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?

A Pen­chant for Pre­con­fig­u­ra­tion in Cloud-Based Tech

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.