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SAPINSIDER SPECIAL REPORT | TAKING THE NEXT STEP WITH SAP HANA
Reproduced from the Apr n May n Jun 2015 issue of SAPinsider with permission from its publisher, WIS Publishing | SAPinsiderOnline.com
SAP HANA Innovations Touch All Aspects of an OrganizationSAP S/4HANA Is the Latest in a Long Line of Releases
Philippe DendievelPartner
Delaware Consulting
The speed of innovation at SAP is fast, and it only
shows signs of accelerating. The consistent evolu-
tion of the SAP HANA platform most recently pro-
duced its newest iteration: SAP Business Suite 4 SAP
HANA (SAP S/4HANA).
SAP S/4HANA builds upon SAP HANA-based in-
novations, with a simplified database (no materialized
aggregates) and rewritten, optimized code. It fully
leverages SAP HANA’s transactional and real-time
analytics capabilities through SAP HANA Live and
delivers an improved end-user interface based on SAP
Fiori. SAP S/4HANA is available on premise and in the
cloud on a multitenant SAP HANA database.
SAP’s innovation spreads across all facets of the en-
terprise, from the finance department to operations,
supply chain, and the warehouse. These innovations
allow companies to gain real-time business insights, run
smarter apps built for specific roles in the enterprise,
and deliver unprecedented user experience while main-
taining a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
A Wave of New Features, Flexibility, and FunctionalityOne prominent place of innovation for SAP solutions is
finance. SAP Simple Finance delivers the new genera-
tion of accounting, cash management, and integrated
business planning capabilities with higher agility, simu-
lation, and real-time insights.
In business intelligence, SAP Business Warehouse (SAP
BW) customers now have more agility and self-service
ability. With new Eclipse-based modeling, real-time op-
tions, self-service with SAP Lumira, solutions for nearline
storage, and dynamic tiering to store data, companies can
publish SAP BW objects into SAP HANA views that de-
liver self-service capabilities at a stunning performance.
SAP HANA Live brings more than 1,000 views on
SAP ERP, enabling real-time operational reporting and
dashboards. In fact, they can be combined with SAP BW
powered by SAP HANA views, enabling you to combine
operational reporting with historical data based on the
data warehouse.
Multitenancy, available in SAP HANA service pack
9, supports multitenant database containers. This up-
grade is vital in enabling multiple SAP applications to
run on a single SAP HANA system, which optimizes
investments in hardware and results in a lower TCO.
Additional innovations include expansion in the area of
virtualization, SAP HANA tailored data center integra-
tion options for reusing storage networks, and support
for less expensive central processing units.
But there is more than just the database. SAP HANA
allows the seamless integration of any data in SAP Busi-
ness Suite, such as point-of-sale (POS) data. SAP for
Retail is being enhanced with SAP Customer Activity
Repository and SAP hybris Marketing. SAP Customer
Activity Repository includes key performance indicator
dashboards on consumer views and product views.
SAP hybris Marketing embeds advanced analytics with
SAP Audience Discovery and Targeting. This enables
the segmentation of customers as well as information
gleaned from recommendation engines that make use
of SAP HANA’s predictive analysis library. SAP
Customer Activity Repository and SAP hybris Marketing
currently integrate with SAP Cloud for Customer.
Learn MoreDelaware Consulting specializes in SAP HANA imple-
mentations, including SAP Business Suite powered
by SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and more.
We are the proud recipients of the 2015 EMEA Partner
Excellence Award for SAP Business Suite powered by
SAP HANA.1
Delaware Consulting is a global business consulting
leader offering advanced solutions and services to orga-
nizations striving for a sustainable competitive advan-
tage. As a certified partner of SAP, OpenText, Microsoft,
and Sitecore, Delaware Consulting helps organizations
reach the next level of customer experience, operational
excellence, or business insights. For more information,
visit www.delawareconsulting.com.
1 See www.delawareconsulting.com/company/news.aspx?Title= Delaware_Consulting_receives_EMEA_Award_for_SAP_HANA.
SAP S/4HANA
builds upon
SAP HANA-based
innovations,
with a simplified
database and
rewritten,
optimized code.