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The release of SAP S/4HANA was the biggest news from SAP in 2015, but it wasn't the only notable development, as new HANA upgrades, Fiori and HANA Cloud Platform also made waves.Dubbed the most important release by the company in the last 23 years, SAP S/4HANA dominated the news coming out of the ERP giant in 2015. A major revamp of SAP's ERP platform, S/4HANA -- officially named SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA -- was expected to be the showcase for the vendor's new "Run Simple" slogan, which it adopted as a battle cry against overly complex software and business processes. To many observers, it seemed to be just that: a slogan without any real substance behind it. And they looked to SAP to provide more guidance and resources if they were really expected to embark on the road to a major upgrade to SAP S/4HANA.The game-changing release of S/4HANA was hardly the only major move from SAP in 2015, however. There were significant revamps, updates and pushes for a number of products in the SAP world, and customers faced numerous questions about deployment strategy and options. Even if you disregard S/4HANA, SAP users had to weigh their options with upgrades to the underlying HANA in-memory database platform or how to deploy HANA Cloud Platform. The software vendor also made investments in the SAP Business Network and the SAP Business One ERP suite for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market. The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud business intelligence were addressed with the releases of SAP HANA SPS10 and SAP Cloud for Analytics, respectively.Run Simple? Maybe eventually, but getting there will take some work. Here are some of the most notable stories that ran on SearchSAP in 2015.