SAP HANA Pros and Cons

The most value for us was in terms of using it to issue tenders online. We host our server, but it is open to the public, so clients who want to buy those tenders were able to go online, put their tender documents up, and we could evaluate them using SAP.

The memory is the solution's most valuable feature. It's the main feature of HANA. Others are still the regular IT databases that are on storage and are therefore much slower than HANA. The solution is quite fast.

It has a very huge bandwidth and data transfer.

If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy.

This solution is very fast.

The functionality is of the solution is very good.

Integration is the most valuable feature we use SAP HANA for.

Provides us with predictive capabilities for asset maintenance, and real-time forecasts.

The user interface is very good. You can do any kind of reporting analytics from the platform.

The data storage requirement is reduced from the original database to the HANA database.

The interface is a little bit hard to customize. You almost have to consult the SAP original developer to change it.

Unlike other databases, it lacks management features that legacy databases like Oracle or SQL servers have. They need to make the solution easier to manage and offer tools that make management more effective. A lot of things you have on traditional databases you have to develop into HANA.

The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing.

In terms of improvement, the speed is not as good as we thought it would be. That is why we are trying different solutions that will be built with different technologies.

The inclusion of a well-performing Time Machine is vital.

The challenge right now is all databases are on S4 HANA architecture. You're running it for HANA, but not all the functionalities are available. If they can speed up getting all the databases on S4 HANA that would help.

FI, or the financial module of SAP, has room for improvement. It has to have some better localization for the Middle East, especially in regards to taxes and the letter of credit cycle. I would like to see better localization from the HCM.

Needs graphical programming without coding.

When you do a report on a non-SAP platform, you face some compatibility problems.

I think that the pricing is high and it needs improvement.