Business Case

S4/HANA is truly simple with its great UX and decomplexified data model. Implementing S4/HANA—an exercise with a 2028 deadline attached to it—is everything but. Once all infrastructural and process-related goals are clear, you’ll have to decide on how you want to get there. Go into the brownfield and build S4/HANA around your legacy SAP data? Or take a greenfield approach, design all new, modern business processes from scratch and maximise the new possibilities and technologies that come with S4/HANA? No matter your field, green or brown, you can count on us to support you all the way.

If you choose the brownfield approach, this may require an extended ramp-up phase to migrate legacy Business Suite data into S/4HANA. The complexity of such a migration can vary wildly depending on customer and system specifics such as in-house developments, the size of your database, and individual processes. This is not to say that a greenfield project is a walk in the park. After all, you’ll have to re-engineer all your existing processes. Still, your start into S/4HANA will be much simpler. And even more so when you choose Bechtle to be by your side.

Business Value

We’ll lay the groundwork to get your new S4/(HANA system up and running in next to no time. You choose the infrastructure or platform. We’ll add experience to the mix to make sure your plan is on rock-solid ground and no money is going where it’s not needed. What you get is a turnkey solution that you can tap into right away.

This is how a S/HANA project unfolds

Before anything else, you’ll meet face to face with one of our technical experts. to discuss your environment and any specific requirements you have. We’ll also ask you some questions, such as:

• What infrastructure should the system be installed on?
• What operating system should be used?
• What HANA release should be installed?
• Which SAP products are you planning to use later?
• How do you want to create system backups?
• How much data do you expect to have?

And then you’ll need to satisfy certain technical but also organisational requirements. This includes procuring licences and determining some system meta information (host name, database name, etc.)

In a second meeting, we’ll install the SAP system. If the installation is to take place on-premise, we may begin by creating and configuring your virtual machines. If you want your system to run in the cloud, you'll need to provide the required VMs and operating systems.

Then comes the infrastructure KPI test, installation of the HANA database and the application server, and of course all the latest patches for the OS, the HANA database and the SAP system. Then comes the follow-up work (SAP Basis). Technical jobs are planned, users created, and an additional tenant created, if required. Finally, we’ll help you create a backup routine either via backup software or as a backup-to-disk process.