SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud & CLARITY’s Subscription Enabler
Validated by the industry leaders: the strategic path to recurring revenue success
Fast time to value using a guided implementation process, fast technical setup, and role-based, intuitive interface for everyone who uses it
globally
SAP helps best-run companies understand their customers, transform their business models, and provide the most exceptional experiences so that they can fulfill their purpose and win in the marketplace
Why it is new?
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud delivers comprehensive coverage through integrated business processes that are tailored to specific industries. These processes encompass multiple crucial areas, e.g. product lifecycle management, supply chain optimization, customer relationship management etc.
The solution incorporates industry best practices derived from leading companies, ensuring all processes are optimized for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. This approach is specifically designed to meet the demands of fast-paced, innovation-driven environments, allowing businesses to leverage proven methodologies while maintaining their competitive edge.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud delivers exceptional reliability and efficiency by leveraging industry best practices, which significantly reduces the risk of errors and operational inefficiencies. This allows companies to shift their focus from managing operational issues to driving innovation and growth.
The pre-configured solutions are tailored to specific industries, enabling businesses to utilize standard processes with minimal customization. This approach can reduce implementation time by up to 30% and cut costs by up to 20%, offering significant advantages in both time-to-value and resource allocation.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud leverages SAP HANA, an in-memory database that processes data up to 10,000 times faster than traditional databases. It also incorporates AI and ML capabilities through SAP AI Core and SAP AI Foundation, enabling predictive analytics and intelligent automation.
The solution also provides seamless integration with both SAP's suite of products, including SuccessFactors, Ariba, and Concur, as well as third-party applications. This comprehensive integration creates a cohesive technology ecosystem that effectively supports end-to-end business processes, ensuring smooth data flow and process optimization throughout the organization.
At its core, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is built for continuous innovation, providing regular updates that ensure clients always have access to the latest technological advancements. This commitment to ongoing improvement keeps organizations at the forefront of digital transformation.
The platform offers exceptional scalability and flexibility, capable of supporting organizations of all sizes—from emerging startups to large multinational corporations. This adaptability allows companies to grow and evolve their operations without requiring significant system reconfiguration, making it a future-proof solution for businesses with ambitious growth plans.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud offers localized versions for 59 countries, ensuring compliance with local regulations, tax laws, regulatory reporting and business practice.
The platform supports 33 languages.
Companies can maintain consistent global processes while adapting to local requirements. This balance ensures operational efficiency and compliance across different regions.
The ability to quickly deploy localized versions and support multiple languages makes it easier to enter new markets and expand their global footprint.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud allows companies to extend standard processes using SAP Business Technology Platform. This includes tools like SAP Fiori for custom user interfaces, SAP Cloud Platform for custom applications, and over 2000 APIs for integrating with other systems.
The platform’s modular design enables companies to compose and recompose processes as needed, add new functionalities or modify existing ones without disrupting the entire system.
Regular updates and enhancements from SAP ensure that the platform evolves with changing business needs.
The ability to extend and customize processes allows companies to tailor the platform to their specific needs while still benefiting from the stability and reliability of a standardized solution.
Continuous updates ensure that companies can always leverage the latest best practices and technological advancements, keeping them competitive and efficient.
SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud includes tools for tracking and managing sustainability metrics, such as carbon footprint, energy consumption, and waste management. These tools help companies monitor their environment impact and make data-driven decisions to improve sustainability.
The platform promotes sustainable practices by integrating sustainability into core business processes: sustainable procurement.
Sustainability is embedded into the core of the platform, rather than being as add-on. This ensures that sustainability considerations are integrated into everyday business operations.
By providing tools and features to support sustainability, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud helps companies meet their environmental goals and enhance their corporate responsibility.
SAP Subscription Billing supports various billing models, including usage-based, recurring, and one-time charges. This flexibility allows companies to offer tailored subscription plans that meet diverse customer needs.
The platform automates billing processes, reducing manual effort and minimizing errors. It integrates with SAP S/4HANA for seamless financial management and reporting.
