# SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning suite released in 2015 as the successor to SAP ERP and R/3. It is optimized for the SAP HANA in-memory database and covers core business processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product and request-to-service. It is offered as public cloud, private cloud and on-premise editions.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/sap-s-4hana · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2015
- Headquarters: Walldorf, Germany
- Employees: 5,000+
- Company type: Division of SAP SE
- Latest funding: Founder financing
- Deployment: Public cloud (SaaS), private cloud (hosted), and on-premise, which the customer or a hyperscaler can run

## Products

- S/4HANA Cloud (multi-tenant): Public cloud edition delivered as SaaS.
- S/4HANA Cloud extended edition (single-tenant): Single-tenant cloud edition.
- S/4HANA Cloud private edition: Hosted private cloud edition.
- S/4HANA on-premise: Edition with the most modules and vertical-industry support, run by the customer or a hyperscaler.
- Central Finance: Component that brings financial transactions from legacy ERPs into the S/4HANA table.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERP | 2 of 37 | 47.6 | 47 |
| Accounting Software | 11 of 48 | 5.1 | 7 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 58.5 | 70.4% |
| google_ai_mode | 44.3 | 55.6% |
| perplexity | 40.2 | 48.1% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “SAP S/4HANA AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/sap-s-4hana, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).