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In 1979, R/2 was released, integrating multiple enterprise functions such as accounting, manufacturing processes, supply chain logistics and HR.
SAP ECC (also known as SAP ERP) is SAP's legacy suite of enterprise applications. ECC was designed to run on a third-party database. It started as a Financial software package called RF in 1973, followed by a Material Management module called RM/1. As SAP added additional components, the package was renamed to R/1.
In 1979, R/2 was released, integrating multiple enterprise functions such as accounting, manufacturing processes, supply chain logistics, and HR.
R/3 was released in 1992. It was their first client/server package (it no longer required mainframes) and supported a wide variety of operating systems and databases.
In 2004, SAP renamed its core ERP product to SAP ERP Central Component (ECC.) SAP ERP and ECC are now used interchangeably.
The SAP Business Suite software is an integrated suite of modular applications designed to perform essential end-to-end business processes across all industries.
The SAP Business Suite supports a broad range of processes for human resources, finance, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, product development, sales, service, supply chain management, and IT management.
When you move SAP Business Suite from a third-party legacy database to HANA, you are running SAP Business Suite on HANA. Moving to Suite on HANA is the first step in a S/4HANA migration. Customers also have the option of moving to Suite on HANA and upgrade to S/4HANA later. Dividing S/4HANA migration into two separate projects enables companies to show quick ROI while minimizing disruption and risk.
S/4 HANA is the latest version of the SAP enterprise software where SAP has moved away from primarily on-premise based ECC version. The difference between both the versions are:
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