As promised in my previous blog, here is the detailed comparison between various deployment options available for SAP S/4HANA in an easy to follow tabular format. I tried to break the comparison into categories and tried to compare against various parameters with in each category. Hope you find it helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions or need more details.
|
Aspect |
S4HC Essential
(Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended
(Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC |
Infrastructure |
License |
Subscription |
Subscription |
BYOL (build your own license) |
Updates |
Automatic. SAP. |
<- Either -> |
Complex,
Manual |
Release Cycle |
Quarterly |
Semi Annual |
Annual |
Cloud Service Provider |
No Choice |
Customer Choice |
Customer Choice |
Performance |
Influenced by overall system usage |
Private, Tuning co-shared by SAP |
Private, Tuning Owned by Customer |
Implementation |
Timeline |
8-16 weeks (Phase 1) |
~ 16 weeks (Phase 1) |
TBD |
Implementation Strategy |
Greenfield |
Greenfield |
Conversion or
Greenfield |
Methodology |
TDM for Multi Tenant Cloud |
TDM for Single Tenant Cloud |
TDM |
|
Aspect |
S4HC Essential
(Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended
(Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC |
Process |
Preconfigured Business Processes |
Mandatory,
= End State |
Mandatory,
Jumpstart |
Optional,
Jumpstart |
Functionality |
All |
All |
All |
Industry Coverage |
Finance led ERP, Professional Services, Component Manufacturing, Oil & Gas (Upstream Operations Management) |
All (25) |
All (25) |
Localisation |
43 countries. 25 languages. |
64 Countries. 38 Languages. |
64 Countries. 38 Languages. |
UX |
100% web based
Mostly Fiori |
Web + GUI,
Some Fiori |
Web + GUI,
Some Fiori |
Simple Config |
Yes |
No |
No |
Future Innovations |
All |
Most |
Some |
|
Aspect |
S4HC Essential
(Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended
(Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC |
Config / Extensions |
Configuration
(“Customising”, IMG, SPRO) |
Some + Simplified
(Guided Config) |
All |
All |
Interfaces |
All |
All |
All |
In-app extensibility |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Side by side extension |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Classical Extension |
No |
Yes (not recommended) |
Yes |
Modifications |
No |
No |
Yes (not recommended) |
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|
Aspect |
S4HC Essential
(Multi Tenant) |
S4HC Extended
(Single Tenant) |
On-Prem/HEC/PMC |
Security |
Infrastructure Security |
Secure |
Secure |
Customer Specific / Secure |
Data Breach Risk |
Shared / High |
Isolated / Low |
Isolated / Low |
Disaster Recovery |
•Shared |
Isolated |
Isolated |
Implementation |
Timeline |
8-16 weeks (Phase 1) |
~ 16 weeks (Phase 1) |
> 16 weeks |
Implementation Strategy |
Greenfield |
Greenfield |
Conversion or
Greenfield |
Overall |
Total Cost of Ownership |
Low |
Medium |
High |
OCM Efforts |
Very High |
High |
Customer Controlled |
Innovation |
SAP Lead, Supplemented by Customer |
SAP Lead, Supported by Customer |
Mostly Customer Owned
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