Cloud Connector permits specific applications to access other specific applications, without opening up those applications to universal access. It can handle many different scenarios:
- SAP or non-SAP applications.
- A single cloud system to a single on-premise system.
- Multiple cloud systems to multiple on-premise systems.
- One Cloud Connector to multiple SAP BTP subaccounts.
- Multiple Cloud Connectors to one or more SAP BTP subaccounts.
How do you use the Cloud Connector? Watch the video.
The second scenario is called a service channel:
In the second scenario, you might have an SAP HANA Cloud database running on SAP BTP. You can use some database management tools from within your on-premise landscape to connect to these databases.
- Use Data Services to provision data from the on-premise database to the cloud or vice versa.
- Use on-premise reporting tools like Business Objects to access data in SAP HANA Cloud.
- Use RFC calls from on-premise systems to a SAP BTP ABAP environment.
- Establish a TCP connection to a service in a Kubernetes cluster on SAP BTP.
