SAP HANA Cloud vs Watson IoT Platform

• If required, SAP S/4HANA may be installed and configured on the cloud.
• Because of the simplification of functionality, IT personnel may be able to devote more of their time and resources to delivering services rather than doing maintenance tasks.
• Assist businesses in making better decisions about their operations by providing better information.
• SAP HANA is a superb web solution with advanced remote data synchronization capabilities that is very quick and easy to use.

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• The asset information is available in both static and dynamic format (from thermal images, to OEM data, to time series data). The ability to ingest all the information using a single platform has great value.
• Another benefit is a seamless integration with Maximo. This has been a challenge with other 3rd party systems available.
• The experience of IBM Maximo systems updates is positive.

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• Better workload management - de-prioritize long running queries.
• Better scheduling and monitoring platform for XSA jobs. Built-in scheduler.
• Dependency analyzer like the one for CDS views for Calculation views.
• UI development options like ASAP selection screen for simple use cases.
• Built-in table editor.

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• Some of the tutorials could use a little more improvement - While there is a considerable amount of documentation, most of the good documentation for Watson IoT we found to be from third-parties.
• Administration and billing tools could use a bit more improvement - The UI is a bit clunky and poorly-designed here.
• Be prepared to work with IBM support to get this going - Their turn-around support for inquiries can be lengthy, and setup time may also be quite lengthy because of this.

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• Wide variety of data types can be maintained easily, so flexibility is in our hands.
• The decision we made by analyzing the generated report really had a great positive impact.
• Considering the scalability SAP HANA offers, it is the best investment.

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• Positive - This tool greatly increases most company's manufacturing and production efficiency, and the use-cases are extensive. It was a great way of decreasing down-time for us.
• Negative - Took lots of work and energy to get up and running, we had to rely on IBM support and tutorials many times during this process.
• Positive - Quite cheap, most of the tiers of pricing cost very little, and it's possible to use Watson IoT for a few months for free to see if it is beneficial for your company.

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