What Is S4 HANA? Questions and Answers Related To S4 HANA | SAP S4 HANA Training

1. What is the business value of SAP S4 HANA for customers? What’s the payback      period? And who is likely to benefit most?

SAP S4 HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional transactions.SAP S4 HANA signals a move away from the transnational system that merely records data toward giving end users active decision support in real time that is based on data from both internal and external sources. Know more from SAP S4 HANA Training from SAP Training Online.

We are currently in the process of developing a business value calculator for SAP S4 HANA that will drill down to quantify the benefits at the level of individual solutions. In SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA, customers already have the option of calculating business cases enabled by TCO savings and optimizations. These calculations are equally valid for SAP S4 HANA. But the simplifications created by SAP S4 HANA bring other benefits too which the business value calculator will take into account such as the use of new user interfaces, reduced data volume, greater flexibility, and higher throughput. Finance departments, for example, will profit from more efficient shared services and accelerated financial closing.

2.How long does an SAP S4 HANA implementation take?

It’s obviously very hard to generalize, but we do have reliable empirical values to go on: 75% of customers that have migrated their existing SAP Business Suite on HANA as the first major step in moving to SAP S4 HANA have done so within six months. That’s a very good result for a migration to a new platform.

Some large enterprises are opting for greenfield projects – seeing the technological innovations as an opportunity to completely rebuild their ERP landscapes from the ground up. Brownfield projects are also an option: In this approach, the customer leaves its IT landscape intact but adopts the new technology to enrich and enhance it. Greenfield and brownfield projects naturally take longer sometimes even several years. And migrating to SAP S4 HANA is only one part of such a project.


3.Does SAP offer programs that simplify the move to SAP S4 HANA?

Yes, and we attach great importance to providing comprehensive support for our customers in this respect. Specifically, we offer SAP rapid deployment solutions that enable a fast migration to the SAP HANA platform and thus also to SAP Simple Finance. These pre-defined implementation packages are delivered by SAP or by our partners and even enable fixed-price implementations in some cases.

4.How much experience do potential integration partners have

Our integration partners are of course working with the rapid-deployment solutions to some extent. And our service partners already have broad experience of implementing SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA for our customers. In fact, over 60% of implementations are performed by partners and integration partners, not by SAP. We operate roll out programs to inform and educate our partners about all of our new solutions. And our Global Partner Organization (GPO) holds regular “enablement sessions” at which it brings partners up to speed on the new technologies and explains to them in detail how SAP S4 HANA will impact their work. Know more concepts from SAP HANA Training.

5.Which skill sets are required

In most cases, it’s the implementation partner that handles the project, so customers don’t really need to get bogged down in the details. 

6.Is it possible to migrate company-specific customization?

In principle, yes. When we developed our solutions, we took particular care to ensure that they would be “backwards-compatible.” In other words, the customer can keep customizations and continue to use them after the migration. However, this does not always apply to modifications. Take the analogy of a house and imagine that the customer has not only added a balcony but has also modified the building too. In this case, the function of the house may be affected, whereas the “balconies” will be fine.

7.What are the requirements for moving to SAP S4 HANA?

The initial path is to move to SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA and then to implement packages that contain the simplifications. Currently, these come in the form of SAP Simple Finance Training, though SAP Simple Logistics concepts is slated for release soon and further simplifications will follow in 2015.

8.What is a “system-driven” implementation?

We want to radically simplify the implementation of SAP S4 HANA so that customers enjoy rapid success and payback. This is particularly relevant in the cloud, of course, where customers expect to deploy a preconfigured system. SAP therefore provides ready-to-run business processes based on best practices that can be activated. During the activation, the system configures itself. The SAP S4 HANA Guided Configuration facilitates customers to personalize the processes delivered by SAP. Within the app “Manage your solution” easy SAP Fiori UI´s can be used to maintain e.g. the organizational structure, approval thresholds or other individual settings.  Learn SAP Training to excel in SAP technology.

9.How “new” is the data model really?

Fundamental data structures that determine what a financial, material transaction, or inventory management document look like remain the same. So we have, in fact, left the document pretty much as it is, which makes it easier for the customer to move from a conventional ERP system to the new technology. A new data structure would leave the customer no option but to perform a full migration. In terms of effort, that’s comparable with implementing a new system.From the customer perspective, the path we have chosen is simpler because it merely involves an upgrade to a new system. In a nutshell: The “old” data model was fundamentally okay. And we can achieve so much with a slightly adapted data model that we don’t see any reason to force customers into the disruptive process of switching to a completely new data model.

10.SAP Fiori is mentioned a great deal, but we do not hear much about SAP Screen Personas in the context of SAP S4 HANA. Why is that?

SAP S4 HANA user experience strategy. It is the ideal solution for scenarios not yet covered by Fiori applications or for an organization’s custom transactions. Customers can use SAP Screen Personas to simplify their existing SAP GUI screens or Web Dynpro ABAP applications to meet their unique needs and increase productivity. Take SAP JAVA Wendynpro Training. SAP is providing design guides and SAP Fiori-inspired sample content for SAP Screen Personas. To know more about ABAP applications visit SAP ABAP Training.The SAP Fiori UX strategy aims to transform the transaction operational model to a role-oriented one. Since our focus is on delivering the SAP Fiori UX, we do not highlight the underlying technologies that provide this capability to the users. Know more concepts related to SAP FIORI from SAP FIORI Training.Want to excel in S4 HANA with practical implementations register for SAP S4 HANA Training 

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