SAP HANA Other Advice

KA
Commercial Manager at Natco Information technology

I recommend the solution and rate it a ten out of ten. 

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Md Ashraful  Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director, IT & Business Operation at SQ

Reflecting on both my current and past experiences, I would rate SAP HANA a nine in the past, but currently, I would rate it a seven. The reason for this adjusted rating is my challenge in reaching out to SAP for problem resolution or improvements. In the past, SAP felt like a reliable partner, providing comfortable interactions. However, the current difficulty in obtaining support makes me feel somewhat constrained. Having a strong partnership with SAP is crucial, as it influences our satisfaction with the current integrator.

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AS
Development & ERP Technologies Department Manager at Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. There are three SAP-based individuals involved in the maintenance of the solution. This solution is recommended for SAP-oriented users only since it is very expensive as a database.

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Siddharth Matalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I give the solution a six out of ten.

Anyone currently using SAP will be transitioning to HANA. Those who wish to implement SAP will also be using HANA, as it is the only supported platform for SAP applications, not for any other applications.

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George Mukira - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant at Spring Training & Consulting

My advice to others is for them to do a lot of research and training before they decided to go live with the solution.

I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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DilipRoshantha - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at Noratel

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a nine. In comparison with other DMS solutions, it offers good performance and is excellent in administration management. It has a simple table structure that makes it a high-performance system for customers. I advise others to select an implementer with knowledge and experience in using the solution.

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HassanMustafa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm a consultant. 

In terms of relational databases, this is the best option.

If you are going to work with HANA, make sure to use the latest version. It has the latest approaches.

Users should utilize the HANA platform to the fullest extent. Get the most out of it by using all of the tools, as much as possible. Don't just use it as a data model database.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

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AD
Supply Team Engineer at Micron Technology

New users of SAP HANA need to have basic SQL coding skills and attention to detail to see data using the solution. It might be complicated for someone, not from a background where they're used to seeing a lot of data.

Overall, I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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Vinayak Shenoy Katarsal - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

SAP HANA is in the market, but there are other competitors available.

I recommend the solution.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven-point five out of ten.

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Vinay Lohakare - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We're working with the latest version of the solution. 

I really like SAP. It's the best ERP tool. If you want to implement analytics, go with HANA. Go with SAP Data Warehousing if you want to implement a data warehouse.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

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George Pereira - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista de sistemas at Audaces

My company uses SAP HANA.

My company has SAP Business One version 9.3 that integrates with SAP HANA, but I haven't worked much on SAP HANA yet.

I'm a user of SAP HANA, not a partner.

Around thirty people, mostly technicians, work on deploying SAP HANA. The solution requires five to six engineers for maintenance.

My company has eighty-eight SAP HANA licenses used mainly by the end-users, for example, managers.

I'd tell anyone looking into using SAP HANA that it's a good tool but expensive for smaller-scale companies.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate SAP HANA as ten because it's a good tool, and I like its technology.

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SA
Country Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We're a potential SAP partner. 

We are using SAP HANA in Italy. We're using the latest version there. That said, in Saudi Arabia, we are not using SAP HANA. They're using the older version.

We have remote access. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. SAP is a very powerful tool.

I would rate it nine out of ten.

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NS
Database Consultant at a pharma/biotech company

I would recommend SAP HANA. No doubt I would definitely recommend it. But the thing is, if I adopt SAP HANA, my total cost of ownership in terms of having a functional consultant, as well as a HANA admin, would increase. I should first find a balance and analyze the data, "Do I really want to have HANA? What benefit will I have if I have HANA at my premises? And if I want to cut cost but also get the benefits of HANA, will the cloud option of HANA cater to my needs?" All those questions.

That is the company analysis I should do: what do they do differently? But many companies will be driven by the business needs, but at the same time some companies will also be driven by factors like the existing relationship with other vendors, like Oracle or SQL Server, and the kind of discounts they get when they buy that product. All those things will be there as driving factors. To answer your question, I would definitely recommend SAP HANA to anyone.

