The salient features of SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is built on SAP HANA, so it has all the capabilities of this powerful data management and application platform, including predictive analysis, real-time decision supports, and advanced text mining. Let's take a quick look at a few of the salient features of SAP S/4HANA, listed as follows:

• Can be deployed on-premise or on a cloud or hybrid model
• Contains simplified data models, reduced tables, and footprints
• Is fully integrated with the SAP HANA cloud platform, allowing organizations to build faster and more cost effective business applications
• SAP S/4HANA increases the efficiency of enterprise processes by embedding analytics in the transactional context and by removing visibility blackouts caused by batch processing
• Overlaps and redundancy, including earlier multiple add-on applications surrounding a core (for example, SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and SAP SRM), have been completely removed in SAP S/4HANA
• A brandnew user experience is delivered to improve the productivity and satisfaction of business users, bringing the interface up to a consumer-grade experience on any device
• A database that supports S/4HANA (SAP HANA) can handle both OLTP and OLAP processing from a single model, and therefore, we do not need to move transactional data to a separate system

So, how can SAP Activate help us to get a quick jumpstart with SAP S/4HANA?

One of the first questions that should come to our mind is, "How does SAP Activate as a methodology help make the SAP S/4HANA implementation faster?"

The answer to the preceding question lies in the following capabilities provided by SAP Activate:

• Provides you with tools needed for an assisted implementation
• Facilitates sample reference solutions containing organizational and master data
• Clears confusion over methodologies by providing one methodology
• Suitable for any type of deployment (in terms of size, cloud/premise)
• Offers continuous support in adaptation of latest innovations