Highlights for upcoming SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1608 release
The SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1608 release is less than two weeks away and we want to give you an idea of what innovations and enhancements are being delivered in 1608. Anyway you are able to see that we have put lots of innovations into this release to provide more functionality to our customers and accelerate our path to the cloud.
Our new accelerated extended four quarter roadmap
We want to build customer trust and drive innovation adoption by showing the evolution path of our product and solution landscape with a focus on business value and share more insights about upcoming innovations with customers. To mitigate this we accelerated the SAP S/4HANA Cloud roadmaps by unleashing the planned innovations and feature related to upcoming releases, with a plan of four quarters ahead. You will find this new roadmap being launched August 29th with the RTC of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1608 release.
For this release the scope will be significantly enriched across all LOBs. From the more than 30 scope items, 3 additional localizations and many more self-service UI´s we have selected a few highlights for you per edition.
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management Cloud
With the advanced Available to Promise (aATP) comes the ‘Release for Delivery’ app, which minimizes the impact of material shortages by supporting the users to efficiently work and keep their deadlines. It allows any user to easily gatekeep which sales order requirements should be delivered and efficiently distribute the available stock to the most important sales order requirements. An automated selection of work lists according to the user specific area of responsibility avoids dependencies and double work.
Based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP RealSpend uses cloud technology to pull data from core financial reporting systems, allowing organizations to perform ad hoc spend analysis and other “on-the-fly” calculations enabling live business processing. This app enhances traditional ERP data model with future data to provide real-time insight into the forecast of the company. Managers are enabled to anticipate upcoming spent more precisely improving their ability to make informed decisions and the tagging engine allows managers to create their own analytical models on the fly.
SAP S/4HANA Professional Services Cloud
The event-based revenue recognition in project-based services will be launched with the 1608 release. With this functionality costs and revenues will easily be realized in one single picture with real time accurate data and at any time. A real-time income statement and costs of sales reporting by posting revenue recognition with prima nota supports the increase in transparency. Also the cost management reporting will be enhanced with reporting attributes derived for all revenue recognition postings. And last but not least will the audit efforts be reduced through a transparent link between every revenue recognition posting and prima nota.
SAP S/4HANA Marketing Cloud
The Customer Journey Manager will be launched with 1608 release based on the great feedback obtained in the current Beta phase. It enables marketers to design their strategic marketing activities, and to orchestrate marketing campaigns and other related activities such as service calls and lead generation.
Profiles is, of course, a very hot and important topic. Therefore, you may not be surprised to find it very visible in SAP S/4HANA Marketing Cloud 1608, most prominently through a new profiles application and through the integration with SAP Hybris Profile for Web tracking to enable even better personalized targeting.
There is great news also in analytics. SAP’s new generation of Cloud analytics, SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (f.k.a. Cloud for Analytics), can be connected to SAP S/4HANA Marketing Cloud for state-of-the art data visualization and storytelling. In addition, the SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics will be made available for flexible day-to-day reporting.
Find more 1608 release highlights here. Stay tuned for a more detailed information on the 1608 release coming up on August 29th.
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Looking forward to going through the detail.
Keep up the good work
I do see some new functions at part of S/4HANA 1608 which is great. Could we assume these will also be part of the 1610 on-Prem release?
The on-prem 1511 FPS02 is missing its quarterly upgrade and is lonely. Hopefully the bells and whistles of 1610 is worth the wait.
Whilst the cloud version is updated on a quarterly-month basis; the on-premise version is only updated once per year; thus 1511 on-premise will only be replaced by the o.p 1610.
While cloud version has a new release every quarter, the on -premise version does have a FPS release but we missed it this quarter. Never in SAP's history was a release more awaited than 1610. Lots of customer waiting to start their S/4 journey with 1610.
very useful information; compared to 1610 on-premise there will be a big difference with features packaged? or the quarterly release of the cloud version will correspond to the on-premise 1610?
Hello, I would like to know what functionality is included in the S/4 HANA Public Cloud that is managed by SAP that include qtrly innovations. Do you have a link you can point me to that shows a diagram with the capabilities, finance break-out, Cost accounting break-out, MM/SD etc.? It is not clear to me. thx
https://support.sap.com/content/dam/website/roadmaps/en_us/cross-topics/SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20Road%20Map.pdf
it is in the roadmaps sections - this is the actual link
Hello Mark, thanks for the note. Do you have a link to all the functionality in the current version. So, all the modules, business processes etc., to date. Is there a link that covers that piece.
What I want to know is does the current SAP Managed Public S/4 HANA include what in Logistics (MM/SD etc.,), Procure to Pay, Order To Cash converage, Finance/Cost Accounting (AR/AP/CCA/PCA/CO-PA etc.,), Master data objects, are they comparable to ECC for Customer, Vendor, Material etc, that is what I am looking to understand to see if it is a fit. thx
Hi John
http://sap.com/s4-releaseinfo has 3 tabs, Highlights | Details | Schedule and SLA for insights on 1608 scope, interactive screens on Top 4 innovations, service market place links, cloud landscape, quaterly upgrade schedule and FAQ.
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Cloud contains Best Practices as in attached picture.
Same details can also be found on service market place.
Thanks that helps. John