SAP S4 HANA vs SAP HANA!

For those who want to learn SAP HANA platform, there is confusion over Hana vs S4 Hana. Here in this blog, we are going to discuss few differences between the two faces of HANA Analytics Appliance.

SAP HANA

SAP HANA Enterprise is an in-memory computing analytics appliance that combines SAP database software with a highly optimized server, storage, and networking hardware from one of several SAP hardware partners. It is designated to perfect complex tasks and support real-time analytic and transactional processing.

SAP S/4 HANA

SAP S/4 HANA is a real-time Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite for digital business. It is built upon SAP’s advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalized, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA can drive instant value across all lines of business – no matter your industry or business size.

HANA vs S/4 HANA vs HANA for Cloud Platform

Hana for cloud platform is nothing the ready-made go-to option for customers who plans to establish their on-premise SAP tools in a cloud management platform. "For instance, a customer can create a website on the platform using data fed from their organization's on-premise applications and use extensions to get more out of what they already have." The Hana for cloud platform is SAP's answer to rival vendor's offer of a lower monthly base and usage fee along with a "quicker start". Hana is the underlying in-memory database to power the applications, and S/4 is the latest package of these applications, in replacement of the traditional ECC in favor for a cloud-based IT environment.

Hana's in-memory allows you to organize your landscape and free up resources. Firms not inclined to migrate can invest time into refining how they use their existing SAP Landscape to speed up reporting, for example, like Jaguar Land Rover. However, even higher speeds really matter for firms that are changing their business model. If you look at how Hana brings reporting and transaction systems closer together you can see how it will affect business models. Traditional roll base designs for transaction performance and calendar reporting structures were previously limited. Now it is pushing back reporting needs into the same system and replacing batch jobs with online transactions; getting what took hours into seconds or minutes. That creates a completely new user experience.

To conclude this, an organization using SAP tools can always expect to see a new service pack every six months or so and every package comes with significant up gradation and features.