name: SAP Business Technology Platform FinOps
description: Financial operations guidance for managing SAP BTP costs, monitoring consumption, optimizing spend, and governing service usage across global accounts and subaccounts.
url: https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/pricing.html

cost_model:
  type: consumption-based
  billing_cycle: monthly
  currency: USD
  notes: >
    SAP BTP uses a consumption-based credit model. Under PAYG and BTPEA, customers are
    charged based on actual usage of platform services. Credits are debited per service
    metric (e.g., API calls, compute time, data volume, messages processed). Monthly
    balance statements provide transparency on charges incurred.

visibility:
  - name: SAP BTP Cockpit
    description: Primary administrative console for viewing service consumption, managing global accounts, subaccounts, and monitoring entitlement usage in real time.
    url: https://cockpit.btp.cloud.sap/
  - name: SAP for Me
    description: Customer self-service portal providing access to cloud availability, system status, and consumption reporting across SAP products including BTP.
    url: https://me.sap.com/
  - name: Monthly Balance Statements
    description: SAP sends monthly balance statements summarizing consumption charges across all services in the BTP account, providing a financial overview for FinOps reviews.

cost_drivers:
  - name: API Calls / Messages
    description: SAP Integration Suite and API Management services are metered on message count or API call volume.
  - name: Compute Resources
    description: Kyma (Kubernetes), Cloud Foundry, and ABAP environment services are metered on memory, CPU, and instance hours.
  - name: Data Storage
    description: SAP HANA Cloud, Datasphere, and other data services charge based on storage capacity consumed.
  - name: AI Inference
    description: SAP AI Core charges are based on inference calls, model hosting, and GPU compute time.
  - name: User Licensing
    description: Some services (e.g., SAP Analytics Cloud) include named-user or concurrent-user licensing components in addition to consumption metrics.

optimization_strategies:
  - name: Free Tier Services
    description: Leverage more than 90 services with free tier or always-free plans under PAYG/BTPEA accounts before committing to paid consumption.
    url: https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/trial-accounts-and-free-tier
  - name: Entitlement Governance
    description: Use the BTP Cockpit to set service plan quotas and entitlement limits per subaccount, preventing runaway consumption.
  - name: Token Caching
    description: Cache OAuth 2.0 tokens from XSUAA (valid up to 12 hours) to reduce authentication API call costs.
  - name: Destination Caching
    description: Cache Destination Service lookups in application memory to reduce repeated API calls and associated throttling risks.
  - name: SAP Discovery Center
    description: Use the SAP Discovery Center cost estimator to model expected consumption before deploying new services.
    url: https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/

governance:
  - name: Subaccount Segmentation
    description: Organize workloads by environment (dev, test, prod) and business unit across subaccounts to isolate and attribute costs clearly.
  - name: Alert Notification Service
    description: Configure SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP to trigger budget and consumption threshold alerts.
    url: https://help.sap.com/docs/alert-notification
  - name: Resource Tagging
    description: Tag subaccounts and service instances with cost center labels to enable chargeback and showback reporting.

references:
  - url: https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/pricing.html
    title: SAP BTP Pricing Page
  - url: https://learning.sap.com/courses/becoming-an-sap-btp-solution-architect/exploring-sap-btp-commercial-models
    title: Exploring SAP BTP Commercial Models (SAP Learning)
  - url: https://saplicensingexperts.com/blog/sap-btp-licensing-models-free-tier-vs-enterprise.html
    title: SAP BTP Licensing Models - Free Tier vs Enterprise