Create Service Instance for Business Entity Recognition

1. In your web browser, open the SAP Cloud Platform trial cockpit.

2. Navigate to the trial global account by clicking Enter Your Trial Account.

   

   If this is your first time accessing your trial account, you’ll have to configure your account by choosing a region. Please select Europe (Frankfurt). Your user profile will be set up for you automatically.

   Wait till your account is set up and ready to go. Your global account, your subaccount, your organization, and your space are launched. This may take a couple of minutes.

   Choose Continue.

   

3. From your global account page, choose the trial tile to access your subaccount.

   

To try out Business Entity Recognition, you need to make sure that your subaccount is properly configured.

1. On the navigation side bar, click Entitlements to see a list of all eligible services. You are entitled to use every service in this list according to the assigned service plan.

2. Search for Business Entity Recognition Trial. If you find the service in the list, you are entitled to use it. Now you can set this step to Done and proceed with Step 3.

   

ONLY if you DO NOT find the service in your list, proceed as follows:

1. Click Configure Entitlements.

   

2. Click Add Service Plans.

   

3. Select Business Entity Recognition Trial, and choose the standard service plan. Click Add 1 Service Plan.

   

4. Save your Entitlements changes.

   

You are now entitled to use Business Entity Recognition and create instances of the service.

For more details on how to configure entitlements, quotas, subaccounts and service plans on SAP Cloud Platform Trial, see Manage Entitlements on SAP Cloud Platform Trial.

You will find all applications and services in spaces. By default, trial accounts only have the dev space available.

Click Spaces on the navigation side bar and select the dev space to open it.

The Service Marketplace is where you find all the services available on SAP Cloud Platform.

1. To access it, click Service Marketplace on the navigation side bar.

   

2. Next, search for Business Entity Recognition and click the tile to access the service.

   

You will now create an instance of your service.

Click Create Instance to start the creation dialog.

In the dialog, leave the default value for the service and the service plan. Enter a name for your new instance as ber-inst and click Create Instance to skip the other steps and create the instance.

In the following dialog, click on View Instance to be navigated to the list of your service instances.

You have successfully created a service instance for Business Entity Recognition.

You are now able to a create service key for your new service instance. Service keys are used to generate credentials to enable apps to access and communicate with the service instance.

1. Click the navigation arrow to open the details of your service instance. Then, click the dots to open the menu and select Create Service Key.

   

2. In the dialog, enter ber-key as the name of your service key. Click Create to create the service key.

   

You have successfully created a service key for your service instance. You can now either view the service key in the browser or download it.

You will need the service key values to create your access_token in the next tutorial: Get OAuth Access Token for Business Entity Recognition Using Any Web Browser.