Last Changed: 3rd of June 2020
Upgrade to S/4 2020 – time to change
What is SAP S/4HANA?
SAP S/4HANA is an intelligent, integrated ERP system that runs on our in-memory database, SAP HANA.
Ha, ha, ha just kidding but the slogan comes straight from the SAP Website. Nevertheless this Article concentrates on the Upgrade to the latest Version of our Flagship Application S/4 which is (still) the core of all our integrated software applications.
How S/4 fits into the Intelligent Enterprise
Evolution and Details SAP S/4 2020 Software Stack
as already introduced the S/4 software stack in the Blog – S/4 1709 FPS03 – back on the Mothership again … the are no really big updates in the components.
still, there is a difference to the SAP BW/4 software components stack as follows:
Solution Manager and Maintenance Planer
make sure your S/4 is updated in the SAP Solution Manager LMDB and transferred to the SAP Maintenance Planner.
In advance check before the technical Upgrade, if your installed Add-On’s are compatible with SAP S/4 2020. In this case: well, this Add-On cannot be installed via SAINT …
Information on uninstallation of ABAP Add-Ons can be found in SAP Note 2011192
after doing some “magic” it is now possible to continue in the SAP Maintenance Planner …
and the upgrade planning process can be continued and finalized.
SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA
Report is explained in the Blog – Upgrade to S/4HANA 1809 FPSx – the final frontier
in addition: a little bit of SPAU/SPDD and and SPAM/SAINT (incl. Kernel) on my side …
and hey: remember tx. SDDLAR to check the CDS consistency?
This is work in Progress …
Roland Kramer, SAP Platform Architect for Analytics SAP SE
@RolandKramer
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