Abstract: Cloud*Innovator is a proprietary rules based event driven invention that is fully integrated within the SAP technology framework and is used to enable Cloud capabilities to ensure optimal performance and systems availability through continuous monitoring, metering, auto-provisioning and tuning of systems resources. This includes an intelligence engine to deliver real-time business decisions to ensure precision tuning of the system resources and parameters via advanced automation techniques. In other words . . . . Cloud*Innovator—An Intelligent Invention for enabling SAP automation in the Cloud. This is a proprietary rules based event driven invention that is fully integrated within the SAP technology framework and is used to ensure optimal performance and systems availability through continuous monitoring, metering, auto-provisioning and tuning of systems resources. A run-time intelligence engine provides business logic to ensure precision tuning of system resources via advanced automation techniques.