{"id":8347,"date":"2016-11-01T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:52:58","slug":"s4-hana-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/s4-hana-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"S\/4 Hana or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two camps are emerging: For one group of companies, SAP's new product generation is of strategic importance. They see innovation potential for transforming their business processes and building new business models.<\/p>\n

The representatives of the other group regard S\/4 Hana merely as SAP's next release to be introduced. They are not convinced of the added value that the new application system can offer them.<\/p>

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Therefore, their main concern is a smooth technical migration of current systems to S\/4 Hana. These are the key findings of the PAC study \"SAP S\/4 Hana\".<\/p>\n

41 percent have concrete plans to implement SAP S\/4 Hana in the next few years or are already in the project (14 percent).<\/p>\n

For a quarter of the participants, the introduction of the system is not yet an issue at all today.<\/p>\n

In 2015, only two percent of companies were in a corresponding implementation project and around one third considered the topic irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Among the reasons they cite for implementation are accelerating processes and data analysis (88 percent), modernizing their SAP applications (72 percent), and process transformation toward real-time (70 percent).<\/p>\n

However, not everyone associates the potential that a switch could hold - 63 percent of respondents say SAP's product strategy forces them to adopt it.<\/p>\n

\"It is advisable for SAP users to have the innovation potential that S\/4 Hana can offer demonstrated for their own company,\" says Frank Niemann, the author of the study.<\/p>\n

Purely technical migration preferred<\/h3>\n

Almost ast half (49 percent) of the companies participating in the study are planning a step-by-step technical migration to S\/4 Hana. Only 24 percent also want to transform their processes step by step.<\/p>\n

Just as many are more likely to pursue a complete reimplementation.<\/p>\n

38 percent would first like to bring SAP Business Suite onto Hana in order to switch to S\/4 Hana at a later date (by comparison, 48 percent wanted to take this intermediate step last year).<\/p>\n

At 37 percent, a similarly strong group prefers the direct S\/4 Hana transformation in one step.<\/p>\n

The target platform is usually the on-premise edition. Unclear effort, lack of business case and costs are the three top obstacles in the introduction of S\/4 Hana.<\/p>\n

Many companies are unsure how extensive an implementation will be. Often, there is a lack of a convincing business case that would justify the switch.<\/p>\n

Since companies have to purchase new licenses for S\/4 Hana, many of the respondents see another obstacle in the cost of software acquisition.<\/p>\n

This means that the same top obstacles are named as in the 2015 survey.<\/p>\n

Concerns about the degree of maturity are also only marginally lower than a year ago. In contrast, the assessment that modifications can make implementation more difficult has decreased.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around a year after its introduction, the relevance of S\/4 Hana is still controversial among SAP users in German companies. This is also confirmed by a recent study by the market research and consulting company PAC.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[731,2,161],"tags":[620,65,19701,21219,3491,799],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mag1611","category-sap-nachrichten","category-szene","tag-geschaeftsprozesse","tag-hana","tag-s-4-hana","tag-s-4","tag-sap-hana","tag-transformation","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",400,264,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-768x506.jpg",768,506,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-100x66.jpg",100,66,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-480x316.jpg",480,316,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-640x422.jpg",640,422,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-720x474.jpg",720,474,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-960x633.jpg",960,633,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",18,12,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",1000,659,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",600,395,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606.jpg",600,395,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shutterstock_564376606-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Rund ein Jahr nach Einf\u00fchrung ist die Relevanz von S\/4 Hana unter SAP-Anwendern in deutschen Unternehmen noch immer umstritten. Das best\u00e4tigt auch eine aktuelle Studie des Marktforschungs- und Beratungsunternehmens PAC.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"MAG 16-11<\/a>, Community Nachrichten<\/a>, Szene<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138153,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/138153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}