High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA. High availability is measured on the barometer of RPO and RTO. RPO stands for recovery point objective, RTO stands for recovery time objective. The graph in which these two factors will be measured is from the five nines, the seven nines, or the three nines, that kind of factor. But it is a factor of my high availability. 99.9% of my database is available or 99.99999999%, giving a chance of 0.0001% for some kind of availability failure is because of natural disaster or some kind of electrical failures or something like that. So those are the factors you have to see for high availability.

My SAP HANA, technically, can withstand those calamities and recover itself from that disaster. That is called high availability. That high availability is there, but it is very, very, very minimal. If you're talking about high availability of HANA in actual high availability markets compared to Oracle and other RDBMS, HANA is a small child. If you remember when Microsoft SQL Server came into the RDBS market back in the year 1997, when they introduced the SQL 97, then they introduced the SQL 2000, SQL 2005. At that time, they introduced the high availability called Windows Cluster log shipping, mirroring the application.

At that time, in 2007 and 2008, Oracle introduced RAC, Real Application Clusters. Compared to the features of real application clusters, the Microsoft product was a small child. And Microsoft took that as a challenge and they improved and they improved. And in 2012 they introduced something called Always On. Always On is an improved version of high availability in SQL Server. HANA has to do that kind of stuff. HANA's high availability is immature.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate SAP HANA an eight.

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Prabhu Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Practice Manager at GyanSys Inc.

One person can manage the maintenance of the solution.

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate SAP HANA a ten out of ten.

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PP
SAP Process Mining Lead at Freelance

I'm using the latest version of the solution. I'm an end user, just not an expert. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. 

It's a good solution if you are already using SAP. 

I'd rate the solution six out of ten. 

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Joyee Sen - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Service Delivery Manager at SoftwareONE

There aren't many options available and this is a good product. I rate SAP HANA eight out of 10. 

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IH
Vice President at Abacus Consulting

I would tell those planning to use the solution that it works fine but needs to become more portable. The solution should also be made capable of supporting non-SAP application environments. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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VB
Sr Advisory Technical Specialist at IBM

More than three hundred people use SAP HANA within my organization.

At the moment, there's no plan to increase usage for SAP HANA.

My company does system patching every quarter, so there's no issue with maintaining the solution.

I would recommend SAP HANA to others who want to start using it.

My rating for the solution is eight out of ten.

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Pierre CAHAY - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten.

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Wael Elsagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at EJADA

I have over 50 customers using this solution.

I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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BM
IT Application Manager at TBTD

I'm working on data selection, upgrading database engines, and updating database versions. I'm the IT Application Manager, so I assist in those areas.

I'm working on the latest version of SAP HANA.

My company has an SLA contract with SAP for the maintenance of SAP HANA, which means that the SAP team will take care of the maintenance. You also have the option to cover the maintenance yourself if you have a team of SAP HANA consultants and seniors.

In my current organization, a total of five hundred people use SAP HANA.

I would recommend SAP HANA to others, particularly for business process needs. You need to make sure that the solution is already defined for your organization's business process. For example, if you're in the manufacturing industry, then SAP HANA should be defined for manufacturing. You shouldn't have to make many customizations to it. This is what you need to check first. SAP HANA should cover all and automate your business processes without needing a lot of customizations.

My rating for SAP HANA is nine out of ten.

My company is a customer of SAP.

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Umair Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I rate SAP HANA a seven out of ten.

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MB
Independent Consultant at Bosch&Cia

I am a client as well as a consultant. In both enterprises that I am responsible for, we bought SAP Business One for HANA.

We are in the process of installing HANA 2.0. 

It's a good investment. 

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

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Natra Vijaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Manager Consultant at Sfource AG

The solution has been good in our use case. Everything has been operating well.

A business has to understand what processes they need to use and according to their needs, they have to activate the required configurations within the SAP HANA system.

I rate SAP HANA a nine out of ten.

