SAP Africa releases next-generation enterprise software

24 Mar 2015

SAP Africa recently unveiled its SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), its next-generation business suite, which is a new product fully built on SAP's advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA. It is designed to exploit the most modern computing principles with in-memory computing and the user-friendly SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for mobile devices.

SAP Africa releases next-generation enterprise software

Talking about the relevance of this innovative and simple technology suite for the African market, Robert Enslin, SAP Executive Board Member and President of Global Customer Operations, commented: "SAP is redefining business computing. Africa is a critical market for SAP and SAP S/4HANA's unprecedented innovations and simplification, combined with the company's more than 40 years of experience across industries, presents a tremendous opportunity for forward-looking African businesses. With SAP S/4HANA, we are merging the integration capabilities of ERP with the speed, flexibility and massive innovation of SAP HANA."

SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive business innovation with simplicity by connecting people, devices and business networks in real time to support the development of new business models. It will also help accelerate the adoption to the Internet of Things and big data. The simplified data model allows customers to reimagine their IT, helping to drive lower costs and aims to help deliver IT efficiency.

Innovation platform

Pfungwa Serima, SAP Africa's CEO, added: "Providing our African customers with choice is of paramount importance. SAP S/4HANA will offer cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment options to provide maximum choice to customers. Many African businesses are looking to extend their reach deeper into the continent and engage with their consumers in all channels. With SAP S/4HANA there is now an innovation platform designed to truly drive their growth."

SAP S/4HANA extends the value of simplicity to all lines of business and industries. It does this with end-to-end guided configuration for adoption, a modern user experience for business users of all roles in a company on almost any device, a simplified data model, on-the-fly insight at the highest level of granularity and re-imagined real-time business processes.

The SAP Simple Finance solution, which was announced in June 2014, is already helping customers transform finance with instant insight and marked the first step in the SAP S/4HANA road map.

SAP S/4HANA will also expand the SAP portfolio of cloud solutions, such as those from SAP companies Ariba, Fieldglass and SuccessFactors. The comprehensive offering will help allow customers to define their own pace to the cloud, based on their needs, while keeping all the integration and business benefits of their existing SAP solutions.

SAP has an established partner ecosystem that will resell and provide services for African customers along their journey to run simple with SAP S/4HANA. Partners and SAP are committing to provide an easy path for African customers to move to SAP S/4HANA with pre-defined migration and deployment packages for quick time to value.

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