S/4HANA Strategy & the Basis Role

A manager assumes RISE with SAP means they can drop the basis administrator headcount entirely since SAP runs the technical stack. Why is that wrong?

After moving S/4HANA to IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP), a team assumes high availability and disaster recovery now come with the platform. Where is the real responsibility line?

When sizing HANA hardware, why isn't 'just over-provision to be safe' the obviously correct call, and which input is hardest to pin down?

What does RISE with SAP bundle, and what category of offering is it?

RISE with SAP covers the stack from the hypervisor up to the basis layer. A customer budgets for nothing beyond the RISE subscription to go live — what did they miss?

Under RISE, the homogeneous system copy is automated via SAP Landscape Management. A basis admin therefore expects a refresh to need zero manual configuration — what still falls to them?

A budget-conscious team plans to run HANA on spare commodity servers that meet the RAM and CPU numbers. Why can SAP still refuse to support it?

A customer migrating to S/4HANA wants to keep their existing Oracle or DB2 license to save cost. What do you tell them, and why is there no connector workaround?

In the intelligent-enterprise model, a stakeholder lumps all customer feedback into the SAP transaction data. How do you distinguish O data from X data, and what connects them?

A customer wants to control their own data model, keep tailored configuration, and upgrade at their own pace. Which S/4HANA Cloud edition fits — and what's the common mix-up?

By what dates does SAP ERP (ECC) lose support, and what decision do those dates force?

How does SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition really differ from the SAP-managed on-premise edition, and what does RISE with SAP bundle around it?

An older note says 'RISE = Private Cloud, GROW = Public Cloud.' Why is repeating that today misleading?

For any S/4HANA implementation type, which SAP methodology structures the project, how do you access its content, and which ALM tools support it?

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition once gave customers no development system. What changed, and how is its system landscape configured?

In S/4HANA Private Cloud (RISE) you find you cannot perform an admin task that is only possible in client 000. Why, and what do you do instead?

The guidance is to keep the S/4HANA digital core as standard as possible, so where are missing functions and app extensions supposed to be built instead?

A new admin asks 'is our S/4HANA cloud or on-premise?' but SAP no longer treats it as a binary. How does SAP frame the operating options now, and why does it matter to you?

Under the 'on premise, managed by SAP' operating concept you still run the on-premise product, so what exactly does SAP take over, and where does the infrastructure live?