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Vinayak Shenoy Katarsal - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd recommend the solution. It's a very good product to learn and it's easy to use once you have an understanding of the technology. It's a nice product to work on.

I'd rate it eight out of ten.

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ShahidAhmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Success Executive at Thal Limited

As there is no alternative for SAP in the market, I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

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Fadhil Maulana - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Analytics Coordinator at PT. Hutama Karya

I would recommend SAP HANA and rate it at eight out of ten.

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VG
Senior Associate at Cognizant

I would rate the overall solution a nine out of ten. You can use the solution if it meets your requirements.

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BV
Owner at LAVORO AUTOM INF E COM LTDA

I'm a partner and consultant. 

I'm not sure which version of the product I am on.

I'd advise new users that it's important to first find a solution that can understand the culture that's involved inside this solution. Sometimes people think that ERP software like SAP are magical things that you just install it and it makes life easier. It doesn't work like this. You need to have the culture, you have to have this knowledge. You need to understand how it works and how much it requires from you. It requires more than you think. It doesn't work like magic.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's very good, however, there's always room for improvement. 

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GK
Vice President at StarTek

I do recommend this solution but at the same time, it is expensive. The cost will not be able to be afforded by everyone such as medium and small scale businesses.

I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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KK
Manager, Development, SAP Solutions at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend SAP HANA solution for ERP but not necessarily for analytics. There is no other solution that can provide the value added that we get from SAP, despite the challenges. 

I rate this solution nine out of 10.

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SG
Sr Regional Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We would give the product an overall rating of nine out of 10.

We have an entirely SAP family, which makes it easy to manage and support. The customer opened its first, and we are doing multiple instances of SAP ECC implementations for the rest of the small countries in APAC, the Middle East, and Africa.

Around 175 to 250 people use the solution at every level of the customer's organization.

We will be providing maintenance for the next five years.

My advice would be to explore and play with the different systems available in the market. But, ultimately, look for a system with a brand, broad user usability, and support. For instance, my customer wanted to explore an open-source ERP. We persuaded him to go with SAP, primarily because they have the expertise. They adhere to the best policies. They offer support, etc. 

If you don't have all this, don't explore freebies. Go for a licensed version, recommended globally, and highly rated by Gartner or various research and consulting firms.

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OK
Architect at Ernst & Young

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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SM
Consultant at HAND Enterprise Solutions LTD.

I'm using SAP HANA version 2.0 from 1.0.

Here in China, most people use the on-premise SAP HANA version.

My company has five hundred employees, all using SAP HANA.

I suggest this solution to people using SAP ERP or any other software from SAP.

My rating for SAP HANA is eight out of ten because it's a very powerful database for traditional and analytical scenarios.

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Ashwin Bhadouria - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager I.T. SAP HCM at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would highly recommend SAP HANA and would give it a ten on a scale of one to ten.

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AM
Chief Executive Officer at Redment

We are a customer. We don't have a professional relationship with SAP.

SAP HANA is not just a memory database, it's a big platform. It's a very, very safe database. It's a very safe database and the performance is very, very good for an in-memory database. For example, sometimes we use Oracle databases 18C or 19C. The data is in the memory, however, when data is running, it's very slow, due to the fact that all data is in the memory and you need to and go to write disk. 

Sometimes when the data is very large, we might scale up our approach, and, in the scale-up approach, sometimes it is slow in HANA. That said, the scale-up approach is very, very good. SAP has got one problem. When you start the database, all data from the tool's memory takes a very long time. We've found that IBM's non-volatile memory is better than internal memory.  New users just need to be aware of that.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. The solution, overall, has fantastic performance, however, the cost makes it really hard for us to keep using it.

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AM
Chief Executive Officer at Redment

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with SAP.

We're using the latest version of the solution.

We use an on-premises version and e have a private cloud in our company.

I'd recommend the solution. If you have, for example, a huge project that's kind of a unique, scalable database I recommend SAP HANA for it. It's easy to use and handles more RAM.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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George Mukira - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant at Spring Training & Consulting

The main lesson is the importance of ERP capability, stability, and speed. The other lesson is about knowledge transfer because that is how you learn. 

