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Google Cloud vs SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (6th)
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Google Cloud is 8.7%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is 1.7%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

RaidHammouri - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring solution enhances cost efficiency with good internal tools
In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet improvements are needed in the tools and offers provided to customers. I currently only use, for example, a native hybrid. VMware is not available, and other hypervisors are still not there. They need to wait on that.
Suresh Tanneeru - PeerSpot reviewer
High stability, reasonably priced, and important for digital transformations
Customers need to be better educated about using the solution's cloud for digital transformation. SAP as a legacy system is missing that flavor. The solution is not a traditional ERP software so should be used as a digital transformation tool. That is the story to project to customers, partners, and sales teams. This will help the solution grow faster than GCP, AWS, or Azure. In fact, Google Cloud Platform is now collaborating with SAP for digital transformation. The solution should offer affordable modules that are customized to startups with 50 to 500 employees. Most people think of SAP as being only for big enterprises but it could be very useful for smaller companies. There are 40,000 to 50,000 startups in APAC each year and that is a large volume. Many of the solution's modules could be used by those startups. Google is targeting this market with chat boards and automation tools at a reasonable price or with six months of free usage. SAP should come up with this kind of module and include sandbox so providers can play with a few of the POCs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"It's a perfect tool for startups."
"Technical support has been good."
"The solution scales well."
"It's available any time you need it."
"It's easy to deploy next-generation applications on Google Cloud. Customers can also use various cloud tools to optimize their operations and generate more insights to do business much smarter."
"What I like most about Google Cloud is its stability. I also like that its GUI works fine for my company."
"Google Cloud is easy to use and accessible anywhere."
"This solution is as good as any other S/4HANA SAP solution. The continuous support we get is very valuable."
"Fiori is the most valuable feature, as well as the the integration between S/4 and another solution as an extension."
"The processes and the way we take advantage and use assistance are good."
"The BTP module is important for digital transformations."
"There's a minimum amount of downtime when using the solution. This platform is very effective."
"It has significantly streamlined our operations."
"Traditionally, SAP worked with Oracle databases, but SAP is getting rid of the other databases and promoting its own. SAP will stop support for other databases around 2026, so everyone is moving to SAP S/4HANA for the performance and because it's the preferred database for SAP. S/4HANA has new features from the front-end or application feature perspective. The idea is to move toward future-ready technology."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
 

Cons

"Technical support needs help."
"When companies grow at a larger scale, they may shift to a different cloud services provider like AWS or Oracle."
"They need to improve the costing for predictive analytics, which is mainly related to the tools that come with AI. They also need to improve the BigQuery cost optimization and the visualization."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"Sometimes the Google documents are difficult to learn from. Amazon has better support material."
"The storage available for this solution could be improved, especially compared to a solution like Microsoft which offers 1 TB of storage. Google cloud offers only 30 GB."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"It needs improvement in terms of stability and performance."
"The stability needs to be improved to be able to handle large amounts of data."
"The SAP products are complicated to deploy anywhere."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Perhaps minor changes to the enterprise structure could be made, but the rest is fine."
"It’s a common challenge with applications like Microsoft and SAP that they tend to rely on engineers rather than human resources personnel for knowledge and implementation."
"The main thing is that SAP needs to give better response times for support tickets."
"They should probably offer more cloud services. Most of the cloud infrastructure providers we have make everything pretty transparent, you know what you're getting, you have all these metrics and measurements and everything in the dashboard. Here you have to go through the contracting negotiations and all those things."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is cheaper than AWS."
"I am not familiar with the pricing, but I would guess that it is probably cheaper than Microsoft Suite"
"It is not easy to calculate the price of the solution from the pricing table since they are not standard rates. However, I find the solution’s prices to be fair and reasonable."
"The best part of Google Cloud is that it is cheaper than the competitors."
"The solution is cheaper than Azure."
"Licensing fees are paid monthly."
"Google Cloud should be divided into modules so that users can buy which module will satisfy them. The overall price of Google Cloud should be reduced, Microsoft is a little bit cheaper. However, if Google divided the cloud offering it would be better. For example, if someone wants to use only for OneDrive they should be able to purchase the service separately, it would reduce the price. There is a license required to use this solution for enterprises. There is a free account, which the users can increase the size of the space. Google cloud is used in most Android Mobile device operating systems."
"It's not really an expensive solution, but it would be better if there were more flexibility in the pricing model."
"The pricing is reasonable when compared to other vendors like Oracle who offer technology enterprise resource software."
"The price is expensive compared to the competition."
"The product itself is relatively expensive."
"The price is on little bit higher. For SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we see roughly five crores per annum."
"The licensing of the solution is on a yearly basis. The normal price of the solution is quite high, but I received a special discount by making a purchase near the end of the year."
"I rate the product's price a five out of ten."
"It's very, very expensive."
"Our pricing is based on a yearly contract."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
46%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Cloud?
Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the ...
What needs improvement with Google Cloud?
In terms of Google services, providing more hypervisors would be beneficial. Currently, in my region, they don't offer many services as they have just started. They have some local instances, yet i...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud?
My platform offers a monitoring solution for the virtual machines hosted in GCP. GCP is one of the firms that I work with. For customers who use GCP as an infrastructure service, software as a serv...
What do you like most about SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?
It has significantly streamlined our operations.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?
SAP HANA Cloud can be quite costly compared to other solutions. The high licensing costs make it an expensive option, particularly for smaller customers. However, they offer solutions for mid-sized...
What needs improvement with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?
SAP should adopt more rapid changes in market processes and customer needs to deliver solutions that meet new industry requirements swiftly. SAP finance needs to be more advanced to keep up with cu...
 

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