SAP S/4 HANA 1909: The Next-Gen Intelligence in Automation

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SAP S/4 HANA 1909: The Next-Gen Intelligence in Automation

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On 20th September 2019, SAP announced the general availability of its latest, intelligent version of ERP software – SAP S/4 HANA 1909. Here we’ll cover the complete overview of this futuristic SAP ERP Business Suite.

Read on to know more about SAP S/4 HANA.

Introduction to SAP S/4 HANA 1909:

With the SAP S/4 HANA 1909, SAP continues to focus on delivering leading-edge value in intelligent automation, next-generation business processes, insight and prediction. Also, there is a huge scope of improvement in all sorts of industries and businesses.

For the need of enhanced user experience with more precise insights, the fundamental initiation made the improvisation in the ERP software. Here are the top features of the advanced Digital Core of SAP S/4 HANA 1909.

  • A software architecture that is capable of providing a scalable foundation and enabling the optimized automation options.
  • An intelligent system that enhances organizational aspects with the help of embedded analytics, simulation, predictive analysis, and magnified decision making ensuring a smooth flow of business aspects.
  • An overall experience that can be speedily adopted and implemented.
  • Open architecture with the supply of connectivity and conversion of microservices.

Intelligent ERP Principles:

Here are the 3 principles that define intelligent ERP.

1. Digital age user experience: With the latest SAP Fiori theme “Quartz”, SAP will continue to extend the usage of SAP Fiori. Conversational user interface and natural language processing (NLP) allows us to target a hands-free ERP by the end of this year.

2. Next-generation processes: Rethinking the way business gets done through the smart junction of technology and innovation. In this 1909 release, SAP has advanced processes like the New Predictive Material and Resource Planning

3. Automation: SAP S/4 HANA utilizes machine learning capabilities and robotic process automation in the standard ERP processes. Automation mainly addresses companies´ bottom lines and assists to reduce costs. The people at SAP have promised that they strive for automation of 50% of all ERP business processes within the next 3 years.

Major Highlights of SAP S/4 HANA 1909:

Here we’ll see how this next-gen ERP software impacts different different industries.

Manufacturing

In the manufacturing sector, SAP now delivers a new predictive material and resource planning (pMRP) application. Now, you are able to forecast component demand with predictive material and resource planning. The advantage of pMRP is the decreased inventory carrying costs.

Finance

In finance, advancements in the constant closing process will enable enhanced process efficiency and quicker precise insights into your business. SAP Analytics Cloud with financial planning offers faster insight so you can run your business more cost-effectively.

Sales and Distribution

Predictive analytics now helps optimize sales forecasts and delivery process. The blockchain capabilities make the process safer. Checking delivery performance with predictive analytics in SAP S/4HANA allows for the on-time provision of obtaining processes to the total delivery performance.

Extended Warehouse Management

As part of extended warehouse management, SAP S/4 1909 provides enhanced integration between production and warehouse processes. You can now have an easy integration between repetitive manufacturing and warehouse management.

Environment and Safety

The emission forecasting capability helps you analyze and predict environmental risks. Based on previous data and with the help of machine learning, the system forecasts the emission data values via machine learning time-series predictive models.

Along with the aforementioned industries, SAP S/4 HANA 1909 also offers intelligent ERP services in product compliance, inventory management, r&d / engineering, sourcing and procurement, and more.

In Conclusion:

While the list of new capabilities in SAP S/4HANA 1909 is extensive, its implementation and upgrade might require some experience. To implement or upgrade to SAP S/4 HANA 1909, it’s advisable to seek assistance from a professional SAP services provider.

Infonikka’s capabilities and services are focused on client satisfaction and results. Our uniquely designed services serve as a medium to meet your specific business needs. Since we don’t believe in jumping on the implementation. Which is why we strategize the whole process noting your requirements.

An Overview of SAP S/4 HANA

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An Overview of SAP S/4 HANA

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“This is our biggest launch in 23 years, if not in the entire history of the company.” On 3rd February 2015, the launching date of SAP S/4 HANA, SAP’s then CEO Bill McDermott made this statement. If you think these words were exaggerated, in this blog we’ll explain it to you why they were not.

Origin of SAP S/4 HANA:

In 2011, the SAP HANA database platform was launched and many businesses started utilizing it because of its unmatched speed and support to real-time transactions. SAP Business Warehouse powered by HANA was released in 2012, and it even attracted Fortune 500 companies for their Business Warehouse maintenance needs.

Read on to know more about SAP HANA.

The first SAP Business Suite built on HANA was launched in 2013. The intuitive UI/UX technology – SAP Fiori was also released in 2013. It transformed the user experience of SAP applications.

In 2015, SAP Business Suite 4 by SAP HANA or SAP S/4 HANA was released. Built on the advanced, in-memory data platform SAP HANA and rich with personalized user experience of SAP Fiori, this enterprise resource planning system is undoubtedly the best of what SAP has to offer.

Reception of SAP S/4 HANA: 

From 2015 to 2019, the user base of SAP S/4 HANA has been skyrocketed from mere 370 subscribers to over 12,000 subscribers.

