Managing SAP Sustainability Control Tower Accounts and Services

Setting Up a Subaccount

In this lesson, you'll learn how to set up a subaccount, manage quotas and entitlements, enable Cloud Foundry, subscribe to SAP Sustainability Control Tower and its services, and create instances and services within the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Watch the following video to learn how to set up your subaccount.

Subscribing to SAP Sustainability Control Tower and Its Services

Entitlements in SAP BTP refer to the permissions and allocations that allow you to use specific services and resources within your SAP BTP account. For instance, when you purchase an enterprise account, you are entitled to use a specific set of resources, such as the amount of memory that can be allocated to your applications.

Quotas refer to the limits set on the usage of specific resources within your subaccounts.

Services are the various functionalities and capabilities that you can use to build, extend, and integrate applications. These services range from databases and storage to machine learning and analytics. In this context, multi-tenant applications and environments are considered services.

Each service has one or more service plans available. A service plan is the representation of the costs and benefits for a given variant of a particular service. For instance, a database may be configured with various "T-shirt sizes", each of which is a different service plan.

Since an entitlement is your right to consume a resource, entitlements are basically the service plans that you can use. A quota represents the numeric quantity of a service plan that you can consume in your global account and subaccounts.

Note

Entitlements are managed at the global account level, whereas service plans and their allowed quotas are distributed to subaccounts and then consumed by the subaccounts.

A diagram showing the relation between service plans, entitlements, and quotas.

To read more about entitlements and quotas, follow Entitlements and Quotas | SAP Help Portal.

You can assign entitlements to the SAP Sustainability Control Tower subaccounts by adding service plans using the SAP BTP cockpit.

An SAP instance defines a group of resources such as memory, work processes and so on, usually in support of a single application server or database server within a client or server environment. You log on to the SAP system using an instance.

An SAP system can consist of one or more instances, such as an SAP system with a single instance with only one central server or a client server system with two or more separate instances.

Watch the following video for steps to assign entitlements, create a space in Cloud Foundry, and subscribe to SAP Sustainability Control Tower and its services.

Note

If your organization has the standard plan, then all tenants are collectively limited to the number of records specified in the license. A record refers to any data row published through the Manage ESG Data application, including measures, targets, and custom metrics data. In the event of exceeding this limit, you will be contacted by a sales executive or account executive to discuss and determine the appropriate course of action.

API Service

To subscribe to the API service and gain access to the APIs, complete the following steps:

Steps

From your SAP BTP cockpit, access your subaccount. Go to the Instances and Subscriptions tab and choose Create.
In the New Instance or Subscription dialog box, select the SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution (sct-service-api) from the Services dropdown.
Choose Standard (Instance) from thePlan dropdown list. Enter all details as described in Creating Service Instances in Cloud Foundry | SAP Help Portal.
Create a service key as described in Service Keys | SAP Help Portal.

Result

You now have the credentials to access all APIs provided by SAP Sustainability Control Tower.