S/4 Hana Pros and Cons

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The business would need to determine the pros/cons of each approach. A cloud sol
ution may save them on infrastructure costs, but it also could be more cost effe
ctive to run it on premise if they already have an infrastructure in place.
In the end for a technical consultant, it's a database running on some server ha
rdware. As long as connectivity is good for both scenarios, it would not matter
too much. There will be reduced maintenance tasks if you are running a cloud sol
ution as SAP does handle the server side maintenance and some of the SAP mainten
ance as well.
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[ ]WhatWhinter 1 point 1 year ago

S/4HANA is an application - think of it as a parallel product line to SAP ECC/ER

P. I would not call it a successor as SAP ECC will still be supported until 2025
.
S/4HANA and HANA Cloud Platform is actually designed to work together. For examp
le, a customer subscribes to a cloud edition of S/4HANA. Because it is subscript
ion based, they would utilize HCP as an extensibility platform to create additio
nal applications, customizations, etc. that they would not necessary be able to
do in the standard S/4HANA. That is the most brief explanation I can give, but g
o over to sap.com and open.sap.com to get a more detailed overview of both.
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[ ]BasisGuy 1 point 1 year ago

As WhatWhinter says, S/4HANA is an application, HANA Cloud Platform is one place

where you can run S/4. S/4HANA can run on premise or in the cloud, and each ent
erprise must balance the advantages and disadvantages based on their business ne
eds.
One consideration not mentioned so far in the thread: SAP recently announced tha
t it will update S/4HANA on HANA Cloud Platform quarterly; it will only update t
he on-prem version of S/4 annually. So if having the latest version/additions is
strategically important to an enterprise, that's a reason to favor the HANA Clo
ud Platform.
For some enterprises, quarterly updates/upgrades will be strategically important
; for others, it won't matter nearly as much. In that case, a company may choose
to continue with its current on-prem hardware or hosting provider.