With S/4, SAP is not only getting the Hana database, but also a new basic concept. It took a long time, too long for some existing SAP customers, for SAP managers to agree on a concept for consolidating the Z namespace and the purchased applications.

SAP deployment entails a whole bundle of tasks and activities for SAP Basis and SAP infrastructure teams that need to be processed or mastered. Actually, they are always time- and resource-intensive and thus cost-intensive.