6.3    Solution Scope of the Model System

The SAP S/4HANA 1610 Fully-Activated Appliance consists of four virtual machines bundled in one instance. The appliance comprises the following components:

• SAP S/4HANA 1610, on-premise (ABAP backend including SAP HANA database and SAP Gateway as the frontend server for SAP Fiori)
• SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java (with Adobe Document Services, ADS)
• SAP Best Practices (depending on the client, all SAP Best Practices that are available in SAP S/4HANA 1610 are already enabled)
• SAP Fiori (with its extensibility interfaces and additional available fields)
• SAP Screen Personas
• SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
• Content for various scenarios in interactive demos

The following components are optional and are only available in SAP CAL (not in on-premise installations of the SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance):

• SAP BusinessObjects BI platform (with predefined reports)
• Microsoft Remote Desktop (for easy access to frontend tools and SAP Fiori)
• All 14 localizations in the reference clients (Germany, USA, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Philippines, and Singapore)

Figure 6.3 provides an overview of the software components of the SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance.

Figure 6.3    SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance Components

The SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance contains six preconfigured clients with different flavors of the SAP Best Practices content:

• Client 000
  The master client is the default client of all SAP S/4HANA systems and is delivered by the appliance without any changes. You can use Client 000 as the starting point for your activities if you want to implement SAP S/4HANA without SAP Best Practices, and it serves as a reference client for comparison of the predelivered customizing with the empty product.
• Client 100
  Client 100 is the trial client and includes SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA already activated as well as sample data, processes, and scenarios for the USA and Germany. Client 100 also maps complete business processes of the model company.
  This client serves as the starting point for exploring SAP S/4HANA. The system is already completely preconfigured and filled with data (master and transaction data), so you can start immediately and use a model company with company code 1710 for the USA or company code 1010 for Germany.
• Client 200
  All technical activities for activating SAP Best Practices have been executed in this client, but SAP Best Practices have not been activated yet. Thus, you can carry out activating SAP Best Practices yourself using the scope that is relevant to you and possibly restrict it. You can also test the activation.
  Client 200 is a preactivation client that already contains the SAP Fiori launchpad configuration (and is therefore ideal for comparisons if you want to activate SAP Fiori launchpad).
• Client 300
  This client is the default reference client for SAP Best Practices. Client 300 is a copy of the master client in which SAP Best Practices is enabled for all 14 localizations in SAP S/4HANA 1610, on-premise. You can view what the system looks like after you have implemented the best practices.
  You can use Client 300 as a reference because this client is not preconfigured. However, as a result, this client doesn’t contain demo data, placing it between Client 000 and Client 100 in terms of completeness.
• Client 400
  Client 400 is the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) client and contains preactivated content for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Finance. This client is used only indirectly to support SAP Best Practices that include IBP, which is based on SAP BW.
• Client 500
  Similar to Client 300, Client 500 is a reference system for SAP Best Practices. The difference with Client 300 is that all configurations (including configurations that are not relevant to SAP Best Practices) are copied from the master client.
  You can use this client for fit-to-gap or fit-to-standard workshops because not only can it be used for comparisons with the default content in SAP Best Practices but also for comparisons with the complete Customizing of Client 000.

By default, the SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance is not integrated with SAP Ariba, the SAP Financial Services Network, or the Vertex system. However, you can carry out these integrations yourself. You’ll need the corresponding licenses and logon data for the external systems. For more information on this, see Chapter 13.