S/4 Hana

This is an internal platform, located on your own servers and managed by your company. You as a company thus manage and take control of everything, including the HANA database, applications, servers, networks, and other related systems.

On-premise edition has a traditional licensing, which means a preliminary purchase with annual maintenance. The license fee allows the company to own the software and reduces the current maintenance fee.

At the core of SAP HANA is the high-performance Analytic Appliance, in-memory SAP HANA database. It can manage structured and unstructured data, and supports both transactional and analytical use cases.

SAP HANA database can function either as the data provider for classic transactional applications (OLTP) and/or as a data source for analytical requests (OLAP). SAP S/4 HANA can be deployed on premises in cloud or through hybrid model.

SAP S/4 HANA – hybrid on premise & cloud consists of functionality for finance, accounts, controlling, procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project system, product lifecycle management, plus includes integration with other applications also like SAP success factors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybrid, SAP fieldglass & SAP Concur.

S/4 HANA is very latest release from the year 2015. HANA runs in the backend of SAP Landscape. The feature of SAP S/4 HANA is innovative, column based – RDBMS, Which is used to store, retrieve & process data on core business activity. SAP S/4 HANA can accommodate any type of data. Businesses Install application that runs on top of SAP HANA, naming few examples of SAP HANA applications such as Finance, HR & Logistics.

It has a reduced memory usage factor by 10 & performance is using column based oriented storage. It has simpler structure lower memory footprint. Benefits of SAP S/4HANA are real time analytics, crunching of data that helps businesses react quickly to changing conditions providing significant Strategies that are designed to run SAP software.