Accessing SAP HANA Cloud

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between the different SAP BTP account types.

Identification of SAP BTP Account Types

SAP BTP users can access the SAP BTP using an SAP BTP, enterprise edition account, a free tier model for SAP BTP account, or an SAP BTP trial account. Which account type to use depends on the specific situation of that user. A business user would probably use an SAP BTP, enterprise edition account, a contractor would probability use a free tier model for SAP BTP account, and a student would use an SAP BTP trial account to start learning about SAP HANA Cloud.

You can learn more about the different types of global accounts available for the SAP BTP on the SAP Help Portal: https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/enterprise-accounts

Getting Started with an SAP BTP, Enterprise Edition Account

Your company has signed-up for an SAP BTP, enterprise edition account. You can use this SAP BTP, enterprise edition account to learn more from SAP HANA Cloud. Please note that provisioning SAP HANA Cloud in this account type involves costs.

To learn more about getting started with an SAP BTP, enterprise edition account please read this blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/12/14/get-started-with-your-sap-cloud-platform-enterprise-account/

Required Entitlements

To be able to use SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database, SAP HANA Cloud, data lake and the database administration tools, the following entitlements need to be assigned to your SAP BTP user account:

  • hana – entitlement for the SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database
  • relational-data-lake – entitlement for the SAP HANA Cloud, data lake
  • tools – entitlement for the new multienvirionment database administration tools
  • MEMORY – entitlement for the Cloud Foundry runtime-envirionment for the old database administration tools

Getting Started with a Free Tier Model for SAP BTP Account

You want to setup a proof of concept (POC) for using SAP HANA Cloud in SAP BTP, but you don't want to add costs to your companies SAP BTP, enterprise edition account yet, or you're a contractor. In these scenarios, you can use the free tier model for SAP BTP to learn more about SAP HANA Cloud.

The advantage of using the free tier model for SAP BTP is that at the end of the POC, you can change the SAP HANA Cloud service plan from the free plan to the hana plan. This means that all your POC developments are retained.

To learn more about getting started with a free tier model for SAP BTP, please read this blog: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/btp-free-tier-account.html

Note

Over time the free tier model for SAP BTP will replace the SAP BTP trial account. For the time being, SAP provides both. Access to SAP HANA Cloud is included in both account types.

Getting Started with an SAP BTP Trial Account

You want to learn about SAP HANA Cloud in SAP BTP, but you don't have access to an SAP BTP, enterprise edition account. In this scenario, you've the following two options;

  • Use a free tier model SAP BTP account
  • Use an SAP BTP trial account

When applying for an SAP BTP trial account, the fully automatically setup process generates a global account, subaccount, and Cloud Foundry runtime for your account.

To learn more about getting started with an SAP BTP trial account, please read this blog: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hcp-create-trial-account.html

Summary

Through this lesson, you gained insight into the different SAP BTP account types available to start learning about SAP HANA Cloud.

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