SAP announced its next big thing in FKOM and I am excited to be part of it: Business Suite 4 HANA or S4HANA.
The S is for Simple and the 4 is for the 4th generation of SAP ERP: R/2, R/3, ERP, and S4HANA.
S4HANA is the successor of SAP Business Suite, built on SAP’s HANA platform. It comes with re-written code (no materialized aggregates) to leverage SAP HANA transactional and real-time analytical capabilities, delivered through a simplified and enhanced end-user interface based on SAP Fiori, available in the cloud and on premise.
Some takeaways from FKOM
Simplicity delivered with S4HANA:
– Based on cloud-first approach
– HTAP (hybrid transaction analytical processing) – a database that can support OLTP and OLAP without data replication
– HANA multi-tenancy – in the cloud or on premise
– No unnecessary indices, no aggregates – replaced by on-the-fly calculations, thanks to an in-memory database
– User interface is Fiori based
– Maintains ERP core data models
Real benefits:
– Reduced data footprint – highly compressed data, less tables
– Higher table throughput – fewer table updates, less locking, faster processing
– More Flexible – complexity is reduced as indices and aggregates are removed
SAP’s new cloud-based business models are disrupting the enterprise-software industry – watch this space.
Can we have some more details on it, or link related to this.
Thanks.
Interesting !!
Thanks for putting it this simple with the R2->S4Hana generation picture.