Difference between SAP S/4HANA Any Premise, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Essentials and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extended

[Uma_Vanka]

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)

 

 

	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

[singern]

Very useful comparison, belongs to my bookmarks!

[anilkumd964]

umavanka , Good comparison..

How ya doing?

[former_member354606]

Can you please explain what TDM stands for under methodology section?

 

Methodology

TDM for Multi Tenant Cloud

[michael_piesche]

khalidhabeeb1726, in best case it just means “To be Defined Methodology”.

But it can also mean “Transformation Delivery Methodology”
I assume it will definitly not be “Test Data Management” and not be “Test Data Migration”.

SAP’s current suggested implementation methodology for most of its current applications is “SAP Activate” with the six phases: Discover -> Prepare -> Explore -> Realize -> Deploy -> Run.

• https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/14/sap-activate-keeps-you-on-track-in-your-sap-s-4hana-deployment/

[former_member694611]

Thanks for putting this together !

[Uma_Vanka]

Thank you.

[Uma_Vanka]

Good catch. TDM is our proprietary methodology. I updated it to Activate.

[ashishsristv]

Thanks a lot for sharing this blog. This is really helpful in understanding S/4HANA complete offering from SAP.

[sreehari_vpillai]

straight to bookmark !

[former_member715751]

Thank you, very good insights.

[former_member716067]

Hi Uma,

 

what does PMC in the last column mean ? Is it Private managed cloud ? If so, is it same as new Private Cloud edition being launched in Jan 2021 ? Can you pls clarify ? Thanks.

Regards,

Suma

[dennis_phyo]

BYOL = Bring your own License

[nam_truong]

Great information, thanks

[Uma_Vanka]

Not in this context. In any case, it doesn't really matter. The idea is a customizable license.

[shwetanargachhe]

Thank you for sharing detailed comparison.Very insightful.

[Dirk]

Excellent comparison, thank you !

[former_member376785]

Great comparison. Thank you!

[kdh]

This is really excellent and really helpful! Thank you for that great work. 🙂

Hard to understand, why SAP has no really comprehensive, compelling and clear comparison (not diluted by generic marketing statements) of the different versions. Maybe this could be exploited as kernel for some official materials.

[LisetteM]

This is a great visual....thank you!

[LisetteM]

What do you think is missing?