SAP HANA Pros and Cons
SAP HANA Pros
SAP HANA is vertically and horizontally scalable.
View full review »Its in-memory capabilities are good, which is why many companies still use it.
View full review »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.
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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.
View full review »The solution is extremely stable. That's the most important aspect of the solution, for our organization. There is no downtime, and the performance is very good.
View full review »We've had good experiences with technical support.
View full review »The performance in terms of processing time is unmatched due to the in-memory processing capability.
View full review »The performance is very, very good. It's one of the best aspects of the solution.
View full review »It has a very huge bandwidth and data transfer.
View full review »If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy.
View full review »SAP HANA Cons
High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA.
View full review »SAP HANA is a very proprietary tool and there's not as much support available for it as there is for an SQL Server (which is more popular).
View full review »The interface is a little bit hard to customize. You almost have to consult the SAP original developer to change it.
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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.
View full review »I'd just like to see some more improvements done on the training, both on the functional training and technical training sides as a part of the complete solution.
View full review »The solution is very expensive for us.
View full review »The product is very demanding on memory requirements.
View full review »There's an issue in the partition. When you record more than two million records, partitioning does not work well. In Oracle it's easy. SAP must resolve this issue in order to be more competitive with Oracle.
View full review »The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing.
View full review »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.
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