SAP HANA Reviews

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.

We use the solution to store and migrate the data.

SAP HANA is very flexible and easy to integrate with SaaS components.

The solution could be more flexible. It is challenging to integrate it with third-party tools apart from SaaS components. Also, they should include a feature like local field in the next release.

The solution's workflow system application and functionalities are compatible with SaaS components. I advise others to consider knowing the kind of data validation, performance tool, and use cases per their business requirement. They should look for other solutions if there are multiple data sources involved. 

I would rate it nine out of ten.

We work with the latest update.

We use the solution as a database. We primarily use it for the SAP application. Some of the use cases involve CDS Views, which provides a quicker processing of the report and the application.

The in-memory database is a good and valuable feature.

Since we use BW, we are required to use an SLT tool to carry out the data for generating the reports. But, when it comes to in-memory database in respect of the realtime reporting, I do not see why this report cannot be made available from the system itself. This would allow for some partitioning of the database, so that there would not be a need for the EMP in respect of the realtime data.

The initial setup was complex. I am talking about how the data is replicated to the site. We had an Oracle Database and did replication to the VR site. Yet, when it comes to HANA, we are forced to work out the method for ensuring that this replication works as it should. It is at this point that the solution becomes stable. 

Technical support could be better. When we have requested this, the tendency has been to instruct us to implement a note and keep them apprised. In reality, there is no one who helps us with actual troubleshooting of the problem. 

The pricing is a bit on the high side. 

While I would definitely recommend the solution, I would caution that one should employ the proper resources that are geared towards the system. Unfortunately, SAP does not provide a structured training program, which means a person must rely on multiple system integrators and some service providers.

We have been using SAP HANA for more than three years.

The stability is very good and we have encountered no issues regarding it. 

The initial setup was complex. I am talking about how the data is replicated to the site. We had an Oracle Database and did replication to the VR site. Yet, when it comes to HANA, we are forced to work out the method for for ensuring that this replication works as it should. It is at this point that the solution becomes stable.

The solution is easy to scale.

Technical support could be better. When we have requested this, the tendency has been to instruct us to implement a note and keep them apprised. In reality, there is no one who helps us to actually troubleshoot the problem. 

We had already been using SAP when we switched from it to Oracle, because all of the innovations were taking place on HANA. 

The initial setup was complex. I am talking about how the data is replicated to the site. We had an Oracle database and did replication to the VR site. Yet, when it comes to HANA, we are forced to work out the method for for ensuring that this replication works as it should. It is at this point that the solution becomes stable.

The deployment lasted six months. 

We deployed with the help of a vendor.

No real maintenance is required. Data volume management is needed and all the reports are available, based on which the maintenance is easy. 

The pricing is a bit on the high side. 

The use of hardware does not incur additional costs. 

There are 40,000-plus users making use of the solution in our organization.

I rate SAP HANA as an eight out of ten. 

We use this solution for database storage.

I am an SAP developer and consultant at my company. I examine the client's system and propose solutions that will ease their processes or make them faster. This involves programming, as well as other kinds of development.

We are using the on-premise deployment model.

This solution is very fast.

The backup solution and time machine should be more accurate, reliable, and comfortable to use. The inclusion of a well-performing Time Machine is vital.

If the interface were more comfortable and easy to use then it would be excellent. Sometimes, an incorrect request is taken to production and it will corruption everything in the production database.

When there are a large number of records to process in a transaction, it is not any faster than Oracle.

This solution is very stable. We have been using it for one year and there have been no problems with the database.

I was not involved in the setup of this solution. I only installed SAP HANA Express on my laptop, which was easy. The full version requires professional knowledge. It's not something you can install, like Microsoft Office, on any laptop.

We hired a consulting firm in Turkey to set up our solution. The two machines were configured by SAP Turkey.

I have more than nineteen years of experience with the Oracle database, from version 7.2 through to RAC. I know the administration, as well as backup and recovery very well.

There are not many differences between Oracle and HANA. As an example, for transactional purposes, it is very similar to Oracle.

We switched to HANA from Oracle because SAP systems are moving entirely to the HANA platform. There will be no support for SAP using Oracle.

We do not use the HANA features, for example, embedded scripts. This is something that we may use in the future.

My advice to anybody looking to implement a relational database is to use Oracle, rather than HANA. HANA consultants are very rare and therefore costly. My testing has also shown that Oracle in memory is much faster than HANA.

This is a good solution, but the vendor inaccurately promises that the database is ten-thousand times faster than Oracle.

I would rate this solution a seven 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.

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.

I am the technical consultant at our firm and our primary use case of the solution is to manage our databases. 

We don't really use the solution for code integration purposes but one feature I find very valuable, is the response time of the application on the database memory. 

If the developers were to enhance or improve the application logic while processing the transactions, that would be great. For example, if you are accessing a transection, it takes about 10 seconds. So the logic behind the transection usually is part of the development part and a product code is not from the database.

The solution is currently very stable. We have about 80,000 people in our company's underlying database.

The technical support is good and they were very helpful.

The initial setup was complex and we had to contact the vendor a couple of times. And for the licensing part we've also had a couple of issues. We did the deployment ourselves, as a team. 

On a scale from one to ten, I rate this solution an eight. In the future I would like to see the response time of the application being much faster than it currently is. The response time on  a task should be faster so that we don't have to wait for 10 seconds each time.