SAP S/4HANA helps customers run better by providing a suite of integrated and intelligent capabilities designed to address specific business challenges and drive digital transformation.
Here are some ways SAP S/4HANA enhances business operations
Streamlined Processes - SAP S/4HANA simplifies and streamlines business processes across the organization, enabling companies to run more efficiently and reduce complexity.
Real-Time Insights - With its in-memory computing platform, SAP S/4HANA provides real-time analytics and reporting, allowing businesses to make informed decisions quickly.
Enhanced User Experience - The SAP Fiori user interface offers a role-based, intuitive, and personalized user experience that improves productivity and user satisfaction.
Improved Financial Management - SAP S/4HANA offers improved financial management and accounting solutions, enabling businesses to optimize their balance sheets and increase financial resilience.
Customer-Centric Operations - By tightly tying customer needs to sales and production, SAP S/4HANA empowers businesses to offer more predictable and differentiated customer service, increasing sales revenue and brand loyalty.
Advanced Technology Integration - Leveraging technologies such as AI, machine learning, and IoT, SAP S/4HANA transforms how businesses operate, making them smarter and more responsive.
Agility and Flexibility - SAP S/4HANA's flexible architecture allows businesses to adapt quickly to market changes and new business models, ensuring they remain competitive.
These capabilities help businesses to not only improve their current operations but also to innovate and prepare for future challenges, ultimately running better and more effectively.
This is a multi-tenant cloud ERP solution that provides the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation. This is available on Subscription basis.
It offers preconfigured processes that are ready to go, allowing businesses to reshape their models and redefine work on the fly.
The public edition is designed to grow without limits, adding customers, markets, and products without increasing complexity.
It features automatic and continual updates managed by SAP, which means extensive IT resources are not required.
This edition supports very limited configuration and customizations.
Customers must be willing to adopt ‘Fit to Standard’ processes based on SAP Best Practices
A single-tenant, tailored-to-fit cloud ERP that adapts to an organization's unique transformation needs. This is available on Subscription basis.
It allows businesses to protect their investment and move to the cloud at their own pace, maintaining company-specific configurations and customizations.
The private edition offers high availability and a lower total cost of ownership through a subscription-based model.
It includes real-time insights with transactional and analytical data in one system, embedded functionality, and predefined integration with a cohesive user experience.
Customers have the flexibility to configure and customize the system as per their need
This edition is installed and run on the customer's own hardware and infrastructure, providing maximum control over the ERP system. Perpetual licenses need to be bought for this.
It offers the full scope of ERP functionalities, including industry-specific support and localization.
Upgrades for the on-premise edition are released annually and need to be implemented and tested by the customer's IT team.
Customers have full flexibility with how they configure, customize or deploy their system
Each edition serves different business strategies and IT requirements, allowing companies to choose the most suitable option based on their specific needs and preferences. But based on SAP’s announcements and direction, option 1 (Public edition) is the most preferred followed by option 2(Private edition) and then option 3(On-Premise). Most innovations such as BusinessAI will be enabled in the Public edition and customers will be able to easily leverage partner innovations from SAP store.