S4 HANA, Transition option & Data

Provisioning.
Contents
• S4 HANA
• SAP Cloud Platform
• S4 HANA Transition Options
• Implementation Roadmap
• System Conversion
• Landscape Transformation
• New Implementation
• Data Provisioning Options in HANA Database
 S4 HANA: New Features
• S/4 HANA is simplified data model. Reduced data
foot print with highly compressed data and less
tables.
• Reduced ¾ of objects from application layer in S/4
HANA compared to ERP
• Faster Analytics & Reporting.
• Smaller total data footprint.
• Higher Throughput.
•Text, Social & Geo data are fully supported.
•New SAP Fiori UX for any device (mobile, desktop, tablet)
•Three deployment options: on premise, cloud and Hybrid.
•Semantically rich & powerful CDS Views.
•In memory database.
•No Aggregates stored in DB, but calculated at runtime.
 S4 HANA: Technical Differences
• S4 HANA can only be run with HANA Database, unlike ECC which can be run on any database.
• Therefore, Technical differences arises from two major areas,
 HANA DATABASE
• HANA has an in memory database, therefore performance bottlenecks related to reading and writing to the
hard disk are eliminated.
• HANA Database incorporates both row and column based storage. General rule of thumb is that
transactional and Master data is stored in column based storage, and organization data is stored in Row
based storage.
• Column based data storage also provides high compression rates, and thus minimzing the footprint of data
stored in memory. Similar values within column are grouped together with pointers to other rows.
• Parallel processing is used effectively as different processor can work on indivual columns at the same
time.
 S4 rewritten business logic
• S/4HANA including the data structures of different components (for FI , AA , CO , CO-PA and ML) into a
single line item table ACDOCA, called as Universal journal.
• MATDOC is also a new line item table for inventory management and it eliminates 26+ tables. Material
documents will be stored in MATDOC but not in MKPF or MSEG tables.
S4 HANA: Value Proposition
• With optimized core, Companies get an opportunity to shift their focus.
• “Reimagined Business Model”, “Reimagined Business Process” and “Reimagined Business Decisions” are
amongst S4 HANA value propositions.
• Ability of “simple & fast” connect with people, devices and business networks will benefit business-houses in
working towards a simplified and flexible Business Model. With IoT, Big Data Analytics, Hybrid scenarios
(cloud and On-premise applications) and native integration and connectivity with various business-network
(like Ariba, Hybris and so on SAP S/4 HANA will open up the world-space as playground to do business.
• Ability to “process simple“ by very limited (and only if business requires) batch processing, job scheduling
and monitoring , latency or delay in receiving important information is reduced, thus enabling business-
houses to operate and processes work in Real-time and on Live-data. The online, real-time availability of
information and power of faster and smart processing, will enable business-houses to think and look forward
to “what is happening NOW” as well as how can impact immediate future, thus leading way to “predictive
analytics” and “what-if-simulations” scenarios and way of doing business.
• The “simple and real-time processing” will lead to “reimagined business decisions”, the way decisions are
taken today viz-a-viz how they can be improved in future. Business can expect to reduce efforts and time, as
there would be little “Manual consolidation” of data. Most of the decisions when taken in “real-time” , “on-the-
fly” and with help of “predictive analytics” and “what-if-simulations” will lead to better control and decision
making.
• OLAP & OLTP systems are reduced to just single source of truth, and thus focus is shifted from acquiring
data to making sense form data.
 S4 HANA: Business Value Example
• http://s4value.com/

• For instance, Utilities industry within Supply & Distribution reaps following benefits from S4 HANA.
• Reduced Customer Churn:
Increase customer satisfaction and reduce churn by better service levels, enabled by better flow of information on order status
and tracking. Reduce billing errors. Simplified data model for pricing.
• Reduce Sales Cost:
Improve sales processes with accurate, structured, and accessible master data from the simplification of data structures.
• Reduce Order Management Cost:
Simplified data model for sales and distribution pricing, which stores pricing results from documents, such as sales documents
and purchase orders, in a database table. Condition contracts that can help users flexibly define rebate agreements; clearance
of condition contracts through the settlement management feature.
• Reduce Cost of Processing Returned Goods:
SAP Fiori apps to support advanced returns management features, including monitoring complaints and managing customer
returns. Trigger follow-up actions, such as inspection of returned material, resolution of issues, processing of a refund, or
exchange of materials due to damage or incorrect delivery.
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform: Needs & Benefits
S4 HANA Transition Options
Transition Option: 1. System Conversion
Transition Option: 2. Landscape Transformation
Transition Option: 3. New Implementation
Implementation roadmap
System Conversion
System Conversion: Supported Start Releases
System Conversion: Project Phases
Landscape Transformation
Landscape Transformation: Project Phases
Landscape Transformation: System Consolidation
New Implementation
New Implementation: Guided Configuration
Data Provisioning Options in HANA
SAP LT Replication Server
SAP LT Replication Server (SLT) is positioned for real-time data replication from SAP and non-SAP sources (SAP supported data bases only)
-> Mainly recommended for real time data replication business scenario

SAP Data Services

SAP Data Services (DS) is positioned for batch load-based data replication from non-SAP sources and SAP sources (with complex ETL requirements)
-> Mainly recommended for batch type data replication business scenarios

SAP HANA Direct Extractor Connection (DXC)

DXC is available as a simple option in batch mode for data replication from existing SAP Data Source extractors (ERP) into SAP HANA.
-> Mainly recommended for batch type data replication for stand alone HANA business scenarios

Other Data Provisioning Options

Sybase Event Stream Processor (ESP) * : will be available for replicating real time event streams from Sybase ESP (CEP) into SAP HANA

* Planned to be available as part of SAP HANA SPS05 and Sybase ESP 5.1-SP1