SAP glossary · Cloud ERP, RISE and GROW

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

What it is

The second edition in which SAP markets and sells SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and the edition at the centre of RISE with SAP. Unlike the public edition, it runs in a dedicated environment for a single customer.

Why it matters for executives

Private edition is the usual home for large ECC landscapes that need to carry custom code into the cloud. The question to ask is how much of that code the business still needs.

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