SAP HANA Reviews

SAP HANA's best features are its programmability and extensibility - you can size and shape the software however you need.

I've been using SAP HANA for four years.

SAP HANA is very stable.

SAP HANA is very scalable.

The initial setup was very, very complex, tedious, and costly and required someone with great expertise to complete it. The deployment took two years.

We used an external team.

I would recommend SAP HANA to others and rate it eight out of ten.

I have customers who work with SAP, and I carried out performance research for them, comparing the different parameters of SAP HANA. The solution is generally used for data warehousing. 

I think the in-memory database is excellent as it boosts performance. 

The product lacks some flexibility in its settings and configurations.

The solution is stable. 

The product is quite scalable.

I don't think the initial setup is too complex. Obviously it's not easy because SAP HANA is a complex system, so it's somewhere in the middle.

Licensing costs are quite expensive for the Ukraine but there is a range of different purchasing models so it's flexible in that sense. For a small enterprise, the costs might seem unreasonably high.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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.

Some production features are lacking. For example, we cannot see any dashboards in the production department. The generation of reports needs to be better. We have sales reports and yet no production reports.

It's a complex initial setup.

It can be an expensive solution.

I've used the solution for six years.

The stability is very, very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The scalability is very good. It's very capable.

I've used technical support in the past. They are good.

I did not use a different solution. I use what my company uses in order to get reports.

The initial setup is difficult and complex. It's very complex compared to SQL, for example.

The initial deployment took 15 days, however, nowadays, it takes one or two days. Mostly, I can complete it in one day.

I'm a business consultant. I do implementations for various parts of my customers' organizations.

The licensing is typically chared yearly. It was rather expensive.

We deploy the solution mostly on-premises and sometimes on the cloud. When we use the cloud, we usually use the AWS cloud. 

I'd warn new users that it might be difficult the initial time they use it if they are changing their ERP, however,t it'll be very helpful in the future if they're using it frequently.

I'd rate the entire product an eight out of ten. There are other well-known ERPs, such as Salesforce, and companies expect to have the same features. However, not everything may be on SAP, and that's something they need to work on.

The most valuable features are the flexibility and the integration with other solutions in data quality.

HANA could be improved by adding analytics and development models in the institution.

I've been using this solution for two or three months.

The support is good and is available 24/7.

I'd rate SAP HANA as nine out of ten.

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.

In the Asian market, we have to customize SAP HANA to fit our needs and if we are implementing any solution from SAP or Oracle it is not recommended to customize them. 

In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax.

I have been using SAP HANA for a few months.

SAP HANA is highly stable.

We have not gone live yet with the solution to determine how many people with be using it. We have some applications deployed on our CRM and others will be deployed on SAP making it difficult to determine the potential usage of the solution at this time.

The price of SAP HANA is very expensive and it is paid annually.

I have evaluated other solutions from Oracle.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate SAP HANA a six out of ten.

The internet of things, big data, and utilization of block chain will be possible with HANA.

It's a reliable and fast solution.

It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it.

The worst thing about SAP HANA is the price; it's very expensive. The licensing cost, implementation cost, hosting cost, and appliance cost are all high. 

We've been using it for three years now.

It's a cloud-based solution.

It is a very stable solution.

It's very scalable.

The technical support has been fine.

We were running SAP on Oracle, and then we switched to HANA.

If it's a new installation, it is straightforward. However, if it's a migration from one system to a new system, it's not as straightforward as you might think it would be.

We utilized around 30 technical and functional staff because we were leaving our legacy system behind and migrating to a new one. 

We pay for a maintenance license, and the licensing cost is high. In general, it is a very expensive solution.

This product covers almost everything, and it's scalable and very innovative. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate SAP HANA at nine.

We always make use of the latest version. 

We like that SAP HANA is a new technology. We also 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.

In light of the hosting cost, we find this to be very interesting. We also like the warm and cold data in respect of the solution's technology. There is a real team involved. The customer can initially utilize SAP ECC on the HANA interface and then go on S/4HANA. From this point on, doing upgrades will be very easy and smooth and the risk management will be extremely light.

