SAP S4HANA on AWS Reviews

We use SAP S/4HANA on AWS for an enterprise environment encompassing multiple departments and functions like JBA, operations, finance, HR, and EIBM.

The product efficiently manages the data center without manual intervention.

The platform's front-end user interface needs improvement compared to other applications.

We have been using SAP S4HANA on AWS for more than ten years.

I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten.

I have been using SAP for 20 years. The initial setup process for deploying it on AWS is similar to the on-premise infrastructure.

SAP S4HANA on AWS has reasonable pricing.

It is a complete enterprise application. I recommend it to those looking for an ERP product to deploy on AWS. I rate it a ten out of ten.

My company's clients use SAP S4HANA on AWS to manage some of their daily work.

With SAP S4HANA on AWS, my company's clients find the real-time information system to be interesting.

SAP S4HANA on AWS should be standardized to make its implementation phase easier. The product's implementation phase can be very complex for customers.

I have been using SAP S4HANA on AWS since 2015. My company has a partnership with SAP.

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

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a four out of ten.

The capability of the product to integrate with other applications is one of the biggest problems I face when dealing with the implementation process.

Most of my company's clients who use the solution are medium-sized businesses.

The quality of the technical support provided for the product is something that depends on the managed service provider of the solution, which could be good or bad.

I rate the technical support a five out of ten.

Neutral

Based on the opinion of my company's customers, who find the product's initial setup process to be complex, I rate the product's initial setup phase between seven to eight on a one to ten scale, where one is a difficult setup process, and ten is an easy setup process.

The solution is deployed on the cloud and on an on-premises model.

The solution can be deployed in a year and a half to two years.

It takes around four to five years of using the solution to experience a return on investment from the product.

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

I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.

The tool should undergo an overall improvement, including support. Data sharing should also be faster. 

I have been working with the product for seven years. 

I rate SAP S4HANA on AWS' stability an eight out of ten. 

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

The tool's price is not cheap. 

We have medium enterprise clients for SAP S4HANA on AWS. I rate it a ten out of ten. 

SAP S4HANA on AWS is used mostly for SAP. Amazon AWS is one of the biggest installed bases for SAP solutions is why we selected Amazon AWS mostly for our clients.

The most valuable features of SAP S4HANA on AWS are that it's simplified and the analytical capabilities are good.

SAP S4HANA on AWS could improve by having more data centers because there are limited data centers in the region I am in. Amazon AWS has announced a few more data centers to be added, but they're still not 100 percent operational for SAP solutions.

I have been using SAP S4HANA on AWS for approximately two years.

SAP S4HANA on AWS is highly stable. I have not found any performance issues.

I rate the stability of SAP S4HANA on AWS a four out of five.

The scalability of SAP S4HANA on AWS is very good.

I rate the scalability of SAP S4HANA on AWS a five out of five.

The support was good. We only interacted once or twice with them, but not on a continuous day-to-day basis. Wherever we interacted with them it was good.

I rate the support from SAP S4HANA on AWS an eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup of SAP S4HANA on AWS is easy. The full implementation of the solution could take between 15 to 20 days. If it is only one system and it is a straight version with no upgrades and other things, then it will be only maximum of five to 10 days.

We use different teams for the deployment of SAP S4HANA on AWS, and currently, we are using two people.

We have approximately three to four people supporting this solution for maintenance.

My advice to others is this solution is straightforward and the deployment is very easy. I would suggest choosing Amazon AWS for SAP S4HANA if you have a nearshore data center to avoid any latency issues if we are in a different time zone.

I rate SAP S4HANA on AWS an eight out of ten.

I would like to see a lower price for the solution.

In order for us to use it so much, the solution has to be stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

The technical support is very good. I would rate it as a four and a half out of five. 

Positive

The initial setup was not an easy installation. It was very complex. 

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

My advice to someone looking to implement this solution would be to just do it. 

I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten because it covers all the fields, has a big maturity, and has something other solutions are missing, which is speed.

The cost is a factor for our customers, so that is an area for improvement. That is, compared to its competitors, SAP S4HANA on AWS is a costly solution. 

More availability zones will help customers choose AWS.

I would like to see features that provide easier onboarding for ERP solutions like SAP. SAP has already partnered with S/4HANA on AWS for hosting its public cloud as well. More educational videos for customers to choose this cloud path would be great to have. That is, providing more documentation and marketing material would be better.

I've worked with SAP S/4HANA for four years and on AWS for about four years.

It is indeed a stable solution, but it depends on how you architecture the component in AWS. If the component has the right architecture and is properly provisioned and placed, then it will be a stable platform.

It is scalable.

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

From a business process perspective, I would recommend that customers stick with the standard, which will help them to easily adopt the solution.

AWS is a market leader and pioneer in realizing cloud concepts and is once step ahead of its peers.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give SAP S4HANA on AWS an eight.

Infrastructure-wise, if you have your own data center and you're running SAP ECC, a very initial or the older version of SAP ERP - if that's the case, you need to maintain your own data center. You need to maintain your own infrastructure away from the server or network. SAP offers cloud hosting to help with that.

