SAP S/4HANA is now available in the cloud

USA: SAP today announced the cloud edition of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) to help customers drive their digital business transformation with the simplicity of the cloud.

On February 3, 2015, SAP launched SAP S/4HANA, the next-generation business suite to help enterprises Run Simple in the digital economy, and has signed up more than 370 customers since then.

With the announcement of the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition, SAP intends to significantly expand the business scope of its cloud offering built on SAP HANA. In addition to the available business scenarios for the marketing line of business and the professional services industry, customers will now also be able to run their entire enterprise in the cloud with a digital core comprising the most essential scenarios including finance, accounting, controlling, procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project system and product lifecycle management.

Existing and new customers will be able to adopt the cloud edition of SAP S/4HANA via a simple subscription model. SAP aims to support customers in their journey with predefined migration, system conversion in the cloud, guided configuration and deployment packages to drive quicker time to value.  The comprehensive offering also plans to provide native integration between SAP S/4HANA and other cloud solutions from SAP.

Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board, Products & Innovation, SAP SE said, “SAP S/4HANA is now available on-premise, in the cloud and even allows true hybrid scenarios. Customers can rely on a modern digital business foundation to reimagine their business, on-premise or in the cloud, at a large scale.”

The SAP Simple Finance solution, announced in June 2014, helps customers transform finance with instant insight and marked the first step in the roadmap for SAP S/4HANA.