SAP aims to explain S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers

At a time of SAP’s Q3 2016 formula in October, Rob Enslin, boss of tellurian patron operations, pronounced there were 350 live S/4 Hana business worldwide, with 1,400 projects in play, and 4,100 business sealed up.

“When we demeanour during a live business in S/4, it is quite appreciative that, out of a business that are doing projects right now, some-more than 50% of them are full scope. In other words, with a 1511 recover of production and a full ERP scope, many of these business are now indeed implementing full ERP range for S/4”.

But how many of those S/4 business are on a cloud, presumably a large design destiny of craving IT?

At a time, an SAP orator reliable to Computer Weekly that a infancy of S/4 is on premise. “The infancy of on-premise business are implementing full range as against to financial only. We see a poignant acceleration in a cloud, both private and public.”

SAP’s full year 2016 formula were disclosed final week. They showed 2016 cloud revenues of €2.99bn, 14% of a altogether income of $22.06bn, that represents 3% some-more cloud revenue, as an altogether proportion, than in 2015.

During a researcher gain call, transcribed by website SeekingAlpha, SAP comparison leaders were penetrating to residence a thesis of S/4 Hana’s open cloud deployment.

“On S/4 Hana in a public, multi-tenant cloud, we will underline this business prominently during a financier day on 9 February,” pronounced Enslin. “We have a personality named Darren Roos, who is using this for us on an end-to-end basis: consider of it as a multiplication going to marketplace with S/4 Hana open cloud multitenant.

“What you’re going to find with those business that have sealed adult for S/4 open cloud is that they are unequivocally cool; they do some innovative things and we’re doing unequivocally innovative things with them.”

There are now over 550 S/4 business that are now “productive opposite not usually financials though logistics”, with projects around a 2,500 mark.

“While a commencement of a cloud was clearly driven by particular line-of-business solutions, we now see it’s a time where ERP moves to a cloud,” said Bernd Leukert, executive for products and creation during SAP. 

“And if we review a complicated S/4 open cloud resolution with NetSuite, we consider many people forget that NetSuite is on a marketplace for some-more than a decade. The response time with a heading height of Hana outpaces each transaction in NetSuite.”

It would seem that SAP is, during a start of 2017, stepping adult a response to patron difficulty about what is apropos accessible and when, on Hana and in a cloud, and to financial researcher vigour on broadening and speeding adult a cloud applications offer.