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TammyPowlas
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Source: SAP

Link: sap.com/s4next

Latest release of on-premise code line



Source: SAP

Speaker says "S/4HANA is ready"

5 areas on the right "apply to everybody"



Source: SAP

4 updates since 2015

Innovation discovery tool; number of innovations now at 2,389

Last year, innovations at 966



Source: SAP

Shows how big release is, what is effects

Lines of business (such as Finance), something for you, including industries



Source: SAP

Some headlines / highlights of what will be the most talked about enhancements by line of business



Source: SAP

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



Source: SAP

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



Source: SAP

The history...starting with Suite On HANA



Source: SAP

Now you can do a one step conversion



Source: SAP

Left cloud, "on-premise" on the right



Source: SAP

Over 2100 live customers



Source: SAP

Left is IT impact; reducing number of systems supporting; expect a simpler landscape



Source: SAP

Digital assistant, gone to next level with natural language

Ask your ERP "who's on vacation next month"

Will use machine learning



Source: SAP

Machine learning, better user experience



Source: SAP

Areas already covered with machine learning

"dynamic" and "predictive" is what Intelligent ERP does, said the speaker



Source: SAP

Selected machine learning highlights - more info here

Predictive analytics is baked into Sales & Distribution

"next generation business processes"



Source: SAP

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



Source: SAP

Impacts data quality

Turn on machine learning to identify data quality issues



Source: SAP

If do a greenfield from ECC 6, changes to benefit



Source: SAP

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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