S/4 Hana, the new SAP ERP is a major breakthrough in software packages product line!
SAP always mentioned that the objective of its strategy around Hana was to rewrite its Software to take advantage of in-memory. But there is still a major disruption of equilibrium in the market for ERP.
Remember that the current versions of SAP ERP – Business Suite, mostly run on the Oracle database. Between 60 to 70% of installed SAP base employs Oracle DBMS, though the main rival of German elsewhere on the package on the segment.
Announcement of S/4 Hana was actually a bold move from SAP, because it involves very fundamental decisions for customers. SAP also appears as a precursor for a vast movement of simplification combining both a simplification of business processes and all underlying technology layers.