Select your SAP S/4HANA Cloud deployment model

How to select your SAPS/4HANA Cloud deployment model

 Align your Cloud ERP to your Industry Focus, required Business Features and Integrations

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How to select the suitable SAPS/4HANA model`?

To answer this question, you need to explore the following areas:

  • What are the options with SAP ERP and the Cloud?
  • What are the current and future IT & SAP skills within your company? What do you want to own yourself?
  • What is the required functionality related to ERP?
  • What are the requirements related to integrations, extensions, and necessary add-ons?
  • In which locations do you need what functionality?
  • When do you need this functionality?

With the answers to the above questions, we can support you in outlining your expected Intelligent Enterprise Suite, related infrastructure, platform, and need for integrations.  This outline reviews the options related to Public, Private or Azure environments.


How to start with SAP Cloud ERP?

Scheer supports medium to large organizations by selecting the right SAP Cloud ERP platform depending on your starting point and business and IT strategy. We have a broad experience with green-, blue- and brownfield migration projects.


What is your starting point?

  • Do you want to start with a completely new suite?
  • Do you want to carve out a business unit into a new suite?
  • Do you want to migrate your existing SAP ECC  to a new suite?
  • Do you want to extend your existing ERP with a new suite?

Your background,  expected future organization, available time, resources, and budget, will determine the right choice for SAP Cloud ERP.

In two steps to the Cloud


Step 1- ASSESSMENT

In-depth analyses to determine scope, fit & gap analysis of your end-to-ends, underlying architecture and transformation plan.


SAP ERP Implementations

We do have special assessments for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business ByDesign.


Step 2- IMPLEMENTATION

This results in a detailed  plan of actions based on SAP Activate, workshops to explore the fit-to-standards, agile and scrum methodology.


See our Approach section for additional details about our Business Process Focused Implementation and Optimization approach

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Deployment options

SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Public Edition
SAP S/4HANA Cloud | Public Edition

For best-of-breed solutions to support more complex processes based on standard integrations.


  • A complete, modern, native SaaS ERP solution with the full benefits of the public cloud;
  • The fastest path to innovation and the lowest TCO related to S/4HANA Cloud;
  • A clean Cloud ERP solution without converting old / legacy ERP processes and configurations;
  • To reimagine business processes and take advantage of standardized best practices.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Private Edition 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud | private Edition


Be fully in control of updates, extensions, integrations, add-ons, and migrations


  • Rapid conversion of their existing SAP ECC to a Cloud-based architecture
  • Benefit directly from Cloud economics for your existing SAP ECC
  • Determine your pace to gradual transformation to a pure SaaS landscape
  • Keep your complete, extensive ERP functionality, including partner add-ons, with the ability to extend and enhance.

Go for immediate benefits of ERP with Public Edition

General benefits


  • Become less depended of internal IT and SAP Skills
  • Run with standards - leave complexity behind
  • Shorten your time to market
  • Scalability - Grow with the Flow in size and locations
  • Improved and extended Security
  • Improved and extended recovery and disruption control


Business Benefits


  • Higher innovation ability versus On-premises solutions
  • Greater business agility to respond to market changes
  • Superior competitive advantage through next-generation end -to-end industry processes and intelligence
  • Stronger customer engagement with a consumer-grade user experience
  • Greater employee engagement and productivity
  • Better governance and compliance
  • Faster route to becoming a connected enterprise

IT Benefits


  • Reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) with 20%–25% is doable
  • Easy software-as-a-service (SaaS) consumption
  • Lower testing costs
  • Simpler solution landscapes to cover the globe
  • Native extensibility to enable innovation with more than 650 SAP partners
  • Quarterly innovation cycles
  • Built-in business continuity

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