SAP used the Barcelona, Spain-located Mobile World Congress conference and exhibition in February 2018 to announce its SAP Leonardo Telecommunications Industry accelerator. 

All well and good in terms of aligning product launches to appropriate industry vertical tech trade shows. But what’s really inside the box? The term “accelerator” is comparatively new within cloud computing nomenclature. So what software components, packages, tools, architectures, and other functions actually exist inside any one of SAP’s accelerators?

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If truth be told, this is a tough question to answer. This is because technology platform blueprints, reference architectures, preconfiguration templates, and accelerators (call them what you will) are specifically designed to reduce complexity, not to explain their internal components.