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Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP

Cloud Solutions
What you need to know when it comes to SAP S/4HANA integration

Javit Gellaw (SAP SE)

Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

2 SAP S/4HANA, ON-PREMISE EDITION INTEGRATION -------------------------------------------------- 4

3 SAP S/4HANA, CLOUD EDITION INTEGRATION --------------------------------------------------------- 5

4 WHY DOES SAP PROCESS INTEGRATION MATTER AND HOW DOES SAP HANA CLOUD
INTEGRATION DIFFER FROM SAP PROCESS ORCHESTRATION? ------------------------------------- 6

5 CONCLUSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8

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1 Introduction
SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite product that provides innovated and tightly
coupled solutions that support end-to-end business processes integration between SAP S/4HANA
core components and SAP software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud solutions such as SAP Ariba, SAP
SuccessFactors, SAP Fieldglass, Concur, SAP Hybris, SAP Cloud for Customer, SAP Financial
Services Network, and other third-party solutions like Vertex for tax calculation.

Figure 1: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise and cloud editions

SAP offers two different deployment options to integrate SAP S/4HANA, namely SAP S/4HANA, on-
premise edition and SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition.
Currently, there are three different offerings available as part of the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition
 SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition

These also offer prepackaged integration best practices content and engineered services for SAP
S/4HANA and to the existing cloud solutions.

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2 SAP S/4HANA, On-Premise Edition Integration

Depending on the customer requirements the SAP S/4HANA, on premise integration scenario offers
a business scope including SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management processes as well as integration
best practice content with SAP’s SaaS cloud solutions and third-party applications using SAP
Process Orchestration, Web services, or SAP HANA Cloud Integration.

Figure 2: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition to cloud solutions from SAP

SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) is SAPs cloud integration middleware and is a SaaS product that
provides standard integration content delivered by SAP to integrate SAP SuccessFactors, SAP
Ariba, SAP Financial Services Network and SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP S/HANA on premise
systems or even SAP ERP.
The SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition can be used as an install-based system or hosted on SAP
HANA Enterprise Cloud. Customers can leverage it either by downloading the packaged best
practices from the SAP Service Marketplace or via engineered service. The best practices can be
deployed on the customer landscape or hosted in the cloud.

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3 SAP S/4HANA, Cloud Edition Integration

Other than the on premise edition, SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition is designed for enterprises that need
standardized cloud integration offerings that cover the core business scenarios and the line-of-
business cloud solutions. For the cloud edition, the main integration technologies are SAP HANA
Cloud Integration and Web services.
Based on the selected scope and subscription model, customers can leverage the fully integrated,
secured, and managed SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition by SAP. In most cases, the required customer
integration scenarios are provisioned, configured, and activated from SAP Cloud Operations and
SAP Cloud Service Center, or SAP provides self-configuration user interfaces so customers are able
to configure the solution.

The current SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition already covers specific business scenarios for the
marketing line of business and for the professional services industry. The enterprise edition includes:
finance, accounting, controlling, procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project
system, and product lifecycle management. The content is integrated with SAP cloud solutions such
as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris Marketing, SAP Jam, SAP
Financial Services Network, and third-party integration with Vertex for tax calculation. Three offerings
are currently available as part of SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition – for the marketing line of business
 SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition – for the professional services industry
 SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition – for a full ERP scope

Figure 3: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition to cloud solutions from SAP

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Furthermore, SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) serves as an extension platform for SAP S/4HANA.
Customers and partners are able to build specific capabilities extending the scope of SAP S/4HANA
by integrating non-SAP solutions or developing new capabilities using the whitelisted APIs.
The following figure illustrates the integration technology options for S/4HANA, on premise and cloud
editions:

SAP S/4HANA integration options SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA,

on-premise edition cloud edition

SAP HANA Cloud Integration X X

Web services X X

SAP Process Orchestration X

Figure 2: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition to cloud solutions from SAP

4 Why Does SAP Process Integration Matter and How Does SAP HANA
Cloud Integration Differ from SAP Process Orchestration?
Imagine you own an on premise HCM application. It is up and running in your system landscape and
you want to innovate and integrate your HR business processes or master data with SAP
SuccessFactors cloud-based applications. Similar to any A2A integration, you need to ensure that
data and processes are integrated accurately and reliably. Furthermore, HR employees might need
to access data from different HR applications, such as replicating employee data from SAP Success
Factors Employee Central to an SAP S/4HANA application or cost center data from an SAP
S/4HANA financial application to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Depending on the
deployment model, the integration of both on premise and cloud-based applications can be realized
through Web services, the on premise SAP Process Orchestration, or SAP HANA Cloud Integration
middleware and ensure that data and processes are secured, mapped, and transferred properly.

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Figure 4: Sample integration options for SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

SAP HANA Cloud Integration is not the only product for which SAP provides integration middleware.
The integration content offered by SAP for SAP HANA Cloud Integration can be viewed
at https://cloudintegration.hana.ondemand.com. SAP offers many standard integration capabilities
and content for SAP Process Orchestration. However, SAP HANA Cloud Integration is not only the
standard content. The management and monitoring of this integration content is offered by SAP in
the cloud environment. SAP is therefore responsible for the hosting, configuration, and monitoring of
integration scenarios. This involves a new service offering for which interaction with SAP customers
is very important. It relieves the customer of hosting, configuration, and monitoring the integration
environment. A huge difference with SAP Process Orchestration is that the standard content offered
must be hosted, configured, managed, and monitored by the customer.

The following table illustrates the main differences between SAP Process Orchestration and SAP
HANA Cloud Integration.

SAP Process Orchestration SAP HANA Cloud Integration

On-premise installation in customer landscape
Costs involved with hardware, installation,
patches, and product licenses
Used for on premise or hybrid integration
scenarios
 SAP Process Integration (including B2B add-on
and Connectivity add-on)
 SAP Business Process Management
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Cloud-based integration platform
Engineered for cloud: multi-tenancy, rolling
software updates, horizontal scalability.
Subscription-based usage
Flexible integration options: hybrid or cloud-to-
cloud scenarios
Web user interface for configuration,
deployment, and monitoring of data integration
and simple BPMN based modelling of process
integration flows
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 SAP Business Rules Management

Pre-packaged contents for on premise Pre-packaged integration content with
mappings, API and adapter configuration, and
connectivity
Operations by customer Operations by SAP cloud managed services
API management capabilities within SAP HANA
Cloud Integration; focus on security, including
data isolation

5 Conclusion
 SAP S/4HANA provides a choice of deployment options for on premise and cloud editions.
 SAP S/4HANA is closely integrated with cloud solutions from SAP, such as Ariba Network, SAP
SuccessFactors Employee Central, and Concur.
 SAP S/4HANA offers integration technology options based on the deployment selection: SAP
Process Orchestration, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, and Web services.
 SAP S/4HANA is easy to integrate because it leverages preconfigured best practices, guided
configuration, and onboarding either for the cloud or on premise deployment model.
 SAP S/4HANA is designed with SAP Fiori UX and integrated user experience with simplified usability
on any device.

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