in resource requirements
For more information on availability, see SAP Trust Center Agreements Cloud Services
Regions SAP BTP is hosted in different regions. For information on the availability of SAP BTP services
according to region and infrastructure provider, see SAP Discovery Center.
Infrastructures SAP BTP runs on several underlying Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies and regions owned
by our partner infrastructure providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google
Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.
• Cloud Foundry
• ABAP
• Kyma
Languages The central web-based administration user interface for SAP BTP is available in the following
languages:
• Chinese
• English
• Japanese
• Korean
For language availability of other user interfaces refer to the respective detailed feature scope
description.
The related documentation on SAP Help Portal is available in the following languages:
• Chinese
• English
• Japanese
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Availability Aspect Description
Accessibility SAP BTP provides accessibility support in its administration and development tools, and the
customer documentation. This includes:
Restriction
Some customer contracts include EU access, which means that we only use European subprocessors to
access personal data in cloud services, such as when we provide support. We currently cannot guarantee
EU access in the Cloud Foundry environment.
If your contract includes EU access, we cannot move services to the Cloud Foundry environment without
changing your contract.
Note
Further restrictions may apply when using the product on an infrastructure hosted by a third-party
provider.
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4 Compliance and Security
Note
These compliance and security standards apply to regions operated by SAP. For more information about
the security compliance for regions operated by an SAP partner, contact your operator.
SAP BTP environments regularly undergo audits and reviews of its policies and controls.
• For the complete list of compliance and security standards that the cloud platform is compliant with, see
SAP Trust Center Compliance and search for SAP Business Technology Platform ISO.
• For the complete list of Service Organizational Control (SOC) audit reports available for the cloud platform,
see SAP Trust Center Compliance and search for SAP Business Technology Platform SOC.
Data Protection
SAP BTP environments follow SAP's global data protection and privacy guidelines. For more information on the
guidelines, see SAP Trust Center Privacy .
To access the Personal Data Processing policy for your region, see SAP Trust Center Agreements Data
processing agreement .
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5 Service Level Agreement
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract between SAP and its customers that forms the basis of your
contractual relationship with SAP when referenced in specific order forms.
Note
This Service Level Agreement covers cloud service offerings that are operated by SAP. For more
information about the service level agreement for cloud service offerings operated by an SAP partner,
contact your operator.
• The order form is the ordering document to subscribe to cloud services from SAP. It defines the
commercial terms and lays out the agreement structure. The order form also incorporates several other
documents that relate to the SLA.
See Sample Order Form .
• The Service Level Agreement for SAP Cloud Services applies to any cloud service on the SAP price list,
defining downtime, credits, update windows, and others.
See Service Level Agreement for SAP Cloud Services .
• The SAP Business Technology Platform Supplement overrides the Service Level Agreement for SAP
Cloud Services in case of deviations and specifies the SLA for SAP Business Technology Platform in
general.
For more information, see SAP Business Technology Platform Supplement .
• The SAP Business Technology Platform Service Description Guide provides information on cloud
services from SAP, including any deviations to the SLA for a specific service.
For more information, see SAP Business Technology Platform Service Description Guide .
Additionally, the General Terms and Conditions for SAP Cloud Services warrants the SLA and provides the
available remedy if SAP fails to meet its SLA. For more information, see General Terms and Conditions for SAP
Cloud Services .
The maintenance and major upgrade windows are defined in the Service Level Agreement for SAP Cloud
Services. SAP may update these windows from time to time in accordance with the Agreement.
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Maintenance Windows Major Upgrade Windows
Zero down- Zero down- Zero down- Zero down- Up to 4 FRI FRI SAT
time time time time times per
year 2 pm (UTC) 10 pm 4 am (UTC)
(UTC)
(4 hrs) (4 hrs)
(4 hrs)
For the latest information, see Maintenance Windows and Major Upgrade Windows for SAP Cloud Services
and search for your service.
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6 Browser Support
For UIs of the platform itself, such as the web-based administration user interface for SAP BTP, the following
browsers are supported on Microsoft Windows PCs and, where mentioned below, on macOS:
Browser Versions
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