The S/4HANA 1511 Edition, covering all ten LoB (Lines-of-Business) applications including the previously released Finance component has been released. SAP Simple Finance or SAP Simple Logistics are no longer used in the product name, now renamed SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing.
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management not only includes Key Innovations in Finance and Logistics but now integrates Industry Solutions, which used to be offered separately, to Core.
Formerly, SAP S/4HANA Simple Finance
The DIGITAL (ERP) CORE
The DIGITAL (ERP) CORE
INDUSTRIES
SAP S/4HANA is the world’s number one integrated in-memory data-intensive platform designed to support fast decision-making in response to a quickly evolving market.
New challenges confronting IT as new developments shape a new era
- SAP S/4HANA offers answer to these challenges.
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Diminished performance arising from the use of disk-based systems >> slow response time
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Having to transfer data to other systems for analytics >> data latency issues
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Underlying OLTP architecture of existing database systems >> hurting business innovation by limiting predictive analytics
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Increased IT complexity due to OLTP/OLAP system partitioning/management >> high TCO
SOLUTION by SAP S/4HANA
Improved system performance and TCO savings thanks to in-memory computing
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“Push down” of existing application logic to the database layer
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Continuous HANA optimization for SAP standard transactions:
reduction in customization man-hours -
Elimination of batch processing for operational reporting purposes
Creating value through new processes and process redesign
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HANA Live
: providing more than 2,200 virtual data models (views) accessed from SAP ERP tables -
Utilization of diverse HANA Live analytics applications
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Builing up platform to analyze big data
: Predictive Analytics, Hadoop/R Integration
Full transactional & analytics environment
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Optimization of real time transactional data analytics via column-storage table structure
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Guaranteed OLTP performance via Delta Merge, a specialized transactional processing mechanism
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Elimination of data latency between transactional processing and analytics
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Simplification of system architecture
>> SAP S4/HANA Enterprise Management