SAP S/4HANA cookbook: Guiding you through your implementation

What is this blog about ?

Earlier this year, SAP launched the first version of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), the next generation business suite designed to help customers run simple in the digital economy.

SAP recently also has introduced SAP Activate for an accelerated adoption of SAP S/4HANA. SAP Activate is a combination of SAP best practices, implementation methodology and guided configuration, offering ready-to-run business processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA.

To help customers and partners implement SAP S/4HANA, we plan to release a structured and regularly updated guide, the SAP S/4HANA cookbook, that links to relevant information around the implementation of SAP S/4HANA with SAP Activate.

Think of it as an entry point that guides you to all relevant information related to the implementation of SAP S/4HANA - not only the standard SAP documentation but also to SAP Best Practices, how-to guides, whitepapers and other background information.

Typical target audiences are project leads, solution architects, and similar profiles.

What content can you expect to find in the SAP S/4HANA cookbook ?

Since SAP S/4HANA is at an early stage in the software lifecycle, the cookbook will have a living content structure that will be adapted over time.

We plan to roughly cover the following topics:

What is SAP S/4HANA ?
Scope overview, roadmap for upcoming shipments, on-premise vs. cloud deployment, service offerings, cross-topics within SAP S/4HANA (e.g. extensibility, analytics, SAP Fiori, and so on).
SAP S/4HANA: Know your implementation options
Bringing a complete existing SAP Business Suite system to SAP S/HANA, re-implementation of existing SAP systems or sub-parts of them (e.g. during a system consolidation), implementation guidance for new SAP customers, and so on.
SAP Simple Finance, On-Premise edition 1503: Implementation guidance
Detailed information on the current on-premise release of SAP S/4HANA, functional and technical recommendations for implementation, best-practice sharing from early customer projects, and so on.

SAP S/4HANA cookbook: First glimpse

Since every implementation project is different, you might not find the exactly measured ingredients for your specific SAP S/4HANA implementation in those contents, but you hopefully will get a good understanding what you need to watch out for when preparing your personal SAP S/4HANA menu.

As said above, the journey has just started, and the itinerary will contain iterative content updates. Therefore, please regularly check back for new content.

Where and when will the cookbook be published ?

The cookbook will be published within the SAP S/4HANA community.

It will consist of a small set of HTML pages that contain summary information and hyperlinks to more detailed documents that let you dive into the respective subject matter.

In the accompanying SAP S/4HANA community, you can raise questions and suggestions for further content that should be covered in the cookbook.

Click on the image above for a first glimpse how it will look like.

We plan to release a very first version of the cookbook in July / August and continuously enhance it towards the launch of the next release of SAP S/4HANA in Q4/2015.

Best and stay tuned,

Joerg