How can I evaluate and experience the new enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition as an SAP Partner?

To get started with the enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition, please refer to this blog from Juergen Grimmeisen.

Partners asked us what the best way is to learn about the details of the new enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition. To better advise and support their customers, three resources come to mind:

1. Best Practices Explorer – The Best Practices Explorer contains the latest information for the enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition. Customers and partners can access this content using the following link: https://rapid.sap.com/bp/BP_CLD_EML. The Best Practices Explorer provides an overview presentation, the scope items and general user guides that will assist with the functional evaluation and understanding of the solution.
2. Note 2921887 – Enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition provides additional details that can help customers and partners learn about the offering. This note also includes technical information to help run the enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended solution.
3. Enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition Trial system – We have enabled a specific trial system that’s exclusively available for our Partners in the SAP Community. This trial system provides partners with the ability to provision the content so they can evaluate the specific scope items, master data and specific configuration included in the system. The system can also be used to develop and co-innovate new partner content on top of the solution.

How can SAP Partners access the trial system?

Partners do have the ability to deploy a personal instance into a dedicated cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform for this trial system.

Exclusive access for our Partners in the SAP Community is available here:
https://cal.sap.com/subscription?sguid=1376075f-3f3c-4ff9-8380-88755fa01cb7

What is the content of the trial system?

The enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition in the trial system is available in two flavors: multi-country edition (default setting and scope of this Cloud Appliance Library trial solution) and Single-Country edition (upon request).

Both editions cover all major end-to-end business processes.

The multi-country edition comes preconfigured and localized for up to 42 countries with an international financial template allowing for parallel accounting:

This Cloud Appliance Library trial solution reflects the “enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition” with the following selections:

• Multi-country edition with 42 countries
• 24 system languages
• All basic scope items as well as all optional scope items.
  For a detailed list of scope items, please check out the Getting Started Guide, section 1.4:
  https://caldocs.hana.ondemand.com/caldocs/help/1376075f-3f3c-4ff9-8380-88755fa01cb7_Getting_Started_Guide_v3.pdf

How long can partners access the trial system?

This solution is available with a 30-day free trial license agreement (during this period, you are only responsible for the hosting fees for the cloud provider of your choice). In order to extend beyond the 30-day free trial, partners need to have a valid test & demo subscription license (including the necessary product licenses) for SAP S/4HANA as well as a valid Cloud Appliance Library subscription. The SAP Cloud Appliance Library subscription package can be purchased via the SAP Store at https://www.sapstore.com/solutions/99007/SAP-Cloud-Appliance-Library.

After 90 days, partners need to apply for technical on-prem license keys for SAP S/4HANA (the list of required licenses is available in the Getting Started Guide).

Summary

We expect this specific pre-configured content can help in understanding the details included with the Best Practices that form the foundation of the enterprise management layer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, extended edition and provide partners with the ability to experience the system, discover available extensibility, build content on top and help answer their most pressing questions.