SAPINSIDER SPECIAL REPORT | TAKING THE NEXT STEP WITH SAP HANA

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SAP HANA Innovations Touch All Aspects of an OrganizationSAP S/4HANA Is the Latest in a Long Line of Releases

Philippe DendievelPartner

Delaware Consulting

The speed of innovation at SAP is fast, and it only

shows signs of accelerating. The consistent evolu-

tion of the SAP HANA platform most recently pro-

duced its newest iteration: SAP Business Suite 4 SAP

HANA (SAP S/4HANA).

SAP S/4HANA builds upon SAP HANA-based in-

novations, with a simplified database (no materialized

aggregates) and rewritten, optimized code. It fully

leverages SAP HANA’s transactional and real-time

analytics capabilities through SAP HANA Live and

delivers an improved end-user interface based on SAP

Fiori. SAP S/4HANA is available on premise and in the

cloud on a multitenant SAP HANA database.

SAP’s innovation spreads across all facets of the en-

terprise, from the finance department to operations,

supply chain, and the warehouse. These innovations

allow companies to gain real-time business insights, run

smarter apps built for specific roles in the enterprise,

and deliver unprecedented user experience while main-

taining a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

A Wave of New Features, Flexibility, and FunctionalityOne prominent place of innovation for SAP solutions is

finance. SAP Simple Finance delivers the new genera-

tion of accounting, cash management, and integrated

business planning capabilities with higher agility, simu-

lation, and real-time insights.

In business intelligence, SAP Business Warehouse (SAP

BW) customers now have more agility and self-service

ability. With new Eclipse-based modeling, real-time op-

tions, self-service with SAP Lumira, solutions for nearline

storage, and dynamic tiering to store data, companies can

publish SAP BW objects into SAP HANA views that de-

liver self-service capabilities at a stunning performance.

SAP HANA Live brings more than 1,000 views on

SAP ERP, enabling real-time operational reporting and

dashboards. In fact, they can be combined with SAP BW

powered by SAP HANA views, enabling you to combine

operational reporting with historical data based on the

data warehouse.

Multitenancy, available in SAP HANA service pack

9, supports multitenant database containers. This up-

grade is vital in enabling multiple SAP applications to

run on a single SAP HANA system, which optimizes

investments in hardware and results in a lower TCO.

Additional innovations include expansion in the area of

virtualization, SAP HANA tailored data center integra-

tion options for reusing storage networks, and support

for less expensive central processing units.

But there is more than just the database. SAP HANA

allows the seamless integration of any data in SAP Busi-

ness Suite, such as point-of-sale (POS) data. SAP for

Retail is being enhanced with SAP Customer Activity

Repository and SAP hybris Marketing. SAP Customer

Activity Repository includes key performance indicator

dashboards on consumer views and product views.

SAP hybris Marketing embeds advanced analytics with

SAP Audience Discovery and Targeting. This enables

the segmentation of customers as well as information

gleaned from recommendation engines that make use

of SAP HANA’s predictive analysis library. SAP

Customer Activity Repository and SAP hybris Marketing

currently integrate with SAP Cloud for Customer.

Learn MoreDelaware Consulting specializes in SAP HANA imple-

mentations, including SAP Business Suite powered

by SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and more.

We are the proud recipients of the 2015 EMEA Partner

Excellence Award for SAP Business Suite powered by

SAP HANA.1

Delaware Consulting is a global business consulting

leader offering advanced solutions and services to orga-

nizations striving for a sustainable competitive advan-

tage. As a certified partner of SAP, OpenText, Microsoft,

and Sitecore, Delaware Consulting helps organizations

reach the next level of customer experience, operational

excellence, or business insights. For more information,

visit www.delawareconsulting.com.

1 See www.delawareconsulting.com/company/news.aspx?Title= Delaware_Consulting_receives_EMEA_Award_for_SAP_HANA.

SAP S/4HANA

builds upon

SAP HANA-based

innovations,

with a simplified

database and

rewritten,

optimized code.