Road Map S/4HANA #SAPTechEd Summary DT109

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Link to replay (logon required)

https://events.sapteched.com/widget/sap/sapteched2020/Catalog/session/1602555758139001u8Dx

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Trends across industries – circular economy

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One domain model

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Homogenized reporting with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

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Technology is there, need a license for SAP Analytics Cloud

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New generation of SAP Fiori, different cards, different sizes

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Business applications

2020 just released; 6 wave

10K on S4 releases today

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Compatibility Pack SAP Note https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2269324 (logon required)

183 compatibility scope items

SAP “wants to innovate on those items”

Where stand – program to define

Compatibility scope is available until 2025

By 2023 will have those defined

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Will deliver in 2 releases the alternatives

By 2023 solution will be concluded and finalized

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Some customers don’t want to move to the cloud

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Business partner – alternative to customer/vendor

Use BP across the applications

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Another big area is PMMO Project Manufacturing Management

Engineer to product, engineer to order, individualize products, “segment of one”

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Driving to become “intelligent”  – extend and optimize processes

Situation handling, a concept to identify business exceptions

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See machine learning scenarios across the board; driving larger strategies of conversational UI

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Re-invent business processes so they are highly intelligent

Focus people on working things that automation cannot cover

Native language, context chat

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Finance is one of the most automated areas of S/4HANA but SAP says “they are not done yet”

Parallel accounting is coming, something customers have demanded

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Where SAP is headed with S/4HANA – “next generation business process platform”

Get close to the processes

Innovation building, will be building for the next decades