- SAP S/4HANA (Simple Finance) is SAP's next generation ERP suite that is powered by the SAP HANA in-memory database for real-time analytics and reporting. It provides a single source of truth for transactional and analytical data. - With S/4HANA, there is a simplified data model without indexes or aggregates, enabling real-time reporting. The universal journal replaces separate transaction modules for a single version of the truth. - Benefits include faster analytics, simplified deployment options, a better user experience, and opportunities to reduce costs through landscape simplification and support for multiple workloads on a single system.

1. 20th Oct 2015
Simple Finance – SAP S/4 HANA

2. Agenda
 A quick overview
 Simple Finance, SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, Central Journal Scenario
 Single Source of Truth
 Architecture of SAP Accounting powered by HANA
 Reporting Architecture
 Real Time Revolution
 Prerequisite to Deploy sFIN
 Current & Future Design Architecture
 Benefits for Customers

3. – Over the years, growth in transactional databases and other data sources as well their
associated systems have complicated enterprise applications and infrastructure
– SAP S/4HANA is the short form for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. It brings the next big
wave of SAP innovation to our customers, similar to the transition from SAP R/2 to SAP R/3.
Simple Finance aka sFIN aka SAP S/4 HANA

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 SAP S/4HANA is running on SAP HANA for massive simplifications (simplified data model: no
indexes, no aggregates, no redundancies) and innovations (for example, open in-memory
platform for advanced applications predicting, recommending, and simulating)
 SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with SAP Fiori UX, offering an integrated user experience
with modern usability and instant insight on any device (role-based, three steps max to get the
job done, mobile-first, consistent experience across lines of business)
 SAP S/4HANA is natively connected to the Internet of Things and business networks for real-
time collaboration (planned: machine-to-machine, Ariba Network, Concur) in the networked
economy
 SAP S/4HANA is natively engineered for providing choice of deployment (on premise, cloud
and hybrid)
 SAP S/4HANA is natively born for easy adoption (guided, configuration, and easy onboarding,
from the discovery of the solution through cloud trials to deployment with preconfigured best
practices)
Simple Finance Contd…

5. SAP HANA Enables a single source of Truth
Separation of transactions,
Analysis and Accelerated reporting
One Data instance as common basis
for transactions, Analysis and
accelerated reporting
• Various copies of data in different
data models
• Serial processing to ensure data
quality
• Reconciliation process to validate the
data between R/3 and BW
• A single data copy in shared data
models
• From serial processes to even
driven collaboration
• Aggregation of elementary records
in real time

6. Architecture of SAP Accounting Powered by HANA
FI
Document
CO
Document
Table & Indices
Management Account.
Table & Indices
Financial Accounting Processing
Analytics
Pre-defined Aggregates
FI
Document
CO
Document
Processing
Analytics
Aggregation on the Fly
Via HANA Views
Logistic
Document
Logistic
Document
From…
….To
Customer Benefits
 Higher flexibility
in reporting
 Significantly
reduced memory
consumption
 Central journal
for
heterogeneous
system landscape
Stability Flexibility
Stability Flexibility

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What is Universal Journal??
• Universal journal is a structure of single source of truth for both FI and CO modules
business transaction postings
• Simply speaking universal journal is a one line item table of all the dimensions from
FI, CO, AA and material ledger
• The new universal journal entry replaces the FI document and the controlling
document with a universal document

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Reporting Architecture
Web
Dynpro
Fiori Apps
Business
Objects BI
Embedded BW (Queries)
SAP HANA Live (Virtual Data Model – Logical Documents
Physical Documents
FI CO CO-PA Master Data

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Real Time Process Revolution
• Month end closing activities
• Real time reporting for all the business users without any latency
• Elimination of monitoring

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Choice of Deployment and Prerequisite to Deploy S/4 HANA aka sFIN
 Choice of Deployment
• Cloud - where differentiation is not essential but a high standardization is
required, it would be ideal for customers The Road to SAP S/4HANA 4 to adopt
the industry best practices. The SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition is the ideal choice
in this case because it provides best practices right from the start
• On-premise – Its an environment where customers require the maximum
amount of flexibility, have all configuration possibilities and modify SAP
business logic according to their needs
 Technical Prerequisites and Software Products
• Technically the SAP Simple Finance, on-premise edition 1503 is based on:
 SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0
 SAP NetWeaver 7.40
 SAP HANA database

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Adoption - Current Design Architecture
• A transactional BW option also doesn’t allow for central transaction execution, shared
use of data between transaction processing, planning, consolidation and reporting or
process optimization
ERP
BW
Reporting
Business Transaction
Process Optimization
Shared data
Source System (s) Central BW System

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Central Journal – Future Design
• Central transaction execution, shared use of data between transaction processing,
planning, consolidation and reporting or process optimization with central journal
ERP Reporting
Business Transaction
Process Optimization
Shared data
PlanConsolidate,Report
Financial
Add-Ons
Suite on
HANA
SAP HANA
Platform
Central Journal Instance
Source System (s)

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Benefits for Customer
 Business Benefits:
• All the aggregates and Index tables are removed and are calculated on the fly
• Data model made very simple
• OLTP and OLAP in a single system
• Rich user experience through Fiori
• Instant Access to any financial insight on any device
• Easy deployment option - Cloud, on-premise or hybrid deployment options
 IT Value Perspective:
• Opportunities to simplify the landscape and help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Enterprises can now reduce their data footprint and work with larger data sets in one
system (for example, ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, PLM co-deployed) to save hardware costs,
operational costs, and time
• Faster analytics and reporting
• New SAP Fiori UX for any device (mobile, desktop, tablet)

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