SAP S/4HANA, the next generation business suite designed to help SAP Customer run simple in the digital economy.
It is built on in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori.
Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA is built to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate in sophistication: simplicity.
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management is SAP’s next-generation digital core
- Innovative in-memory database
- New architecture and data models
- Renewed applications
- New UI technology
- Cloud & on-premise deployment models
- Natively integrated
SAP S/4HANA is a new product line.
The classical SAP Business Suite & SAP ERP is a separate product line and will still be available.
Organizations that have professional services, finance or logistics at their core can benefit from SAP S/4HANA. Organizations wanting to advance beyond the real-time reporting provided by SAP HANA and looking to become faster, smarter, more agile and connected can also benefit.
For organizations that want to stay on the leading edge of new technologies, now is the right time to start a complete replatforming to SAP S4/HANA and to optimize their business reporting. At the same time, they can begin to plan their digital roadmap as per today's business requirement, incorporating future SAP S/4HANA innovations. This simple transformation will allow the organization to reap immediate business benefits.
The new SAP S/4HANA offers enhanced business value and huge TCO savings - so the Return on Investment(ROI) is crystal clear.
So, in a nutshell, the move to SAP S4/HANA is very important and this movement - sooner is better than later.
There are basically three different implementation scenarios how a customer can move to SAP S/4HANA:-
1) System Conversion: Existing SAP customers who want to move a complete SAP Business Suite system to SAP S/4HANA.
2) Landscape Transformation: Existing SAP customers who want to optimize their system landscape and move to SAP S/4HANA.
3) New Implementation: Customers who want to move from non-SAP legacy to SAP S/4HANA. This can be true for new and existing SAP customers.
Some important & useful links below about S4/HANA Implementation:
• Activity list for the implementation of S/4 HANA On premise edition 1511 FS01 - https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-72815
• S/4 HANA Post Implementation Basis Checklist - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-71121
• How to Activate Best Practices Content in S/4HANA -http://scn.sap.com/community/s4hana/blog/2016/05/06/how-to-activate-best-practices-content-in-s4hana-1511-fps1
• S/4 HANA implementation - http://www.slideshare.net/BluefinSolutions1/sap-s4hana-everything-you-need-to-know-for-a-successul-implementation