SAP S/4hana: Only data is stored, data is reduced by 90%

February 9, in the name of "Avenue to Jane", SAP company in Beijing released its new Business Suite SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (hereinafter referred to as SAP S/4hana), SAP Executive board Member, SAP Global Business President Anrubo (ROB Enslin), The SAP strategy, the features of SAP S/4hana, and the business value of SAP S/4hana were presented at the press conference by Business, a senior vice president of the Schwarz Suite, and Guibing, president of SAP Greater China. And interviewed by media reporters.

We have previously learned from foreign media that SAP S/4hana is fully based on the High-performance Memory computing platform SAP HANA, while enabling users to obtain the SAP Fiori user experience through mobile devices. So why does SAP say SAP S/4hana is a "landmark product"? What can SAP S/4hana bring to Chinese users? What are the answers to the issues that users need to be aware of when deploying SAP S/4hana? What is the plan for the products that users have invested before? This article will answer these core questions for you.

SAP S/4hana in SAP's eyes

SAP S/4 HANA is referred to by SAP as the most significant software product release in 23 years, even SAP history. 23 years ago, SAP launched the SAP, but this time called S/4 instead of R/4 (s on behalf of the fourth generation of simple,4), SAP said, they spent 5 years to rewrite all the code, fully structured in the SAP Hana platform, with only one goal: from the deployment and application of two aspects of streamlining ERP, To adapt to the mobile and industrial 4.0-era business operations.

"It realizes the function of ERP, but also integrates the agility, rapidity and real-time of SAP Hana." SAP S/4hana is not only compatible, it is optimized, it is a business suite optimized for Hana. "Anrubo said.

SAP Hana is the core of SAP products, more than 2000 startups have put their business on SAP Hana, and more than 3,000 customers have implemented business Suite based on Hana. Lenovo Group vice President Liu that by implementing bw on HANA, the operational performance of key reports has increased by 30 times times compared to DB2, while CRM on HANA has improved interactive reporting performance by more than 10 times times. It also supports core management to support rapid decision making through mobile devices or PCs, which are in real-time control of the company's operations. In March 2014, SAP launched a Hana cloud platform based on SAP, providing a platform as a service (PaaS), memory-centric infrastructure, database, and application services that provide the environment to build, scale, deploy, and run various cloud application software.

On top of SAP Hana, Anrubo says, SAP S/4hana extends the simplified value to all lines of business and all walks of life in an end-to-end fashion, supporting customers with guided tools to configure solutions to help businesses enjoy a modern user experience and simplified data models through virtually any type of device, Help users reshape real-time business processes.

Markus Schwarz further explains the three values of SAP S/4hana:

It will enable a variety of device networks, the Internet of things together to enable customers to reshape their business model, while customers can reshape their business processes to greatly improve business throughput, thus more efficient and rapid implementation of the business. In decision-making, not only is the ability to quickly realize insight, the key is speed, that is, real-time data acquisition, so that decision-makers anytime and anywhere to make decisions. Because users are better able to understand, they are able to use Fiori more effectively so that they are very much in line with people's intuitive habits. Under the guidance of Fiori, it is easy and easy to accomplish the work of any equipment. This is a very logical time to sort out the work effectively. There is also a new streamlined data model that reduces the size of the original data, only one-tenth of the original data size, while the data can be integrated with GIS data and can be associated with global data from any dimension. In simple finance, for example, a large number of index tables and summary tables are no longer required, and businesses no longer need to wait for reports, including adjustments to financial data, and information can be delivered in real time.

SAP S/4hana also supports deploying at the customer's appropriate speed in the cloud, at the customer's local, or in a mixed deployment. The public cloud version of SAP S/4hana has been written back to support multiple tenants in the cloud-that is, the same SAP instance can run a large number of users in a secure environment.

Markus Schwarz says that for customers, SAP S/4hana has three typical scenarios:

Brand new customers can immediately start SAP S/4hana including enterprise preset or cloud or mixed operation mode. Some customers are running a database of SAP Business Suite with three steps to implement: The first step is to take the latest SAP Business Suite Suite and the second step to migrate the data to SAP HANA, The third step is the transformation of the enterprise from the old functional characteristics to the "Avenue to Jane" Way. Some customers are already on the business Suite on Hana, and they can use SAP S/4hana as long as they take a step forward and adopt innovative, simplified packages. SAP and partners can support the customer's efforts, with some upfront decision products wrapped in it. It allows our customers to do more than just migrate to the database, and some migrations and transitions are from functionality and scale, including business process changes.

Today, SAP is redefining the 21st century ERP concept. The core of SAP S/4hana is to integrate software and people organically, to help enterprises to build real-time operation, interconnection and simplified business. SAP Global CEO McDermott said.

Saps/4hana Question and Answer

Q: Why is S/4hana so important to SAP as compared to R3?

Anrubo: My answer is S/4hana this product is actually much more important than R3. R3 's launch was 23 years ago, and it was based on relational data. R3 launched when there is no internet, no smart phones, smart devices and so on. Now look at the future development, customers need a modern platform, they need to be able to meet the needs of mobile devices, to meet the digital needs, to meet the needs of social media development, the need for a modern platform, we think only S/4hana can do this.

