SAP S/4 HANA Finance

S/4 HANA Finance

Jörg Siebert

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• SAP HANA was previously called SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance

• It is a database were all data is held in the main memory

• Transaction data is organized by columns

• Takes advantage of modern hardware using parallel processing

SAP HANA

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Scenario1: SAP HANA as a

secondary database

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Example1: CO-PA

Accelerator

• The tables CE1xxxx, CE2xxxx and

CE4xxxx are transferred to SAP HANA

• Any required aggregation is performed on-

the-fly even on large datasets with 100

million line items

• The end-user perspective nothing is

changed !

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Transaction HDBC

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User perspective

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Example2: BW access to SAP HANA

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Datasource in BW allowing

direct access to SAP ERP tables

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Scenario2: SAP HANA as a

supplementary analysis system

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SAP HANA live vs. SAP BW

• SAP HANA live displays exactly the data

available in SAP ERP

• No time stamps / no history

• Data transformation only when the query

is run

• Limitations regarding multiple sources

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Scenario 3: SAP HANA as a

primary database

In this scenario, SAP HANA replaces

the current relational database for all

read and write processes. This is the

foundation when we talk about S/4

HANA.

• Recent innovations

• Planned innovations

• And future direction

of SAP is very much influenced by this

scenario.

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SAP Fiori

SAP Fiori is the new

user experience (UX)

for SAP software. It

applies modern design

principles for a

completely reimagined

user experience. SAP

Fiori UX represents a

personalized,

responsive and simple

user experience

across devices and

deployment options.

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Do you have plans to implement

SAP HANA in your company ?

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Yes, during the next 1-2 years

Yes, during the next 2-3 years

Yes, during the next 3-5 years

No, the project is already being implemented

No, but we are discussing

No, not relevant

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