Recently, our team has seen a lot of staffing requests for SAP Basis expertise with buzzwords like "Must have at least X S/4HANA project/deployment Experience". So we set out to bust the Myth of S/4HANA installation and configuration as something significant that requires exceptional experience and skills beyond Netweaver Basis and HANA. We'll leave the judgment to you if it warrants some special skill or is just like most new SAP products that came along for Basis over many years. Interestingly, S/4HANA is not very different in terms of dictionary and codebase savings compared to ERP 6.0 EHP7. We're publishing this blog to show you what it takes to install a small S/4HANA environment (e.g., IDES S/4HANA 1610 release) and, more importantly, how to use SAP monitoring to manage SAP performance as soon as it's up and running. Bear in mind that this is not about migration to S/4HANA, which will be a complex discussion.
In contrast, see also our prior related blogs: