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What is the difference between SAP HANA, S/4HANA and HANA Cloud Platform?


What is the difference between SAP HANA, S/4HANA and HANA Cloud Platform?

Can anyone explain?

regards,

Umar Abdullah


Solution

  • All are services and software from SAP SE:

    • HANA is a database that you can use instead of MsSQL, Oracle or DB2 in your systems
    • S/4 is the incompatible successor of ECC (itself the successor of R/3), the main ERP product of SAP. It only runs on HANA, while R/3 worked with ASE, DB2, MaxDB, MsSQL, or Oracle.
      • New data model, for example in Financials table ACDOCA replaces COEP, COBK, ANEK, ANEP, ANEA and several other tables
      • Some less used modules are removed, some are added
      • There are other smaller differences, like matnr field becoming 40 characters instead of 18
    • HANA Cloud Platform is the HANA specific part of SAP Cloud Platform