Introduction: -
SAP
Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (or SAP S/4HANA) is a business suite that run on Hana Database. it is combination of SAP Business Suite products such as SAP SRM, CRM
and SCM. It has cloud and on premises editions. Its runs only on Hana database. Table
and data has been simplified. If we
going to check the on premise edition component in S/4Hana it will be similar to
this.
Key Benefits:
Built on HANA
New Fiori for any
device (mobile, desktop, tablet)
Guided configuration
Subscription
1/10 of data
footprint
3-7X higher
throughput
Up to 1800X faster
analytics
ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM,
PLM in one system*
No locking,
parallelism for throughput
Actual data (25%) and
historical (75%)
Unlimited workload
capacity
Predict, recommend,
simulate
HCP extensions
HANA multi tenancy
All data: social,
text, geo, graph, processing
Data size reduction in SAP:
Reason
Replace
totals with on-the-fly aggregation.
Replace
secondary indices with dynamic projection and selection.
A new installation of S/4HANA needs to run on the SAP HANA database and solution manager with any DB.
Comparison between the S\4Hana and other SAP ERP suites.
Functions
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ECC 6
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SoH
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S4HANA finance
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S4HANA
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Overview
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Core SAP ECC system
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ECC with HANA
Database
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SoH with SFIN
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New Business suite
from SAP with Simplified tables of ECC.
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Core Component
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SAP_APPL
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SAP_APPL
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SAP_APPL
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S4CORE
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Database
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Any
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HANA
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HANA
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HANA
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Embedded BW
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Client 066
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yes
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yes
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yes
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No
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Fiori
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yes
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yes
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yes
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yes
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Simplified Tables
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Transitioning option for SAP S/4 HANA
If
anyone want to move to existing ECC landscape to S4hana then we have below
option.
Transitioning to SAP S/4 HANA
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New Implementation
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Green field
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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA through a fresh implementation and a
fresh data load
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System Conversion
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Brownfield
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convert your existing business processes to the simplified
S/4HANA
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Landscape transformation
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Green field
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Consolidate various region system into one global SAP S/4HANA
system
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If
anyone want to move to existing ECC landscape to S/4hana then we have below
option.
Conversion required to convert your existing business
processes to the simplified S/4HANA processes. This can be achieved using
simplification list. Simplification list are set of steps that we need to
follow as per notes given by SAP. Main note is 2313884.
Migration of ECC on Hana option
1. ECC to SoH
2. ECC to S4hana Finance
3. ECC to S4hana
S4HANA Deployment option (Hardware Prospective)
Deployment options
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Public Cloud
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Managed Cloud
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On-Premises
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Shared HANA multi-tenant DB
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Managed HANA DB and network
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On-Premises or Hosted
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No customizations
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Limited ABAP Customization
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Full ABAP Customization
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Quarterly Release Schedule
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Scheduled Updates
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Update schedule defined by customer
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100% Managed by SAP
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100% Managed by SAP
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Managed by Customer/Partner
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Automatic Updates
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NA
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NA
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HANA Cloud Platform Extensions
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NA
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NA
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Now
again these cloud have 3 part from
public or managed cloud. I mean each public and managed have 3 variants
available as per customer requirement
SAP S/4HANA cloud
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Marketing edition
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Project services edition
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Enterprise edition
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For the marketing line of business
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For the professional services industry
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For full ERP capabilities
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No country dependencies
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Country dependencies
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No country dependencies
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And on
premise we have 2 option for implementation as per customer requirement.
S4HANA Implementation
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Use of SAP Best Practices content
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No use of SAP Best Practices content
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pre-configured solution packages
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Not pre-configured solution packages
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Your solutions will not be compatible to future SAP Best
Practices content.
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Your solutions will not be compatible to future SAP Best
Practices content.
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we set up a best-practice client without configuration content
from client 000.
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We set up a client with configuration content from client 000
(including all tables of delivery class C and G)
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This standard client is a conventional on premise system. This
makes sense if there is only little overlap between the implementation
project scope and the SAP Best Practices content.
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Customizing activities are carried out in the transaction SPRO.
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Customizing activities are carried out in the transaction SPRO.
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ERP and S4HANA version
roadmap
FPS is feature pack stacks
used to release on quarterly basis.
