You can even ask SAP to manage hosting and maintaining it for you (the equivalent of HEC, or the old S/4HANA Private Cloud option). It could be hosted “On Premise” in your own data center, you might for your own Virtual Private Cloud (probably provided to you by your SI) or you could run it on one of the IaaS offerings designed for S/4HANA by hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft and Google. Customize to your hearts content and run wherever you want.
SAP ECC VERSIONS LIST SOFTWARE
XaaS - the common catch-all abbreviation for ‘as a Service’ products - includes a range of different categories including Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS), Database (DBaaS) and Infrastructure (IaaS). So given that I’ve used that slightly unhelpful obsolete example to bring in the topic of ‘as a Service’, what do the entries in the ‘Type’ column actually mean? I should also note there are numerous other ‘cloudy’ SAP products available, from Sales Cloud to Marketing Cloud to Service Cloud, and so on, but I’m focusing on the ‘core’ technologies here. OK, for anyone objecting to the first line in that table, I realize that HEC isn’t really an option that SAP want to sell you any more – see Which Edition of S/4HANA?, below – but it’s still on the SAP website, so I’ve included it here as an example of both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and how difficult it can be to understand what’s current. Here are some of the big cloud-related categories today:
On the other, their respective new names don’t necessarily make it easier to tell what’s what. On the one hand you might say things have got better: there are now fewer products in that group. It was confusing enough when there were a bunch of different products with the words ‘SAP’, ‘HANA’ and ‘Cloud’ in their names, despite them being designed for quite different purposes. Sometimes what looks new isn’t at all, so I thought I’d summarize some of the interesting things I have deciphered recently. New products are introduced fairly often these days, which would be hard enough to keep track of, but they also tend to rename existing ones on a regular basis. SAP doesn’t make it easy to stay up to date with what they call their products, the version numbers they give them and how long they will be supported for. Just please don’t blame me if you’re reading it in a few months and everything has changed again! Introduction It won’t tell you everything you need to know but hopefully it will help to give you a steer on where to start looking. The most recent round of announcements made my piece on SAP’s flagship product line-up inaccurate after less than twelve months, so it’s time for an update.Īs with the first draft, this is intended as a high-level intro to the various S/4 options available today. (If a year is a long time in politics it seems to be a lifetime in SAP’s marketing!). Judging by the number of views the page received over the next few months (to be clear: a lot) we can safely say plenty of people felt the same way.īut we’re talking about SAP’s product line-up here so naturally the good times didn’t last.
(I could count myself as one of that group before writing the piece, if I’m really honest.) Update: I published this blog about a year ago after realizing that while lots of the people I was speaking to had started to think about S/4HANA, many of them didn’t have a clear view of the latest versions on offer.
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