Questions about the PaaS "SAP Business Technology Platform" (SAP BTP) which covers the formerly well-known brand "SAP Cloud Platform" (SCP) or "SAP HANA Cloud Platform" (HCP).
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is a PaaS for SAP customers who want to connect their business processes in the cloud.
SAP BTP is comprised of solutions from the following four market categories:
- "Database and data management"
- "Analytics"
- "Application development and integration" (was previously provided by SAP Cloud Platform)
- "Intelligent technologies"
Name Changes
- 2021-01-18: SAP scrapped the formerly well-known brand name SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) for the sake of SAP BTP . The technological capabilities of SCP stay unchanged in SAP BTP which is why sap-cloud-platform became synonymous with sap-business-technology-platform on Stack Overflow.1
- 2017-02-27: SAP Cloud Platform was announced as the new name for SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP).2
1 See Merge [sap-cloud-platform] to [sap-business-technology-platform] on Meta Stack Overflow and the document SAP Cloud Platform Rebranding.
2 See https://news.sap.com/2017/02/saps-cloud-platform-comes-of-age-with-a-new-name-and-new-capabilities.