glossary-e67a143.md

Glossary

SAP BTP Terminology

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application	Software hosted on SAP BTP and used by business users to fulfill certain tasks. Applications are created by developers and might make use of services offered on the platform.
application router	The single point-of-entry for an application running in the Cloud Foundry environment on SAP BTP. The application router is used to serve static content, authenticate users, rewrite URLs, and forward or proxy requests to other micro services while propagating user information.
availability	The durability and operational performance without failure of a system or component for an agreed amount of time, which is defined in the contract.
availability zone	A physically separate location with its own power supply, network, and cooling. Within a region, it serves as an individual failure domain. If one of the availability zones fails, the survival of the region is ensured.
boosters	A set of guided interactive steps that enable you to select, configure, and consume services on SAP BTP to achieve a specific technical goal.
buildpack	In the Cloud Foundry environment, buildpacks provide framework and runtime support for apps.
business service	Platform services that enable, facilitate, or accelerate the development of business process components and elements of an application.
cockpit	The central point of entry to key information about your accounts and applications, and for managing all activities associated with your account.
connectivity ↗️	Provides a secure, reliable, and easy-to-consume access to business systems or remote services, running either on-premise or in the cloud.
Cloud Foundry CLI	The Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI) is used to deploy and manage your applications in the Cloud Foundry environment.
cloud connector ↗️	Cloud Connector serves as the link between on-demand applications in SAP BTP and existing on-premise systems. It combines an easy setup with a clear configuration of the systems that are exposed to SAP BTP.
cloud management tools	Cloud management tools represent the group of technologies designed for managing SAP BTP. Cloud management tools is a synonym for the internally used term Foundation.
disaster	An event declared by SAP when there is a loss of utilities and services, and uncertainty about whether they can be restored within a reasonable period of time. When a disaster is declared, a disaster recovery plan comes into action.
disaster recovery (DR)	A set of policies, tools, and procedures to protect applications by preserving and rapidly resuming their availability in case of a disaster.
durability	The ability of a system to permanently store data without loss or corruption.
enterprise account	An enterprise account is usually associated with one SAP customer or partner and is typically subject to charges. It groups together different subaccounts that an administrator makes available to users for deploying applications.
environment	Constitutes the SAP BTP actual Platform-as-a-Service offering that allows for the development and administration of applications. Each environment provides at least one application runtime, its own user and role management logic, and tools (for example, command line utility). Environments are integrated into the platform at the subaccount level.
failover ↗️	The automated or manually triggered process of switching from one system to another redundant system in case of an unexpected or planned downtime.
formation	A logical grouping of SAP systems that can be extended in a single business scenario.
global account	The realization of a contract you made with SAP. A global account is region- and environment-independent, and it is used to manage subaccounts, members, entitlements and quotas.

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identity provider	An authorization authority containing all user information and credentials. In SAP BTP, user information is provided by identity providers, not stored in SAP BTP itself.
member	Indicates a user’s assignment to an account. As an account member, a user automatically has the permissions required to use the SAP BTP functionality within the scope of the respective account and as permitted by their account member roles.
OAuth ↗️	Widely adopted security protocol for protection of resources over the Internet. It is used by many social network providers and by corporate networks.
org	A hierarchical level in the account structure of SAP BTP using a Cloud Foundry subaccount. Each Cloud Foundry subaccount contains exactly one Cloud Foundry org. Within an org, you can create several spaces.
platform service	Software that enables, facilitates, or accelerates the development of applications and other platform services on SAP BTP. Platform services are integrated with applications and other cloud resources by developers. End users only interact with platform services via applications, never directly. All platform services provide an interface such as an API or a set of APIs. There are two types of platform services: business and technical services.
programming model	A set of concepts used to create applications on SAP BTP. For example, a programming model can include programming languages, runtimes, and APIs.
quota	A numeric quantity that defines the maximum allowed consumption of a specific technical asset/resource.
region	A geographical location that usually consists of two or more availability zones.
resilience	The ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges until normal operation is restored.
resilient software design	Building and preparing an application or service in a way that it can handle failures that occur during runtime. Its goal is not to reduce the probability of failure occurrence, but to maximize the availability of systems and system landscapes in such cases.
runtime	An engine or context for executing programs, such as Java Web Tomcat 8 or Node.js runtime.

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SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment	An open Platform-as-a-Service, which provides a scalable runtime container and a choice of clouds, runtimes, and services.
SAP BTP, Neo environment	An enterprise Platform-as-a-Service, providing a range of services to our customers
SAP BTP, Kyma runtime	A runtime the developers can use to build cloud-native Kubernetes-based extensions to SAP by using microservices and serverless Functions.
Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP	A variant to the consumption-based commercial model of SAP BTP in which customers of SAP BTP are billed and are paying for the exact services used. This differs from the CPEA payment model where customers purchase a committed amount of services in advance.
btp CLI	The command line tool for all tasks on global account, directory, and subaccount level, such as creating or updating subaccounts, authorization management, and working with service brokers and platforms.
SAP ID service	The default identity provider for SAP BTP applications. It manages the user base for SAP Community Network and other SAP Web sites. SAP ID service is also used for authentication in the cockpit and operations such as deploying, updating, and so on.
SAPUI5	A development toolkit providing UI controls for developing Web applications.
service broker	When a developer provisions and binds a service to an application, the service broker for that service is responsible for providing the service instance and for binding services to applications. For example, the HANA service broker allows any application running on Cloud Foundry to connect to an SAP HANA database.
service plan	A variant of a service; for example, a database may be configured with various “t-shirt sizes”, each of which is a different service plan.
SAP Java Virtual Machine	SAP's own implementation of a Java Virtual Machine on which the SAP BTP infrastructure runs.
space	In the Cloud Foundry environment, every application and service is scoped to a space. A space provides users with access to a shared location for application development, deployment, and maintenance. Each space role applies only to a particular space.
staging	The process in the Cloud Foundry environment by which the raw bits of an application are transformed into a droplet that is ready to execute.
subaccount	Lets you structure a global account according to customer requirements with regards to members, authorizations and quotas. In the Cloud Foundry environment, a global account can have as many subaccounts as required; each subaccount can have an associated Cloud Foundry org.
subscription	One of the SAP BTP commercial models ("subscription-based"), where the customer subscribe to SAP BTP services for a certain amount of time and for a fixed price in order to get access to these services.
technical service	Platform services that enable, facilitate, or accelerate the generic development of an application, independent of the application's business process or task.
tool	A means for users to develop, configure, monitor and administer a service or entities managed by a service. A tool can be part of the platform or a service but is not a service by itself.
user-provided service instances	User-provided service instances enable you to use services that are not available in the marketplace with your applications running in the Cloud Foundry environment.