By offering flexible billing models, companies can attract a broader customer base and increase revenue streams.
Automated billing processes reduce administrative overhead and improve accuracy, allowing companies to focus on innovation and customer satisfaction.
SAP EMS tracks customer entitlements in real-time, ensuring that customers receive the products and services they are entitled to. This includes tracking usage rights, service levels, and support agreements.
the platform integrates with SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions, providing a unified view of customer entitlements and streamlining operations.
Accurate entitlement tracking ensures that customers receive the correct products and services, enhancing satisfaction and loyalty.
By ensuring that all entitlements are tracked and enforced, companies can prevent revenue leakage and protect their bottom line.
AI enhancements
this AI-driven solution automates the matching of incoming payments to open invoices, significantly reducing manual effort and improving cash flow management. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, it continuously improved its accuracy over time, ensuring faster and more accurate financial operations.
SAP’s digital innovation system that integrates AI, IoT, blockchain, and big data to help companies innovate and transform their operations. E.g. IoT sensors can be used to monitor equipment performance in real-time, while AI algorithms predict potential failures before they occur.
SAP’s digital innovation system that integrates AI, IoT, blockchain, and big data to help companies innovate and transform their operations. E.g. IoT sensors can be used to monitor equipment performance in real-time, while AI algorithms predict potential failures before they occur.
Conversational AI
SAP’s digital innovation system that integrates AI, IoT, blockchain, and big data to help companies innovate and transform their operations. E.g. IoT sensors can be used to monitor equipment performance in real-time, while AI algorithms predict potential failures before they occur.
CLARITY’s
SUBSCRIPTION
ENABLER
FRAMEWORK
CLARITY’s Subscription Enabler Framework empowers businesses to quickly and effectively introduce subscription models by integrating SAP S/4HANA’s technical capabilities with a proven, step-by-step implementation methodology. It focuses on aligning subscription strategies with business goals, designing tailored models, and ensuring scalability through optimized ERP processes and data-driven decision-making.
Why is this mechanism unique and how does it work?
The uniqueness of CLARITY’s Subscription Enabler Framework lies in its ability to combine SAP S/4HANA Subscription Billing’s powerful features with a business-first approach. While competitors may offer technical solutions, we provide a comprehensive methodology that includes:
- Strategic Subscription Planning:
Aligning goals, analyzing market opportunities, and defining subscription models.
- Tailored Model Design:
Customizing processes and workflows for specific industry and business needs.
- End-to-End Integration:
Seamlessly embedding subscription capabilities into SAP S/4HANA’s ERP ecosystem, covering billing, finance, and customer relationship management.
- Data-Driven Insights:
Leveraging analytics for real-time tracking and optimization.
implementation times
The framework is built upon extensive real-world experience, leveraging lessons learned to craft solutions tailored to diverse business needs.
Unlike generic solutions, CLARITY’s Subscription Enabler adapts SAP S/4HANA’s Subscription Billing to align with customer-specific processes and goals.
The Subscription Enabler Framework is not a one-size-fits-all solution—it is customized for each business, creating a unique value proposition for every client.
Benefits
CLARITY's Subscription Enabler Framework transforms how business operates by simplifying and accelerating the shift to subscription-based models. It enables teams to save time, reduce costs, and focus on innovation by automating repetitive tasks and aligning subscription strategies with business goals. This results in greater customer loyalty, predictable recurring revenues, and a strong competitive edge.
- Faster Time-to-Market:
Launch your subscription offerings up to 40% faster, capturing market share before competitors can react.
- Operational Efficiency
Streamlined processes and integrated systems eliminate bottlenecks, saving teams hours every week.
- Customer Satisfaction
Deliver seamless subscription experiences that keep your customers coming back.
- Revenue Growth
Achieve consistent revenue growth through tailored models that meet customer demands and maximize retention.
Role
benefits
Get a clearer view of your company's performance with advanced analytics that link IT outcomes directly to your business goals. SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud provides detailed reports that help you make well-informed decisions that can significantly improve your operations and strategy.
