S/4HANA in a nutshell

Data volumes are growing, and the pace of this growth is unprecedented. The volume, variety, velocity, and veracity of these data coming from the sensor, social media, and other sources are far outstripping traditional business suite systems. We are living in the digital world and the exponential growth in digital information cannot be handled by just upscaling our infrastructure or revamping existing processes, as this will complicate the solution.

The paces of underlying hardware architecture advancement and computing power are way faster, and to take advantage, we need to adapt them and redesign the business suite for the digital world.

So, SAP has rewritten the complete suite, which is named SAP S/4HANA. SAP S/4HANA promises that customers can completely reimagine their business models, processes, and decision making with an enriched end user experience. Run simple in the digital economy and drive instant value across the organization.

SAP S/4HANA is a real-time enterprise resource management suite for digital businesses. It is built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable on the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA can drive instant value across all lines of business, irrespective of the industry or business size:

S/4HANA as a core of the next generation of SAP offers

The salient features of SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is built on SAP HANA, so it has all the capabilities of this powerful data management and application platform, including predictive analysis, real-time decision supports, and advanced text mining. Let's take a quick look at a few of the salient features of SAP S/4HANA, listed as follows:

• Can be deployed on-premise or on a cloud or hybrid model
• Contains simplified data models, reduced tables, and footprints
• Is fully integrated with the SAP HANA cloud platform, allowing organizations to build faster and more cost effective business applications
• SAP S/4HANA increases the efficiency of enterprise processes by embedding analytics in the transactional context and by removing visibility blackouts caused by batch processing
• Overlaps and redundancy, including earlier multiple add-on applications surrounding a core (for example, SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and SAP SRM), have been completely removed in SAP S/4HANA
• A brandnew user experience is delivered to improve the productivity and satisfaction of business users, bringing the interface up to a consumer-grade experience on any device
• A database that supports S/4HANA (SAP HANA) can handle both OLTP and OLAP processing from a single model, and therefore, we do not need to move transactional data to a separate system

So, how can SAP Activate help us to get a quick jumpstart with SAP S/4HANA?

One of the first questions that should come to our mind is, "How does SAP Activate as a methodology help make the SAP S/4HANA implementation faster?"

The answer to the preceding question lies in the following capabilities provided by SAP Activate:

• Provides you with tools needed for an assisted implementation
• Facilitates sample reference solutions containing organizational and master data
• Clears confusion over methodologies by providing one methodology
• Suitable for any type of deployment (in terms of size, cloud/premise)
• Offers continuous support in adaptation of latest innovations