Feature differences between SaaS and on-premises containers offerings

Review the feature differences, such as included components, available packages, and storage, between the Sterling Intelligent Promising offerings.

Table 1. Feature differences between SaaS and on-premises containers
Feature	SaaS	On-premises containers
Deployment model	Provides cloud-based access without the need for onsite infrastructure. Suitable for organizations that prefer online software solutions.	Allows deployment within your own infrastructure by using container orchestration. Suitable for organizations that prefer on-premises and public cloud deployment.
Included components	Modular services - Promising, Inventory service, and Optimization service An Order Hub user interface A Self Service web-based user interface	Modular services - Promising, Inventory service, and Optimization service An Order Hub user interface
Software, hardware, installation, deployment, upgrade, and maintenance	Fully managed by IBM® on IBM Cloud. Software updates are automatic.	Your organization's IT team installs, maintains, and upgrades the software.
Storage	IBM Cloud® Object Storage bucket is needed To receive IBM Cloud Object Storage-based events from Sterling Intelligent Promising. For more information, see IBM Cloud Object Storage-based events. To send file-based data into Sterling Intelligent Promising. For more information, see Integrating data.	IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket is not needed for the containers offering as events are published through Kafka.
Event publishing	Events are published to the IBM Cloud Object Storage and webhooks. For more information, see Event consumption using cloud object storage (COS) and Event consumption using webhooks.	Events are published to Kafka and the external applications can subscribe to these events by consuming messages from the corresponding Kafka topic. For more information, see Integration with external systems.
Release schedule	Monthly. For more information, see Sterling Intelligent Promising SaaS release schedule.	Monthly. For more information, see IBM Containers schedule.
Available packages	Sterling Intelligent Promising Essentials Sterling Intelligent Promising Standard Sterling Intelligent Promising Premium	Only Sterling Intelligent Promising Standard is available.
Supporting documents	Getting started for SaaS What's new	Getting started for on-premises containers What's new IBM containers overview Installing by using Containers
API documentation	Access the APIs in the API Hub. The REST API documentation explains the input, output, and endpoint URL for each API to help you use them effectively.	API documentation is available in another container. For more information, see API access for containers deployment.