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There is much speculation and talk about an S\/4 road map. The Holy Grail is being sought to get from SAP Classic to the promised land of S\/4 Hana.<\/p>\n

Walldorf is keeping a low profile. There are only a few documents on the service marketplace. Inquiries from DSAG end with generalities.<\/p>

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It seems to be despairing, even after most heartfelt commitment to Hana and payment of a toll of 9000 euros - flat rate for the conversion of all user licenses - the way lies in the dark. And then came enlightening Professor Hasso Plattner!<\/p>\n

Hasso Plattner's Sapphire 2016 keynote brought the longed-for redemption for the SAP community: there is a way from SAP Classic with AnyDB to S\/4.<\/p>\n

The title of Plattner's keynote in Orlando this year was Your Road to S\/4 Hana and Beyond. Fast. Simple. Intelligent.<\/p>\n

To the audience's surprise, he gave an almost freehand demonstration of this transformation process. The first impression is convincing and solid - yes, maybe it could work like that.<\/p>\n

However, with a little more honesty about what S\/4 Finance and Logistics really is, Hasso Plattner and his SAP could have saved themselves this Sapphire stage magic. The trick is quick, smart and simple because they are just add-ons!<\/p>\n

From an organizational, financial, licensing and business perspective, the S\/4 roadmap may be a hell of a trip and end in disaster - but technically, with stable hardware and cleanly implemented Linux, it is a manageable finger exercise for the computer scientist:<\/p>\n

Take SAP Business Suite 7 with AnyDB (Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server or MaxDB).<\/p>\n

You start a database conversion to Hana and get SoH, Suite on Hana. Now you only need to customize the two \"add-ons\" S\/4 Finance and S\/4 Logistics and, according to SAP, you have the most modern, best and fastest ERP system.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Simple Finance and Simple Logistics are little more than enhancement packages for SoH that need to be tuned and prepared accordingly.<\/p>\n

For the experienced SolMan expert, it is just another transport order. This roadmap sounds logical, but is naturally difficult to sell as an \"ERP revolution including in-memory computing\".<\/p>\n

Hana is also an SQL database like Oracle and DB2, so the release upgrade succeeds with any existing SAP software - you first swap SQL database (AnyDB) for SQL database (Hana).<\/p>\n

The target is SoH and naturally the first IT-GAU can already happen here, because Hana is still far from being as robust and tested as MaxDB, SQL-Server, DB2 or Oracle.<\/p>\n

SAP reference customer John Deere had to learn this the hard way: The database change cost thousands of man hours!<\/p>\n

Then you customize S\/4 Finance and the experienced existing SAP customer wonders what happens to the Abap modifications and Z-functions. According to Hasso Plattner, these can now be converted almost automatically - but there can be exceptions, the Hana inventor said whimsically during his Sapphire keynote in Orlando.<\/p>\n

The fact is that in the add-on area of S\/4 Hana, many aggregates and indexes no longer exist. A compatibility firewall is supposed to \"fix\" it for \"old\" add-ons, modifications and Z-functions.<\/p>\n

The S\/4 add-on scenario described should work sufficiently well for Simple Finance. Most experts in the SAP community agree, however, that S\/4 Logistics should be given at least another three years to mature - this will give Bill McDermott and Hasso Plattner plenty of material for the upcoming Sapphire keynotes.<\/p>\n

With the discontinuation of APO (SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization), the race for a viable \"S\/4 Logistics\" add-on including MRP naturally begins.<\/p>\n

And something else to consider: As refined and logical as the EhP concept may be, SAP will not be able to operate an S\/4 as an add-on conglomerate forever - at some point there will have to be an ECC 6.0 successor in the form of a reprogrammed, genuine S\/4 core.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let's forget all the marketing and the fine words of the Sapphire keynotes: S\/4 Finance and S\/4 Logistics are add-ons - similar to the well-known Enhancement Packages (EhP) - for SAP Business Suite 7 on Hana (SoH). You can get started quickly with them, but you can't live with them sustainably.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,1609],"tags":[536,273,186,796,1390,6697,6561,513,286,4429],"coauthors":[27825],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-meinung","category-mag1607","tag-anydb","tag-dsag","tag-hasso-plattner","tag-keynote","tag-s4-hana","tag-s4-finance","tag-sap-business-suite-7","tag-soh","tag-solman","tag-suite-on-hana","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-400x160.jpg",400,160,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-768x307.jpg",768,307,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-100x40.jpg",100,40,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-480x192.jpg",480,192,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-640x256.jpg",640,256,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-720x288.jpg",720,288,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-960x384.jpg",960,384,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-18x7.jpg",18,7,true],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479.jpg",1000,400,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-600x240.jpg",600,240,true],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Editorial-e1699258340479-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Vergessen wir alles Marketing und die sch\u00f6nen Worte der Sapphire-Keynotes: S\/4 Finance und S\/4 Logistics sind Add-ons \u2013 \u00e4hnlich den bekannten Enhance\u00adment Packages (EhP) \u2013 f\u00fcr die SAP Business Suite 7 auf Hana (SoH). Damit l\u00e4sst sich schnell starten, aber nicht nachhaltig leben.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Editorial<\/a>, Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, MAG 16-07<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. F\u00e4rbinger, E3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/peter-m-faerbinger-e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}