SAP Cloud Appliance Library Roadmap Webcast Notes

This was a session from earlier today (June 30).  These are my rough notes.

The usual legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.

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Home page
Entry point
Speeds up process
Test drive process

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Top uses for today

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SAP said this was a quote from a customer from last week.

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SAP Mentor Chris Rae and his family use the SAP Cloud Appliance Library

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New S4 HANA

55 unique solutions
Pipeline of solutions
Updating existing solutions

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Under Planned Innovations:

Management of operations

Estimation of costs is planned

Solution library

This is a monthly release

Question and Answer
Q: How to you move some existing customizations to trial servers?
A: Standard level application export and import to CAL – documentation is on FAQ page
Q: How do you connect cal servers to our existing servers behind the company firewall?
A: Set up a secure VPN; becomes an extension to your data center
Q:  what kind of “sizing” I’ll need  for 1-2 Users?
A: don’t have to worry about sizing; good for a couple of users
Q: can we integrate with other solution (e.g. TIBCO)
A: not yet; if you have a free trial, T&C don’t allow you to make modifications or commercial use
If you have paid subscription and VPN to Amazon Cloud then you can integrate your systems
Q: Can we use CAL as development env and then transport to our on-site quality system
A: You can use this as your development environment; can use CAL as your first step and export
Q: How is IBM Cloud Softlayer supported here.
A: Today only Amazon Cloud and MS Azure
Q: Do you support other databases like Oracle or DB2?
A: No, only SAP databases

Go to cal.sap.com to try it out.

There was interest expressed in the askSAP call this past week: Deploy your BI4.2 Trial@AWS

Reference: Technology Product Road Map Series for ASUG