In February, SAP announced the launch of SAP S/4HANA, which allows enterprises to connect with the Internet of Things – connecting enterprise-level applications with a host of mobile devices being used in today’s manufacturing and transportation facilities. Users can now access any data from anywhere inside or outside their facility in real-time and make decisions on the fly, even from mobile devices,with a high degree of accuracy and detail for immediate business impact.
SAP S/4HANA combines cloud-based and digital technology, allowing enterprises to access and process “Big Data” at speed like never before. It offers the best of both worlds – the safety and security of owning your own digital assets, with the flexibility to access data across or even outside the enterprise via the cloud. SAP refers to this as being “a cloud-based system with a digital core.” Enterprises can choose how to deploy HANA: on the cloud, on premises, or a combination of the two allowing the system to deliver rapid time-to-value.
From a business value perspective, SAP S/4HANA creates unique opportunities for businesses to reinvent business models and become more profitable. Better access to and faster processing of big data simplifies many business processes and allows them to be driven in real time – no longer is batch processing required to process big data jobs.
From an IT perspective, SAP S/4HANA can lower total cost of ownership (TCO) due to its ability to combine digital and cloud-based technology. Enterprises can reduce their data footprint and work with larger data sets, without an increase in hardware and operational cost, and with a reduced investment in time due to HANA’s faster processing speeds.
Innovation and decision-making is also easier with the SAP HANA Cloud Platform driving advanced applications such as predictions, recommendations and simulations, while keeping existing investmentsin core business applications secure.
Lastly, HANA is much easier to use. User experience is role-based and has been simplified to minimize training efforts while increasing productivity. Configuration is simpler as well, although to get the most from the system, a partner such as Blue Harbors is essential to ensure the system meets your uniquebusiness requirements and drives maximum value from your technology investment.
Key facts about SAP S/4HANA:
- Smaller total data footprint – you can now access and work with larger data sets, with less cost for hardware and maintenance.
- Higher throughput – more data can be accessed more quickly
- Faster analytics and reporting – larger data sets can be analyzed, with answers more quickly
- Less process steps – fewer steps to access the data you need to make decisions
- ERP, CRM, SRM,SCM, PLM co-deployed – works across platforms to access data in any SAP system
- No locking, parallelism
- Actual data (25%) and historical (75%)
- Unlimited workload capacity
For more information, please contact Thorsten Raab by email at Thorsten@BlueHarbors.com or by phone at (415) 336-9586.