SAP says S/4HANA and AI are ready for prime time ZDNet

This year's SAP SAPPHIRE conference was not an occasion of major announcements. When you have such a wide and deep installed base, the last thing you want to do is blindside your clients. But with the clock ticking on the sunset of standard support for SAP Business Suite -- currently eight years and counting -- SAP chairman Hasso Plattner claims that its replacement, S/4HANA, is now essentially feature-complete. Like Oracle, SAP is also promoting cloud as the logical destination for new adoption and for new features is going cloud-first. But that's where the similarities end.