What to expect from 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW

While 2016 SAPPHIRE NOW focused a lot on Your Path to SAP S/4HANA, i.e. the WHAT to do WHEN, I would expect 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW to focus more on HOW to realize your S/4HANA roadmap:

Greenfield or Brownfield?
- Brownfield
  - How to rightsize your data?
    - Archiving or deleting?
  - How to make historic data compliantly accessible?
    - SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management or SAP Content Server?
- Greenfield
  - Cloud or On-Premise?
    - SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?
    - S/4HANA Cloud?
  - Guided Configuration in S/4HANA with SAP Activate or ASAP?
  - How to migrate your data?
    - SAP Advanced Data Migration by BackOffice Associates or SAP LT Replication Server?
  - How to actively manage your data footprint?
    - Data Aging for SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA or SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering?
  - How to actively resolve data quality issues?
    - SAP Information Steward Accelerator by BackOffice Associates or SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management?
  - How to re-engineer your busies processes?
    - Business Blueprint or Celonis Process Mining?
HANA Appliance versus SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration?
- Scale-up or Scale-out?
HANA 1.0 versus HANA 2.0?
- SAP S/4HANA 1511 FPS 02 or SAP S/4HANA 1610 FPS 01?
- NW 7.50 FOR S/4HANA OP 1511 SPS 02 or NW 7.51 FOR S/4HANA OP 1610 SPS 01?
- SAP Fiori Front-End Server 2.0 or SAP Fiori Front-End Server 3.0
Solution Manager 7.1 or Solution Manager 7.2?
- Maintenance Planner or Maintenance Optimizer (retired on January 9, 2017)?
SAPGUI or SAP Fiori Launchpad?
- SAP GUI for HTML or SAP Fiori?
- SAP Belize theme or SAP Blue Crystal theme?
SAP Cloud Platform Integration or SAP Process Orchestration?
- When will full equivalence be reached especially concerning SAP BPM?

As you see, my expectations for 2017 SAPPHIRE are high, but I am quite certain, that I will get answers for many of my questions, most likely not black or white, but potentially more options.

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Peter Brasket

May 1, 2017 at 2:25 pm

Frank - aggressive but solid list of to-do items at SAPPHIRE!

Re.SAPGUI or SAP Fiori Launchpad? - SAP GUI for HTML or SAP Fiori?

I think the question is: Yes to Fiori & FLP, and which SAPGUI apps to migrate ahead of the others...also I'd add "Design Thinking" to the learning mix...

We are presenting with a few clients on this question -- and I invite your readers to consider these sessions as they build their SAPPHIRE Agendas:

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Thanks! Peter Brasket