Document Version: 1.00 2016-03-01 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)
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 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2
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, onpremise 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. 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 3
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 SAP s 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. 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 4
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-ofbusiness 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 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 5
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 S/4HANA, on-premise edition SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition 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. 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 6
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 On-premise installation in customer landscape Costs involved with hardware, installation, patches, and product licenses Used for on premise or hybrid integration scenarios SAP Process Integration (including B2B add-on and Connectivity add-on) SAP Business Process Management SAP HANA Cloud Integration Cloud-based integration platform Engineered for cloud: multi-tenancy, rolling software updates, horizontal scalability. Subscription-based usage Flexible integration options: hybrid or cloud-tocloud scenarios Web user interface for configuration, deployment, and monitoring of data integration and simple BPMN based modelling of process integration flows 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 7
SAP Business Rules Management Pre-packaged contents for on premise Operations by customer Pre-packaged integration content with mappings, API and adapter configuration, and connectivity Operations by SAP cloud managed services API management capabilities within SAP HANA Cloud Integration; focus on security, including data isolation 5 Conclusion SAP S/4HANA provides a choice of deployment options for on premise and cloud editions. SAP S/4HANA is closely integrated with cloud solutions from SAP, such as Ariba Network, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, and Concur. SAP S/4HANA offers integration technology options based on the deployment selection: SAP Process Orchestration, SAP HANA Cloud Integration, and Web services. SAP S/4HANA is easy to integrate because it leverages preconfigured best practices, guided configuration, and onboarding either for the cloud or on premise deployment model. SAP S/4HANA is designed with SAP Fiori UX and integrated user experience with simplified usability on any device. 2016 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 8
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