SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Hiromi
Posted on November 5, 2024
I have been studying SAP in the last 8 months, and I was feeling the I need to structure my learnings. Given this challenge, I will give a try by creating blog posts regarding SAP topics.So, let's begin :)
I started my learning journey by SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of the SAP S/4HANA ERP System.
What is Software-as-a-Service?
Is a Software distribution model in which a cloud provider hosts applications and makes them available to end users over the internet.What is SAP S/4HANA ERP System?
ERP Stands for Enterprise Resource Planning: Core business processes needed to run a company: finance, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, services, procurement etc. "In a nutshell, it is a set of software application that are intended to integrate and streamline business processes".
In this link has better summary regarding ERP: (in construction)
In SAP words, SAP S/4HANA "is a suite of integrated business applications that enable the planning of company resources according to the needs of the company".
It is part of BES, Business Event Service, an event-driven architecture component in SAP that allows different systems, apps or processes to communicate and update each other.
This image shows the structure of SAP S/4HANA and its components. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the back-end ERP of the business in a Cloud environment, and the connection with SAP Fiori, facilitates the UI with the interface.
Here is possible to dive in in the layers from SAP S/4HANA Cloud integration framework with different SAP softwares, like SAP Datasphere.
Tutorials to learn better the software in practice?
https://developers.sap.com/mission.abap-env-connect-s4hana.html
https://developers.sap.com/group.abap-custom-ui-s4hana-cloud.html
https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/btp-cf-ext-s4hanacloud.html
Sources:
https://www.leanix.net/en/wiki/tech-transformation/what-is-s4hana-cloud#:~:text=S%2F4HANA%20Cloud%3F-,SAP%20S%2F4HANA%20Cloud%20is%20a%20Software%2Das%2Da,available%20as%20cloud%20ERP%20software
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/definition/Software-as-a-Service
mySAP ERP for Dummies (2005) - Ian Kimbell, Andreas Vogel
Posted on November 5, 2024
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