Keep up with rapid market changes and expanding business needs with a flexible system that grows with you. SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud helps you add new processes and systems across the globe easily, ensuring your technology can handle growth without slowing you down or compromising security.
Boost your team's productivity by automating routine tasks and optimizing how your processes flow. This cloud platform brings together all your business systems in one place, making it easier to manage and encouraging new ideas by using the latest technologies like AI and machine learning.
With built-in cost control and budgeting tools, you'll have a clear view of your company's financial health, helping you identify cost-saving opportunities and allocate resources more effectively.
An integrated platform for overseeing all financial activities, including a pre-built integration with your billing applications, leverages all strategic information about your markets and provides you with real-time, multi-criteria margin analysis.
Our solution ensures compliance with financial regulations in any country, reducing the risk of costly errors and legal issues. With a direct link to the Dun & Bradstreet database, SKALA provides you with verified and up-to-date credit and risk information about your partners to improve your DSO and cash flows.
Generate comprehensive financial reports, share key financial insights with stakeholders, the board, and executive leadership, boosting transparency and accountability. Provide your investors with real-time information through monthly closings in less than 4 days.
Position your IT organization as a strategic enabler by leveraging S/4HANA Public Cloud's state-of-the-art ERP capabilities. A clean core approach ensures a lean, standardized ERP system that prioritizes business agility while reducing technical debt, allowing your team to focus on delivering innovation.
Achieve seamless scalability to support your organization's growth without burdening your IT landscape. The public cloud's clean core architecture simplifies upgrades, ensuring compatibility with future innovations and maintaining operational continuity as you expand into new markets.
Adopt a clean core strategy that minimizes customizations by utilizing side-by-side extensions through SAP BTP. This ensures agility, adaptability to future upgrades, and a reduction in maintenance efforts, while still meeting specific business requirements.
Facilitate breakthrough innovation through pre-configured industry best practices and modular extensibility. Clean core principles, combined with S/4HANA Public Cloud's AI, machine learning, and IoT capabilities, position your IT systems to be dynamic and future-ready, driving long-term competitive advantage.
Optimize costs by reducing the total cost of ownership through the public cloud's subscription model and streamlined processes. The clean core approach decreases IT complexity, reduces system downtime, and minimizes manual intervention, freeing up IT resources for strategic projects.
Leverage enterprise-grade security and compliance capabilities of S/4HANA Public Cloud to protect sensitive business data. With clean core principles, compliance risks are further minimized by maintaining system integrity and ensuring updates align with regulatory requirements.
As your company grows, our solution grows with you. Easily expand into new markets and lines of business without worrying about your financial infrastructure holding you back. Leverage Grow with SAP innovations to build disruptive and value-added use cases for your clients. Boost your international external growth by relying on a solution with unique international coverage.
Real-time access to critical financial data, enabling you to make informed, data-driven decisions that drive your company's growth and profitability.
Benefit from highly integrated and controlled processes, accelerated by RPA and AI, freeing up time and money to imagine value-added services for your clients and partners.
Get a 360° view of your vendors, including real-time view of contract utilization, consolidated turnover, and qualitative and quantitative evaluations to facilitate your discussions and negotiations with vendors. AI-powered resolution of gaps between purchase orders, receipts, and invoices helps expedite closing and secure financial adjustments from vendors. "OK to pay" status is automatically granted based on fully integrated processes, reducing time-consuming tasks of analyzing invoices and posting accruals, shortening closing time, and enhancing relationships with vendors.
The control of vendor partner master data, enhanced by our add-on BAO with Dun & Bradstreet and by workflows personalized to your organization, ensures reliable analyses and a 360° view of your suppliers. The selection of your suppliers, based on qualitative and quantitative evaluations including carbon emissions, enables you to rapidly and durably optimize your sourcing.
Benefit from highly integrated and controlled processes, accelerated by RPA and AI, freeing up time and money to imagine value-added services for your clients and partners.