S4Hana_00: S/4HANA Deployment Plan

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.

Speed:

Simple installation of S4hana:

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	ECC 6	SoH	S4HANA finance	S4HANA
Overview	Core SAP ECC system	ECC with HANA Database	SoH with SFIN	New Business suite from SAP with Simplified tables of ECC.
Core Component	SAP_APPL	SAP_APPL	SAP_APPL	S4CORE
Database	Any	HANA	HANA	HANA
Embedded BW	No	No	Yes	Yes
Client 066	yes	yes	yes	No
Fiori	yes	yes	yes	yes
Simplified Tables	No	No	No	Yes

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
New Implementation	Green field	Migrating to SAP S/4HANA through a fresh implementation and a fresh data load
System Conversion	Brownfield	convert your existing business processes to the simplified S/4HANA
Landscape transformation	Green field	Consolidate various region system into one global SAP S/4HANA system

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
Public Cloud	Managed Cloud	On-Premises
Shared HANA multi-tenant DB	Managed HANA DB and network	On-Premises or Hosted
No customizations	Limited ABAP Customization	Full ABAP Customization
Quarterly Release Schedule	Scheduled Updates	Update schedule defined by customer
100% Managed by SAP	100% Managed by SAP	Managed by Customer/Partner
Automatic Updates	NA	NA
HANA Cloud Platform Extensions	NA	NA

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
Marketing edition	Project services edition	Enterprise edition
For the marketing line of business	For the professional services industry	For full ERP capabilities
No country dependencies	Country dependencies	No country dependencies

And on premise we have 2 option for implementation as per customer requirement.

S4HANA Implementation
Use of SAP Best Practices content	No use of SAP Best Practices content
pre-configured solution packages	Not pre-configured solution packages
Your solutions will not be compatible to future SAP Best Practices content.	Your solutions will not be compatible to future SAP Best Practices content.
we set up a best-practice client without configuration content from client 000.	We set up a client with configuration content from client 000 (including all tables of delivery class C and G)
	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.
Customizing activities are carried out in the transaction SPRO.	Customizing activities are carried out in the transaction SPRO.

ERP and S4HANA version roadmap

Release Strategy

FPS is feature pack stacks used to release on quarterly basis.