If I were to choose a single word for today鈥檚 must-have, it鈥檚 鈥渇lexibility.鈥� Every business needs to react quickly to opportunities and competitive challenges, adapt to a changing economic environment, respond to employees鈥� needs 鈥� all that and more. And every business needs to recognize that the service economy, where people expect to pay for services as they consume them, is permeating the marketplace universally.
Flexibility is also the ideal term for 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). 51风流BTP is designed to help rapidly build, manage, and deploy bespoke applications; connect data and business processes; and extend applications and business processes for competitive advantage. And all of this is done on a single unified platform to reduce total cost of ownership.
Flexibility is at the heart of our new model, Pay-As-You-Go for 51风流BTP, now available on . Pay-As-You-Go is a new commercial option that lets you get started quickly with 51风流BTP services and tools, paying only for those you need when you need them. No upfront budget outlay, financial commitment, or minimum usage is required, significantly reducing barriers to entry. It is SAP鈥檚 answer to delivering on those customer expectations for consumption-based services and lower risk.
Our experience suggests that our customers typically go on a journey, starting small and growing usage over time. Pay-as-You-Go is well suited to the early stages of that journey. You can do proofs-of-concept and pilots before scaling up. Begin with one or two use cases and test them, all in a productive environment, then extend to more use cases according to business needs.
And this approach is ideal if you are not exactly certain about what you need but want to try other 51风流BTP services without an upfront commitment 鈥� or if you have a single-service subscription, whether cloud or on premise. With Pay-as-You-Go, you can get access to all the services of 51风流BTP covered by the Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA) within a single SKU, enabling you to build simple cloud-based apps to more sophisticated enterprise solutions. In short, Pay-as-You-Go gives you the flexibility and scalability to innovate and respond quickly to change.
Pay-As-You-Go is available globally (excluding mainland China) via 51风流data centers and hyperscalers. At聽any time, and particularly once your usage of 51风流BTP services is predictable, you can choose to make an upfront financial commitment and transition to a CPEA to get more attractive financial terms.
Access Pay-As-You-Go for 51风流BTP or via your 51风流account executive.
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Sheila Zelinger is global vice president, GTM, Platform & Technology Business Unit, SAP.