You can directly host your SAP system on AWS, Azure, or other cloud hosting services. SAP also provides its own cloud hosting part. That way, infrastructure activities are smaller. You don't have to have your own team of infrastructure guys to maintain each and every thing. Your infrastructure services get minimized a lot. You can save costs.

Issues related to the infrastructure also get reduced. Servers, et cetera, get reduced. Everything is stable and can be contained in dedicated AWS services.

They have their own instances where you can host your database. You can host your system, wherein AWS completely takes care of that hosting part. You just need to maintain and run the system and you have and just pay for the services you want to, which you have acquired, or which you are utilizing. It's pay as you need. The cost gets minimized a lot for a bigger ERP like SAP and you need to have any minimum resources from infrastructure which you need to take care of. It's a couple of SAP business administrators and the cloud architect. That's it.

Therefore, in terms of maintenance and cost, it is reduced by a lot and when you're hosting a SAP system on the cloud, the system is very fast. The system is secure and stable. And the accessibility of your SAP system to your business users is very properly organized so that there is no lag in terms of performance or in terms of integration is getting concerned. 

For the cloud part, it's very good. However, some customers are a bit skeptical and a bit hesitant regarding putting their data on the cloud. And, even if they want to put their data, the business transactional data, or their company data on the cloud or not, you will still have to take care of all these licenses from a security perspective. Just recently, we had a European client who wants to work with the SAP system, however, they don't want to go on the cloud. They want to go with the on-premise solution. This is possible. For this particular solution, with the AWS angle, it won't necessarily work for them. We'll have to go with the client's requirements. We'll host on-premises.

The integration part is quite secure and stable. Only the part from the customer side that's been raised is regarding their data hosting part on the cloud. Otherwise, we don't see any issue with hosting SAP on AWS. It's always good to have on there since it reduces cost. It reduces your maintenance-wise integration also. 

They are a very big company and their own data centers although you have to make all these protocols and service agreements so that the data will not get lost. You have to take proper care of the data. You have to take daily backups before any availability or any optimization. On-premise we also used to take backups, however, it was very manageable.

There are a few complexities when it comes to licensing that could be simplified. 

Regarding SAP S/4HANA services, we have been using these services for the last three to four years. Until 2017 or 2018, we were into SAP ECC. Therefore, our consultants are having major experience from various backgrounds. As a company, as a business service provider, we've used this product for the last three years.

The stability is fine. We do have a certified cloud consultant with us who is AWS-level certified and even our SAP business person is also SAP S/4HANA business certified. We do have our certified consultants who can take care of things and ensure it runs seamlessly. There are no performance issues. 

The solution can scale. We just have to identify how many users are there since we have to identify the instance of the database. That is very important. The common instance of the database needs to be created so we need to identify properly and number of CPUs, number of database instances, et cetera. All those things should be identified and once those are properly identified, then making and implementing the system and designing the system and running the system is not an issue. 

We have three clients that deal with this product.

We can always log and raise incidents. From the system side, only business and cloud architects are needed to manage any technical issues.

The initial setup was not a big task. We haven't had any kind of issues. The last time we did it within two months by completely making the setup of the SAP landscape quality. If the requirements and the services are getting properly identified, then the integrations became very easy.

For technical staff, we deploy four to five staff members from our side. We have a couple of cloud architects, one DBA wherein we have to align sometimes the SAP person to take care of the SAP node implementation, all those things, and to our SAP business side. They all ensure the implementation part is getting done. If it's a very small stack, then two to three consultants are enough. If it is a big one, then we might require four to six staff. It all depends upon the size of the landscape, how many cloud instances, and how many data instances we have to implement. 

We had a competent consultant that took care of all the requirements and made the setup simple. 

The cost is quite reasonable. It's less than if you had an on-premises setup or used different clouds. 

You do need licensing from the AWS side.

The cost may vary depending on if a company is taking a Greenfield approach or a Brownfield approach. If you're migrating your older systems to a newer system, then you have to upgrade your licenses, however, if you're starting with a completely new system, as in Greenfield, then you have to purchase a few extras, which might be a bit costly. The rate varies from SAP regarding those licensing parts. Each package depends completely upon the hosting instance, the cloud instance. It depends upon how much big infrastructure you want. 

We are an SAP partner. 

We deploy both on-cloud and on-premises versions. We have done SAP on cloud on AWS and the latest cloud solution, which is provided by SAP - Horizon ERP. SAP is increasing a lot. We have more returns from Horizon SAP compared to AWS, however, with AWS, we do have our consultants on the infrastructure side - including SAP cloud architects and SAP business consultants who are well versed regarding the requirements.

I am into the development area, but for me and my organization, I am looking after the SAP business development part for the client acquisition and sales and marketing.

Whether the solution would be a good fit for a company depends upon three scenarios. If the customer is a bit hesitant about the cloud, for example, then we go for SAP on-premise. If the customer is not hesitating about the data, then SAP and AWS are also good, however, SAP is also coming up with their own SAP online solution, which also might work for some people. Cost-wise, SAP AWS is always better.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We have clients who use SAP S4HANA on AWS.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The operation of the solution is good. It's easy to use and user-friendly.

The pricing is a little bit high.

I have used this solution for about seven years.

It's stable.

It's scalable. It's about 70% scalable.

I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.

I would recommend it to those who want to use it.