SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, is a ready-to-run cloud ERP that delivers the latest industry best practice business processes and continuous enhancements to help customers stay competitive and enable them to work toward their future business goals.
This solution tends to be the best fit for new customers with minimal customization requirements and an openness to adopting the predelivered SAP Best Practice business processes that are already available in the system. These processes are regularly improved with enhancements between releases, and in the major release upgrades that occur in August and February each year. Enhancements and upgrades are automatically installed by SAP on a defined release schedule.
SAP tries to make it as easy as possible for customers to manage and maintain their SAP S/4HANA Cloud systems during and after release upgrades by providing tools that enable them to get an understanding of the impact on their actual system (Release Assessment and Scope Dependency tool), and to re-test their upgraded processes after a release with automated scripts (Test Automation Tool).
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is also a good fit for larger customers when deployed in combination with SAP S/4HANA on premise or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition in a two-tier ERP structure.
Sustainability and artificial intelligence capabilities are built into many of the standard business processes to enable customers to get a clear understanding of their organization's environmental impact and run deep analyses on their business data.
The SAP Fiori Launchpad makes it easy for non-developers to make small customizations through the built-in low/no-code extensibility applications, and helps end users learn how to use the new software through embedded in-context support information and tutorials.