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We have a military customer, a joint venture between the Ministry of Defense of Egypt and the TELUS Group, working with SAP IQ.

When a customer tries to change to business intelligence, they acquire a lot to orient the business with stakeholders, which is an important key and the decision maker in an entity.

The product should add more business intelligence factors.

I started using SAP IQ 10 years ago. I have been using it since 2023.

10-15 enterprise customers are using this solution.

While working with IT customers, there’s a need for the quickest response. They delay the response but solve the issues.

Neutral

The initial setup is easy. We have around four well-trained developers doing the implementation and customer satisfaction. We deliver on time and ensure the auditing from time to time.

The solution’s pricing is high, but coverage is good with high implementation with customer requirements.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We are using SAP IQ as secondary storage for our SAP systems.

The primary benefit of SAP IQ is its ability to limit the expansion of the costly SAP HANA database, which has limited storage capacity. This necessitates a form of data management that involves moving data from SAP HANA to SAP NLS, which is essentially archiving. This allows us to retain access to the data via a link whenever it is required.

The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better.

I have been using SAP IQ for approximately 15 years.

SAP IQ is highly stable. It has been running for years with more data and we have not had any problems.

The scalability of SAP IQ is not scalable in itself. It is software that is used to store data in the SAP NFS. You can expand the storage as much as you want. The top layer of the application continues to run. The solution is scalable in the sense that the storage units where we keep the data can expand.

We have approximately 15 people that use the solution from our SAP BW and other teams.

I have not connected the support from SAP IQ.

The initial setup of SAP IQ is easy. We implemented our SAP NLS, which uses SAP IQ, along with SAP BW. We did the setup and we worked very closely with the SAP BW system. The whole implementation process is manageable.

SAP IQ closely resembles OpenText, which I use in conjunction with the SAP ECC ERP system. However, for BW, I utilize SAP NLS instead of OpenText, which functions as a storage unit for my data. The process is straightforward as I move the data from SAP HANA to NLS. Generally, there isn't much activity with SAP NLS, and I only retrieve data from it occasionally upon request. It isn't a system that presents any daily challenges, and mostly, it remains inactive, managing my legacy data in the background. Overall, I'm satisfied with its performance, and I don't have any current plans to modify the system.

We are using SAP IQ because it was available from SAP to support archiving. SAP BW, was SAP NLS. They never recommended an OpenText or there was no path to archiving in SAP BW. The standard setters use SAP NLS and SAP NLS runs on SAP IQ.

My advice to others is if they have SAP BW, then they should use SAP IQ, but if they have SAP BW, but have other SAP systems that might not need SAP IQ, they can look for other options.

I rate SAP IQ a seven out of ten.

Overall the solution is easy to use and highly stable.