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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. However, R/3 was too much for these systems, so SAP had to resort toUNIXworkstations andOracle databases, thereby requiring a client-server model.