SAP S/4 HANA Implementation


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  1. Towards Zero Downtime for SAP HANA

    Reading time: 20 mins

    In this Q&A, technical architects Peter Schinagl and Markus Gürtler of SUSE answered questions on best practices for ensuring high availability and preparing disaster recovery scenarios. In the digital age, downtime is not an option. You are under pressure to supply more up-time in the data center to stay competitive and meet customer demands. Your...…

  2. Lessons Learned from an SAP HANA Cloud Platform Implementation

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Key principles and facts are included in this overview of the design and implementation of a cloud application on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Key Concept Applications consume and expose web service application program interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the re-usability of the capabilities of an application and support the integration into other applications. The following solution...…

  3. SAP S/4HANA Business and IT Impact

    Reading time: 22 mins

    By now you know that harnessing the power of SAP S/4HANA, the intelligent ERP, is key for your enterprise. But how do you get started? When considering the journey to SAP S/4HANA, it’s essential to understand how it will affect your business and IT operations.  There’s no reason to wait for answers – you can...…

  4. Technical Audit Scoping of an SAP HANA System: The Comprehensive Audit Questionnaire

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Review a series of 30 questions to use as a checklist to form the basis for identifying relevant areas of audit concerns for an SAP HANA review. This questionnaire is not exhaustive and is only designed to be used as a starting point to evaluate the audit requirements in a specific SAP HANA landscape. Key...…

  5. 2 Methods for Exposing SAP BW Artifacts in SAP HANA: Pull and Push

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Explore and learn the technical details of two methods for exposing SAP BW artifacts as SAP HANA views: the pull and push methods. See the pros and cons of each in order to select the best approach. Learn about how to mix SAP BW data with non-SAP BW data for enriched analytics. Key Concept The...…

  6. Make Sense of the CO Cost Settlement Process: Live Q&A on Navigating Cost Settlement in SAP Systems

    Reading time: 37 mins

    Cost settlement plays a critical role in business operations in SAP environments. It determines  whether orders – such as production orders, sales orders, and internal orders – are settled in full as part of period-end processing. This process, which takes place in the controlling (CO) component of the SAP system, can appear to be highly...…

  7. Transition to Real-Time Analytics on SAP S/4HANA 1610 and SAP BW/4HANA

    Reading time: 15 mins

    Many companies are planning to make the move to SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP BW/4HANA to take advantage of improved capabilities for real-time reporting.  How can you best prepare and execute your transition? Read the Q&A transcript from BI & HANA 2018 speakers and consultants Bill Faison and Colin Hart from Method360 to gain real-world insight…

  8. Protect Your SAP HANA Investment with HA and DR Options

    Reading time: 19 mins

    Implementing an SAP HANA system involves more than just selecting a standalone server. Organizations must also consider the different options available in terms of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Depending on the organization’s service level requirements, multiple servers, storage devices, backup devices, and network devices might be required. This article gives an overview...…

  9. Are Your Skills Up to Date for the Age of SAP HANA?

    Reading time: 18 mins

    /HANASAP’s recent innovations, including SAP HANA, are likely to cause a skills gap in the SAP community going forward. Experts trained on classical ERP or analytics systems don’t necessarily have the right skills for the future. Get a first-hand look at some of the new skills that you need to successfully embrace the change. Learn...…

  10. Tips on How to Secure and Control SAP HANA

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Rahul Urs discusses how to implement security and controls in SAP HANA and points out potential security flaws and common oversights. Key Concept SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-based database management system designed to support real-time analytics and transaction processing. As part of the SAP HANA database, security and controls play an important role to harden the...…