SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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I have been studying SAP in the last 8 months, and I was feeling the I need to structure my learnings. Given this challenge, I will give a try by creating blog posts regarding SAP topics.So, let's begin :)

I started my learning journey by SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of the SAP S/4HANA ERP System.

What is Software-as-a-Service?
Is a Software distribution model in which a cloud provider hosts applications and makes them available to end users over the internet.
What is SAP S/4HANA ERP System?
ERP Stands for Enterprise Resource Planning: Core business processes needed to run a company: finance, HR, manufacturing, supply chain, services, procurement etc. "In a nutshell, it is a set of software application that are intended to integrate and streamline business processes".

In this link has better summary regarding ERP: (in construction)

In SAP words, SAP S/4HANA "is a suite of integrated business applications that enable the planning of company resources according to the needs of the company".

It is part of BES, Business Event Service, an event-driven architecture component in SAP that allows different systems, apps or processes to communicate and update each other.

This image shows the structure of SAP S/4HANA and its components. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud is the back-end ERP of the business in a Cloud environment, and the connection with SAP Fiori, facilitates the UI with the interface.

Here is possible to dive in in the layers from SAP S/4HANA Cloud integration framework with different SAP softwares, like SAP Datasphere.