Since only some accommodation exists, there is a need to enquire of SAP about which environment would be good. While I know the HANA database on the Azure environment comprises a good solution, for example, it does not easily accommodate SAP. HANA is a new technology which only dates back to 2004 and we must give it adequate time before assessing its room for improvement. This is in contrast to DB2, which has been  around for 40 years or more years. Perhaps the flow will be improved. As of now, the technology is too new to properly comment on.   

The documentation is not an issue and, if anything, a surfeit of it is made available. This is actually one of SAP's stronger points.

Capabilities are also not at issue at present. When it comes to how EAP connects with SAP we are looking at a revolutionary paradigm. For now, we could not ask for there to be more features. This area is wonderful. We find the solution to be very helpful, safe, good and secure. Only with the passage of time will we be afforded a proper understanding of where the technology can be improved. 

This said, 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. This will be contingent on when SAP will stop doing maintenance for the ECC version 6.0. 

We saw this with the 4.6 version ECC. Once SAP stopped its maintenance those with SAP were forced to go on the new version. 

We have been using SAP HANA for a couple of years. 

The solution is secure and stable. 

As the solution allows for document compression, I would consider it scalable. 

We have had occasion to make use of technical support, although its level varies according to the locale of SAP's global presence. 

While I was not personally involved in the installation, my engineers were. 

My deployment and maintenance team comprises around seven people, although I could not tell you which percentage of this is made up of managers, administrators and engineers. 

A monthly or yearly license must be purchased, although its utility will be based on the cost-benefit analysis that is reached by the individual customer. 

The solution is cloud based

I would recommend S/4HANA to other users. 

I rate SAP HANA as a nine out of ten. 

We are primarily using the solution for the BW system of SAP. We also use the legacy reporting, which is very good.

The solution is quite fast.

We hoped to move all our BI systems to work with HANA, unfortunately, there are a lot of performance issues, even after remodeling the BW models.

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.

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.

I've been using the solution for about 3 years

The solution is less stable than traditional databases. We have encountered several cases when the database just flows. For some reason, that database took a lot of memory, and when we opened a case with SAP, we had to send a lot of logs, which did nothing because at the end, they couldn't find the root cause for this issue. This happened in several cases. We had production down and that's not acceptable for our business.

The solution is very scalable. We have about 10,000 users.

Each of those is not connecting to the database per se, but we are using HANA to take all the data and a lot of users. Several other software applications are also connecting to it.

Technical support is okay, but not great. It seems like there are a lot of SAP support packages that are coming out and lots of versions. For me, this indicates that the product is not quite ready or stable enough.

We've contacted technical support in the past and did not get good results. Eventually, we just created some parameters that we have configured into the system. We solved the problem by ourselves by creating a workaround that avoided the problem. SAP never gave us a straight answer about what we should do in our case.

The initial setup was quite complicated. We had to do a migration, so it wasn't a fresh installation. We had Oracle as our legacy system and had to move everything over to HANA. We had to do half a year of testing and had to do several cycles of tests and migrations before deploying. Once that was done, we deployed over a weekend.

We handled the implementation ourselves.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

I'd advise others to wait until the software will be much more stable before implementing it.

I'd rate it eight out of ten. If it was more stable and more manageable, I'd rate it higher. If people could have the ability to do things on their own within the solution, to read the software logs on their own, and get the root cause of any problem, and not just send it to the support, it would be much better.

We are using this solution for enterprise resource planning.

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.

I have been using this solution for approximately five years.

The solution is stable. I have not had any bugs or issues.

We have over 50 people using the solution in my organization.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We used an integrator for the implementation of the solution and we were satisfied.

The price is high and could be a bit cheaper.

I rate SAP HANA a six out of ten.

We are using this product for IAM.

Using this solution has given us better details for reporting and analytics.

The most valuable feature is optimization.

The performance and integration with other products are areas in need of improvement.

I have been working with SAP HANA for between three and four years.

The stability is okay.

It scales well and we have had no trouble with it.

The technical support is good.

The deployment was straightforward.

We had assistance from an SAP partner for deployment.

The price of this product is good.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.