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Link: sap.com/s4next
Latest release of on-premise code line
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Speaker says "S/4HANA is ready"
5 areas on the right "apply to everybody"
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4 updates since 2015
Innovation discovery tool; number of innovations now at 2,389
Last year, innovations at 966
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Shows how big release is, what is effects
Lines of business (such as Finance), something for you, including industries
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Some headlines / highlights of what will be the most talked about enhancements by line of business
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Where at with the 1809 product cycle and what does the future hold
"reliable and predictable" updates
On left, in Q3/2018, 1809 release
Plan FPS01/2 in Q1/Q2
Anticipated 19xx release in one year from now
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Cloud is moving faster than on premise
Quarterly releases; want innovations faster
Public cloud, subscription based version
Latest release 1808, next is 1811 in November
Link to Innovation Discovery: https://go.support.sap.com/innovationdiscovery/
Link to Roadmap: SAP Product and Solution Road Maps
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The history...starting with Suite On HANA
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Now you can do a one step conversion
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Left cloud, "on-premise" on the right
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Over 2100 live customers
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Left is IT impact; reducing number of systems supporting; expect a simpler landscape
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Digital assistant, gone to next level with natural language
Ask your ERP "who's on vacation next month"
Will use machine learning
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Machine learning, better user experience
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Areas already covered with machine learning
"dynamic" and "predictive" is what Intelligent ERP does, said the speaker
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Selected machine learning highlights - more info here
Predictive analytics is baked into Sales & Distribution
"next generation business processes"
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Concerned about master data
Mass maintenance; allow update of master data maintenance at once
Centralized governance, including internal orders
Across more domains - customer, partner, universal journal
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Impacts data quality
Turn on machine learning to identify data quality issues
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If do a greenfield from ECC 6, changes to benefit
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Not covered but interesting connecting SAP Analytics Cloud to on-premise planning.
Question & Answer
Q: What about HCM? Can we run HCM with S/4HANA?
A: Yes, there is a compatibility pack to do that. SuccessFactors is the way forward, understand not everyone can't move at the same time.
Other:
1809 runs on HANA 2.0
IBP is separate topic from S/4HANA
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