SAP HANA Valuable Features
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Khalil AbdulrahmanAlasbahi
Commercial Manager at Natco Information technology
The solution is marvelous because it controls everything including workflow, and that makes our company more productive.
The compatibility between modules and the control are excellent.
The documentation and archiving systems are good.
View full review »Technically it resembles Oracle, but as a somewhat lighter version.
View full review »The best part of our multi-node system is its ability to help us a lot. This system consists of a primary and secondary node, which is a database, and it works effectively.
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SAP HANA
March 2024
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The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the interaction it provides with external suppliers and clients.
View full review »The solution is very fast in terms of memory. It's very convenient and very innovative. It's very good at handling the input and output of the data. There is no lag.
It has become the base of building graphical calculation views.
It is very convenient when you are working with Postgres or Snowflake. When you have modeled everything correctly, it's easy to translate the model.
With the way native works, it builds a good platform. It's not just a database. It's much more.
It has an inbuilt smart data integrator which you can use for sourcing, researching, and loading the data. It's included in the web IDE version of the web HANA deployment.
This is a very mature product. The performance is very good.
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AtulimaDixit
Supply Team Engineer at Micron Technology
SAP HANA's interface is pretty user-friendly. It is not very difficult to pull out data extract, and even a beginner can fetch data easily. Additionally, data snapshots are available. Also, building upon a more advanced query is not that difficult. In terms of usability, SAP HANA is pretty good.
View full review »The solution can easily be modeled.
The speed at which it gets the data is great. There's a quick response time and quick reporting.
Most of what we need is already there.
The initial setup isn't too difficult.
It's a scalable product.
View full review »What I like best about SAP HANA is that it's faster than Microsoft SQL Server.
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reviewer1964127
Country Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The integration is quite good. It's like an add-on in which we add the tools we need, like Excel.
We're not using the interface with SAP HANA itself. However, we're using a remote access link which we access via the web, and we are also using an add-on, which is installed in our Microsoft Excel program. Therefore, we are not particularly using the SAP HANA environment. We don't have this desktop interface in front of us. As far as I know, this is the engine behind all our work.
The setup is easy.
When we upgraded, we received more functions or more features. I am not aware of all of them; however, I've received positive feedback from the users in our company.
It's a stable product.
The solution scales well.
View full review »The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is its performance and integration.
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PreeteshPardeshi
SAP Process Mining Lead at Freelance
The data modeling feature is the most useful to me.
For my use case, it works very well.
It's stable and reliable.
View full review »This is a very feature-rich solution with excellent performance. It's capable of integrating with most applications on the market. The stand-out feature of SAP HANA is that all data resides in memory. Processing is significantly faster, and the need and size of databases drop because there is no need to create and maintain tables that hold historical data.
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ImranHasware
Vice President at Abacus Consulting
SAP HANA should go for big data solutions as well. So, SAP HANA is good for large enterprises and large databases. Even for large databases, we have to rely on other tools, especially those that fall under big data solutions. Hence, SAP HANA needs to be a part of big data solutions.
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VaishnavBsa
Sr Advisory Technical Specialist at IBM
The feature I found most valuable in SAP HANA is modeling. I also like that the solution has good integration and you can integrate it with any system, even third-party systems.
View full review »We have found that the Fiori Apps are particularly good.
View full review »The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases.
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Bassem Mohammed
IT Application Manager at TBTD
What's most valuable in SAP HANA is that it covers the business process systems of my company. The solution also helps because it makes almost everything automated. Another valuable feature of SAP HANA is that it can be integrated with third parties and other enhancements needed by the company.
View full review »As I only worked part-time on SAP HANA, I did not have the opportunity to explore the advanced features of the solution. However, I did work with basic features, such as user administration and access controls for the accounting department. The feature that stood out to me the most was the Single Sign-On and user administration, backup, and server management. My experience with SAP HANA was mainly focused on basic server improvements.
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MARTIN BAÑALES
Independent Consultant at Bosch&Cia
The solution has a pure interface. The UX is very good. That's the most significant feature.
Working with KPIs and ERP is easy.
There is too much documentation, and SAP has open SAP courses that are very useful. It depends a lot on what I, as a consultant, am interested in.
When you understand the software, the setup is simple.
It is stable.
The product scales well.
View full review »The user interface is very good. You can do any kind of reporting analytics from the platform.
View full review »I like the integration process. Also, the data is trusted by our management, and we use the data from transactions for analysis.
View full review »We appreciate that the current, redesigned version of this solution that is much more straightforward for new users, and has been well thought out with industry best practice standards in mind.
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Bruno Valentim
Owner at LAVORO AUTOM INF E COM LTDA
The solution offers advanced features that the company was struggling to implement. For example, in terms of parts, you can't implement a lot of structures of the machinery, however, you still need to use the codes. They're not related one to another, which makes them hard to find, typically. That means every time you need it to buy an entire assembly of parts, you need to know exactly which one you had. You have to use a drawing, a technical drawing, that specifies each code that you need. SAP saves you from asking to bring an entire assembly with a lot of parts. That's a powerful aspect that could help to reduce hours of work that are wasted in this way.
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Venu Satya Kolapalli
Vice President at StarTek
The main feature is that the processes are very flexible, they are able to be adapted to the business and their departments. The solution is very good and has covered all functional areas needed in this type of solution.
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reviewer1876326
Manager, Development, SAP Solutions at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product handles high volumes very well and provides good integration. HANA has great databases and we're able to have a lot of custom-built features. I think this is the best solution for us given our high file volumes.
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reviewer1156443
Sr Regional Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The IBP module was the most useful followed by the FI/CO and CNMM modules.
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Oleg Krivolapov
Architect at Ernst & Young
I think the in-memory database is excellent as it boosts performance.
