S/4HANA Enterprise Management: Overview Flashcards
The Business Landscape is Increasingly Complex and Networked, it becomes obvious that the world around us is getting more complex, for the following 3 reasons:
Exponential growth of digital information – social, mobile, big data
Globalization and spread of business networks
Internet of Things (you could also say, the Internet of everything)
The world has continued to change and so to have business challenges and opportunities. Today’s world is digital and networked. List 5 ways this is happening
The pace of data generation is accelerating – in the last two years, 90% of world data has been generated.
Over the next two years, there will be 40% growth in the adoption of business networks.
By the end of the decade, 212 billion things, from cars, to heavy equipment, to consumer appliances, will be connected to the internet.
Currently there are approximately 9 billion mobile users in the world.
Last year alone, 51% of workloads were processed in the cloud. That amount will only grow for the foreseeable future.
What has been the response to today’s world being digital and networked
The response so far has been the development of more complex business processes, more complex organizations, and more complex software solutions.
What have advances in design of on-board cache meant?
Advances in the design of the on-board cache means that data can pass between memory and CPU cores rapidly. In the past, even with large memory, this created a bottleneck as the CPUs demanded more data and the journey from memory to CPU was not optimal.
What does the easy integration of more servers mean?
We can now easily slot more servers into our landscape to add more processing power or memory in order to scale to any size.
What is special about how SAP rewrote their business application software?
SAP rewrote its business application software to fully exploit the new hardware. SAP worked closely with leading hardware partners, who shared the product blueprints of their new CPU architectures, so that SAP knew how to write the best modern software to extract as much power as possible.
What has enabled real time responses?
Multi-core processors enabling parallelism of tasks
This means more throughput of data and faster processing to give us real-time responses.
How did we surpass mechanical spinning disks and subsequent latency
Big memory
This enables us to fit an entire organization’s database in memory, which means that we lose the mechanical spinning disk and the latency it brings.
Is this just for the tech literate?
Cloud computing technology has matured in the last few years and is now a compelling deployment option for our customers who do not want to take on the complexity and cost of the installation and maintenance of IT landscapes.
How can anyone get access to latest cloud solution?
Public cloud services based on subscription models increase access for everyone to the latest solutions, reducing the costs and simplifying everything.
What happened in 1979?
SAP invents ERP. SAP builds standard business software based on mainframe technology. The name, SAP R/2 supports and integrates major business functions in real time and handles multi-country and multi-currency implementations (R means real time, and, although there was an R/1, this is not regarded as the first major release).
What happened in 1992?
With the rise of the personal computer, the introduction of client/server architecture means another rewrite of the applications to exploit the power of a layered, three-tier architecture approach, in which processing is split across three layers - client, application, and database.
It is the end of the mono-chromatic, text-based, messy green screens and the start of a new graphical interface to improve the end user experience. This is the birth of SAP R/3.
What happened in 2004?
Now the Web is firmly established as the common business network and customers demand better integration between their business applications and the Web.
SAP develops a new integration application platform called SAP NetWeaver in order to enable this. Now all SAP applications run on a common platform, and customers and partners can build and integrate existing applications easily using widely adopted Web standards, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Additionally, a little later, a new switch framework is introduced to allow customers to selectively enable only the new functions developed by SAP in order to avoid disrupting their core processes. The SAP R/3 name is now replaced by SAP ERP. ERP is part of a larger family known as SAP Business Suite, which also contains many other line of business (LOB) applications from SAP, such as SAP CRM.
Where is SAP currently as of 2015?
A new wave of advances in hardware architecture brings massive computing power at decreasing costs. Huge memory and multi-core processors arrive to offer massive computing power. The underlying design of existing SAP applications does not fully exploit the power of the new hardware. A rewrite of the complete Business Suite is required. The new business suite is called SAP S/4HANA. With the new codeline, ERP has been re-imagined. We can now include new intelligent technologies like Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligent (AI), and Blockchain.
Where is the best place for a customer to start with SAP?
SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
