What is SAP Cloud Platform?
2026-10-27
For many years, the German technology company SAP developed its own cloud platform for business customers. Until 2021, its suite of services for developing, integrating, and extending enterprise applications was known as SAP Cloud Platform.
Although the name has not been used for several years—the relevant services have since been incorporated into SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)—the term SAP Cloud Platform still frequently appears in project documentation from earlier periods.
The platform was widely used to develop custom business applications that integrated natively with SAP solutions and to extend ERP systems without modifying their core functionality. It also covered areas such as data management, analytics, enterprise mobility, and API management. Because the platform capabilities have now been integrated into SAP BTP, new solutions should be designed using the current SAP Business Technology Platform terminology rather than the legacy SAP Cloud Platform nomenclature.