A crucial point is that SAP S/4HANA is built natively and optimally to run only on the SAP HANA platform. By contrast, SAP Business Suite was built many years ago to run on any platform and so the design of the code and data model was not optimized for any one particular platform.A key objective back then was flexibility of the solution. SAP allowed customers to choose the various components of the solution: the database, the operating system and hardware that they preferred. However, SAP S/4HANA is built only to run on SAP HANA and SAP HANA only runs on the fastest hardware available. This is how SAP can deliver a platform with phenomenal performance to cope with today’s massive data volumes and also the high expectations of business users of instance response.