Companies manage SAP Business Technology Platform via various account structures. SAP differentiates between Global Accounts, Directories and Subaccounts.
The Global Account represents the highest administration level of a SAP BTP environment. Here, available services, authorizations, users and consumption models are centrally managed. A Global Account is based on the respective SAP BTP contract and serves as the starting point for the use of BTP services.
Subaccounts enable the logical separation of projects, applications, business units or system landscapes. Companies can, for example, create their own subaccounts for development, test and production. The individual environments can be managed and configured independently of each other.
Directories serve the additional structuring of larger BTP landscapes. They make it possible to group several subaccounts organizationally and to centrally manage authorizations. The use of directories is optional but is recommended especially for more complex BTP architectures.
Through this multi-level structure, SAP BTP services can be organized flexibly and scalably.