We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"Traditionally, SAP worked with Oracle databases, but SAP is getting rid of the other databases and promoting its own. SAP will stop support for other databases around 2026, so everyone is moving to SAP S/4HANA for the performance and because it's the preferred database for SAP. S/4HANA has new features from the front-end or application feature perspective. The idea is to move toward future-ready technology."
"It is a stable and scalable product."
"The interface is easy to manage."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"Ensuring data integrity across finance, supply chain, and other critical areas is paramount for real-time decision-making. Access to accurate and up-to-date information is essential for data protection. While the digital solution primarily serves basic maintenance, the ability to handle these core aspects efficiently is invaluable for your needs."
"There's a minimum amount of downtime when using the solution. This platform is very effective."
"The processes and the way we take advantage and use assistance are good."
"The solution is stable and we have never had a problem. We started with one terabyte of data when the solution was first implemented and today we have around almost 600 gigabytes of data, which means means the compression works properly. Before migrating from ECC, we had nine terabytes of data."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"It is not robust."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"The customer has a lot of dependencies on SAP which means they don't have much flexibility to go and update the system when or if they need to. They will need to wait for the quarterly updates. It's possible to maybe raise a special request with SAP if it is absolutely necessary."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The cost could be improved. I think it's higher than the competition."
"This product is not mature enough at this point in time."
"The product must provide more details of the errors."
"It needs improvement in terms of stability and performance."
"The solution needs to embed or integrate with IBP to fully activate the PPT module with efficiency."
"I would rate the stability a four out of ten. It's an area that could use improvement"
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 15 reviews while SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is ranked 8th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 21 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.2, while SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud writes "High stability, reasonably priced, and important for digital transformations". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Firebase, whereas SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, SAP S4HANA on AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Alibaba Cloud vs. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud report.
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