SAP customers have long been able to tailor SAP standard applications to their needs using various extension options, such as predefined extension points and modifications.

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SAP S/4HANA and the cloud, however, bring with them demands such as rapid onboarding and software update cycles, requiring a new framework for extending applications.

The Principal Consulting can support with the extensibility framework delivered with SAP S/4HANA as well as provide options and services on the different extensibility approaches available today.

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TPC can provide custom enhancement services to SAP S/4HANA that enables users to add features to applications using intuitive, web-based tools, without diving into the full details of the underlying code.

 

SAP S/4HANA extensibility must cover a broad spectrum of adaptation. This includes changes to software behavior that go beyond the capabilities of business configuration, data model extensions, data exposure and integration, layout changes to user interfaces (UIs) or forms and reports, and creation of new UIs and the customer’s own applications.

 

In times of quickly changing business processes, extensibility projects need to be fast and efficient.

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For this reason, SAP S/4HANA Cloud supports either of the following approaches to extensibility:

•In-app extensibility – an approach taken directly within the software stack

•Side-by-side extensibility on SAP® Cloud  Platform – a broader approach utilizing all the capabilities of a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) platform

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The most important use cases for side-by-side extensions are that of building completely new UIs based on the SAP Fiori® user experience (UX) or integrating with other SAP applications. You can build completely new applications and business logic that run natively on SAP Cloud Platform, the apps being loosely coupled with the ABAP® platform back end of SAP S/4HANA or other SAP products.

 

Reach out to TPC to learn more about SAP S/4HANA Enhancement & Extensibility options available today.