SAP HANA pros and cons

SAP HANA is vertically and horizontally scalable.

The solution offers advanced features that the company was struggling to implement.

Its in-memory capabilities are good, which is why many companies still use it.

Eases management of databases.

The solution is easy to scale.

It's easy to use, and the Hana Studio is pretty good.

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.

We like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes.

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.

We've had good experiences with technical support.

High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA.

A documents preview could be helpful.

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).

The user interface and CRM need to be more user-friendly.

Technical support could be better.

The JDBC connectors are very slow.

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.

It would be nice to know when SAP plans to stop its maintenance of a previous version of SAP ECC ERP because, at this point, anyone utilizing SAP will have no choice but to go on S/4HANA Database.

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.

The solution is very expensive for us.