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Shili Ma
Consultant at HAND Enterprise Solutions LTD.
The best feature of SAP HANA is column computing. The computing speed of the solution is also very high, so developers can easily develop programs through SAP HANA.
View full review »The most valuable features I have found are speed, dashboard, and reporting.
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Ali Mirnia
Chief Executive Officer at Redment
The solution is very stable.
The solution can scale well.
We've had good experiences with technical support.
The performance is excellent.
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Ali Mirnia
Chief Executive Officer at Redment
The memory capabilities are great.
The performance is very, very good. It's one of the best aspects of the solution.
I've used Oracle for ten years, and yet, I find SAP better than Oracle. Oracle is more cost-based.
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. We were basically able to do pre-qualifications using SAP. After that, we could send notifications to people who qualified and go through the non-qualified people using SAP. That feature is very effective in terms of supplier relationship management. We can issue tenders and people put their big documents through SAP HANA, which helps with communication and gives them notifications.
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reviewer2060205
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It's great that the analytics are fast. I had previously worked on BW and when the same workloads were run on HANA, it was much quicker.
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Prasad Pithani
SAP Technical Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution offers very good in-memory computing.
We can save data very easily.
It is easy to set up. The implementation process is quite straightforward for us.
The solution is stable.
View full review »SAP HANA's most valuable features are monitoring, reporting, and price and stock control.
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Joseph Huang
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Some functions have good performance.
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AllaShlafir
Development & ERP Technologies Department Manager at Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.
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.
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reviewer1353810
Software Engineer - Data at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
What is good about SAP HANA is its simplicity and its flexibility.
Its in-memory capabilities are good, which is why many companies still use it.
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accounte853641
Account Executive at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
SAP is great for what it does. There are likely better solutions out there but I'm not aware of them. It's a solution for big companies and in that sense it makes management of the databases much easier for higher-level people to know what's going on.
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Erkan Varol
SAP manager at Ankutsan
SAP HANA's best features are its programmability and extensibility - you can size and shape the software however you need.
View full review »The dashboard is great.
It's user-friendly so long as you use it frequently.
The product is stable.
You can scale the solution.
Technical support has been good.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
We have found the solution to be customizable and it is beneficial it comes as a bundled package. Additionally, it is user-friendly.
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reviewer1575201
Senior Engineering Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's easy to use, and the Hana Studio is pretty good.
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Rmegio Lawag
Technical Department Manager at Direcbusiness Technologies, Inc.
What I like most are the dashboards and pervasive analytics. Those are the most useful to us.
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David Mbugua
Group General Manager-ICT at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Security and performance are the two most valuable features. Our processing time came down to less than two hours from more than ten hours in the legacy system. We use the product to process our small-scale grower payments at the end of the month and whose daily tea deliveries records are in hundreds of thousands.
The audit trails in the HANA product are so robust that one can trace back to the tiny details of what happened at a particular time, who did it, and the time it was done. This makes auditing of both the transactions and performance of the product possible.
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reviewer2179353
Soullution Architech at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
SAP HANA is very flexible and easy to integrate with SaaS components.
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reviewer1652946
Assistant Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution's in-memory computing and the efficient response time are very good features. It's a good solution.
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RamyShaaban
Section Head at a energy/utilities company
Integration is the most valuable feature we use SAP HANA for.
View full review »We don't really use the solution for code integration purposes but one feature I find very valuable, is the response time of the application on the database memory.
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reviewer1717869
Head- IT at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The in-memory database is a good and valuable feature.
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Tarun Panchal
IT Manager , SAP HANA Administrator at Tara Paints & Chemicals
The solution is easy to manage enterprise resources and the reporting and analytics are including. It is good for company growth and all module are managed well.
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Param T
SAP Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real-time database, near zero downtime for production business.
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reviewer1784415
Manager of Government and Data Quality at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are the flexibility and the integration with other solutions in data quality.
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reviewer1396107
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a feature-rich product and I like all of them.
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reviewer1155018
Consultant Application Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the unique style of this solution, on the performance side and then the data.
The data storage requirement is reduced from the original database to the HANA database.
Previously the data takes 100% storage space, but when moved to HANA, the data was 70% to 75%. The data compression is very high.
If you are using SAP applications, HANA is suitable.
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Imran Hafeez
Senior Information Technology Manager at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
It is difficult for me to narrow down what the best features are in SAP HANA because they work together to provide the overall functionality of the solution. However, the Fiori application is very good.
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SAPcon677
SAP Consultant at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is very fast.
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reviewer1414206
SAP Basis Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a reliable and fast solution.
It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it.
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Ahmed_Adel
Technical manager at SAFE-SAS
It is a memory database that has all the content of the database. Once the database is turned on, it is loaded in the server RAM. It has a very huge bandwidth and data transfer. Once you try to do any queries against this database you can get the result very fast. You can get real-time output or results. This aspect is very helpful to me.
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reviewer1413237
Process Mining Data Scientist (CELONIS) at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
The feature that I like the most is that we can transport the data to our web data application.
SAP HANA's performance is really perfect. We're working on big data, and SAP HANA is really working on high performance. We are happy working with it.
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reviewer1489158
Datawarehouse Lead | Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution operates well. I had no problems with the functionality.
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reviewer910095
Consultant at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The speed of the solution, and the clarity offered are the solution's most valuable features.
The functionality is of the solution is very good.
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.
You can upgrade and upscale without any downtime as well. It's excellent.
The HANA appliance is certified and can be seamlessly implemented based on the HANA platform dependency. Everything works. On a daily basis, it runs extremely well.
The pricing is pretty good.
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reviewer1396107
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
All features are valuable.
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reviewer1494228
Project Manager at a logistics company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is optimization.
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SAP HANA
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SAP HANA. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.