Blockchain Applications and Services
Explore SAP blockchain solutions
SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service
This blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) provides the easiest, lowest-risk gateway to experimenting with distributed ledger technology in the cloud. Eliminate the need for a large upfront capital investment and fast-track blockchain implementation across your business.
- Cloud deployment
- Prototype, test, and build blockchain applications and smart contracts
- Develop blockchain extensions for existing applications
- Use open standards to create consortium and private blockchain networks
Innovate with blockchain and other SAP Leonardo technologies
Enable a smart, best-run business with help from SAP
Explore use cases for blockchain, cloud, and specific industries to learn how our customers use blockchain technologies to become best-run businesses.
Accelerate your digital transformation
Learn how SAP Leonardo’s systematic approach to digital innovation can help you build state-of-the art applications with blockchain capabilities. You can also integrate blockchain with other technologies – such as analytics, Big Data, machine learning, and the IoT.
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Why SAP for blockchain?
Business Process Centered
At SAP, our approach to blockchain focuses on more than just the technology. Use cases, business value, and impacted processes are paramount – and data quality and integrity are ensured from the get-go.
Networks Experience
Combining your company’s digital core with a vibrant and active business network is key to blockchain success. SAP lives and breathes business networks – and can help you integrate seamlessly and securely.
BaaS Abstraction Layer
Our BaaS solution includes an abstraction layer that supports open standards, offers built-in integration with SAP applications – and insulates you and your partners from the technology’s volatility.
Choose your SAP blockchain applications and services
SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service
Start experimenting with blockchain in the cloud. Our blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) offering delivers a low-cost, low-risk way for businesses to explore the technology, integrate it into their SAP landscapes, and capitalize on its potential.
- Cloud deployment
- Innovate on an open blockchain platform
- Build new blockchain apps and networks
- Extend existing applications with blockchain
SAP HANA Blockchain service
Connect your external blockchain networks to SAP HANA, a powerful in-memory data platform. Accessed through our cloud platform blockchain application enablement, this service (planned soon for release) offers cutting-edge analytical and developmental capabilities for working with blockchain data.
- Hybrid deployment
- Integrate enterprise and blockchain data
- Monitor and analyze blockchain data in real time
- Build apps on SAP HANA platform using blockchain data
Integrating blockchain into SAP applications
See how SAP customers and co-innovators are using blockchain solutions
Battling bureaucracy with blockchain
The Italian region of South Tyrol is pioneering the use of blockchain to replace inefficient legacy systems, break free from excessive government bureaucracy, and comply with European data sharing regulations.
Identifying counterfeit pharmaceuticals
Learn how Boehringer Ingelheim – a global pharmaceutical company and SAP co-innovation customer – is using a blockchain-based system to verify the authenticity of pharmaceutical products and combat counterfeits.
How SAP is developing blockchain for business
Hyperledger Foundation
SAP is a premier member of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project – a collaborative cross-industry effort to advance open blockchain technology for business.
Chinese Trusted Blockchain Alliance
SAP is acting as vice chair of this Chinese alliance to advance blockchain technology R&D, improve standards and governance, and drive adoption across industries.
Alastria
We’re a member of this Spanish consortium focused on the establishment of a semi-public, independent, permissioned, and neutral blockchain / DLT network.
Get started with blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Join the SAP Blockchain Consortium
Stay ahead of the curve by exploring how distributed ledger technology can benefit your business – learn about industry use cases and see how distributed ledger technology is being leveraged to address real world problems.
- Communicate and network with peers
- Stay on top of industry trends
- Hear from guest speakers and SAP experts
Blockchain news from SAP
Eliminate counterfeits with blockchain innovation
Learn how a blockchain solution from SAP helps wholesalers comply with a U.S. regulation for verifying prescription drugs that are returned and intended for resale.
Industries apply blockchain with new consortia
SAP’s expanding work with blockchain comes as companies in more industries seek the advantages of distributed ledger technology in enterprise applications.
Co-innovating to fight smartphone theft
Through a joint project, Deutsche Telekom, Camelot ITLab, and SAP are building a blockchain network to prevent cell phones from being stolen.
Explore the latest blockchain trends from technology experts
SAP
Adding Value for Enterprise Collaboration
The next frontier in business or all hype? Learn how blockchain triggers not only heated debates but also worthwhile discussions around the actual problem: data silos.
SAP
Interest and Adoption Rise as Middlemen Move Out
The jury on blockchain may still be out but survey results on the state of blockchain found that many in the industry share our optimism--time to own what happens next.
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Broad blockchain adoption enters the realm of the possible
Overarching technical standards for blockchain don’t yet exist. Should you wait for your competitors to define them – or should you and your team define them ourselves?