Item: SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Rating: 9
Author: Mohammad Zaman

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started SAP S/4HANA Cloud for optimizing our financial reporting time. Then it has been used for a number of business processes. We have implemented it for others for various use cases, including greenfield deployment, so they can realize the "real-time" intelligent enterprise for less than 12 months.

Pros and Cons

SAP Fiori for Mobile Application.
A data hub for getting data from other sources and analyzing.
Optimizing the data and cleaning the data to produce quality.

Automated Data Management, so that we are not using everything in memory.
More reach in the marketplace for apps, applets, plug-ins, and interfaces.
Migration tools are seamless, live, and asynchronous.

Return on Investment

This is still costly, as other technologies are catching up and providing lower-cost alternatives.
As customers are currently utilizing SAP S/4HANA Cloud, for them it makes a whole lot of sense to continue.
This is a great tool for digital transformation, but only for a few of the business functions.

Alternatives Considered

oracle atg web commerce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM) and NetSuite

If a customer is currently an SAP S/4HANA Cloud customer, it is more difficult to move out due to customization. Others are mostly offered as SaaS.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business, Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement Contracts, Google Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great to utilize SAP S/4HANA Cloud for the sustomers who want to simplify their financial operations and logistics; as a data modeling tool or pre-package ML solution. It's less appropriate for extreme custom codes (z) as a legacy of the organization. There are liabilities in terms of huge contract and dependencies, and regulations and compliance. In addition, it has third party tools and application dependencies.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is great for digital transformation, while others need to be integrated for full benefit!

Overall Satisfaction with SAP S/4HANA Cloud