Lots of questions raised about S/4 HANA since SAP released it on February 2015. People still trying to figure out what it is and how it works: Is it a database? Is it an SAP system? Is it a platform? One of my coworkers (the great Fabio Cerioni) wrote an email answering all these questions a few days ago so I think it is a good idea to share it with you.
Usually people thinks that S/4 HANA is the system which implements the different ABAP modules with Fiori working over a HANA database. Actually that is not entirely correct, first we should check the following link:
Quick Guide to Communicating SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Line of Business Solutions
We find the following concepts:
If we look to the following image we will see something really interesting:
The S/4 HANA Suite is made up of the SAP Cloud Products and SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management. For example:
Also, there are different partner products included inside of the S/4 HANA Suite. If we talk about SAP S/4 HANA Finance we can see it is made up of SAP S/4 HANA Enterprise Management + SAP Simple Finance + Ariba + Partner Products. I think you get the concept, right?
I hope you understand that S/4 HANA is not only a new SAP System, it is a really interesting mix of different technologies, products and solutions. Funny to check that even SAP on What is SAP S/4HANA? 13 Questions Answered didn’t include the description of S/4 HANA…
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