SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA
Developer(s) SAP SE
Initial release Feb. 3, 2015
Development status Active
Written in ABAP
Available in Multi-lingual
License Proprietary
Website http://www.sap.com/s4hana

SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (or SAP S/4 HANA) is a business suite that is built on SAP's proprietary Operational Database System and in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA.

Purpose

The offering is an Enterprise Resource Planning software meant to cover all day-to-day processes of an enterprise. It integrates functions from lines of businesses as well as industry solutions, and also re-integrates portions of SAP Business Suite products such as SAP SRM, CRM and SCM. However SAP Business Suite 4 only runs on the SAP HANA database, and thus it is packaged as one product: SAP S/4 HANA.[1]

SAP's classical R3 based business suite and related products were designed to run on several database platforms, including those from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.[2]

SAP has said that the SAP HANA platform can potentially save an organization 37% across hardware, software, and labor costs.[3]

History

The platform SAP HANA has been available since 2010, and SAP applications like SAP ERP and the SAP Business Suite have been able to run on the SAP HANA database and/or any other database.[4]

The S/4HANA launch[5] took place on February 3, 2015 at the New York Stock Exchange. The event introduced cloud computing and on premises editions, and launched the on-premises edition. Availability of the cloud edition followed at SAPPHIRE NOW (SAP’s annual customer conference) on May 6, 2015 in Orlando, Florida.[6]

SAP S/4HANA is being called SAP's biggest update to its ERP strategy and platform in over two decades.[7] Post-launch, Gartner analysts noted that SAP S/4HANA represented a “transformational shift,” but raised questions about the functionality, availability, pricing and migration surrounding S/4.[8]

By April 21, 2015, 370 customers had purchased S/4HANA.[9] After the first half of 2015, positive growth was confirmed for SAP.[10]

Growth continued through the third quarter of 2015.[11] Following its third quarter earnings announcement, SAP said the number of SAP S/4HANA customers had risen to 1,300.[12]

There are numerous ERP systems with the same intention, some of the product’s competitors in the Software as a Service space are Oracle,[13] Microsoft and Workday, Inc.[14]

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Editions

The S/4 product offering consists of two editions: SAP S/4HANA On-Premises Edition and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition.

SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Edition is similar in terms of coverage, functionality, industry-specific support, and localization to the current SAP Business Suite (35 languages, 61 country versions, 21 industries). This edition is available for on premises deployment and as a hosted offering via SAP and its partners.[15]

SAP also offers SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition.[16] It consists of functionality for finance, accounting, controlling, procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project system, and product lifecycle management, plus integration with SuccessFactors Employee Central, Ariba Network, SAP Hybris Marketing and Field Glass.

SAP plans to have comprehensive industry coverage for the cloud edition, as well as industry-specific solutions.[17] It is currently available in several languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese). The cloud edition supports:

Deployment

There are several possible starting points for deployment and migration.[18] [19]Many SAP customers typically move to SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA, and the next step is to implement packages that contain the simplified code lines for specific business processes.[20]

References

  1. ↑ S/4HANA: What Procurement Teams Should be Doing Now, UpperEdge.com, 26 August 2015
  2. ↑ The SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) FAQ, Bluefin Solutions, 3 February 2015
  3. ↑ Cost Analysis of the SAP HANA Platform, SAP, April 2014
  4. ↑ Are You Ready For An Architectural Evolution With Converged Applications? , Forrester, 1 April 2013
  5. ↑ SAP Unwraps a New Enterprise Suite Based on HANA, PCWorld.com, 3 February 2015
  6. ↑ SAP Launches S/4 HANA Cloud Edition, RCRWireless.com, 6 May 2015
  7. ↑ All Eyes on SAP S/4HANA and Cloud in SAP's Q1 Results, Forbes, 20 April 2015
  8. ↑ SAP S/4HANA Is a Transformational Shift for SAP and Its Users, but Hold on to Your Wallets for Now, Gartner Report, 24 February 2015
  9. ↑ SAP starts seeing the HANA adoption needed to drive long-term growth, TBR Newsroom, 21 April 2015
  10. ↑ SAP Second-Quarter Earnings Tempered by Cloud Demand, Bloomberg, 21 July 2015
  11. ↑ SAP Outpaces Rivals, Sees Robust Pickup for New Software, Bloomberg, 20 October 2015
  12. ↑ SAP Q3 2015 results: On-premise [sic] and cloud grow in parallel, says Cohen, ComputerWeekly, 20 October 2015
  13. ↑ Oracle's in-memory option aims to beat the rest within 12 months, ZDNet, 10 June 2014
  14. ↑ Why Workday has Oracle and SAP worried, Fortune, 12 March 2012
  15. ↑ SAP Unveils SAP S/4HANA On-Premise [sic] Edition Trial, DBTA, 26 August 2015
  16. ↑ SAP launches S/4 HANA cloud edition, RCRWireless.com, 6 May 2015
  17. ↑ S/4 HANA FAQ, SAP.com
  18. ↑ Top Five Things to Know about the Journey to S/4HANA and the Five Simple Steps to Get There, CSI Ltd, 14 July 2015
  19. ↑ Freya Purnell. "Smoothing the path for S/4HANA and Fiori migrations with UX analytics". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  20. ↑ SAP Journey Map, SAP.com
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