SAP SE announced SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), the next-generation business suite to help customers run simple. SAP S/4HANA is a new product fully built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA and is designed on the most modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for mobile devices. SAP S/4HANA brings unprecedented innovations and simplifications to customers, combined with more than 40 years of experience across industries, in a completely reimagined business suite only possible with SAP HANA. SAP S/4HANA will offer cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment options to provide maximum choice to customers.
The new suite is built only for SAP HANA in order to break through all limitations of the past and it fully leverages the latest in-memory and real-time capabilities of SAP HANA. SAP S/4HANA extends the value of simplicity to all lines of business and industries end-to-end with guided configuration for adoption, a modern user experience for business users of all roles in a company on almost any device, a simplified data model, on-the-fly insight at the highest level of granularity and re-imagined real-time business processes.
SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive business innovation with simplicity by connecting people, devices and business networks in real-time to support the development of new business models. It will also help accelerate the on ramp to Internet of Things and Big Data. The simplified data model allows customers to reimagine their IT, helping to drive lower costs and aiming to help deliver IT efficiency.
SAP S/4HANA will also expand the SAP portfolio of cloud solutions, such as those from SAP companies Ariba, Fieldglass, and SuccessFactors. The comprehensive offering will help allow customers to define their own pace to the cloud based on their needs while keeping all the integration and business benefits of their existing SAP solutions.
SAP has an established partner ecosystem that is ready to resell and provide services for customers along their journey to run simple with SAP S/4HANA. Partners and SAP will provide an easy path for customers to move to SAP S/4HANA with pre-defined migration and deployment packages for quick time to value.
Keywords: Business Suite, In-Memory Platform, On-Premise, Hybrid Deployment, Internet of Things, Big Data, ARC Advisory Group.