SAP S/4HANA Cloud: The Official Introduction (Second Edition) (SAP PRESS)

SAP S/4HANA Cloud has a lot to offer―so see what’s possible! Explore core functionality like finance, logistics, and reporting with embedded analytics. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud impacts your users and how it can be extended, integrated, and adopted by your organization. Get information on the latest intelligent technologies and see how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help unify and streamline your business. A bold new world awaits in the cloud!

• Discover SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the cloud ERP system
• Walk through key processes: finance, procurement, sales, and more
• Explore intelligent technologies, embedded analytics, and adoptions paths

Getting Started
Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud’s role in your ERP landscape! Understand its use cases and solution architecture. Walk through the SAP S/4HANA Cloud user experience, from SAP Fiori apps to mobile UIs.

Business Capabilities
Discover SAP S/4HANA Cloud functionality: finance, procurement, sales and service, logistics, manufacturing, asset management, product lifecycle management, embedded analytics, and more.

Integration, Extension, and Adoption
Plan the next steps for your project. What’s the integration strategy for SAP S/4HANA Cloud? What are your options to extend it? Can you access a trial system? Get answers to these common questions in these pages!

• User experience
• Analytics
• Business functionality
• Global business processes
• Extensibility
• Integration
• Adoption
• Lifecycle management
• Intelligent enterprise

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He leads the SAP product engineering area and has global responsibility for all business software applications, including all functional areas from product strategy and management to product development and innovation as well as product delivery and support. He is also in charge of all development cross-functions at SAP, comprising the overall quality of SAP software products, its user experience (UX), and the underlying global cloud infrastructure.

Jan Gilg is the president of SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s flagship product that encompasses ERP, finance, and the supply chain. In this role, he has global responsibility for the development, delivery, and product management of SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s industry solutions, and the SAP Digital Supply Chain portfolio. With SAP S/4HANA, customers have the choice to balance standardization with customization when running their mission-critical processes with an intelligent ERP system. Jan is also a member of the SAP Engineering Senior Leadership team.

Uwe Grigoleit is globally responsible for end-to-end go-to-market strategy and solution management of cloud and on-premise SAP S/4HANA. He ensures that this new innovation is picked up by all markets units of SAP and acts as a solution evangelist with customers, press, and analysts. In conjunction with the development organization, he works on the future strategy and roadmap of SAP S/4HANA, including the positioning of and messaging around the solution.

Arpan Shah is the head of SAP S/4HANA Cloud product management at SAP, and is committed to helping customers and partners be successful with industry-leading ERP cloud solutions. Prior to his current role, Arpan led several teams at Microsoft, including Azure Infrastructure, Office 365, and SharePoint. Arpan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Almer Podbicanin is the head of SAP S/4HANA portfolio management. In this role, he drives product strategy and innovation, ensuring SAP continues to design and deliver groundbreaking capabilities for customers in all industries and geographies. Almer started his SAP career in 2001 as a development manager for strategic development projects with customers in multiple industries. He later became the head of CRM development, responsible for large development programs and projects. A subsequent role as SVP and head of the Lean Center saw him leading the implementation of lean and agile development methods for 12,000 developers worldwide. Almer joined the SAP S/4HANA product management organization in 2019. Almer holds a masters in business administration from the University of Applied Science, Ludwigshafen.

Marcus Homann works for the SAP S/4HANA strategy team at SAP. In this role, he supports important strategic initiatives and takes care of critical customer requirements. Marcus joined SAP in 2014 and has had different roles in SAP’s support and engineering organizations, including development manager, IT planning architect, escalation manager, operations expert, and customer office lead. Marcus began his professional career as an IT strategy consultant at Accenture before he moved to the SAP University Competence Center in Munich, where he spearheaded key initiatives in the areas of data center infrastructure, SAP HANA, and SAP Mobile Platform.