Today marks an important milestone in the history of SAP Cloud Platform and I am very excited to

finally reveal what our teams have been working on for the last number of months.
Openness is a central theme in todays keynote presented by Bernd and Im very proud of the fact
that SAP Cloud Platform has been designed to be an open platform from day one. Since its
incubation, openness has been a key principle guiding every decision and many of the
announcements we share with you today build on that philosophy.
In fact, let me be very open on my views with regards to what I believe SAP needs to deliver to help
our customers succeed in the months and years ahead.

We live in a time of accelerated change, a time where software is eating the world and everything
will be digitized. Every company large and small needs to constantly adapt and reinvent itself to
stay competitive. Embracing constant change and the willingness for continuous learning are the
new norm for the 21st century workforce.
Business agility and speed become imperatives for success, and customers are looking for ways to
accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions that provide an engaging & seamless customer
experience, all without disrupting their core business processes. In short: Digital Transformation
needs escape velocity enter SAP Cloud Platform. Via the platform, we enable our customers to
escape from old delivery paradigms to become agile, optimized and digital enterprises.
Having said that, please note that SAP is fully aware that it takes more than just technology to
establish a successful platform hence todays announcements related to SAP Cloud Platform
address all aspects of cloud platform holistically:

platform & technology

business services & developers
ecosystem & marketplace
Platform & technology
As announced today, SAP Cloud Platform is the underlying platform and technical foundation for
SAP Leonardo, SAPs purpose-built set of solutions and methodologies to assist our customers in
their digital transformation journey. SAP Cloud Platform powers all dimensions of SAP Leonardo:
machine learning, IoT, big data, blockchain and insight-to-action using analytics and data
intelligence.
Lets have a closer look at the core of the platform first and then elaborate how the various
announcements relate. Continuing our open standards and open-source platform strategy we are
releasing the GA version of the Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform. Being the
de-facto standard in enterprise PaaS, Cloud Foundry is supported by all major cloud providers and
hence the best choice to be the basis for the multi-cloud architecture of SAP Cloud Platform.
In fact, we are very excited to announce that SAP Cloud Platform is the first and only end-to-end
digital enterprise platform that offers you the flexibility to use the infrastructure provider of your
choice: SAP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (as public BETA) and soon also
Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Regardless of which IaaS provider(s) you chose, it all can be
managed and operated via a single, unified cockpit as explained in more detail in this blog post.
In addition to the choice of the underlying infrastructure provider, the introduction of Cloud Foundry
to SAP Cloud Platform also means more flexibility in regards to programming models. The fact that
developers can leverage their existing skill set and rapidly develop new applications using their
preferred language and tools ultimately results in lower Total Costs of Development (TCD) and
accelerated time-to-market.
As you can see, SAP has been hard at work to build a unique, secure and portable enterprise cloud
platform that runs on top of all the industry leading infrastructure providers, all based on open
standards and open-source. For further information about Cloud Foundry and the multi-cloud
architecture of SAP Cloud Platform please refer to the respective blog post.
Business services & Developers
Now on to a topic near and dear to my heart. In a time where software is the main catalyst for digital
transformation developers are the new kingmakers.
Consequently, SAP Cloud Platform offers a comprehensive set of technical capabilities and
business services that make it both easier and faster to develop intelligent cloud applications that
excel in an inter-connected world driven by massive amounts of data coming from sensors, smart
things and business systems. In that tradition, we are releasing the GA versions of IoT services and
enterprise messaging functionality within our Integration service, which in conjunction with our
recently launched Big Data Services and the other components of SAP Leonardo empowers you
to intelligently connect people, things and businesses!
Beyond these capabilities, delivered as part of SAP Leonardo, what truly sets aside SAP Cloud
Platform is its focus on higher-level business services enriched by intelligent business semantics. On
that front, we are launching a new set of SAP Leonardo Business Services powered by machine-
learning algorithms such as service ticketing, invoice matching and job matching to further
strengthen the existing business services category we pioneered jointly with hybris as a Service,
SAP Localization Hub, tax services and others.
Higher up the business value stack we are continuing our efforts in the digital experience area by
reshaping the end-user experience with SAP Fiori. Similarly, we are addressing the mobile
experience through our partnership with Apple on the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS, and starting
our iOS Academy with many classes already fully subscribed.
Which brings me to another important aspect I want to point out explicitly: we are clearly reaching
out to the broader developer community and inviting them to join the rapidly growing number of
partners developing applications for our platform. Connecting other vendor application systems,
enhancing our SaaS offerings and rapid prototyping are just a few of the use cases we see coming
from our partners.
And we dont stop there either, in fact with software being the one enabler to streamline and
rethink business processes, we see the need for services and tools that cater to tech-savvy
knowledge experts without an engineering background citizen developers. With graphical
modelling tooling a key component of our workflow and business rules services even business
analysts and non-coders can create workflows and collaborative processes with ease. The new SAP
Enterprise App Modeller (SEAM)provides similar capabilities for mobile apps, based on the SDK for
iOS. These offerings complement and round out the established capabilities around Build and SAP
Web IDE.
Ecosystem & marketplace
We already addressed the benefits of an open business cloud platform and the value of intelligent
business services. Lets now talk about the third critical component: ecosystem and marketplace.

The new enhancements made to SAP API Business Hub now include seamless digital download
and application life-cycle management capabilities for APIs, integration flows and apps. New APIs
now available on the SAP API Business Hub include SAP S/4HANA, SAP Hybris, SAP Ariba APIs,
and many more SAP and 3rd party application integration flows. This makes SAP App Center the
central digital marketplace where customers can easily discover, try, purchase and use content and
apps provided by over 650 SAP Cloud Platform partners.
But dont take my word for it, instead lets hear it directly from some of our partners who already
established themselves and their solutions on the SAP App Center:
Let me wrap up, by stating that any platform is only as successful as the ecosystem around it and
that if done right platform is a positive sum-game. In that light, we invite and encourage
everyone in our ecosystem to become active and join the rapidly growing number of partners &
customers already on-board.
At this point, I want to give a special shout out to our customers who have been with SAP Cloud
Platform to date your feedback has been instrumental for us to improve our platform capabilities
and the things I have talked about above are proof positive that we have been listening to you and
delivering on your high expectations.

In a similar vein, let me thank all our partners, large and small, who have bet their business life on
SAP Cloud Platform. Please know that we value you and that we believe that we have a bright
future & success together.
Finally, I want to express my sincere thanks to the entire team for their continuous dedication and
commitment to our customers & partners success and for all their ongoing contributions to SAP
Cloud Platform. You rock!
With that I wish all of you a great SAPPHIRE NOW experience; enjoy your stay in Orlando and make
the most out of it! See you on the show floor!