As you learned in the previous lessons, DevOps can be a key enabler for achieving high-level agility and quality in your projects.
Moreover, DevOps is a natural approach to SAP development projects. This lesson will outline the SAP mission statement allowing you to benefit from this approach as quickly and as early as possible, while respecting existing SAP operations processes that might already be in place.
Business Scenario

Rotating Banana is a long-time SAP customer transitioning towards SAP S/4HANA and into the cloud. You will explore business scenarios from this hypothetical company for the remainder of this learning journey. Look out for the company logo to enter different roles and learn about their journey towards DevOps with SAP BTP.
To start with, imagine you would be the CTO of Rotating Banana. The cultural aspect of the transformation towards DevOps can be challenging, especially in large enterprises. Therefore, you would welcome support from a strong partner along this journey to benefit from best practices and discuss your best-fitting approach.
DevOps Mission Statement from SAP
Based on many interactions with partners and clients and experience from SAP-internal development, SAP experts outlined a mission statement that captures the essence of the DevOps approach at SAP:
"As trusted advisors, we enable customers to apply DevOps principles to their SAP Technology stack (and beyond).
Based on the CALMS principles, we provide best practices, services, tools, training, and knowledge exchange."
For SAP, DevOps is also a journey. For you, our customers, we want to act as a guide throughout this journey to enable you to apply DevOps principles to your SAP Technology stack, reflecting existing processes for your SAP environment, and the option to integrate into third-party processes if you should already have them used for DevOps in non-SAP environments.
We provide SAP-specific best practices and recommendations, cloud services and tools, training and consulting, and knowledge exchange to traverse this journey together!
That is, SAP is working towards enabling you, our customers, and partners to apply DevOps principles for all applications you develop in SAP environments along different dimensions.
- In your environment of choice: No matter if you develop and run your applications with SAP S/4HANA in public or private cloud, in hybrid environments, or with SAP BTP (using Cloud Foundry, SAP BTP ABAP environment, Kyma, or Neo).
- For the programming language of your choice: You shall benefit from the agile approach with DevOps when developing with ABAP, Java, Node.js, or HTML5.
- For your desired development approach: We intend to enable the development continuum, so that you can combine low-code and pro-code development as part of an overarching agile project.
- Around your operations center of gravity: You can stick to your existing operations processes, established on-premise, in private or in the public cloud.
- For DevOps experts and newbies: We want to lower the entry barrier, no matter if you are new to the topic (where we recommend an opinionated approach with a low-entry barrier) or if you should bring already DevOps expertise and third-party infrastructure from non-SAP scenarios.
Note
For SAP and its customers, this mission statement is a journey. In areas where SAP still needs to live up to this vision, SAP is working towards enabling and extending the DevOps offering along with this mission statement based on your requirements and expectations.Business Scenario

As CTO of Rotating Banana, you look forward to maintaining a long-term relationship with SAP and other companies to exchange best practices for this journey. This will give you more confidence to tackle the cultural aspects as well.
SAP's ambition to enable DevOps along different dimensions will significantly ease your transition, allowing you to combine agile approaches with established processes that already work in your company.
For example, you plan to stick to your existing change management approach, which provides the right level of control, by extending it to cover cloud changes as well.
Summary
Armed with the above information, you will understand SAP's approach to DevOps and share SAP's mission statement of applying DevOps principles to SAP development projects.