Unlocking potential

with SAP S/4HANA

Unlocking potential with SAP S/4HANA

For businesses looking to take advantage of an

always-on, digitally-connected and Big Data-driven
world, Accenture has developed a high velocity
enterprise approach that uses disruptive technologies
like in-memory and digital accelerators like social,
mobile, analytics and cloud to build on the ERP
solution already in place.
Our high velocity enterprise approach and our industry digital roadmaps provide
a framework for organizations ready to embark on their digital transformation journey.
SAP S/4HANA provides the platform.
Our broad understanding of digital and the SAP solutions landscape, combined with our
industry expertise and global delivery capabilities, equip Accenture to help organizations
use SAP S/4HANA to create differentiated capabilities for their businesses and engage
with their customers in new and more meaningful ways.

What is SAP S/4HANA?

SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) is a next-generation
enterprise system built to drive value across lines of business and
industries with the ambition to simplify. SAP S/4HANA is built on
the SAP HANA in-memory platform and offers cloud, on-premise and
hybrid deployment options to provide maximum choice to customers.
With SAP S/4HANA, SAP implements a vision of simplifying business models, business
decisions, business processes, the user experience and the IT landscape through a
roadmap of cloud-first enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship
management (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM), supply chain
management (SCM), and product lifecycle management (PLM) innovations.
Accenture can help organizations relying on any of these components to run their business,
and serious about winning in the digital economy, to assess the value of S/4HANA.

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Unlocking potential with SAP S/4HANA

Features
Using SAP S/4HANA, Accenture helps organizations to adopt new ways
to architect, implement, deliver, deploy and manage their SAP solution.
The potential of S/4HANA can be unlocked in a number of ways:
Modularity
Unlike the traditional monolithic approach,
SAP S/4 HANA opens up the possibility for
best-of-breed architectures and combining
solution components in different ways
according to specific needs.
Hybrid cloud
All SAP S/4HANA components can be
deployed either on-premise or in the
cloud, allowing a truly hybrid cloud
delivery approach.
Interoperability
Hybrid cloud enables a different integration
approach with the definition of better and
deeper API layers that let SAP solution
components work better with each other
and with solutions from the ecosystem.

Platform
SAP S/4HANA is fully integrated with
the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, allowing
organizations to build business applications
faster and more cost effectively.
Openness
Opening up the platform enables more
ways to connect and leverage data
generated from business transactions
and client interactions, regardless of the
system that executes them.
Flexibility
More options for architecting and
developing integrated solutions help
organizations keep pace with the
digital economy.

As a leading SAP services provider with more than

four decades of experience with SAP solutions and
a strong track record of co-innovation with SAP,
Accenture is well positioned to help clients unlock
the potential of SAP S/4HANA by:

Advising on roadmaps and navigating risk

Providing new industry and functional solutions that

use SAP S/4HANA and improve business performance
Optimizing business processes with new technologies and
digital capabilities such as cloud, SAP HANA and analytics.

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The Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group

is a unique collaboration between Accenture and
SAP that helps organizations be faster, smarter,
more agile and connectedto become a high
velocity enterpriseby accelerating and simplifying
the creation and delivery of industry-specific
digital solutions.
Accentures industry digital roadmaps help organizations design a digital strategy,
architecture and implementation plan that is anchored in business value,
SAP technologies and co-developed solutions.
Through the Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group, we are helping organizations
architect their high velocity enterprise with market-differentiating, digitally powered
industry solutions that are pre-integrated and connect all parts of their value chain.
Our defined co-innovation process enables solutions to emerge faster, powered by
the cloud, SAP S/4HANA, in-memory, big data, social, analytics and mobile.

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Unlocking the potential of SAP S/4HANA

Who should adopt?
Organizations that have professional services,
finance or logistics at their core can benefit
from SAP S/4HANA. Organizations wanting
to advance beyond the real-time reporting
provided by SAP HANA Live and looking
to become faster, smarter, more agile and
connected can also benefit.
When to adopt?
The SAP S/4HANA innovations are being
ramped up module-by-module, and will be
bundled in Enhancement Pack 8 towards the
end of 2015. This allows flexibility in how
and when organizations adopt.
For organizations that want to stay on
the leading edge of new technologies,
now is the time to start a technical
replatforming to SAP HANA or SAP Suite

on HANA and to optimize reporting

between SAP HANA Live and SAP Business
Warehouse. At the same time, they can begin
to plan their digital roadmap, incorporating
future SAP S/4HANA innovations. Getting
started now means that transformation
can be implemented within a single cycle,
allowing the organization to reap immediate
business benefits.
Organizations that prefer to wait before
adopting new technologies can also start
moving to SAP HANA or SAP Suite on HANA
now and assess the maturity of each SAP
S/4HANA innovation before adoption.
As SAP Suite on HANA is a prerequisite for
these innovations, migrating to SAP Suite
on HANA will start the journey, and then
allow organizations to move forward
at their own pace.

Act now
Regardless of an organizations attitude
towards innovation adoption, there are steps
that can be taken now to prepare for the
innovations that SAP S/4 HANA brings. All of
the coming innovations require SAP HANA,
so the earlier organizations migrate, the better.
Start the migration now and gain access to:
Better functionality in SAP HANA-specific
transaction codes
SAP innovations exclusive to SAP HANA
such as Fiori apps
Modular upgrades to SAP S/4HANA
components.

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The journey to SAP S/4HANA has begun

Early adopters are developing and enabling new capabilities as well as laying the foundation
for business transformation as new innovations become available. The longer an organization
waits to begin the journey, the more they miss out on capabilities exclusive to SAP S/4HANA
and the harder it will be to catch up.

In-memory
functionality

SAP S/4HANA

ERP

CRM

SRM

Continued innovation
SAP S/4 HANA
Simple Finance 2.0

SCM

PLM

SAP
S/4HANA

SAP Simple Logistics

Only available on
SAP HANA e.g.
SAP Simple Finance 1.0

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About Accenture
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company, with more than 358,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the worlds most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses
and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$31.0 billion for the fiscal
year ended Aug. 31, 2015. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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Alex Andrenacci
alex.andrenacci@accenture.com

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