Key take aways SAP TechEd 2015 for IT Managers and (SAP)Enterprise Architects: - SAP S/HANA Enterprise Management - SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) - SAP NetWeaver 7.5 - SAP Activate

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Key take-aways SAP TechEd 2015 for IT
Managers and Enterprise Architects
Mendel Koerts, ENSEAD Advisory
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2. SAP TechEd 2015 has Digital Business
Transformation as a central theme
 Introduction of SAP S/HANA Enterprise Management covering the Suite as we
knew it plus acquired Cloud-based systems. The ‘Digital Core’ with Fiori UX.
 S/4HANA Roadmap is different for on-prem and cloud editions
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) is maturing as a full-fledged development
platform to enable Digital Business initiatives and includes e.g. Cloud for Analytics.
 BUILD as a tool makes it easy to create interactive prototypes for Digital Business
initiatives
 SAP NetWeaver 7.5 will provide further optimizations for HANA
 SAP Activate as a simple, modular and agile methodology succeeds ASAP and SAP
Launch. Features Best Practices and Guided Configuration
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Introduction of SAP S/HANA Enterprise
Management, providing a ‘Digital Core’
Source: SAP

4. S/4HANA Roadmap is different for on-prem
and cloud editions
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Current S/4HANA release is 1511 which stands for year and month of release.
Source: SAP

5. SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) is maturing
as a full-fledged development platform
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Source: SAP

6. BUILD makes it easy to create interactive
prototypes for Digital Business initiatives
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BUILD as an open source, collaborative design tool makes it easy for
anyone to create interactive prototypes, get feedback from users and
jumpstart development without writing a line of code.

7. SAP NetWeaver 7.5 will provide further
optimizations for HANA
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8. SAP Activate as an agile methodology
succeeds ASAP and SAP Launch
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Source: SAP
SAP Activate features Best Practices and Guided Configuration and
is included in SAP licenses, no additional charges.

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IT Solution & Services Lifecycle.
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