S/4HANA is a powerful ERP for innovation, offering customers access to an intelligent enterprise and getting them closer to the reality of a real-time ERP. As the intelligent ERP, S/4HANA is the central component of SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise strategy.
We continue to see new and more advanced technologies released in HANA environments, such as SAP released new AI functionality in SAP S4. However, vendors will have to replace the system with the next generational digital transformation platform until December 31, 2025. In addition, everyone still is able to purchase support from third parties but will not get access to SAP expertise for bug fixes, patches, or other critical upgrades.
3 reasons to Upgrade to S/4HANA:
BY USING A CUSTOM –
Designed high-performance architecture, S/4HANA delivers powerful speed improvements while optimizing memory usage to minimize the amount required.
Business transactions and analytics capabilities in the same system also speed up insights. This lets businesses easily and rapidly make decisions and complete business processes in one single application using a single source of facts without having to switch between systems and applications. For financials, this means a faster database that leads to faster end-of-period closings. Companies can reconcile their accounting in real time and receive reports showing where they financially stand today. S/4HANA also allows businesses to do predictive accounting by applying AI and machine learning.
2. SAP HANA FIORI -
The users are demanding an interface that is easy to use and modern and delivers the functionality they want without the numerous support calls you don’t need.
What is SAP Fiori?
Fiori is a streamlined application that delivers a role-based user experience that can be personalized across all lines of business, tasks, and devices. It uses tiles to encapsulate tasks like viewing sales orders or approving timesheets. Based on customer input, SAP devised the SAP Fiori UX with user-friendliness and ease of use. The UX also provides mobile deployment capabilities so users can work without needing access to a computer. The screens are simple, customizable, and modern, and there are none of the unnecessary tabs and fields the previous UX had.
What are some SAP Fiori benefits?
Users report increased productivity with Fiori. Research reveals that Fiori delivers a 64% reduction in time needed to complete a task compared to SAP GUI. It’s simpler and easier to learn, which drives a strong adoption rate and cuts training time. In addition, SAP Fiori offers more intuitive workflows that feature business logic instead of SAP logic.
On the application development side, users of SAP Fiori on HANA find less need to build their tools. This is partly the result of the expanding Fiori library. As a result, people can move around in the organization more readily. They don’t have to retrain on SAP to switch roles. The UX also results in improved mobility. Fiori-based applications are usable by mobile employees on a variety of device types.
3. S4 IN THE CLOUD –
Most users run on-premises today, but SAP is investing significantly in S4 in the Cloud, which brings all the power and flexibility of the cloud to SAP. Imagine the benefits of running SAP in the cloud with all the scale, flexibility, and support that come from a solution supported and implemented by SAP.
An SAP landscape is a custom environment with many interlocking pieces that interact in complex ways. As part of S/4HANA migration, the provider builds out the S/4HANA environment, given the various provisioning options – either in the cloud or on-premise. Since S/4HANA runs on the in-memory HANA database platform, customers have to ensure they’re running SAP workloads on certified platforms. This ensures reliability and performance consistency for all customers running S/4HANA.
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