Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP Cloud Platform, Getting Started and in
this video I will show you how you can start your free trial.
This video has been recorded in August 2018.
Processes and the look-and-feel of the platform (the user interface) may change.
For the most recent tutorial videos on this topic, please check the playlist
on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
Getting started with the SAP Cloud Platform is easy and to make sure nothing is stopping you
from taking advantage of SAP’s open platform-as-a-service, there is, of course,
a free trial available so you can learn about the services, frameworks, technologies, and
get comfortable with SAP’s cloud-native development environment.
You can access the SAP Cloud Platform with URL cloudplatform.sap.com
I am using a private browsing session here, on purpose.
So, I will be prompted to login, consent to cookies, and so-on to simulate a first login experience.
Once you are all setup, you can use single-sign on and certificates, which will make the whole
login process is very smooth.
On the home page you will find some information about the SAP Cloud Platform,
What makes it different?
Some more marketing material (infographics, solution briefs)
the capabilities —what you can do with the platform: Analytics, Blockchain, Machine Learning…
Information about the API packages for some of the SAP solutions: SuccessFactors, S/4HANA,and
customer success stories, for your inspiration.
To start your free trial, you can click the button or click the link “Free Trial”
here in the header (they point to the same page) but let me also point your attention
to the Getting Started section, which will provide you with some additional information
so you can get familiar with the basics.
The free trial will give you access to the SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition.
There are some differences between this trial landscape and the production environment
I will cover this in a separate video.
You can learn about the SAP API Business Hub, the SAP App Center
The SAP Developer Center, more about that in minute
and the SAP Community —it is a free trial, so support comes from your peers, from the
SAP Community, which of course also includes many experts from SAP and its partners.
There is an FAQ on Getting Started, Tutorials, and Pricing —although the free trial, of
course, is entirely free.
OK —Sign up for your free account.
There we go.
A new page opens.
We are now on the Developer Center on sap.com.
If this is the very first time you interact with SAP, you will be requested to provide
some information, an e-mail address, first name, last name, relationship to SAP and a
password to create an account.
Otherwise, you can just log on directly.
The SAP Cloud Platform developer community on sap.com is another great source of information
and inspiration.
an explanation of the different services, the main capabilities
a lot of tutorials —beginner-level: build your first application, to more advanced material.
a window to the community with a list of blogs and Q&A on the topic and, yet more resources:
videos, documentation, and free openSAP training about the Cloud Platform.
Here we have the confirmation e-mail.
Click to activate your account.
Confirm, and our SAP account is created.
This is a generic account, also valid for sap.com, the SAP Community Network and SAP Cloud applications.
Most of you probably already have such an account, so let’s go through this quickly
but for those you who are completely new, you will be prompted to upgrade your SAP.com account.
Accept the terms and conditions of the SAP.com website and the privacy statement and come
up with a username for your SAP.com account.
This is for the forums, for example, on the Community.
This brings us back to the SAP Cloud Platform trial setup process: End user license agreement.
Before we can proceed, we need to mark that we have read and accept the
SAP Cloud Platform Developer Edition terms of use.
I’d suggest to take at least a quick look.
Unfortunately, this is the usual legal prose.
Lots of text, dense phrasing, uppercases —I would hope SAP will make this a bit more user
friendly in the near future— but, to avoid any future surprises, always best to check.
OK.
When done, check the box and Submit.
A new pop-up displays: Welcome to your free trial.
More links: one the SAP Cloud Platform website, where we just started, and one to developer
resources —the same we already looked at.
Click here to start your trial.
Almost there.
Now we are prompted to upgrade our SAP Cloud Platform Developer Edition account.
Contact preferences and terms and conditions.
These are the same one as before, by the way.
Register.
and here we are: the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit.
News and announcements will display automatically if there are new features, which might be useful,
but you can unselect this if your prefer.
Here it is mentioned that we have new regions for use with enterprise account,
for the Cloud Foundry environment, running AWS (Amazon Web Services) or on Google Cloud Platform
and this is also what we see on the Home page of the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit.
Cloud Foundry Trial, Neo Trial, Environments - and what this is, exactly, and how this works,
we will discuss in the next video.
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