SAP on the Cloud (Management for Professionals)

"This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book is also useful to readers who do not consider themselves experts in this area, this book explains in detail the backgrounds of the various solutions. Also, practice-oriented case studies are provided throughout the book in order to make the reader aware of essential but perhaps less obvious points. However, the book concentrates exclusively on the set up and operation of the SAP infrastructure. It does not give details on how to install and customize the SAP software, nor does it deal with the much more complex tasks involved in business process implementation and reengineering."--Library of Congress Front Matter....Pages i-xx A Short History of Cloud Computing....Pages 1-13 From R/3 to HANA....Pages 15-38 Service Levels for SAP on Cloud....Pages 39-64 Security Aspects for SAP on Cloud....Pages 65-82 Change and Configuration Management....Pages 83-100 How Private and Public Clouds Work....Pages 101-116 SAP Solutions on Public Clouds....Pages 117-136 Private Cloud Infrastructures for SAP....Pages 137-166 Stateless Computing....Pages 167-180 Economic and Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing....Pages 181-202 Back Matter....Pages 203-215 ​1 From Adaptive Infrastructures to Cloud Computing 2 How the SAP Business Suite, NetWeaver and HANA fit to the cloud 3 Service Level Agreements for SAP on Cloud 4 Security of SAP in public and private clouds 5 Change and Configuration Management 6 How Private and Public Clouds Work 7 SAP solutions on public clouds 8 Private cloud infrastructures for SAP 9 Stateless computing for SAP on clouds 10 Economic and Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing. This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book is also useful to readers who do not consider themselves experts in this area, this boko explains in detail the backgrounds of the various solutions This book explores the many facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies, describing and discussing the latest challenges and suitable solutions, and outlining future trends. Includes practice-oriented case studies.