What to expect from 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW

[architectSAP]

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:

1. 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?
       
       
       
       
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   


2. HANA Appliance versus SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration?
   
   
   
   • Scale-up or Scale-out?
   
   
   
   


3. 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
   
   
   
   


4. Solution Manager 7.1 or Solution Manager 7.2?
   
   
   
   • Maintenance Planner or Maintenance Optimizer (retired on January 9, 2017)?
   
   
   
   


5. SAPGUI or SAP Fiori Launchpad?
   
   
   
   • SAP GUI for HTML or SAP Fiori?
   
   
   • SAP Belize theme or SAP Blue Crystal theme?
   
   
   
   


6. 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.