Why SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the future for Business who are looking for a ERP which makes all sense!
September 03, 2021
Why SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the future for Business who are looking for a ERP which makes all sense!

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Being a SAP practitioner for more than two decades & I am implementing as well as managing various SAP products for several customers. I would like to share my first-hand experience being deeply associated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud programs for the past few years as a SAP consultant both technically & functionally. First of all, for those organizations or enterprises who took the decision of moving to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, it is a big leap forward & eventually it is proven to be one of the biggest strategic decisions for business & IT alike. Eventually, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has become part of their digital transformation journey. For those, who are existing users of sap ERP ECC6.0 before migrating to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, it is a massive experience both in terms of user experience as well as business process simplifications. While working closely with business users, most of them have shared the amount of relief they have realized being part of the conversion journey. There are an ample amount of features being offered by SAP S/4HANA Cloud which directly attributed to the delightful user experience primarily in form of SAP Fiori frontend. Besides, there are a significant amount of simplifications introduced in SAP S/4HANA Cloud which has the most positive impact on critical business transactions across industries. There are tremendous amount of improvements that could be clearly witnessed thanks to the performance optimizations and improved & faster executions of the end-to-end business process. One more aspect is Business Intelligence Reporting. Owing to the technical changes & introduction of a simplified data model, mostly BI reports are executed much faster and with a greater degree of calculational accuracy. From the point of view of business, the month-end closures are more crisp & cloud can be successfully wrapped up within a day or two, which used to be a tedious job earlier month after month. In summary, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has plenty to offer for business & IT alike and it ensures a tighter collaboration & integration between these two critical pillars of any company. As a consequence, ROI is getting a boost, and the innovation journey of the company is getting a significant lift as the employees are now having more quality time to work upon futuristic & business development-oriented topics besides completing daily mundane job responsibilities. To sum it up, the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud directly resulted in an expedited & accelerated digital transformation journey for those who already took the decision as the early adopters. For the others, there are already so many successful flagship S/4HANA implementation examples already to follow & bigger motivation to take the decision of moving to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Pros
- Delightful User Experience in form of SAP Fiori enabling role-based (personal) access
- Business Process Simplification
- Optimization with performance of critical business transactions
- Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting - must faster & more accurate & with great degree of agility
- significant code simplification enable IT in faster implementation cycle compared to the conventional SAP ERP project implementations
Cons
- Bridge the gaps in offered solution which are by-design & hence needs to fixed pre-emptively by SAP Product Teams. Across different industry solutions in SAP portfolio, there are scope for feature enrichments as well as fixing of existing gap or bugs.
- Improvement & clean-up of the codebase will always be welcome by IT, more importantly, by technical consultants who have to deal with the implementation projects. A clean codebase is a critical booster shot for the technical team who has to additionally deal with optimum integration of custom logic & numerous business-related enhancements. Technical Unit Testings strategy would be immensely be benefited if the codebase is cleaned up further.
- Renewed focus on different layers of documentation which is the backbone of any successful project execution. At times, standard transactions are found to be relatively inadequately documented without providing a sufficient amount of indicative information with a full explanation so that someone could understand what exact changes are being introduced in SAP S/4HANA Cloud as compared to ECC.
- Employee retention benefited due to their productive engagement in more innovative tasks.
- Optimized month-end closure; business gets more time to execute other tasks due to a much quicker closure process.
- IT can pursue different projects which are more important for business.
Do you think SAP S/4HANA Cloud delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SAP S/4HANA Cloud's feature set?
Yes
Did SAP S/4HANA Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SAP S/4HANA Cloud again?
Yes
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