SAP S/4HANA & Deployment Options

Operational ERP data alone can't power an intelligent enterprise; which three streams of information must be brought together?

In a classical IT landscape, how are OLTP and OLAP arranged, and what must change to become an intelligent enterprise?

Which set of smart technologies makes up the intelligent-technology toolkit of an intelligent enterprise?

AI and machine learning are often conflated; in the intelligent enterprise, what distinct job does each do?

Which intelligent technology anticipates trends and automates data-based decisions in real time?

What kind of work is RPA meant to take over, and what is the payoff?

What does natural language processing add to the ERP user experience?

What is SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and how does it help users decide faster?

SAP S/4HANA can be deployed in which three scenarios — and does that make the branded “SAP S/4HANA Cloud” product itself multi-deployment?

Which line-of-business capability areas does SAP S/4HANA Cloud span?

Which end-to-end process scenarios does SAP S/4HANA Cloud support?

What makes SAP HANA more than just a database, and what pioneering move did it make in 2010?

If SAP HANA keeps data in memory by default, how does it still control storage costs?

Why do traditional disk-based databases carry latency and duplication that SAP HANA avoids?

How does SAP HANA eliminate the special processing and multidimensional cubes that analytics normally require?

Why is SAP HANA called a platform and not just a database, and what starts when you start it?

Beyond relational tables, what data types and analytics can SAP HANA process natively?

You need to know which SAP Fiori apps currently exist for a given business area. Where do you look?

What problem is SAP Fiori 3 meant to solve across the SAP product portfolio?

SAP Fiori 3 ships two themes named Quartz. What is each one for?

In SAP Fiori 3, how do you return to the home page and where did personalization settings move?

SAP S/4HANA supports three deployment (operating) models. Name them.

If you subcontract on-premise SAP S/4HANA to a managed services provider or host it on cloud infrastructure, does it stop being an on-premise deployment?

For which kinds of organizations is the on-premise deployment model the best fit?

Does switching deployment model change SAP S/4HANA's data model or user experience?

Which factors should a company weigh when choosing a deployment and operating model for SAP S/4HANA?

What does "transition path" mean, and how does SAP recommend selecting one?

SAP groups deployment decisions into three business objective categories. How do enterprise transformation, extended enterprise core, and new enterprise core differ?

What are the three transition paths to SAP S/4HANA and the one-line idea behind each?

When is the new implementation transition path the right choice?

Which businesses favor system conversion, and what innovations do they gain without major process redesign?

Selective data transition was formerly known by what name, and what makes it distinct from a plain system conversion?

Which two business contexts push a company toward a new implementation rather than converting its existing system?

What advantages does a new implementation of SAP S/4HANA give you at the start of the project?

During software selection, what determines which version of SAP S/4HANA gets deployed?

How often does SAP release a new SAP S/4HANA version, and what are feature packs?

Why must an SAP S/4HANA Cloud project plan for a system upgrade during the implementation itself?

How does the three-week SAP S/4HANA Cloud upgrade window sequence the test, development, and production systems?

What is restricted during the SAP S/4HANA Cloud upgrade window, and why are emergency fixes risky then?

The three implementation approaches for moving to SAP S/4HANA, and the one-line distinction between each

A company wants to keep its existing data, avoid merging or splitting ERP instances, and go live big bang with minimal initial change. Which approach?

The three key components of SAP's intelligent enterprise, and what each one contributes

In discover-phase strategic planning, which free SAP tool identifies relevant innovations from system usage statistics, versus the tool that maps a future SAP product landscape?

Steps to run Process Discovery for SAP S/4HANA transformation and obtain the benchmark comparison

A company without an S/4HANA license wants hands-on access fastest. What can it get, and what are the two big limitations?

Resources available in the discover phase for understanding the value and benefits of SAP S/4HANA

What is SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA, and beyond simplification items, what else does it analyze?

Key questions the SAP Readiness Check dashboard answers before a conversion project starts

When defining the SAP S/4HANA implementation strategy, which questions must it settle?

The two fundamental decisions an existing SAP customer makes when picking a transition approach, plus the caveat specific to private edition

Which factors tip the choice among the three SAP S/4HANA transition approaches?

What must an organization produce during the discover phase before committing to an S/4HANA project?

How does the extent of process reengineering differ across system conversion, the two selective-data-transition variants, and new implementation?

How much historical transaction data comes across in a system conversion versus selective data transition versus a new implementation?

A program needs a phased, per-company-code go-live. Which transition approach cannot deliver this, and which can?

Beyond periodic forecasting and reactive course corrections, what core problem is SAP S/4HANA built to solve, and what is it?

Which modern technologies does SAP S/4HANA fuse into one system to redefine enterprise management?

Traditional enterprises optimize the top line and bottom line; what third dimension does the intelligent enterprise add, and what do all three mean?

How does management in the intelligent enterprise differ from traditional enterprise management on focus, planning, and automation?

How wide is SAP S/4HANA Cloud's industry reach, and what are some example industries?

Is RISE with SAP a product? What is it, and when did SAP introduce it?

Which components are bundled in the RISE with SAP offering?

In the cloud operating model, who runs the software, and what hardware do you need on-premise?

Within SAP S/4HANA Cloud, what makes the public cloud landscape option able to adopt innovation faster than any other option?

Why might a company choose SAP S/4HANA private cloud even though it adopts new capabilities more slowly than public cloud?

How can a customer verify a cloud provider's security and operational controls for SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

What is the "cloud mindset" that SAP recommends for an SAP S/4HANA Cloud deployment?

Why does adopting an SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution demand a stronger focus on organizational change management (OCM)?

What do you gain and what do you become responsible for in the on-premise operating model?

What does the hybrid operating model let a company do that pure cloud or pure on-premise cannot?

An organization needs to merge two ERP instances and run phased go-lives, reusing only certain configuration and data. Which approach?

A company runs multiple SAP ERP instances and connected solutions. Must it pick a single transition approach for the whole program?

For an existing SAP ERP customer doing a system conversion or selective data transition, which deployment targets and hosting options are in scope?

Why does SAP describe S/4HANA as a rearchitected ERP suite, and where are the resulting functional changes documented?

What role does SAP BTP play beneath the intelligent enterprise, and which environments does it serve?

Why can't a company simply bolt intelligence onto its existing digital landscape to become an intelligent enterprise?

How does SAP HANA give applications one logical view of enterprise data scattered across Hadoop, Spark, and third-party sources?

In SAP HANA terms, what is the dividing line between on-premise and cloud deployment?

SDI and SDQ behave differently under SAP HANA's runtime versus enterprise edition; how?

Why is SAP Fiori described as a role-based UX rather than just a redesign of SAP GUI screens?

What fundamental shift does SAP Fiori represent compared with the old SAP ERP experience?

A company wants to maximize innovation, overhaul its business processes, adopt new cloud solutions, and carry over only essential master and transactional data. Which transition approach fits?