SAP Gets closer to Indian Customers with the launch of SAP S/4 HANA

The relevance of technology and business automation is rapidly growing among small and mid sized business segment of India. Now, at one end, the market demand is gradually increasing towards best in class automation solutions, on the other hand, world's leading technology and business automation companies are getting aggressive and closer towards this business segment of India.

In a latest development, SAP India announced the launch of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4 HANA), heralding a new generation of business suite designed to enable Indian customers run simple in a digital and networked world. SAP S/4 HANA is the new product that is fully built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA and is designed on the most modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for mobile devices.

Designed to drive business innovation with simplicity by connecting people, devices and business networks in real time, SAP S/4 HANA will help Indian enterprises to take better business decisions by accessing the capability for planning, execution, prediction and simulation from within the business application. It will also extend the value of simplicity to all lines of business and industries end-to-end with 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.

“As Indian enterprises aim to enter new markets and engage with their consumers across a variety of channels, SAP S/4 HANA brings unprecedented innovation, combined with more than 40 years of experience across industries”, said Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, SAP India. “History proves, India to be an early adopter for new generation technology in the last decade. We are confident our customers will derive real-time business opportunities by adopting S/4 HANA the innovation platform designed to drive their growth.” he added.

The development of SAP S/4 HANA was a global collaborative project and leveraged on the talent pool at SAP Labs India. The team from SAP Labs India contributed towards the development of the core architecture, Fiori® user experience, Applications and Platform for S/4 HANA which is the key to get rid of all the complexity and redundancies to make the entire IT landscape simple.

“SAP’s vision and strategy is to help customers run simple to drive the perfect enterprise. To deliver on this mission, we are redefining how enterprise software creates value in a digital, networked, yet complex world”, said Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director, SAP Labs India & Executive Vice President, Suite Engineering, SAP SE. “SAP S/4 HANA is designed to drive instant value across lines of business and industries with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity”, he added.

Together with an established partner ecosystem that has already undergone enablement workshop, SAP India is ready to resell and provide services for customers along their journey to run simple with SAP S/4 HANA. SAP India, along with SI and partners are committed to work towards providing an easy path for customers to move to SAP S/4 HANA with pre-defined migration and deployment packages for quick time to value.