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Difference between SAP S/4HANA Any Premise, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Essentials and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extended
As promised in my previous blog, here is the detailed comparison between various deployment options available for SAP S/4HANA in an easy to follow tabular format. I tried to break the comparison into categories and tried to compare against various parameters with in each category. Hope you find it helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions or need more details.
| Aspect |
S4HC Essential (Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended (Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC | |
| Infrastructure | License | Subscription | Subscription | BYOL (build your own license) |
| Updates | Automatic. SAP. | <- Either -> |
Complex, Manual |
|
| Release Cycle | Quarterly | Semi Annual | Annual | |
| Cloud Service Provider | No Choice | Customer Choice | Customer Choice | |
| Performance | Influenced by overall system usage | Private, Tuning co-shared by SAP | Private, Tuning Owned by Customer | |
| Implementation | Timeline | 8-16 weeks (Phase 1) | ~ 16 weeks (Phase 1) | TBD |
| Implementation Strategy | Greenfield | Greenfield |
Conversion or Greenfield |
|
| Methodology | TDM for Multi Tenant Cloud | TDM for Single Tenant Cloud | TDM |
| Aspect |
S4HC Essential (Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended (Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC | |
| Process | Preconfigured Business Processes |
Mandatory, = End State |
Mandatory, Jumpstart |
Optional, Jumpstart |
| Functionality | All | All | All | |
| Industry Coverage | Finance led ERP, Professional Services, Component Manufacturing, Oil & Gas (Upstream Operations Management) | All (25) | All (25) | |
| Localisation | 43 countries. 25 languages. | 64 Countries. 38 Languages. | 64 Countries. 38 Languages. | |
| UX |
100% web based Mostly Fiori |
Web + GUI, Some Fiori |
Web + GUI, Some Fiori |
|
| Simple Config | Yes | No | No | |
| Future Innovations | All | Most | Some |
| Aspect |
S4HC Essential (Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended (Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC | |
| Config / Extensions |
Configuration (“Customising”, IMG, SPRO) |
Some + Simplified (Guided Config) |
All | All |
| Interfaces | All | All | All | |
| In-app extensibility | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Side by side extension | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Classical Extension | No | Yes (not recommended) | Yes | |
| Modifications | No | No | Yes (not recommended) | |
|
|
| Aspect |
S4HC Essential (Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended (Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC | |
| Security | Infrastructure Security | Secure | Secure | Customer Specific / Secure |
| Data Breach Risk | Shared / High | Isolated / Low | Isolated / Low | |
| Disaster Recovery | •Shared | Isolated | Isolated | |
| Implementation | Timeline | 8-16 weeks (Phase 1) | ~ 16 weeks (Phase 1) | > 16 weeks |
| Implementation Strategy | Greenfield | Greenfield |
Conversion or Greenfield |
|
| Overall | Total Cost of Ownership | Low | Medium | High |
| OCM Efforts | Very High | High | Customer Controlled | |
| Innovation | SAP Lead, Supplemented by Customer | SAP Lead, Supported by Customer |
Mostly Customer Owned
|
Very useful comparison, belongs to my bookmarks!
Thank you.
Hi Uma,
what does PMC in the last column mean ? Is it Private managed cloud ? If so, is it same as new Private Cloud edition being launched in Jan 2021 ? Can you pls clarify ? Thanks.
Regards,
Suma
Uma vanka , Good comparison..
How ya doing?
Can you please explain what TDM stands for under methodology section?
But it can also mean “Transformation Delivery Methodology”
I assume it will definitly not be “Test Data Management” and not be “Test Data Migration”.
SAP’s current suggested implementation methodology for most of its current applications is “SAP Activate” with the six phases: Discover -> Prepare -> Explore -> Realize -> Deploy -> Run.
Good catch. TDM is our proprietary methodology. I updated it to Activate.
Thanks for putting this together !
Thanks a lot for sharing this blog. This is really helpful in understanding S/4HANA complete offering from SAP.
straight to bookmark !
Thank you, very good insights.
BYOL = Bring your own License
Not in this context. In any case, it doesn't really matter. The idea is a customizable license.
Great information, thanks
Thank you for sharing detailed comparison.Very insightful.
Excellent comparison, thank you !
Great comparison. Thank you!
This is really excellent and really helpful! Thank you for that great work. 🙂
Hard to understand, why SAP has no really comprehensive, compelling and clear comparison (not diluted by generic marketing statements) of the different versions. Maybe this could be exploited as kernel for some official materials.
What do you think is missing?
This is a great visual....thank you!