Features of SAP S/4 HANA:

Like no other ERP system ever, the features of this SAP Business Suite are beneficial to all kinds of corporations. 

1. Simplified Data Model – Elimination of indices, aggregates, and redundancies in this ERP system help in minimizing the data footprint and total cost of ownership.

2. Modern User Experience – As it is supported by SAP Fiori, this next-gen business suite offers a simple, personalized and intuitive user experience.

3. Advanced processing – The elimination of batch processing in SAP S/4 HANA boosts the process runtime speed.

4. Choice of Deployment – This advanced system not only comes as a cloud solution, but the SAP S/4HANA on Premise option is also available.

5. Multi-tenancy – Unlike other ERP systems, this business suite also comes in the cloud multi-tenant edition.

Benefits of SAP S/4 HANA:

The uniquely amazing advantages of SAP S/4 HANA over every other ERP systems are:

• Simplifies and accelerates your business processes

• Leverages SAP HANA platform to improve real-time analytics

• Enables highly innovative and easy-to-use user experience

• The in-memory database enhances performance

• Provides myriads of features to help you save resources

• Keeps you on top of the latest innovation

In Conclusion:

The overall features of SAP S/4 HANA are so lucrative and expandable that they aptly optimize business performance, no matter the industry. This business suite has a lot to offer and every business, from small-scale companies to massive corporations, can take advantage of it.

However, to successfully implement or migrate to SAP S/4 HANA, having expertise over it proves to be extremely beneficial. That’s where we come into the picture. We, at Infonikka, offer an extensive range of SAP services to businesses. Infonikka ranks amongst the top SAP consulting partners that help corporations to improve business performance. Our tailored and advanced SAP consulting services transform organizations delivering new business values. Our SAP experts thoroughly understand your business processes and offer exclusive implementation or migration strategies that are sure to drive your business growth.

What is SAP HANA? And Why You Should Use it?

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What is SAP HANA? And Why You Should Use it?

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Since its inception in 1972, the SAP SE corporation has been dominating the business intelligence (BI) industry. The SAP ERP and CRM business applications are the most used business applications in the world. To make it more clear for you here are some success stats of SAP,

  • There are around 150 million SAP customers worldwide
  • Almost 91% Forbes Global companies prefer SAP
  • In 2018, SAP generated over 24 Billion Euros

Read on to know the benefits of SAP that can help your business grow.

SAP HANA is one of the most popular and utilized tools developed by SAP SE corporation. To make business processes like transactions, analytics & reporting faster and more efficient, SAP HANA is the best platform. Before diving into what makes SAP HANA the best, let’s start with the basics.  

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA is a powerful in-memory, column-oriented database and platform that supports real-time processing of transactions and analytics.

What is SAP S/4 HANA?

It is the latest SAP Business Suite that is developed on the SAP HANA database. SAP S/4 HANA can be deployed on-premise, through cloud, or even hybrid.

Let’s simplify the definition: in-memory means SAP HANA stores the data directly in the RAM instead of disk drives. Column-oriented means it structures the data in columns instead of rows. Also, SAP HANA dynamically supports real-time online transactional processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP). With these uniquely lucrative features, SAP HANA differs itself from other traditional databases. Now, let’s discuss the benefits of SAP HANA in detail.

Why businesses should use SAP HANA?

  1. Unparalleled Speed:

The processing of data becomes faster when it’s accessed directly through the RAM instead of the slow processing disk drives. As SAP HANA is an in-memory database, the real-time processing of data happens at a lightning-fast speed.

  1. Handles All Sorts of Data:

One of the many advantages of a columnar database is its ability to effectively handle Big Data. As all the data in SAP HANA is stored in columns, the syncing of different data structures (row to columns or vice versa) is not required. This results in efficient real-time processing of structured, unstructured or even big data. 

  1. Much More than a Database:

SAP HANA is not just a database. Along with database management, it offers precise analytics & reporting, an amazing application development platform, and enables data integration processes; data virtualization, Hadoop integration and more.

  1. Supports Real-time Transaction and Analytics:

Transactions and analytics are the most valuable processes in every online business. Because it’s an in-memory and columnar database, SAP HANA empowers businesses with powerful, real-time transactions and advanced analytics.

  1. Simplifies Complex Processes:

As discussed earlier, SAP HANA is an umbrella platform. It integrates all the business components such as application development, database management, real-time processing, data integration, and more in a single platform. This makes it easy for businesses to manage all the processes efficiently and lower the complexity.

  1. Easy Accessibility:

When it comes to implementation, all the deployment options can be availed to use SAP HANA platform. According to specific business needs, SAP HANA can be accessed on-premise, through the cloud, or even as a hybrid platform.

In Conclusion:

Now you’ve seen why SAP HANA is one of the most beneficial technologies that a business can harness. Thanks to its modern techniques and solutions, SAP HANA is known as a revolutionary database. Every business can benefit a lot from this data-platform. However, to utilize the most out of SAP HANA, you should partner with an expert SAP services provider. At Infonikka, our SAP professionals help you out with core SAP ERP capabilities to innovative technologies such as Analytics, eCommerce and Cloud solutions including HANA.