For the fourth and final blog in my Migration to SAP S/4HANA series – How to Move to S/4HANA, I will discuss four steps your company needs to consider before starting the journey. To illustrate…
When to move to S/4HANA? I’ve mentioned in previous blogs that I began my career back in 1995 using SAP 2.2C. It was during the first SAP boom when the client-server version was flexing its…
Why move to S/4HANA? The second post in my Migration to SAP S/4HANA series focuses on why comapanies are moving to SAP S/4HANA. The go-to answer to that question always starts with Business Value. The only problem is that the term ‘Business Value’…
You’ve fine-tuned your plant’s many integrated processes to produce products planned to meet your customer’s requirements – and then it happens! One piece of equipment fails, bringing your whole line down. Decisions are fast and…
What is S/4HANA? Ok, let’s start with some baseline information – I’m talking about using SAP HANA as the database for SAP’s ERP environment(s). For those who don’t know, SAP HANA is a revolutionary in-memory database…
In our last post on SAP managed hosting, we talked about the basic risks and rewards of outsourcing an SAP environment. Now let’s examine a more specific topic: SAP remote administration versus managed cloud hosting….
Where to start? With businesses fighting to stay relevant in the digital economy, more and more companies are turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) as the first step forward. But while the IoT has…
Let’s examine the biggest risk in SAP HANA first. In SAP HANA you can design roles and assign privileges (authorizations) and then assign the roles to users using 2 methods: Design Time Roles and Run…
In this second installation of the SAP HANA Security and Controls blog series we will focus on some of the key SAP HANA Security Functions. Let’s consider authentication as the first security function. How do…
“Why consider SAP HANA security and controls?” is a question that has been raised many times but yet has gotten so little attention. Let’s take a deeper look into SAP HANA and talk about the…
