SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) is a cloud offering where SAP provides a dedicated, single-tenant environment for each customer. This infrastructure is hosted by SAP or its partners and is fully managed by SAP, covering services from the infrastructure up to the application basis layer. This model precisely fits the definition of a private managed cloud. It combines the security, control, and dedicated resources of a private cloud with the operational benefits of a managed service, where the vendor (SAP) handles maintenance, updates, and support.

A. Hybrid managed: Incorrect. While HEC can be a component of a customer's overall hybrid IT landscape (connecting to on-premise systems), the HEC solution itself is fundamentally a private cloud, not a hybrid one.

B. Public managed: Incorrect. HEC is not a public cloud because it uses dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure per customer, unlike multi-tenant public cloud offerings.

C. On-premise managed: Incorrect. HEC is a cloud service by definition; the infrastructure is not located on the customer's premises but in data centers managed by SAP or its partners.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud: "SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a scalable and secure private cloud service... As a managed service

SAP runs and manages your SAP systems in a world-class data center of your choice." This document explicitly defines HEC as a private

managed service.

2. SAP Press

"SAP S/4HANA Cloud" (2nd Edition)

Section 2.2.2: This section discusses deployment models and describes the private cloud option (the evolution of HEC) as a single-tenant environment managed by SAP

distinguishing it from public and hybrid models. It states

"In the private cloud

you get your own dedicated landscape..."

3. SAP Community Wiki

"SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)": "SAP HEC is a private managed cloud solution for SAP customers who want to move their SAP landscapes to the cloud." This source directly uses the term "private managed cloud" to classify the solution.