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Scoping Your SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Solution

The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) is used in the sales cycle to assess a customer's requirements and match them with the best SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution to fit their needs. This occurs in the Discover phase of the SAP Activate Methodology.

Scoping Your SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Solution
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Dr. Ravi Surya
Conducting Fit-to-Standard Workshop with Cloud ...

To make an SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation successful, we need to move away from the traditional "Fit-Gap" on-premise mindset to the Fit-to-Standard Cloud mindset. The purpose of the Fit-to-Standard Analysis workshops is to confirm the scope identified in the Digital Discovery Assessment and gather configuration and customization requirements. To do this, implementation consultants demonstrate the SAP S/4HANA Cloud business processes to customer experts from each line of business.

Conducting Fit-to-Standard Workshop with Cloud Mindset – Mindset Shift to Cloud
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Material Ledger Actual Costing in SAP S/4 HANA ...

Dawn Watts is an experienced SAP consultant and founder of Guided Tech Solutions: An SAP consulting company specializing in SAP Finance & Controlling. Dawn has led SAP project implementations and support teams in Finance & Controlling for 2 decades. She has experience working with financial, customer service, and manufacturing teams in the telecommunications, medical devices, flooring, industrial, life sciences, and energy industries.

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Configure SAP Public Cloud with Central ...

SAP Central Business Configuration (SAP CBC) is a new tool that is used to configure a business process spanning different SAP cloud solutions from one central place. SAP CBC allows you to manage your configurations for SAP cloud implementations and ongoing operations centrally through Project Experience. We  can initiate change anytime to make additions to your scope and organizational structure or make changes to existing  configuration settings. 

Configure SAP Public Cloud with Central Business Configuration
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Paul Ovigele
Organizational Flexibility in S/4HANA

In S/4HANA 2022, SAP introduced a tool called “Organizational Flexibility in Financial Accounting” (also called “Organizational Change” or “Profit Center Reorganization”) which enables the changing of legal and management entities that are grouped according to organizational structures, master data and transactional data. This feature allows you to update the profit center assignment in master data, such as Materials, Assets, WBS Elements CO Orders, and creates transfer postings for selected balance sheet accounts and open payables and receivables. Watch this recorded webcast with SAP FI/CO Expert Paul Ovigele to learn the following:
- The various scenarios where Profit Center Reorganization is needed.
- How to use the “Manage Organizational Changes” app is to help you to split, combine, and replace profit centers.
- Which SAP Objects are affected by the reorganization.
- How you can navigate to related apps for organizational changes.
- Limitations of the “Organizational Flexibility in Accounting” feature.

Disaster Recovery

SAP HANA Implementation Guide: Disaster Recover Concepts

Backup Using Storage Snapshots

Storage snapshots are taken at storage level and are a backup or copy of all disks in a storage group at the same point in time.

Storage snapshots have the following benefits:

  • They can be created with minimal impact on the system. This is because storage snapshots are created in the storage system and do not consume database services.

  • Recovery from a storage snapshot is faster than recovery from a data backup.

  • An SAP HANA database can be recovered to a specified point in time using a storage snapshot only or using storage snapshot in combination with log backups. This enables you to recover to a specified point in time.

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Storage snapshots and SAP HANA MDC

Backup and recovery using snapshots is not yet available for Multi Database Containers (MDC). There are two types of snapshots: database aware and database unaware snapshots.

Database Unaware Snapshots

A database unaware snapshot is a storage snapshot taken without notifying the database. When a recovery to the snapshot is done and the database restarted, the database assumes that a power-failure occurred and performs an online recovery. Database unaware snapshots are, by definition, inconsistent because the snapshot was taken while the database was running.

Database Aware Snapshots

A database aware snapshot is a storage snapshot which, when taken, notifies the database. As the database is warned, it can save a consistent state to disk. Database aware snapshots are, therefore, preferred over database unaware snapshots.

From an SAP HANA perspective, the storage snapshot captures the content of the SAP HANA data area at a particular point in time. Only use database aware snapshots. A snapshot is created by first creating an internal database snapshot. The database snapshot provides a view of the database with a consistent state at the point in time when it was created. The database snapshot is used to ensure the consistent state of the storage snapshot, regardless of the physical layout of the data area with respect to the number of disks, controllers, etc.

The following steps are needed to create a Storage Snapshot (see Figure 4.3):

  1. Use the SAP HANA Studio or the Command Line Tool to initiate the database snapshot. DISASTER RECOVERY

  2. Use storage tools to create a storage snapshot.

  3. Use the SAP HANA Studio or the Command Line Tool to confirm that the storage snapshot was created successfully. An ID is written to the backup catalog and the snapshot is released.

Figure 4.3: Steps for database aware snapshots

Figure 4.3: Steps for database aware snapshots

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Integration between SAP HANA and Storage

Database snapshots can be created via the SAP HANA Studio or the SQL command line. Both options are easy to use. For daily backups, the creation of the database snapshot will have to be automated by developing two scripts; one script to initiate the database snapshot and another to release the same snapshot. Both scripts will then have to be called from within the storage solution. Fortunately, most storage vendors provide such scripts by default. 

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This excerpt is from the SAP HANA – Implementation Guide complements of Espresso Tutorials!