SAP focuses on the following key areas:

 Scaling the core businesses of customers (on premise)

 Innovating through extensions (on demand)

 Extending the reach of customers (on device)

In order to support customers in the ever-changing business world, SAP is expanding its solution
portfolio with innovations to provide instant value to customer’s IT needs. While expanding the solution
portfolio, SAP maintains consistency of the data, processes, and applications in the portfolio.

SAP: On premise

SAP solutions scale the core business of the customers and deliver instant value to them. To make these
solutions easy to use, SAP ensures that they are pre-integrated and implemented in a non-disruptive
way. SAP solutions are developed using software principles such as decoupling, layering, abstraction and
design.
SAP: On Demand

SAP provides rapid innovations that deliver extended, on-demand functionality for a specific line of
business.

SAP: On Device

SAP also aims to extend the reach of the customers in the following ways –

- By enabling end users to use SAP data and processes from various devices everywhere by using
SAP applications for mobile business.
- By providing end users with information from both inside and outside the enterprise so that
they can make decisions based on a broad array of data according to their use cases.
- By helping end users cooperate and optimize performance across a dynamic business network
of people.
- By enabling partners, customers, and end users to extend the functionality of SAP to build user
experiences.

SAP will continue to evolve and strengthen its core business of providing solutions for all industries and
market segments.

With SAP's approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA), third party, non-SAP solutions are
integrated consistently with the core business processes of customers.

One of the major deliverables in this area is the SAP Business Suite software.

Customers can instantly use SAP's innovations without needing onsite IT to manage the infrastructure.

Because the innovations are integrated smoothly with the core business processes of customers,
customers benefit from end-to-end business process integration.

SAP also aims to extend the reach of customers in the following ways.

To ensure that all the solutions and software components fit together perfectly in the customer
namespace, an orchestration layer that works across all applications is required.

SAP will continue to invest in life cycle management, master data management, and process
orchestration.

The goal of this investment is to continuously reduce the cost of ownership and ensure data consistency
and process management across multiple layers of applications.
SAP offers a vast range of scalable products that can be adjusted to any size and adapted to the
continuously changing processes of companies of any size.

The following SAP solutions are available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as shown in the
figure:

 SAP Business One

 SAP Business ByDesign

 SAP Business All-in-One

This figure shows the solutions designed for SMEs.

SAP Business One is an integrated customizable solution which offers customers an affordable way to
manage their businesses. It is designed specifically for small businesses covering all business aspects
from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations.

SAP Business One supports the following key business areas –

 - Accounting and Finance
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Warehouse and Production Management
- Reporting and Analysis

SAP Business One is designed with flexibility, it can be deployed on premise or in the cloud. Mobile apps
are also available for iOS and Android devices. SAP Business One runs on both the SAP HANA and
Microsoft SQL Server platforms, customers can choose the best option for their business. In most cases,
customers can get SAP Business One up and running in just a few weeks. There are many add-ons and
complementary solutions, which can be fully integrated to meet customer’s evolving needs.

SAP provides innovative, state-of-the-art technologies to help customers quickly adapt to change,
generate greater business value, and maintain a sharp competitive edge.

The following database and technologies are available for SAP Business One:

- SAP Business One version for SAP HANA

- SAP Business One Analytics powered by SAP HANA
- SAP Business One cloud
- SAP Business One Mobile app

SAP Business ByDesign offers a cloud/on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for SMEs and
subsidiaries of bigger firms. It relieves these small and medium-sized companies from the burden of
having to operate and maintain their own business software. It provides end to-end integration of key
business areas such as marketing, human resources management, and procurement.

SAP Business ByDesign was not developed merely for standard business applications or customer
relationship management. Instead, the application was developed with user interfaces that can be
customized by user role to support all business processes within a company. The application offers end-
to-end processes for the work center of the future.

For further information on SAP Business ByDesign, see

http://www.sap.com/solution/sme/software/erp/business-bydesign/overview/index.html.
SAP Business All-in-One is powered by SAP NetWeaver and includes the SAP ERP application, the SAP
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application, Supplier Relationship Management
application, and applications from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio. SAP All-in-One is the brand name
for vertical solutions (solutions that are industry-specific or country-specific) that are based on the SAP
NetWeaver technology and developed with SAP partners.

SAP Business All-in-one has the following features –

- It allows business to leverage the best practices of the industry leaders at an affordable fixed
price. It is all on a platform that businesses will not outgrow.
- It can be used as local software or hosted by a company partner.
- It is based on various SAP products with a focus on SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and the SAP
BusinessObjects portfolio with functionalities such as financials, sales, service, procurement,
logistics execution, product development, manufacturing, human capital management,
corporate services, and business analytics.
- It runs on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.
- It provides a portfolio of industry-specific functions, based on SAP best practices.
- It can be planned and scaled easily.

