SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a lot to offer-see what's possible! Explore core functionality like finance, logistics, and reporting with embedded analytics. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud impacts your users and how it can be extended, integrated, and adopted by your organization. Get information on the latest intelligent technologies and see how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help unify and streamline your business. A bold new world awaits in the cloud!

Highlights include:

1) User experience
2) Analytics
3) Business functionality
4) Global business processes
5) Extensibility
6) Integration
7) Adoption
8) Lifecycle management
9) Intelligent enterprise

((2nd edition, updated and revised))

Autorentext
Marcus Homann is chief of staff and head of customer engagement of SAP S/4HANA product management at SAP. In this role, he supports important strategic initiatives and takes care of critical customer requirements. Marcus joined SAP in 2014 and has held different roles in SAP's support and engineering organizations including development manager, IT planning architect, escalation manager, operations expert, and customer office lead. Marcus began his professional career as IT strategy consultant at Accenture before he moved to the SAP University Competence Center in Munich, where spearheaded key initiates in the areas of data center infrastructure, SAP HANA, and SAP Mobile Platform.

Klappentext

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a lot to offer-see what's possible! Explore core functionality like finance, logistics, and reporting with embedded analytics. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud impacts your users and how it can be extended, integrated, and adopted by your organization. Get information on the latest intelligent technologies and see how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help unify and streamline your business. A bold new world awaits in the cloud!

Highlights include:

1) User experience
2) Analytics
3) Business functionality
4) Global business processes
5) Extensibility
6) Integration
7) Adoption
8) Lifecycle management
9) Intelligent enterprise

Zusammenfassung

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a lot to offersee what's possible! Explore core functionality like finance, logistics, and reporting with embedded analytics. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud impacts your users and how it can be extended, integrated, and adopted by your organization. Get information on the latest intelligent technologies and see how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help unify and streamline your business. A bold new world awaits in the cloud!

Highlights include:

1) User experience
2) Analytics
3) Business functionality
4) Global business processes
5) Extensibility
6) Integration
7) Adoption
8) Lifecycle management
9) Intelligent enterprise

Inhalt
... Foreword by Thomas Saueressig ... 17

... Preface ... 19

... Target Audience ... 19

... How to Read This Book ... 20

... How This Book Is Organized ... 20

... Acknowledgments ... 22

1 ... Introduction ... 23

1.1 ... Current ERP Challenges ... 23

1.2 ... A New ERP Paradigm: Cloud ERP ... 27

1.3 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Use Cases and Business Value ... 31

1.4 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Solution Architecture ... 44

1.5 ... Summary ... 53

2 ... The Intelligent Enterprise ... 55

2.1 ... From the Monolithic ERP System to the Intelligent Suite ... 55

2.2 ... End-to-End Business Processes ... 64

2.3 ... Industry Cloud ... 68

2.4 ... Business Networks ... 73

2.5 ... Business Process Intelligence ... 87

2.6 ... Sustainability Management ... 92

2.7 ... Experience Management ... 97

2.8 ... SAP Business Technology Platform ... 100

2.9 ... RISE with SAP ... 109

2.10 ... Summary ... 118

3 ... Intelligent Technologies ... 119

3.1 ... Situation Handling ... 120

3.2 ... Robotic Process Automation ... 124

3.3 ... Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics ... 130

3.4 ... Internet of Things ... 135

3.5 ... Intelligent Technologies: An Example ... 139

3.6 ... Summary ... 140

4 ... User Experience ... 143

4.1 ... SAP Fiori Design System ... 143

4.2 ... Mobile User Experience ... 155

4.3 ... User Interface Adaptation ... 162

4.4 ... Digital Assistants ... 169

4.5 ... Summary ... 173

5 ... Analytics ... 175

5.1 ... Embedded Analytics and Enterprise Analytics ... 175

5.2 ... Embedded Analytics in SAP S/4HANA Cloud ... 183

5.3 ... Architecture and Integration with Other SAP Analytics Solutions ... 199

5.4 ... Summary ... 207

6 ... Business Capabilities ... 209

6.1 ... Sourcing and Procurement ... 209

6.2 ... Manufacturing ... 222

6.3 ... Logistics ... 236

6.4 ... Sales ... 250

6.5 ... Service ... 267

6.6 ... Maintenance Management ... 281

6.7 ... Finance ... 294

6.8 ... Cross Capabilities ... 307

6.9 ... Industry Variants ... 342

6.10 ... Summary ... 359

7 ... Globalization ... 361

7.1 ... Introduction ... 361

7.2 ... Global Tax Management ... 363

7.3 ... Global Payments ... 368

7.4 ... Localization Extensibility ... 369

7.5 ... Summary ... 371

8 ... Extensibility ... 373

8.1 ... In-App/Key User Extensibility ... 374

8.2 ... Side-by-Side Extensibility ... 381

8.3 ... In-App Developer Extensibility ... 391

8.4 ... Summary ... 399

9 ... Integration ... 401

9.1 ... Integration Strategy ... 401

9.2 ... Application Programming Interfaces and Third-Party Integration ... 404

9.3 ... Master Data ... 408

9.4 ... Summary ... 422

10 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Adoption and Lifecycle Management ... 423

10.1 ... Adoption versus Implementation ... 423

10.2 ... SAP Activate Methodology ... 425

10.3 ... SAP S/4HANA Cloud Three-System Landscape ... 433

10.4 ... Tool Support for SAP Activate ... 437

10.5 ... Phases of SAP Activate ... 459

10.6 ... Identity and Access Management ... 469

10.7 ... Data Migration ... 474

10.8 ... Release Management ... 478

10.9 ... Test Management ... 485

10.10 ... Embedded Learning and User Assistance ... 491

10.11 ... Roadmap, Customer Influence, and Community ... 495

10.12 ... SAP Services and Support Offerings ... 502

10.13 ... Critical Success Factors ... 507

10.14 ... Summary ... 509

11 ... Conclusion ... 511

11.1 ... Additional Learning Resources ... 511

11.2 ... Summary and Outlook ... 516

... The Authors ... 519

... Coauthors ... 521

... Index ... 527