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Raja Prasad Gupta

February 24, 2019 3 minute read

SAP Cloud Platform Environments – Cloud Foundry Vs Neo

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In this article, I will explain the di erence between Neo environment and Cloud Foundry environment in SAP
Cloud Platform.

Note: SAP provides FREE trial account for both Neo and Cloud Foundry. Refer to below articles to know
more about it.

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Get a free trial account on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment

SAP Cloud Platform provides two di erent development environments: Cloud Foundry and Neo. The
availability of di erent environments provides choices for technologies, runtimes, and services when using
SAP Cloud Platform, thereby allowing for great exibility in your development process.

Cloud Foundry Environment

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environment contains the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime, which is
based on the open-source application platform managed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Application developers can use the Cloud Foundry environment to enhance SAP products and to integrate
business applications, as well as to develop entirely new enterprise applications based on business APIs
that are hosted on SAP Cloud Platform.

The Cloud Foundry environment allows you to use multiple programming languages such as Java, Node.js,
and community/bring-your-own language options.

For more information on regional availability of the Cloud Foundry environment, see Regions and API
Endpoints Available for the Cloud Foundry Environment

Neo Environment

SAP Cloud Platform Neo environment contains SAP propriety runtime. Neo is a feature-rich and easy-to-use
development environment, allowing you to develop Java, SAP HANA XS, and HTML5 applications. You can
also use SAPUI5 to develop rich user interfaces for modern web-based business applications.

The Neo environment also lets you use virtual machines, allowing you to install and maintain your own
applications in scenarios that aren’t covered by the platform. A virtual machine is the virtualized hardware
resource (CPU, RAM, disk space, installed OS) that blends the line between Platform-as-a-Service and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

For more information about regional availability of the Neo environment, see Regions and API Endpoints
Available for the Neo Environment

Di erence between Cloud Foundry and Neo

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Which SAP Cloud Platform environment shall I use?

Based on the use case and business need, you can choose which environment is most suitable for you.

Use Cases for the Cloud Foundry Environment

Application developers can use the Cloud Foundry environment to enhance SAP products and to integrate
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business applications, as well as to develop entirely new enterprise applications based on business APIs
that are hosted on SAP Cloud Platform.

The Cloud Foundry environment allows you to use multiple programming languages such as Java, Node.js,
and community/bring-your-own language options.

We can use Cloud Foundry environment for micro-services-based applications, for Internet of Things and
machine learning scenarios, and for developing applications using SAP HANA extended application
services, advanced model (SAP HANA XSA).

Use Cases for the Neo Environment

Neo is a feature-rich and easy-to-use development environment, allowing you to develop Java, SAP HANA
XS, and HTML5 applications. We can use the Neo environment to develop HTML5 and complex Java
applications and for complex integration and extension scenarios.

Central Cockpit

To be able to administrate the two environments in a uni ed way, SAP provides one central cockpit.

The central cockpit is a Web-based user interface for administrators, providing access to a number of
functions for con guring and managing applications and connecting them to services on the cloud
platform. It can be used to manage resources, services, security, monitor application metrics, and perform
actions on cloud applications.

A typical Cloud Platform cockpit looks like below.

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You can access and use trial account cockpit for free. To know more refer to Get Started with SAP Cloud
Platform

SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

Recently, there has been one more environment got added to the SAP Cloud Platform – ABAP Environment.

ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s new Platform as a Service (PaaS) o ering for ABAP. Since many years,
ABAP has been the foundation for SAP’s on-premise solutions. With ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP
developers can make use of their existing ABAP know-how to develop and run ABAP applications in the
Cloud.

Customers and partners can build extensions for ABAP-based products like SAP S/4HANA Cloud as well as
develop new cloud applications. ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform is also an option to transform existing ABAP-
based custom code or extensions to the Cloud.

To know more on ABAP Environment, please refer to following blog posts:

Overview of ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform

ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform – Frequently Asked Questions
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Migrate Applications from Neo Environment to Cloud Foundry

When you migrate an application from the Neo to the Cloud Foundry environment following documents
could be helpful.

Migrate SAP Cloud SDK Based Applications from SAP Cloud Platform Neo Environment to Cloud Foundry

Help document on CF Migration

Best Practices for Adapting SAP Cloud Platform Applications to the Cloud Foundry Environment

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13 Comments

Marcelo Rodrigues

June 5, 2019 at 2:48 pm

Thank you for the explanation.

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Raja Prasad Gupta | Post author

June 18, 2019 at 8:32 am

Thanks Marcelo Rodrigues

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wei sean

June 20, 2019 at 8:55 am

Thank you !

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Gerard Gerrits

August 1, 2019 at 12:05 pm

Very clear, thank you.

Do you think HANA 2.0 will be available on NEO (in the short future)?

Thanx
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Raja Prasad Gupta | Post author

August 5, 2019 at 6:50 am

Hi Gerard Gerrits ,

Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding the availability of HANA 2.0 in Neo, I am not sure. However, even if Neo supports HANA 2.0, Cloud
Foundry should be preferred.

Any speci c reason, why you are looking for HANA 2.0 in Neo?

Regards,

Raja

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Philippe Addor

August 20, 2019 at 9:45 am

Hi Raja

Thanks for the blog post. I am wondering why Cloud Foundry is preferred? For all use cases?

Thanks,

Philippe

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Supriya Das

August 22, 2019 at 6:52 pm

Very useful information. Thanks for sharing.

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Raja Prasad Gupta | Post author

September 10, 2019 at 8:48 am

Thanks Supriya. Glad you liked it.
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Marc Voskuil

September 17, 2019 at 1:14 pm

Hi,

Thanks for de explanation. Maybe you can give us some advice:

We want to use CPI (instead of On-Prem PO), in a standard On-Prem SAP ERP <> SuccessFactors scenario.
Where whould we run this CPI, on CF or NEO?

We don’t use any other SAP Cloud Platform service currently.

Thanks in advance.

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Gaurav Karkara

September 18, 2019 at 2:41 am

Hi Marc,

As per strategic directions, you should be running CPI in CF.

Regards

GK

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Antonio Almeida Nunes

October 9, 2019 at 5:31 pm

Hi,

Neo Environment’s not available anymore

 
 
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Jacob Vennervald

February 7, 2020 at 7:47 am

Hi Antonio

Are you saying that Cloud Foundry is now the only option for SAP Cloud Platform?

Regards,

Jacob

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Yogesh Prasad

October 10, 2019 at 6:09 pm

Dear Guru

We are planning to migrate our ERP to AWS cloud , we have currently Ariba, Sucessfactor connected to ERP
using cloud connector ,,….is there any white pape which illustrate deployment of cloud connector  in AWS 
and what the SAP recommendation for such deployment 

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