S4/HANA

All About New Generation Business Suite from SAP

 At last , In the Year 2015, SAP brought new technologies to match the trending technologies such as Cloud, SaaS and Business App development platform porting all of these technologies on the buzz word of HANA.... long awaited cloud based systems, applications and data processing. Business Systems and development is aligned with state of the art "New Tool Set"

What is HANA ?

HANA a buzz word for couple of years at SAP, is an In-Memory Database and now also serves as an Application Development Platform. New generation applications at SAP are being considered to be developed as Fiori Apps. As database, Hana is trying to compete with traditional databases such as Oracle

 

Journey of HANA Technology and beyond its original color

  • Introduced as In -Memory Database
  • Analytics platforms were put on to Hana Database in the beginning
  • Accelerators developed for some of the ERP modules - CO-PA,
  • Complete SAP BW was offered on Hana Database
  • Business Objects are offered directly on Hana Database - rendering BW as useless ( still SAP not clear on BW strategy with Hana )
  • Recently All SAP Business Suite is offered on Hana Database and Hana Live Reporting sits directly on Transactional System
  • With Native Application Development Tools, SAP Hana becomes Development Platform
  • One more step forward - Hana Development Plantform on Cloud
  • New Visual and App Development Tools integrated with Hana Development Platform
  • NOW with S4 Version, SAP Business Suite is at the door step of becoming SaaS based Solution.

What is S4 HANA

SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA, in short: SAP S/4HANA is next generation Business Suite offered by SAP.  If you take out the jargon.. it is just another version of SAP ERP. SAP evolved from R/2 to R/3 with different versions such as 3.1f, 3.1h, 4.6c, 4.7 and then ECC ( ERP Central Component ) ECC 5.0, 6.0 and so on.

Now newer version S4/Hana - Now Integrated Applications with SAP SaaS based solutions such as Concur, Successfactors, fieldglass , ARIBA as well as Hybris Software

 

What is Simple Finance

Now it is called as SAP S/4 Hana Finance, is Finance Business Suite offered on the S/4 platform. Traditional Finance applications are fully integrated with New Generation tools to design , develop, integrate and deploy New Applications based on the data available. New Fiori Applications can be built on the fly based business logics and deployed very quickly. Custom Development is Flexible - unlike "previous generation ERP Systems" . New Data Models are created such as Universal Journal enabling the "quicker" close cycles and respond to new demand of always " Live " data

Finance Decisions

 

How the Future Consulting Landscape changing

SAP Applications are becoming SaaS based offerings - Software as a Service. With this model, Application availability, Guided Configuration, Application Maintenance and Upgrade becomes the responsibility of Software Vendor and offered at a Subscription. These SaaS models are everywhere and huge success - Salesforce, Workday, Coupa, Concur and SuccessFactors. Now SAP ERP System is becoming available on SaaS on the Application Development Platform - Hana and it changes "everything" particularly in the areas of following consulting areans

  • Configuration Models
  • Upgrade Models
  • Licensing Models
  • Application Availability
  • Application Support
  • Public and Private Cloud Models
  • On-Premise and On-Demand Models
  • System Upgrade Models
  • New Business Process Development Models
  • Analytics landscape
  • New Application Development and Market ( Develop and Sell )

Over and above, there would be significant change in Delivery models of "Big 5 Consulting Companies" there woulda be larger scope for small consulting companies as the demand for new "Generation Technologies" is grows faster than the change expected. Guided configuration needs " Experts in Finance Processes " rather than the "Technical Knowledge"

 

About us

We are group of seasoned Business and Technology Finance consultants came to form an entity with business oriented solution delivery. Change is constant thing with SAP S/4 and HANA platform. Business Models are changing and IT consultants and Business need to catch up with new trends and align their IT and Business Strategy. Just like IT platform is becoming more and more Hybrid cloud, with seamless integration of Cloud and On-Premise, Business and IT environment also taking new shape of Hybrid-Business-IT. We provide finance focus consulting services in the new dimension areas of Intelligent ERP, Cloud ERP and on-premise transformation. We operate in three segments. Core Finance ERP, Analytics and Audit Controls.

 

Interested in how we can support you, please contact - consult@simplefiancesupport.com

 

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