At the end of the day, I like it because it's one of the affordable ERP systems. I would rate is as eight of ten.

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SK
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would recommend this solution. The HANA database provided a lot of improvement in terms of speed, agility and efficiency.

I rate the solution nine out of 10. 

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PP
SAP Technical Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's one of the best databases in the world. 

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Amin Mohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Procurement & Contracts Team Leader at ATS

I would give SAP HANA a rating of nine out of ten.

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JH
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

On the basis of my experience, SAP HANA is better than other solutions.

I would recommend SAP HANA, and on a scale from one to ten, I would give it a rating of eight.

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AS
Development & ERP Technologies Department Manager at Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd advise others to wait until the software will be much more stable before implementing it.

I'd rate it eight out of ten. If it was more stable and more manageable, I'd rate it higher. If people could have the ability to do things on their own within the solution, to read the software logs on their own, and get the root cause of any problem, and not just send it to the support, it would be much better.

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AP
Software Engineer - Data at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I'm not really part of the decision making team or the architecture team. I do not know if my organization has a business relationship with SAP or not.

I'd rate the solution five out of ten.

In the case of enterprise projects, I've heard that SAP HANA is used very widely. I would say, in general, it would be good to explore other alternatives, and not just go with HANA. It would be good to explore big data alternatives that are out there. They might be a better fit. Databricks these days seems to be quite popular. It might be an interesting alternative for some organizations. Depending on the use case, I'd recommend that other alternatives should be considered. If it's a reporting solution that people are building, which is using a lot of SAP internal data, then SAP HANA is a good option. Otherwise, other alternatives are out there.

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DY
Account Executive at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's important to plan and then plan again before implementing. If you don't plan properly, you will fail. The solution requires planning the implementation, making sure your company is the right size for the product. If you're an SMB, this might not be the right product for you. It might cost you more than you think. If you're enterprise size, you should look at getting into SAP, because it is the right solution. It's a solid product despite some minor issues - if SAP were to fix them it would raise the level of the solution. 

As a user, I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

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EV
SAP manager at Ankutsan

I would recommend SAP HANA to others and rate it eight out of ten.

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Narasimhan Jayavel - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at Emerging Alliance

We deploy the solution mostly on-premises and sometimes on the cloud. When we use the cloud, we usually use the AWS cloud. 

I'd warn new users that it might be difficult the initial time they use it if they are changing their ERP, however,t it'll be very helpful in the future if they're using it frequently.

I'd rate the entire product an eight out of ten. There are other well-known ERPs, such as Salesforce, and companies expect to have the same features. However, not everything may be on SAP, and that's something they need to work on.

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YS
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.

I rate SAP HANA a ten out of ten.

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SS
Senior Engineering Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am not an expert in HANA. I build the enterprise bus that integrates with SAP HANA as well as other systems. We have built our own integrated platforms.

The recommendation of this solution would depend on the use case and the requirements, and the price will be considered.

I would rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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RL
Technical Department Manager at Direcbusiness Technologies, Inc.

We definitely plan to keep implementing this product in the future and I can recommend it.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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TT
Soullution Architech at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution's workflow system application and functionalities are compatible with SaaS components. I advise others to consider knowing the kind of data validation, performance tool, and use cases per their business requirement. They should look for other solutions if there are multiple data sources involved. 

I would rate it nine out of ten.

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RS
Assistant Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I recommend this solution but running SAP HANA requires deep pockets - it's costly.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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IF
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is cloud based

I would recommend S/4HANA to other users. 

I rate SAP HANA as a nine out of ten. 

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RS
Section Head at a energy/utilities company

The biggest lesson learned was that we started late. We all should have started earlier.

Out of ten, I would rate this solution as eleven.

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Sr. Solution Manager Consultant at Sfource AG

On a scale from one to ten, I rate this solution an eight. In the future I would like to see the response time of the application being much faster than it currently is. The response time on  a task should be faster so that we don't have to wait for 10 seconds each time. 

