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Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions What you need to know when it comes to SAP S/4HANA integration

Javit Gellaw (SAP SE)

Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions

Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions

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Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

2 SAP S/4HANA, ON-PREMISE EDITION INTEGRATION -------------------------------------------------- 4

3 SAP S/4HANA, CLOUD EDITION INTEGRATION --------------------------------------------------------- 5

4 WHY DOES SAP PROCESS INTEGRATION MATTER AND HOW DOES SAP HANA CLOUD

INTEGRATION DIFFER FROM SAP PROCESS ORCHESTRATION? ------------------------------------- 6

5 CONCLUSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8

Integration Capabilities of SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud Solutions

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1 Introduction SAP S/4HANA is the next-generation business suite product that provides innovated and tightly

coupled solutions that support end-to-end business processes integration between SAP S/4HANA

core components and SAP software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud solutions such as SAP Ariba, SAP

SuccessFactors, SAP Fieldglass, Concur, SAP Hybris, SAP Cloud for Customer, SAP Financial

Services Network, and other third-party solutions like Vertex for tax calculation.

Figure 1: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise and cloud editions

SAP offers two different deployment options to integrate SAP S/4HANA, namely SAP S/4HANA, on-

premise edition and SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition.

Currently, there are three different offerings available as part of the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition

SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition

SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition

These also offer prepackaged integration best practices content and engineered services for SAP S/4HANA and to the existing cloud solutions.

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2 SAP S/4HANA, On-Premise Edition Integration Depending on the customer requirements the SAP S/4HANA, on premise integration scenario offers

a business scope including SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management processes as well as integration

best practice content with SAPs SaaS cloud solutions and third-party applications using SAP

Process Orchestration, Web services, or SAP HANA Cloud Integration.

Figure 2: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition to cloud solutions from SAP

SAP HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) is SAPs cloud integration middleware and is a SaaS product that

provides standard integration content delivered by SAP to integrate SAP SuccessFactors, SAP

Ariba, SAP Financial Services Network and SAP Cloud for Customer with SAP S/HANA on premise

systems or even SAP ERP.

The SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition can be used as an install-based system or hosted on SAP

HANA Enterprise Cloud. Customers can leverage it either by downloading the packaged best

practices from the SAP Service Marketplace or via engineered service. The best practices can be

deployed on the customer landscape or hosted in the cloud.

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3 SAP S/4HANA, Cloud Edition Integration Other than the on premise edition, SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition is designed for enterprises that need

standardized cloud integration offerings that cover the core business scenarios and the line-of-

business cloud solutions. For the cloud edition, the main integration technologies are SAP HANA

Cloud Integration and Web services.

Based on the selected scope and subscription model, customers can leverage the fully integrated,

secured, and managed SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition by SAP. In most cases, the required customer

integration scenarios are provisioned, configured, and activated from SAP Cloud Operations and

SAP Cloud Service Center, or SAP provides self-configuration user interfaces so customers are able

to configure the solution.

The current SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition already covers specific business scenarios for the marketing line of business and for the professional services industry. The enterprise edition includes: finance, accounting, controlling, procurement, sales, manufacturing, plant maintenance, project system, and product lifecycle management. The content is integrated with SAP cloud solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris Marketing, SAP Jam, SAP Financial Services Network, and third-party integration with Vertex for tax calculation. Three offerings are currently available as part of SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition for the marketing line of business

SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition for the professional services industry

SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition for a full ERP scope

Figure 3: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition to cloud solutions from SAP

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Furthermore, SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) serves as an extension platform for SAP S/4HANA.

Customers and partners are able to build specific capabilities extending the scope of SAP S/4HANA

by integrating non-SAP solutions or developing new capabilities using the whitelisted APIs.

The following figure illustrates the integration technology options for S/4HANA, on premise and cloud

editions:

SAP S/4HANA integration options

SAP HANA Cloud Integration X X

Web services X X

SAP Process Orchestration X

Figure 2: Integration path of SAP S/4HANA, on premise edition to cloud solutions from SAP

4 Why Does SAP Process Integration Matter and How Does SAP HANA

Cloud Integration Differ from SAP Process Orchestration? Imagine you own an on premise HCM application. It is up and running in your system landscape and

you want to innovate and integrate your HR business processes or master data with SAP

SuccessFactors cloud-based applications. Similar to any A2A integration, you need to ensure that

data and processes are integrated accurately and reliably. Furthermore, HR employees might need

to access data from different HR applications, such as replicating employee data from SAP Success

Factors Employee Central to an SAP S/4HANA application or cost center data from an SAP

S/4HANA financial application to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Depending on the

deployment model, the integration of both on premise and cloud-based applications can be realized

through Web services, the on premise SAP Process Orchestration, or SAP HANA Cloud Integration

middleware and ensure that data and processes are secured, mapped, and transferred properly.

SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition

SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition

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Figure 4: Sample integration options for SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

SAP HANA Cloud Integration is not the only product for which SAP provides integration middleware.

The integration content offered by SAP for SAP HANA Cloud Integration can be viewed

at https://cloudintegration.hana.ondemand.com. SAP offers many standard integration capabilities

and content for SAP Process Orchestration. However, SAP HANA Cloud Integration is not only the

standard content. The management and monitoring of this integration content is offered by SAP in

the cloud environment. SAP is therefore responsible for the hosting, configuration, and monitoring of

integration scenarios. This involves a new service offering for which interaction with SAP customers

is very important. It relieves the customer of hosting, configuration, and monitoring the integration

environment. A huge difference with SAP Process Orchestration is that the standard content offered

must be hosted, configured, managed, and monitored by the customer.

The following table illustrates the main differences between SAP Process Orchestration and SAP

HANA Cloud Integration.

SAP Process Orchestration SAP HANA Cloud Integration

On-premise installation in customer landscape Cloud-based integration platform

Costs involved with hardware, installation, patches, and product licenses

Engineered for cloud: multi-tenancy, rolling software updates, horizontal scalability. Subscription-based usage

Used for on premise or hybrid integration scenarios

Flexible