Q: What impact does SAP have on the user database of existing applications after the introduction of new products to the database?

Markusschwarz: Our business Suite products are both Hana based and any other type of database, we continue to support all user businesses, and we continue to support users of Business suite based on other database types. But in order to be able to fully play the Hana platform's huge function, in order to be able to achieve the maximum innovation ability, we think the user is necessary to use S/4hana. In the past, we were supporting a variety of databases, and even the slowest databases, a broad support that helped us innovate our products. Now with the introduction of S/4hana, these obstacles have not existed, we are vigorously promote s/4hana.

When it comes to the big topic of IoT and Industry 4.0, it's not just about asking your specific applications to be connected to the IoT, it also requires your application to be able to process all of those massive amounts of data in real time. Including a large number of data from the sensor on the machine, the problem now is existing applications, it can not handle such a large number of data, and it does not have to deal with the massive data in a real-time manner. It is therefore appropriate to convert the data to Non-real-time data. Now we have S/4hana, it is not only closely connected with the Internet of things, can fully fit the trend of the industry 4.0, at the same time to the unprecedented speed to deal with a large number of data, so that users in the overall competitive environment in the leading position.

Q: What is the relationship between the new S/4hana and the cloud computing that SAP is currently trying to push?

Markusschwarz:s/4hana is closely related to the overall cloud strategy of SAP company and is in perfect agreement. Before the big press conference, I also mentioned that an important benefit of s/4hana is that it can be fully linked to the outside world, combined with applications such as Ariba, and can be closely linked to the solution of SuccessFactors Cloud. In addition S/4hana it should be our company's first step, the so-called first step is that we put the core of the function on the cloud, can be either a management cloud or a public cloud, so S/4hana is fully supported including a complete cloud strategy, hybrid cloud strategy and local cloud strategy, It should be said that it is closely new to the strategy of our SAP whole cloud.

In addition, in S/4hana products, we give customers a very large free choice of rights and flexibility. Throughout the deployment, customers can determine the speed of migration to the cloud, can also determine the entire application in the cloud migration to the time how to sort, we can see s/4hana this product should be said to give our customers a lot of free choice of space, in order and speed.

Q: How can the product of S/4hana be used effectively in different industries, and is there a customized solution based on industry characteristics?

There is a very critical difference between Markusschwarz:s/4hana and any previous version of ERP, which is that we do not define these business rules in advance, and we do not define them beforehand before users use them. What we do is a real-time analysis model is a forward-looking approach. So we are not going to capture and store the past history of information, the only thing we store is data, in time to model the data. So before users use, we will not do a predefined definition, only when the user will have a definition, so you can see that this is S/4hana and previous generations of ERP products than a fundamental change. If an enterprise is an innovative enterprise, it can follow its own steps to innovate.

Q: How much is the cost of migrating the products that customers now use to migrate to S/4hana? How long is the cycle? What are the migration scenarios that SAP can offer?

Markusschwarz: When we launch such a disruptive new technology product to the market, one of our most important intentions is to minimize the disruption of new technology products to existing customers ' business. So we took a step-by-step approach, the user can migrate to the ECC6 first, then do the database migration, this work can be completed over the weekend. Then migrate to a simpler environment instead of moving all the systems to a new environment at once. At the same time we provide our customers with technical support during the migration process, we have a dedicated toolkit to address some of the technical issues in the database and application migration process, and we share them with our partners so that our partners, along with SAP's own service team, With these technologies, the tools above provide global standardization services for our customers around the world in the process of migration.

Anrubo: I'm going to add an information point about the price. Now the products that the suite on Hana users can use include the S/4hana application, which is at the end of September of this year, less than 8 months. If there is a new user who buys the suite on Hana product, which includes S/4hana, it does not have to pay extra, but this time node is September 30 in 2015.

Q: General R3 products Business Suite How will this product evolve in the future? Will there be a new version?

Anrubo: Business Suite product follow-up and improved version, will be launched until 2025 years. But technically, there's no way to put a product like simple finance on ECC6, except on the entire Hana platform. You can feel it. S/4hana is a huge change for SAP, and it's a huge change for us to write software for enterprise applications, unlike previous relational data.

Simple Finance It is s/4hana inside our first launch of a product, we will also launch a series of simplicity, a simplified logistics management, and finally will slowly spread a series of ERP products.

Editorial Reviews: Obviously, SAP wants to get more users to the Hana platform by simplifying deployment and data models. Even if Hana has 3,600 customers, achieving three-digit performance growth is still not enough for SAP-as of August 2014, SAP has 253,500 customers. So it's not hard to understand the huge stakes in SAP, and it's not hard to understand the amazing language of SAP co-founder and chairman Haso Pratna Hasso Plattner: "If this product doesn't work, we're done." Completely finished. It's that simple. "From the improvements in deployment, the support of multiple tenants, and the optimization of upgrade costs, SAP does have a strong cloud era of software transformation, but how to convince users of the value of the new product upgrades and the seamless transition of users is still a challenge for SAP."