More than 1,000 SAP partners around the world deliver local implementation and customization
support for SAP Business All-in-one and it is now offered as a rapid deployment solution. Preconfigured
business scenarios and implementation accelerators can be put into operation in this application in as
little as 12 to 16 weeks.
The following table compares the SAP business solutions available for small and midsized companies.

The SAP software portfolio is constantly extended, optimized, and tailored to the needs of the
market. SAP has developed many industry-specific applications over the years and added more
products for small-to-midsize companies to the software portfolio. SAP enables integration
between various applications (modules) from different vendors and across company boundaries.

SAP Business Suite applications are an extended family of business applications that enable
companies to manage their entire value chains. These applications provide users with consistent
results throughout the network of a company and the flexibility needed to address dynamic
market situations. The applications also support cross-company processes.
Architecture of SAP Business Suite –
Refer to the figure for the components in the architecture of SAP Business Suite.

As shown in the figure, the core applications of SAP Business Suite are SAP ERP, SAP CRM,
SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM), SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP
SRM), and SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM). These applications support all the
essential business processes of a company.

SAP CRM enables multichannel customer interactions, including mobile smart phones, the
Internet, and social media. It also offers a dedicated communications infrastructure that helps to
connect all users anytime, anywhere.
SAP PLM, SAP SRM, and SAP SCM –

SAP PLM facilitates creativity and frees the process of product innovation from organizational
constraints.

SAP SRM accelerates and optimizes the entire end-to-end process of procure-to-pay by
supporting integrated processes and enforcing contract compliance. Integrated processes and
better contract compliance typically result in dramatic savings.

The SAP SCM application allows companies to adapt their supply chain processes to a changing,
competitive environment.
SAP addresses the requirements of specific business processes for many industries by
complementing the basic business processes that are common to all large enterprises.

Support for these industry-specific processes is delivered as part of SAP ERP or as a separate
industry application, such as the SAP Dealer Business Management application, which integrates
with the other applications of SAP Business Suite. The architecture and business functionality of
the industry applications result from SAP's in-depth knowledge and understanding of the
industry-specific business requirements and business processes. SAP industry portfolios are
continuously enhanced by adding new applications that address the highly specialized business
needs of customers in target markets.
Supplementary applications drive specialized business processes common to a large number of
industries, such as manufacturing applications, SAP solutions for auto-ID and item serialization,
and applications for mobile business.

The SAP NetWeaver technology platform provides a reliable, secure, and scalable foundation to
run business applications like SAP Business Suite.

SAP NetWeaver ensures that large enterprises can perform mission-critical business processes.

SAP also has a proven method for continually delivering updates to SAP Business Suite and
SAP NetWeaver without disrupting a company’s operations. SAP provides enhancement
packages with collections of new or improved business functions that companies can deploy in a
modular fashion and on their own schedule.
SAP Business Suite can now be run on any platform, including the in-memory platform SAP
HANA. With SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP combines a proven suite of
applications with the next generation platform to drive business in real time. The core
applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management
(CRM), and Supply Chain management (SCM) can now use SAP HANA as their primary
database.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA allows access to all data at any level of granularity,
combined with the ability to perform predictive analysis, handle structured and unstructured data,
and manage a variety of resource intensive operations in true real time.
With the SAP HANA Analytics Foundation for SAP Business Suite, it provides an open
environment allowing operational analytics and reporting on fresh SAP Business Suite data.
Based on analytical views in a virtual data model, business users gain new ways to analyze
operational data to build their own reports and documents.

Note: For further information on SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, go to
saphana.com or www.sap.com/suiteonhana

Note: SAP Business Suite 7 Innovation 2013 (i2013) contains EhP7 for SAP ERP and EhP3 for
SAP SRM, SAP CRM, SAP SCM. It is the minimum release recommended for “Suite on
HANA”.

This is the first go-to release for Non SAP HANA and SAP HANA based systems. Since
NetWeaver 7.4 SP05, tools and best practices are provided to optimize ABAP for SAP HANA.

For further information on SAP Business Suite 7 Innovation 2013, go to SAP Service
Marketplace and choose Products → SAP Business Suite
SAP Business Suite provides numerous applications to address business challenges. However,
the submodules of many applications have similar or identical requirements for business
functions. Different applications, therefore, contain similar software components in parts. A
component is the smallest, separately producible, deliverable, installable, and maintainable
software unit. Examples of components are SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP SCM,
and SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Refer to the figure for an overview of SAP applications and components.

SAP S/4HANA is a new business suite and the biggest innovation since SAP R/3. SAP
S/4HANA delivers simplifications (customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision
making, business processes, and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business
networks, and mobile-first) to help businesses run simple in the digital economy.

