OREANDA-NEWS. March 17, 2016. Last year, SAP announced that SAP HANA Cloud Platform, starter editions, are available for purchase on SAP Digital’s SAPStore.com. SAP recently released digital-ready, user-based packages for SAP HANA Cloud Platform on the store as well (announced in a press release issued today).

As with other offerings in the SAP Digital portfolio, all of these packages can be purchased and used in minutes, when you want it, and with the ease of a credit-card payment. These packages provide developers within small and medium businesses (SMBs) or IT departments within a large enterprise as well as consultants with an opportunity to leverage the power of SAP HANA in the cloud at an affordable price.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform is the extension platform for SAP applications and a Platform-as-a-Service offering. It provides a fast, reliable, and simple way to build beautiful applications or extend existing ones. With SAP HANA Cloud Platform, developers no longer have to fear the questions “when can you finally deliver that app redesign we discussed?” or “Is it possible to build an app that…” With SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the answer is changed from “Let’s think about it next quarter” to “We can get it done.”

Here are the SAP HANA Cloud Platform packages available on the store:

  • Starter editions: Include a dedicated instance of SAP HANA and other key SAP HANA Cloud Platform services primarily for those who want to learn quickly about the platform, build and impress. Pricing range per month from \\$439 (32GB) to \\$549 (64GB).
  • User-based packages: Priced per users and for production, user-based packages of SAP HANA Cloud Platform offer a convenient and fast way to create enterprise-grade apps.  SAP offers both a single and multiple application editions to fit your needs. The pricing is \\$43 for the single application edition and \\$130 for the multiple application edition (per user per month). For a lightweight app where users share storage and other cloud resources, the professional edition is the best fit at \\$22 per user per month.

Not only can you now buy these packages from SAPStore.com with the click of a button, you can also try out the user-based packages for SAP HANA Cloud Platform for free. The free edition allows developers to get started immediately on building an app for productive use, with no risk or upfront investment required. When you’re ready, you can easily upgrade to any of the packages with just your credit card.

The demand for building applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform from SAP’s developer ecosystem is robust, with over 100,000 developers engaged in building solutions on the platform. Are you ready to join them?