Introduction to SAP S/4 HANA
S/4 HANA – SAP 4th Generation High-Performance Analytic Appliance
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1980
• 1972 – SAP R/1 – Real Time Data Processing
• 1980 -
SAP R/2 – Included No of Countries and Currencies
• 1990 – SAP R/3 – R/3 Stands for , 1 Application server 2 Data Base Server 3 Presentation
server
1990
1999
2004
2005
2015
• 1999 – Mysap.com – Web based
• 2004 – net weaver – ECC ( Enterprise central component)- ECC 5
• ECC 6
• 2015 – S/4 HANA(High-Performance Analytic Appliance) Simple Finance and Logistics
Major Architectural change
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HANA In memory DB
Multi core Processing/Massive parallel
process
Columnar Store
Example for Data
Example for Data storage in Columnar
Customer Product Segment Amount Qty
Customer A001
B001
C001
D001
A001
P001
SegA
1000
100
Product
P001
P002
P003
P004
B001
P002
SegB
2000
200
Segment SegA
SegB
SegC
SegD
C001
P003
SegC
3000
300
Amount
1000
2000
3000
4000
D001
P004
SegD
4000
400
Qty
100
200
300
400
Row based storage of Data
A001 P001 SegA 1000 100 B001 P002 SegB 2000 200 C001 P003 SegC 3000 300 D001 P004 SegD