SAP S4 HANA

SAP S/4HANA is an ERP business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data in real time.

S/4HANA is the centerpiece -- or digital core -- of SAP's strategy for enabling customers to undergo digital transformation, a broadly defined process where they can modify existing business processes and models or create new ones.

This allows the companies to be more flexible, responsive and resilient to changing business requirements, customer demands and environmental conditions. SAP refers to this S/4HANA-centered business environment as the intelligent enterprise.

SAP S/4HANA is an abbreviation of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package. Organizations use SAP S/4HANA to integrate and manage business functions – such as finance, human resources, procurement, sales, manufacturing and service – in real time.

It natively integrates with line-of-business solutions from SAP SE. In addition to intelligent ERP functionality, the suite includes supplier relationship management (SRM), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and product lifecycle management (PLM) functionality.

Generation 4 is the first SAP Business Suite to run only on the proprietary SAP HANA (High-Speed Analytical Appliance) database platform.

SAP S/4HANA helps enterprises deliver mission-critical applications on a streamlined infrastructure with one OS, one database and one user interface. Streamlining allows IT teams to focus on service delivery rather than maintenance.

SAP S/4HANA can also be a cost-effective option for organizations that seek to combine the analytical and transactional capabilities of different systems into a single source of truth for business decision-making.

SAP S/4HANA serves as the digital core for connecting enterprises with people, business networks, the Internet of things (IoT) and big data. It enables organizations to make business decisions informed by real-time insights, machine learning, IoT scenarios and predictive computing.

SAP S/4HANA is deployable both on-premises and in the cloud. With tight integration between headquarters and subsidiaries, SAP S/4HANA lets companies run 2-tier ERP operations and also support multi-tier, extended enterprise environments. SAP recommends SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP HANA, and uses SUSE Linux as the underlying OS for its SAP Cloud Platform.

Why Learn SAP S4 HANA:

• SAP HANA offers a robust set of capabilities, including database management, database administration, data security, multi-model processing, application development, and data virtualisation.
• Simplify your IT landscape and reduce data management burdens with a unique and enterprise-proven database solution, SAP HANA
• Support transactional and analytical workloads on one instance of data, with built-in machine learning capabilities to augment business processes and simplify your IT environment. Extend your footprint and workloads across on-premise and cloud landscapes with a real-time, transparent gateway to local, virtualised, or distributed data.
• Hybrid In-memory database: Extend your footprint and workloads across on-premise and cloud landscapes with a real-time, transparent gateway to local, virtualised, or distributed data.
• Transactional and analytical processing: Support any type of data and run many different types of workloads.
• Data modelling: Help ensure high performance with graphical models fostering collaboration between stakeholders achieving complex analyses in real-time.
• Multitier storage: Optimise performance, cost, and storage while maximising data value and accessibility to control your data effectively in the cloud.
• Innovate without boundaries by combining the ability to store, process and analyse multiple data types in a single, scalable solution. You can develop smart and real-time solutions with greater ease
• Multi-model processing: A unified database solution that stores, processes and analyses geospatial, graph, JSON document, and more.
• Native machine learning: Augment and improve business processes with data-driven insights from embedded and external machine learning.
• Hybrid transactional and analytical processing: Innovate with modern applications that combine transactional and analytical workloads on a single data set
• Compatibility between on-premise and cloud deployments simplifies cloud adoption and the use of existing skills to harness hybrid data. Once in the cloud, you can analyse data with a variety of cloud solutions from SAP and deliver enterprise-class privacy, security, and compliance.

Benefits of SAP HANA:

• SAP HANA has the feature of real-world insights into action; therefore it is possible to make decisions or conclusions. It has the capability for faster reporting and analysis; thus, it is easy to speed up the critical business process
• Its innovative solutions allow making new business processes. It has reduced the TCO, i.e., Total Cost of Ownership; so it requires less hardware, testing, and maintenance.
• With SAP HANA it is possible to take function date into memory when the business works as usual. It offers a flexible view that releases the analytical data details, at high speed. With this system, it is possible to join external data with the analytic models to extend the analysis throughout the entire organization.
• SAP HANA enables companies to research instantly as well as analyze their entire data effectively from any data kind of data source in the real world.
• SAP has introduced SAP BW which runs on the HANA as an assistant configuration. It is also declared that they have the intention to carry pre-built app on the SAP HANA.