SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is the cloud-based version of SAP’s S/4HANA product, launched in 2017. Offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, this solution provides flexibility to meet the needs of businesses across various industries.
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SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud: Pay as You Go!
Why SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is the Future of Cost-Effective IT Solutions?
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is the cloud-based version of SAP’s S/4HANA product, launched in 2017. Offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, this solution provides flexibility to meet the needs of businesses across various industries. Today, the cost of acquiring a new server is quite high, with additional costs for setup, maintenance and management. Companies like SAP, Google, and Amazon are continuously developing their SaaS products to make them more accessible and cost-effective from a cloud perspective.
What are the Advantages of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud?
1. Flexibility and Economic Benefits
One of the key advantages of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is its pay-as-you-go subscription model. You can start using it immediately by activating only the services you need through the SAP Business Technology Platform. Businesses can scale resources up or down according to their needs, allowing for rapid response to sudden workload changes. This enables companies to manage their operational costs more effectively.
2. Updates and Technological Developments
SAP provides users with the latest technological advancements instantly through its regular maintenance and update schedule. This ensures that businesses always have access to the most up-to-date and secure technology.
3. Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Solutions
As Hubert Reeves once said, “We are in a war with nature. If we win, we will lose.” While sustainable and eco-friendly production efforts are increasing worldwide, SAP is also taking significant steps in this direction. SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is hosted in energy-efficient facilities, optimizing the benefits of thousands of servers from different locations in one place. This reduces both energy consumption and carbon footprint.
4. System Security and Information Protection
System and information security are among the top concerns of modern businesses. Protecting company data and ensuring security against cyber-attacks are priorities for SAP. With over 50 years of experience and professional teams in this field, SAP offers comprehensive services to minimize security concerns.
The Relationship Between SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and RESTful Application Programming (RAP)
Announced and implemented with SAP S/4HANA 1909, SAP RESTful Application Programming (RAP) is thriving alongside SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. By adhering to the SAP Virtual Data Model (VDM) methodology, we can develop RAP applications allows us to develop quick and efficient reports in Fiori, SAP’s most up-to-date UI solution. With the RAP architecture, we can perform CRUD operations, use a standard API, and manage operations easily. Features such as draft management and ETag (lock management) in RAP help prevent issues that may arise during data updates.
SAP Public Cloud and RAP offer strong alignment in digital transformation, providing businesses with rapid and customized solutions. The flexible and scalable infrastructure of SAP Public Cloud, combined with RAP’s rapid application development capabilities, accelerates business processes and delivers reliable solutions. This integrated approach enables businesses to quickly adapt to market trends, gain competitive advantages, and produce effective and sustainable solutions in the modern business world.
How SAP Public Cloud Transforms Your Business Operations?
- Efficient and Flexible Reporting
The reports we create with RESTful Application can be expanded quickly and are highly flexible in design. This offers solutions that quickly adapt to business needs and increase efficiency.
- Public Cloud Key User Extensibility
SAP Public Cloud allows business users to easily customize their business processes. Without getting bogged down in technical details, you can add fields, change business rules, and adapt reports to your needs with just a few clicks. This enables you to respond immediately to the rapidly changing requirements of your business, giving you a sense of control over everything. With the user-friendly interface of SAP Public Cloud, you can make all these customizations effortlessly.
Additionally, with Key User Extensibility, you can take specific parts of your business processes even further. You can create business rules and approval processes, modify user interfaces, and define new data models. Moreover, you can do all this without worrying about compromising the core functionality of the system. SAP’s secure and compliant cloud infrastructure ensures that all these customizations are carried out safely. These flexibility features provide significant advantages in the digital transformation of your business.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud: How to Leverage Custom Fields and Custom Logic
The more advanced and simplified versions of the custom field and BADI (Business Add-In) features used in SAP S/4HANA and ECC systems come with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.
The steps to follow for adding a field to the VBAK (Sales Document) table are as follows:
1. Using the Custom Fields and Logic Application
The Custom Fields and Logic application allows users to create custom fields and integrate them into relevant business processes.
2. Adding a Custom Field
Through the application, you can identify and add the required custom field to the relevant table.
3. Integration with Business Processes
By integrating the added field into business processes, you can perform customized controls.
For these features, using the current ABAP syntax instead of the RAP infrastructure is sufficient.
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