S/4HANA Concepts

What is S/4HANA?
• SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management
system developed and marketed by SAP.
• With columnar storage, advanced in-memory compressions, and unmatched
processing power, SAP on HANA is fast, empowering businesses to run in real
time, crunching Big Data – transactional, operational, structured, & unstructured
– to transact, analyze and predict instantly on a single platform at the moment of
opportunity.
• This new suite is built on advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA 0ffers a
personalized user experience with SAP Fiori.
• Initially S4HANA = Suite on HANA (ECC on HANA) + s-innovations is Simple
Finance.
• So until Q3/2015, S/4HANA = ECC on HANA + Simple Finance 2.0
• In Q4/2015, S/4HANA = ECC on HANA + Simple Finance 3.0 + Simple Logistics 1.0.
The SAP HANA Platform -More than just another
database
Roadmap
S/4 HANA, simplifier for enterprise
applications
SAP S/4HANA, the next generation business
suite
Combining Transactions and Analytics on a
single in-memory platform
Data Foot Print
• S/4 HANA is simplified data model. Reduced data foot print with
highly compressed data and less tables.
• See below Data foot print reduction with S/4 HANA .
Business benefits on S/4 HANA
• Business benefits for companies who adopt SAP’s S/4 HANA and Simple
Finance as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) foundational solution for
their business operations:
• Less redundant data
• Less reconciliation effort
• Better user experience with Fiori
• Simplified master data
• Transaction processing and analytics together
• Real time analytics
• Better system performance
• Accelerated financial close
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