SAP doesn’t make it easy to stay up to date with what they call their products, the version numbers they give them and how long they will be supported for. New products are introduced fairly often these days, which would be hard enough to keep track of, but they also tend to rename existing ones on a regular basis. Sometimes what looks new isn’t at all, so I thought I’d summarize some of the interesting things I have deciphered recently.
The group of products whose names contain the words ‘SAP’, ‘HANA’ and ‘Cloud’ is definitely the most confusing for me: there is a big difference between HANA Enterprise Cloud, HANA Cloud Platform, HANA Cloud Services and S/4 HANA Cloud, for example. Here’s a summary of the main product categories:
But what do all those ‘as a Service’ labels mean? XaaS is a commonly-used catch-all for ‘as a Service’ products – a category that includes the kind of SaaS (Software), PaaS (Platform), DBaaS (Database) and IaaS (Infrastructure) products listed above. Here’s a handy summary from Gartner:
_IaaS vs SaaS vs PaaS: What’s the Difference | _ gartner.com
S/4HANA has been a pretty dynamic product since it was introduced and the product names have reflected that fact. Sometimes it feels like they change every couple of months or so. At the time of writing we’ve just had another refresh, so here’s how the high-level S/4HANA product names stand in June 2020:
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