SAP S/4HANA 1809 - 3 Key Transition Adoption scenarios to consider

In September 2018, the Enterprise Resource Planning software giant, SAP has launched its latest edition - . It is the 4th On-Premise release of SAP S/4HANA, after 1511,1610 and 1709. This new release too continued with the latest innovation and wanted to helps the companies, who were looking for digital transformation. By the end of SAP S/4HANA 1809, there were around 2389 innovations related to S/4HANA, 1048 user experience, and 552 innovations in digital transformation. The SAP's next-generation digital core (SAP S/4HANA) laid the foundation for intelligent enterprise and comes with the latest invention, robust and scalable core ERP.

The SAP S/4HANA 1809 is built on 3 key ingredients, which made the digital core intelligent.

They are Digital age UX, Automation, and Next-generation processes.

*A Digital age UX: The Digital assistance provides a hands-free experience and also delivers value-adding experience by instant insight with latest SAP Fiori technology.

*Automation: This ingredient provides predictive analysis to increase efficiency and automation and the ERP is augmented by machine learning from SAP Leonardo.

*Next-generation processes: Redefine and reinvent the processes with the proven best practices built on the latest inventions.

In this blog, we will try to focus on two questions

1)How things are different in SAP S/4HANA?

2)What are the key Transaction scenarios for SAP S/4HANA 1809?

First Thing First!!

SAP S/4HANA is a new product line and not a new/successor release of SAP Business Suite ERP system. Despite few incompatible changes between SAP Business Suite ERP System and SAP S/4HANA system, the support for the SAP Business Suite & SAP ERP will still be available.

An SAP S/4HANA System is

1)Based on SAP's innovative in-memory SAP HANA database.

2)It is built with new, simplified application architecture and data model.

3)Along with the application functionality, most of the SAP S/4HANA applications have been re-designed.

4)You can now use a new SAP Fiori based User Experience.

5)you can also choose among the two

1. On-Premise Deployment Model

2. Cloud Deployment Model (exist in both private & public cloud versions)

Now, let get into the primary question of our today discussion.

What are the key Transaction scenarios for SAP S/4HANA 1809?

SAP offers 3 main transaction adoption scenarios

1)System Conversion

2)New Implementation

3)Landscape Transformation

System Conversion

What is the purpose to choose System Conversion?

There are 3 main purposes

1. If your goal is to bring your present business processes to the new platform.

2. or you want to keep your investment in custom code.

3. Or you want to adopt new innovations and minimize the risk and investment of a conversion project by reducing the scope of the transition project to a pure technical conversion at a later point of time.