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the saas provider takes care of everything and the customer always has the latest version of the application . explore our saas products sap successfactors hr solutions sap s 4hana finance sap hybris cloud for customer sap hybris cloud for sales sap hybris cloud for service sap hybris marketing sap hybris commerce sap business bydesign erp for midsize business sap business one cloud erp for small business sap businessobjects cloud for analytics sap jam collaboration sap jam communities ariba network sourcing procurement & finance concur travel & expense management fieldglass flexible labor management what is paas platform as a service paas provides a cloud platform and tools to help developers build and deploy cloud applications . users access paas from a web browser so there is no need to purchase and maintain the underlying hardware and software . with paas developers can pick and choose the features they want on a subscription basis . learn about the sap hana cloud platform what is 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