What is SAP C/4HANA Foundation

Any business faces the challenge of implementing a new business model. Such challenges require software solutions to support. These solutions must be scalable, risk-free, fast and cost-efficient.

However, implementation often fails to achieve all of these goals. Many times, they are quick patches designed to eliminate problems, such as implementing new technologies. Both developers and system administrators are struggling to integrate new technologies into already used solutions, with no extra effort to deal with the core issues.

SAP C/4HANA aims to do just that: solve core problems. SAP C/4HANA Foundation is a lightweight yet powerful technology layer that injects agility, openness and extensibility into SAP C/4HANA, enabling you to easily design and deliver great Customer Experience. All this at no additional cost to customers entitled to use C/4HANA Foundation.

With SAP C/4HANA Foundation, you can:

• Rapid implementation of new business models
• Provide an engaging customer experience
• keep operating costs low

SAP C/4HANA Foundation is an orchestration layer designed to create unique customer experiences, enabling customers to centrally manage complexity while allowing them to customize and grow their business. SAP is uniquely positioned to provide solutions that include an end-to-end customer experience and orchestration capabilities across suites.

Currently, SAP C/4HANA Foundation includes SAP C/4HANA cockpit , where customers can track all their entitlements, a cloud list of configurations, including their status and further administrative links. With this comes unified access to the entire C/4HANA Suite, providing one identity for all platform components for all C/4HANA Suite customers.

Based on the open source project Kyma, SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory coordinates integration and customization across SAP C/4HANA and provides smooth integration. It also increases product stability and scalability by externalizing customization and extension, and increases agility through open standards, technology agnostic solutions, event-based cost-effective extension mechanisms, and reusable services .