For growing companies, success depends on the ability not only to proactively manage sales, operations, and financial performance but also to react and take advantage of changing customer, supplier, and business partner expectations and demands. But adopting industry-leading best practices is only part of the story. How do you unlock the true potential of your business?
You can meet these challenges and more with SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA), edition for SAP Business All-in-One. This edition covers end-to-end processes with expertise for 25 industries, localized for 62 countries. It provides midsize or quickly growing small companies with the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software required to manage sales growth, operational efficiency, and financial agility. You can gain an integrated view of your business, and this edition can scale and adapt easily to meet your evolving business needs. SAP S/4HANA, edition for SAP Business All-in-One can help you run your business more efficiently, in line with industry- specific best practices and in real time.
With SAP S/4HANA, you can also benefit from smarter business innovations, faster business processes, and simpler business interactions. You can reduce your IT overhead through the efficiency of SAP HANA applications.
SAP has an established partner ecosystem (value-added retailers and systems integrators) that is ready to resell and service SAP S/4HANA for our joint existing and new customers to implement future innovations.
SAP partners currently manage more than 60% of all SAP S/4HANA projects and continue to play a major role in helping customers plan, run and optimize the implementation of their digital core for fast adoption.
The cost of the solution is more than offset by the dramatic cost savings that come with the simplification of your IT and benefits for your business:
- SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision making, business processes and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first) to drive instant value across lines of business and industries.
- SAP HANA provides dramatic cost savings that come from consolidating transactional and analytic systems on one single platform.
S/4HANA specifically impacts all pillars of the TCO equation:
- Lower Data Footprint: By storing a single copy of data in-memory and eliminating the needs for aggregates, materialized views and indexes.
- Reducing Setup Costs: With faster time to value via Hana Enterprise Cloud for Cloud deployment or Rapid Deployment Solutions for On-premise deployments.
- Lowering Testing Costs: By eliminating certification requirements for non production HANA hardware.
- Simplifying Landscapes: by eliminating the need for Operational reporting hardware and software with SAP HANA Live.
- Tailored Data Centre Integration: Offering customers the flexibility to reuse existing storage and networking components in their Data Centers.
- Increasing Asset Utilization : levering Virtualization from VMware Vsphere 5.5 or Multiple Database option in the future release of SAP HANA SPS09.