With SAP S/4HANA, access to all data that computer systems provide – including the internet –
is available to all users.

The following are facts about the SAP S/4HANA name:

 The S in S/4 stands for both simple and suite. The 4 stands for fourth generation.
 The full name of SAP S/4HANA is SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA.
  The solution is named SAP S/4HANA because it runs on HANA natively and is highly
optimized for SAP HANA.

SAP S/4HANA is the next generation business suite. It combines the most recent innovations
with more than 40 years of experiences in mastering complex industry challenges that caters to
digital, networked economy.

SAP S/4HANA takes advantage of the SAP HANA in-memory features and offers a simplified
data model. It also offers an enhanced user experience with SAP Fiori based on the latest web
standards. SAP S/4 HANA can be deployed in the cloud and on-premise.

SAP S/4 HANA versus SAP Business suite powered by SAP HANA –

With the launch of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP was the only software
vendor in the market at that time to allow SAP Business Suite customers to bring together
transactions and analysis into a single in-memory platform. In less than two years, over 1,850
customers acquired SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA to run their businesses in real
time, making it one of the fastest-growing products in SAP’s history.
SAP S/4HANA creates unique opportunities to run your day-to-day business in real-time using
industry best practices and enables you to redefine the following business practices:

 Business models

Connect to people, devices, and business networks in real-time. Internet and big data
become accessible to any business.

 Business decisions

Get insight on any data from anywhere in real-time: planning, execution, prediction, and
simulation are done on the fly for faster business impact.

 Business processes

Focus on essential tasks in real-time and change business processes as needed.

SAP S/4HANA enables you to simplify the landscape and reduce TCO with SAP HANA.
Enterprises can significantly reduce their data footprint and work with larger data sets in one
system (for example, SAP ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, and PLM) to save on hardware costs,
operational costs, and time. There are no discrepancies among the different systems because
there is one common source of live data on a single system.

Customization is easy with an open platform (the SAP HANA, cloud edition) where you can
develop advanced applications, for example predicting, recommending, and simulating, while
protecting existing investments.

Business users can have a role-based user experience based on modern design principles which
minimizes training and increases productivity.

SAP S/4HANA includes the following features:

 Smaller total data footprint

 Higher throughput
 Faster analytics and reporting
 Less process steps
 SAP ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, and PLM are co-deployed
 No locking or parallelism
 Actual data (25%) and historical data (75%)
 Unlimited workload capacity
 Predict, recommend, and simulate
 SAP HANA, cloud edition extensions
 SAP HANA multitenancy
 All data is available: social, text, geographical, graph, and processing
  SAP Fiori UX is available for any device (mobile, desktop, and tablet)

The following SAP S/4HANA editions are available:

 SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition

This edition offers a business scope that is similar in terms of coverage, functionality,
industries, and languages as the current SAP Business Suite. Within this scope, SAP
S/4HANA also includes the transformational simplifications delivered with SAP Simple
Finance (SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA) as well as a planned integration with
SuccessFactors Employee Central and Ariba Network.

 SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition

This edition covers specific business scenarios for the marketing line of business and for
the professional services industry as well as the most essential scenarios to run an entire
enterprise in the cloud with a digital core including: finance, accounting, controlling,
procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project system, and product
lifecycle management, plus integration with SuccessFactors Employee Central, Ariba
Network, SAP hybris Marketing, Field Glass, and SAP JAM.
An SAP S/4HANA migration and upgrade consists of the following steps:

1. For existing customers, perform a technical upgrade to the latest release.

2. Train users — Minimal training is required.
3. Digital transformation enablement and delivery.

SAP S/4HANA is built and designed for cloud environments, which promote innovation and
consistency through shared codeline, libraries, and settings for all deployment options under SAP
S/4HANA.
SAP S/4HANA uses one platform and one codebase to standardize and optimize lifecycle
processes and system operations. A combination of different OS and database platforms is not
supported.

There are three main SAP S/4HANA installation scenarios. For each of the following scenarios,
the customer can choose cloud, on-premise, or hybrid.

New Customer

The customer starts with a new installation of an SAP S/4HANA system with simple adoption.
For example: guided configuration, easy on-boarding as a result of cloud trials, and deployment
with pre-configured best practices.

SAP Business Suite on any DB Customer

Moving to SAP S/4HANA for an existing SAP ERP 6.0 customer requires an upgrade to the
latest enhancement package and a database migration from any DB to SAP HANA combined
with the deployment of exchange innovation code.

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA Customer

Moving to SAP S/4HANA for an existing SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA
customer is even faster because only the deployment of the exchange innovation code is
required.
SAP and its partners provide an easy path for customers to move to SAP S/4HANA with pre-
defined migration and deployment packages.

Note: For more details about S/4HANA, refer to http://discover.sap.com/S4HANA.