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POSTED BY: VINAY SINGH NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In traditional data warehouse, real time data analytics is not

possible. It is limited by the design consideration or lets say
its not designed to be Real time.

SAP HANA is an in-memory database and application

platform. What makes it different is the design
consideration, which was not in traditional databases. It uses

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So then the question arises what is S/4 HANA ?

S/4HANA is natively built on SAP HANA with simplified data

model, without indices , aggregates and no redundancies. It
leverages the multi tenancy functionality of SAP HANA. It
can be deployed on premise, cloud or mixed/hybrid . It is
natively designed with SAP Fiori offering an integrated user
experience .

Frankly speaking, in essence S/4HANA is ‘just’ a new name

for the same good old ERP functionality – the difference
however is in that ERP can now run on an in-memory database
(SAP HANA).

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So now I have brief idea about SAP HANA and S/4 HANA ,
what is then SAP Simple Finance ?

SAP Simple Finance is an add-on to ERP, which means it is a

standard product developed to work on top of SAP ERP (ECC6.07
to be precise). The official name used to be ‘SAP Simple
Finance add-on 2.0 for SAP Business Suite’. The Finance add-
on replaces the classic Financials applications in your SAP ERP
system. In contrast to accounting in SAP enhancement
package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0, Simple Finance comes with a
simplified data model. Totals tables and application index
tables have been removed and replaced with HANA views with
the same technical names. A list can be found at the below
table. This means the impact needs to be assessed on your
interfaces, your data warehouse, your authorization profiles and
potentially your monitoring tools.

….. we would be back with more on SAP HANA simple finance in

our next Blog ……

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About the Author: Vinay Singh

Vinay Singh has MBA and BE (CS) degrees and is an SAP

HANA/BI architect at Freudenberg Sealing Technology,
Germany, working in the SAP Analytics area. He has nearly 10
years of SAP experience in the field of SAP product development
and consulting. Before joining Freudenberg, he worked with
companies such as SAP Labs, Adobe, and T-systems, which gave
him a good mix of product development and consulting
experience. He has been an author and coauthor on numerous
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articles in various journals and has officially reviewed a couple of

books on SAP Analytics topics. He is also a visiting faculty at
Hochschule Furtwangen University, BW, where he teaches SAP
HANA under the SAP UCC program.

Series on SAP HANA

1. SAP HANA from Space Level

2. SAP HANA at Ground Zero

3. View the HANA Views from different angles

4. ‘ABAP for SAP HANA’ Points to remember

5. SAP HANA ; S/4 HANA and S/4 HANA Finance in

Nutshell

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5 COMMENTS

ON "SAP HANA ; S/4 HANA AND S/4 HANA FINANCE IN NUTSHELL."

Kiran kumar Lysetti | November 16, 2015 at 11:14

pm | Reply

Nice one ! clarifies the difference between multiple

products.
So Simple Finance is only for ECC on HANA right ?

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vinay singh | November 17, 2015 at 8:07 am |

Reply

hello Kiran,

yes, SAP Simple Finance is an add-on to ERP powered

by SAP HANA.

cheers,

vinaysingh

vinay singh | December 1, 2015 at 7:11 pm

| Reply

hello Kiran

trust you liked the last blog . Thanks for reading

it .

Here is the next one :-

http://www.sapyard.com/?p=2270 .

Regards,

vinay singh

Mohamed Haarish | November 26, 2015 at 6:10

am | Reply

Hello Vinay,

That was one good detailed explanation for a HANA

starter. Expecting more real time issues and
resolutions in future blogs.

Regards,
Haarish
Fujitsu Japan.

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vinay singh | December 1, 2015 at 7:09

pm | Reply

Hello Haarish,

thanks for reading our Blogs . We have another

one for you :- http://www.sapyard.com/?p=2270

you can also read some project experience

shared by me from my book on the same topic :-

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Analytics-
SAP-Hana/dp/1782174117/ref=sr_1_1?
ie=UTF8&qid=1448996931&sr=8-
1&keywords=real+time+analytics+with+SAP+HA
NA

We are always looking forward to Learn form

each other , Keep reading and Sharing .

regards,

vinay singh

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