Friday, May 3, 2024

Launchpad for SAP Cloud ALM, and the introduction of the new Welcome app.{SAP Cloud ALM Experience}.

Revamped Launchpad: Your Gateway to Enhanced User Experience 

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital platforms, user experience reigns supreme. That's why we've given our Launchpad a fresh new look and feel, all based on extensive user feedback.  

Key Features 

Tab-based spaces: SAP Cloud ALM now organizes each area – Implementation, Operations, Service, Transformation and Administration into its own dedicated space, offering a tailored experience that caters to your specific requirements. Within each space, groups are available offering a streamlined approach to locating applications within the same category. 

Centralized location: "My Home" serves as a centralized location, offering insights into SAP Cloud ALM and providing quick links to valuable resources, enabling you to jump start your experience. Customize this space by adding your frequently used applications tiles to the launchpad and arranging them as desired, transforming it into your go-to central entry point. 

Onboarding experience: Kickstart your journey with the "Get to know SAP Cloud ALM" app, stationed on the first page as the first tile, providing a comprehensive overview of the platform and its capabilities, ensuring you hit the ground running. 

Enhanced support: Stay connected with quick access to help pages through small "Link Tiles" placed for your convenience.


Welcome to the SAP Cloud ALM Welcome App

Congratulations on taking the first step towards unleashing the full potential of SAP Cloud ALM with the Welcome app. This dedicated personal guide is designed to help you navigate through every step of the onboarding process. From configuring essential settings to understanding key concepts like Implementations, Operations, and Services, the Welcome app has got you covered. 

Key Features 

Adoption use cases: We believe in learning by example. That's why we've curated a collection of adoption use cases to guide users through best practices. With slides and video support, you'll gain valuable insights into real-world scenarios, empowering you to make informed decisions and maximize the potential of SAP Cloud ALM. 

Functional overview: Understanding the ins and outs of SAP Cloud ALM is essential for leveraging its full capabilities. Our functional overview provides a comprehensive breakdown of the platform's different areas, giving you a clear roadmap to navigate its features confidently.  

Further links: Directs you to a wealth of help material, ensuring you have access to the information you need at your fingertips. 

Seamless Transition: We guide users from SAP for Me provisioning to the Welcome App within SAP Cloud ALM, ensuring a seamless transition and easy access to the app




Welcome aboard to a world of endless possibilities with SAP Cloud ALM !!!




SAP Cloud Database into SAP BTP...

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database provides an in-memory and multi-model database system to store and analyze relational but also document data which allows for real-time data analytics and transactional processing in one combined system.

• In-memory database system
• Multi-model storage & processing engines
• Suitable for OLAP and OLTP workloads
• Hybrid Extension to on-premises SAP HANA systems
• Associated with a data lake instance

How to create SAP Cloud database into SAP BTP Steps :-

1. Logn into SAP BTP Cockpit – by using trail account 
    https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/
2. You can create your sub account by using or use trial account
3. Link to trail account an HANA DB
4. Once open entitlement, then the HANA cloud & if not assigned then you edit and add for yourself
5. Go to security tab and assign administrative role to user
6. Go back and open trail subaccount & open dev space
7. Open dev space link to SAP HANA cloud
8. Create SAP HANA DB
9. While creating Hana DB, SAP BTP will ask you user id and password- you can use your BTP trail account userid and password
10. Select SAP Hana cloud, SAP Hana database & update information
    After that Hana DB will be created in SAP BTP.
11. Your SAP Hana Db instance is available in SAP BTP Cockpit
12. Click to action & you can select the option for HANA studio, HANA administration, HANA Monitoring etc.
    Open in SAP Cloud central – to monitor landscape like configuration, start, stop instance
    Open in HANA in Cockpit- to monitor and administration 
    Monitoring - You will get instance monitoring 
    Services status, system alerts, Memory Usage, CPU usage, Disk usage, Performance monitoring etc.
    Administration, Database backups, Database admiration, HDI administration, Security and user administration
    User management, role management, privilege management, Role assignment etc.