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title: Learn the basics of SAP Cloud - Conclusion
description: In this final and concluding part of our SAP Cloud basics blog series, we will see about the most basic and widely used SAP Cloud terms.
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# [Learn the basics of SAP Cloud - Conclusion](https://www.altaflux.com/blog/learn-the-basics-of-sap-cloud-conclusion)

 Written by [AltaFlux Corporation](https://www.altaflux.com/blog/author/altaflux-corporation) | November 18, 2015

In this final and concluding part of our **[SAP Cloud basics](https://www.altaflux.com/blog/sap-cloud-basics-1)** blog series, we will see about the most basic and widely used SAP Cloud terms.

### SAP CLOUD TERMS

#### Managed Cloud

- Defines a fully managed cloud service including infrastructure, software and services delivered in the cloud by SAP and select partners on a monthly subscription basis

#### SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

- Managed Cloud offering for SAP HANA with tailored professional services, delivered by SAP or certified partners
- Bring your own license (BYOL) for SAP HANA and applications (or new subscription model available) with elastic infrastructure (scales to peta scale)
- Ideal for BW on HANA, Suite on HANA, or custom HANA applications; more applications from SAP portfolio to be made available going forward

#### Managed cloud as a service (MCaaS)

- Route to market served by a specific partner type, not a product or solution
- Partner-delivered software subscription of proven SAP solutions via the partner’s private hosted cloud
- Combines SAP software, cloud infrastructure, and managed services in an operating expense (OpEx) pay as you go model
- Support and application management services provided by the partner directly to the end customer
- Trusted partner SAP certification includes Hosting Services with Cloud and Application Management Services extensions

#### SAP LoB Cloud Solutions – SaaS

- Traditional software-as-a-service offering from SAP delivered on SAP’s public cloud infrastructure
- LOB Cloud applications for HR, Sales, Finance and Procurement, complemented with business

(Ariba network) and social (Jam) collaboration solutions

- Enables customers to manage their business with increased agility, while bringing them SAP’s best practices and 40+ years of business process management experience

#### SAP HANA Cloud Platform

- Platform as a Service for customers and partners to build new applications or extensions to existing on-premise or cloud applications
- Consists of Infrastructure Services, SAP HANA Platform and Application Services
- Foundation for all of SAP's cloud offerings over the next several years – roadmaps for each product to move to this platform

#### SAP HANA Infrastructure Services

- Provides immediate access to SAP HANA for existing customers
- Certified cloud Infrastructure available on monthly subscription basis for running customer’s licensed SAP HANA instance
- Purchased and provisioned via the SAP HANA Marketplace and delivered by SAP or AWS

#### SAP HANA DBServices

- Flexible new option for immediate access to SAP HANA Platform with monthly subscription
- Purchased and provisioned via the SAP HANA Marketplace and delivered by SAP
- Limited version also available from AWS (see SAP HANA One below)

#### SAP HANA AppServices

- Broad range of platform application services including mobile, portal, analytics, and integration for building new applications or extensions to existing applications
- Includes access to SAP HANA DBServices and ability to build native HANA as well as Java-based applications
- Purchased and provisioned via the SAP HANA Marketplace and delivered by SAP

#### SAP HANA One

- Entry level, fully featured 64GB instance of SAP HANA in the public cloud (AWS)
- Short and medium term (hourly/yearly) subscription for license and infrastructure

#### SAP HANA Marketplace

- Online store focused on innovative SAP HANA offerings by SAP, partners and customers
- Low touch, social and consumer-grade experience driven
- Increasing degree of backend and business automation based on Hybris

#### BW on HANA trial

- Fully configured 128 GB trial instance of BW on HANA system deployed on AWS, connected to a fully configured BI 4.0 system (not for productive use)
- Pre-built content and sample data for BW, HANA and BI.

With this part, our series of posts on **SAP Cloud Basics** comes to an end. Do let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

In case, if you have missed out on our previous parts on this topic,

**[Part I](https://www.altaflux.com/blog/sap-cloud-basics-1) **and**[Part II](https://www.altaflux.com/blog/sap-cloud-basics-2)**

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