HANA- Public Cloud, Private Cloud & On-Premise

HANA Public Cloud, Private Cloud & On-Premise option.

HANA Public Cloud–  SAP as a cloud provider manages the software and the software updates are controlled by the SAP timelines. Many application like Ariba, Hybris & SuccessFcators … have public cloud delivery  options. 

HANA Private/Managed Cloud– SAP as a cloud provider manages the software with managed services approach. It is a private cloud that enables customers to run core application on cloud on HANA platform.

HANA On-Premise–  This option where software is installed and run by the customer as S4 HANA offers this option.

From a technical point of view, to check which option is activated in the system, these are controlled by few  business functions.

Business Functions: SIMPLIFY_PUBLIC_CLOUD, SIMPLIFY_MANAGED_CLOUD,  SIMPLIFY_ON_PREMISE

And also the API class  CL_COS_UTILITIES to check which business functions are active, the HANA Developer can use this to develop accordingly.   🙂