What is a service in SAP BTP?

PaaS themselves are also considered services. In SAP BTP, services are offered in a marketplace, from which users can create service instances on-demand. A service instance is a single instantiation of a service running on SAP BTP. Service instances are created using a specific service plan. A service plan is a configuration variant of a service.

What is SAP BTP pillar?

For example, the application development and integration pillar of SAP BTP (more on this pillar below) can trace its lineage back to SAP HANA Cloud Platform in the early 2010s. SAP BTP was first introduced in 2021 when SAP decided to package multiple services and products into one platform that businesses could use to make business decisions.

What is a use case for services on sap BTP?

In the figure, Example Use of Services on SAP BTP, you see a potential use case for some services. Your developers have the task to develop a SAPUI5 application with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model. This application should be hosted on the SAP BTP. The developers decide to use the SAP Business Application Studio as the IDE.

What happened to SAP Cloud platform & SAP BTP?

As part of this announcement, the SAP Cloud Platform brand was sunsetted and SAP Cloud Platform’s functionality was rolled into SAP BTP. Throughout 2021 and into 2022, SAP bolstered SAP BTP with different acquisitions.