SAP Cloud Platform

[Former Member]

Good Morning:

We are TEC, a startup that develops solutions for electricity retailers. We are currently in the sales phase to potential retailers and therefore, we may register as SAP partners (our potential clients could be SAP clients). We are writing to you in reference to some questions in SAP Cloud Platform.

-If we integrate our solution in the 12-month demo, what legal implications would it have? In other words, could we sell our solution to third parties despite having developed the integration of our solution in the SAP environment?.

-The 12-month free trial on SAP Cloud Platform, allows to develop the integration of our solution or is limited.

-The last question is, if we sign up for the demo test, will it then allow us to enroll in the partner program or is it incompatible?

A cordial greeting.

[ivo-van-barneveld · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The SAP Cloud Platform trial does not allow you to develop and then sell your application to customers. The Terms of Use stipulate that you "use the Service solely for Your own internal non-productive testing and evaluation of the Service". The trial version does not come with any support or SLA, and services may be upgraded or deprecated without notice.

If you intend to build your own applications on SAP Cloud Platform, and sell these applications to customers as a packaged application, the SAP PartnerEdge – Build program is the right option for you. This program allows you to develop and commercialize your intellectual property. After you've entered the program, you will be able to subscribe to development licensing services (at a cost). These development licensing services do allow you to build and then sell applications to customers. There is no direct migration from the trial environment.

The SAP PartnerEdge – Build program also gives you the option to sell SAP Cloud Platform services bundled with your own application, and to list your application on SAP App Center if you wish to do so. You will need to submit your application to the Application Readiness Check before you can publish your application and order the SAP Cloud Platform services bundle for resell.

To enter the program, you will need to apply here. Once admitted, you will be sent the contract package for your signature. A program fee of 2,000 euro will apply. If you are not ready yet to make such commitment, you could start as a member of Open Ecosystem – Build and upgrade to a full partnership at a later point in time. As a member in the Open Ecosystem – Build program, you do have access to the full portfolio of development licensing services (not just for SAP Cloud Platform, but other SAP products as well). However, you will not be able to publish your application on SAP App Center or resell SAP Cloud Platform services bundled with your solution; nor will you reach SAP Partner status.

Best regards, Ivo