SAP S4HANA on AWS vs Virtustream xStream comparison

"I recommend SAP S4HANA if your team is well-prepared and your internal organization is educated before implementation."

"This solution has one of the most modern databases and it is very stable."

"The Fiori interface is the most valuable feature. It's one of the highlights that they offer. The in-memory of S4 is very fast."

"It's easy to use and user-friendly."

"After the implementation phase of the product, it becomes a very stable tool."

"Technical support is very good from SAP and AWS...Scalability is always available in the solution...With a stable environment, it should be running very nicely."

"The tool's installation is easy. I rate it an eight out of ten."

"We have approximately 1,000 people using the solution in my organization. The solution is scalable."

"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."

"I would like for them to have more integration with virtualization platforms."

"Over the last three to four years, I haven't encountered significant issues with SAP S/4HANA. While occasional system bugs are normal in software, the overall experience has been positive. As a business partner, it stands out as a reliable ERP solution."

"The manufacturing application system, it's not as user-friendly in S4HANA."

"The solution's overall enterprise support could be improved."

"The product can be very complex."

"There are incidents where there are certain glitches, however, they are specifically because of the configuration that people have made and based on the decision I made during the implementation project."

"The user-friendliness is questionable."

"The drawback of this tool versus an on-site tool is that you've got to upgrade the tool. The software is upgraded as it gets upgraded and you've got to be ready to change whatever processes and do whatever training you need to do."

"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."

"I rate the product price a six on a one to ten scale, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Compared to its competitors, SAP S4HANA on AWS is a costly solution."

"I would rate the pricing as a two and a half out of five."

"There are additional modules-wise, it's needed for modules, and also for any new functions."

"The price of SAP S4HANA on AWS is reasonable, given how much it costs to maintain a scratch-built system. To upgrade the support there is a fee."

"We pay an annual subscription fee for the solution, which is slightly expensive."

"We pay a monthly fee for the use of SAP S4HANA on AWS for approximately five years. That's the time of the contract."

"The vendors have different pricing, ways of serving, security, and providing the service. You go and compare the offerings. Some might be better with smaller companies. For example, Microsoft Azure can handle small and medium-sized companies best but still can cover some large companies. Whereas Amazon AWS and IBM are going to cover sized companies. There's no clear advantage. Probably Amazon AWS may have been the first to be certified by SAP as a cloud-hosting partner. Then Microsoft Azure and IBM were certified at the same time. You have to partner up and be certified by the software."

"The solution is a bit expensive, we are still negotiating the price."