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RS
Head- IT at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are 40,000-plus users making use of the solution in our organization.

I rate SAP HANA as an eight out of ten. 

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TP
IT Manager , SAP HANA Administrator at Tara Paints & Chemicals

I rate SAP HANA a six out of ten.

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PT
SAP Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
  • Check out the cloud option to reduce your initial cost of deploying the dev/test system.
  • Strategize on side car approach, remember to try out the best practice model company to get look and feel for your business users.
  • Maintain non-disruptive approach while migrating via demo. 
  • Try out the rapid deployment solutions (RDS) for industry-specific modules.
  • Start end-user training/simulations early on to reduce pushback.
  • Split go-live into two (technical go-live and then business go-live) to maintain stage-wise roll-out.
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DM
Manager of Government and Data Quality at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd rate SAP HANA as nine out of ten.

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AG
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

SAP HANA is a good product and I can recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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IK
Consultant Application Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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AA
Technical manager at SAFE-SAS

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. It is a good product, but it is expensive.

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IH
Senior Information Technology Manager at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate SAP HANA a six out of ten.

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EV
SAP Consultant at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

We do not use the HANA features, for example, embedded scripts. This is something that we may use in the future.

My advice to anybody looking to implement a relational database is to use Oracle, rather than HANA. HANA consultants are very rare and therefore costly. My testing has also shown that Oracle in memory is much faster than HANA.

This is a good solution, but the vendor inaccurately promises that the database is ten-thousand times faster than Oracle.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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FH
SAP Basis Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product covers almost everything, and it's scalable and very innovative. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate SAP HANA at nine.

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AA
Technical manager at SAFE-SAS

The SAP portfolio is huge. It covers all industries and fields. It is very wide horizontally or vertically. It has modules for all industries, fields, and for all departments: accounts, HR, production, they have a solution for each industry and for each department in any organization.

There are some applications that are very sensitive to the delay or the latency so for these types of applications I would recommend SAP HANA. However, if these are not concerns, there may be other database technologies that would be more cost-effective than HANA.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.

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LA
Process Mining Data Scientist (CELONIS) at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

It is an SAP tool. Therefore, replicating the data from SAP to HANA is easy because it provides a high-performance area without overworking the SAP site. Working with big data is really nice in the SAP HANA database.

I would rate SAP HANA a seven out of ten. I took some points because of the pricing, user experience, and stability issues.

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VA
Datawarehouse Lead | Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has. We are going to continue to use the solution.

I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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NM
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Right now, they say the solution is S4 HANA, but, not everything on there is S4 HANA, so it is kind of confusing that they say that they're moving us to S4 HANA, but we are not really on it. Because of that, we're not 100% happy. Once everything is properly moved over, it might be better.

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it_user657090 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head IT at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with SAP HANA.

I'd rate the solution around nine out of ten. It's practically perfect.

It's a great solution and I would recommend it.

There's some configuration that needs to happen at the outset, however, after that, there isn't much dependency on the technical side, which makes it very user-friendly for companies.

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ND
Java Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate SAP HANA a nine out of ten. Not a ten because of the price. 

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AG
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend this solution. We plan to continue using this solution for our clients. 

I would rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

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it_user1018257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager (global) at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

We're moving away from HANA and currently implementing a new solution which is not yet productive. Only the first part of it has become productive and I can't really say whether it's better or worse. During testing, we can see it's faster than HANA and provides the same data which is promising. I would restrain myself from providing any recommendations because that might give a false impression.

I would not recommend SAP HANA because it has some issues with the speed and scalability of the size. It's also extremely expensive. It's probably the most expensive solution of all and you could expect more from it. On the other hand, we don't have much experience with other solutions yet, so it will be very difficult to provide a real recommendation.

I would rate it a seven out of ten.

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RK
Project Manager at a logistics company with 11-50 employees

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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Buyer's Guide
SAP HANA
March 2024
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