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SAP HANA Cloud

Overview

What is SAP HANA Cloud?

SAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored…

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9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
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SAP HANA Cloud platform enables you to access the data stored in HANA database in real time and to bind the application hosted on cloud or …
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VS
Verma Shubham
Product Manager
Qualitest Group (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
SP
Sainath Patil
IT Associate
Origin Logistics private limited (Logistics & Supply Chain, 11-50 employees)
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $0.95 per month Capacity Units
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Product Details

What is SAP HANA Cloud?

SAP HANA Cloud is a single database as a service (DBaaS) foundation for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data. The cloud-based data foundation modernizes how business decisions are made with live data. It aims to enable users to build data solutions with cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. The SAP HANA Cloud database gives users business-ready information while enabling security, privacy, and anonymization with enterprise reliability. It can be deployed either on premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination for quicker time-to-value.

SAP HANA Cloud Features

  • Supported: In-memory, columnar, massively parallel database processing
  • Supported: Full ACID compliance
  • Supported: Multitenancy

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Frequently Asked Questions

SAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.

SAP HANA Cloud starts at $0.95.

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics AX, discontinued, and IBM Planning Analytics are common alternatives for SAP HANA Cloud.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of SAP HANA Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 22, 2022

HANA Spatial is Special!

Verified User
General Manager in Corporate
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used as a spatial data warehouse and spatial analysis tool.
Pros and Cons
  • Fast execution of spatial queries
  • Simplified management of spatial data
  • Pre-integrated connectivity to other SAP and third party products
  • Image processing and analysis
  • Support for more spatial data formats in ETL processes
  • More advanced spatial analysis tools
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for enterprise-scale spatial data management and analysis, where multiple spatial systems or databases exist in silos.
Too expensive for project level analysis and lacks advanced spatial analysis tools as well as support for more spatial data formats for ingestion.
Return on Investment
  • Consolidation or sometimes elimination of multiple spatial data management tools.
  • Enabled spatial analysis too impractical to perform on other platforms.
  • Pre-integration with other SAP and non-SAP tools improves business processes
Alternatives Considered
Oracle and SQL Server, spatial. HANA is not as mature in some areas but since it supports over 80% of the use cases it makes sense to use it as the main spatial platform and use the others as sidecars where needed.
Support Rating
10
Outstanding online support and communities.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
1
Consulting across multiple business functions and industries
Support Headcount Required
1
Some level of database knowledge for cloud, much more varied IT skills for on prem. Some level of SQL in both cases.
Business Processes Supported
  • Consolidation of spatial data
  • Fast execution of spatial queries
  • Integration with other SAP products.
Innovative Uses
  • Running large spatial analysis tasks not practical on other platforms
Future Planned Uses
  • Use for image analysis when fully supported
Likelihood to Renew
10
It is the best product for an SAP environment and often for non-SAP shops as well
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Product Features
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Been involved in HANA (spatial features) since its beginning.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I would start with the assumption that HANA is the standard and put the burden of proof on other platforms.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
No
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
People are not comfortable with changing from something they know and poses no risk to something that is unfamiliar with risk. They must be converted by clearly demonstrating how their job will be easier and expanded.
Implementation Issues
  • Data quality issues discovered during migration
  • Re-building interfaces to legacy apps
Implementation Rating
10
Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
Easy Tasks
  • Formulating and running queries
  • Managing spatial data
  • Integration with other SAP and non-SAP products (Esri)
Difficult Tasks
  • Getting spatial data into it
  • Geocoding
Usability
10
Well documented and good online training. Not a hard lift for someone with a basic knowledge of databases and SQL.
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
Yes, but I don't use it
November 14, 2019

SAP HANA Review

SA
Shoaib Ansari
DEVELOPER
DXC (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used by one department. As a developer (ABAPER) I am facing coding issues.
Pros and Cons
  • Faster than legacy.
  • Improved and dynamic.
  • Compatible.
  • Provide easy-to-do coding.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is appropriate to work. For example, IRCTC is using HANA. It's not easily available for all users because of legacy systems on one want to switch to HANA. Everyone's first question is: why it is required to move to HANA? Also, it is very costly. Better solutions are available in the market at a lower price than HANA.
Return on Investment
  • Takes time to migration during transition period.
  • Huge business effect because of less training and knowledge to users.
Alternatives Considered
S/4HANA.
Support Rating
8
It's good R&D by SAP.
Users and Roles
200
Support development and immplementation
Support Headcount Required
10
ABAP
Technical Functional Basis
Business Processes Supported
  • MDG
Innovative Uses
  • Data consolidation
Future Planned Uses
  • Only If it will be available at a lower price.
Likelihood to Renew
3
Price is very high.
Other Software Used
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Analyst Reports
Price not easy to purchase for each and every organisation
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
  • Don't know
Implementation Issues
  • Code changes
Implementation Rating
5
Training Types Used
  • no training
Ease of SAP HANA Cloud Training
No. Provide more deep scratch training for all users, non-users and others free, zero cost.
Product Configurability
4
UI Customization
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
Extensibility and Customization
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
Typical to do this
Bug Resolution
No
Easy Tasks
  • DB
Difficult Tasks
  • Change of code
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
No
Usability
6
It needs more work.
Scalability
5
Limitation of training deliverable by organization
Reliability and Availability
4
Performance
4
Systems Integrated With
  • MDG
Types of Integration
  • File import/export
not sure
Ease of Integration
5
Because of OOPS complex
Pre-Sale Experience
4
Mismatch
Post-Sale Experience
5
Key Negotiation Points
Price - reduce it.
Dealing with SAP
Training and development
Future Edition Upgrade Plans
No
Migrating Between Editions
No
October 16, 2019

HANA pros and cons in BI

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In my company I'm working in the SAP BW area. At the moment, I'm working on SAP HANA in a BW 7.5 on Hana per data warehouse and planning for a food company. We're working with Sap Hana to integrate the data from other systems (as actual data) and we've done a model of planning for P&L.
Pros and Cons
  • Sap Hana is very well for the "in memory" base, for performance and saving data in columns instead of rows.
  • Very helpful with the use of calculation view to develop the final solution and simplify the list of objects.
  • Developed directly on Hana Database, with the use of new objects such as calculation view, store procedures and several new objects.
  • Planning function and planning sequence, more new functionalities "standard" to allocation, for example.
  • Improve performance of analysis for office as the frontend.
  • Simplify the use of execution plan, plan view, and similar.
Likelihood to Recommend
Hana is well suited for scenarios such as BI for manager data or enriching the data, and with objects as a calculation view. The developer can develop flow without ABAP or transformation (TRFN) but only use "virtual" data on the fly mode to avoid duplicated data.
Return on Investment
  • New projects for our clients are interesting to improve performance.
  • Positive impact on the use of BI and analysis for office.
  • Negative performance regarding the use of memory.
Alternatives Considered
I'm working with SAP products only.
Support Rating
8
Hana has shown that it can improve performance regarding data loading, data manipulation, and enrichment.
In my opinion, it has to improve in terms of frontend performance and better management of backend memory in some cases
Users and Roles
IT Consultant for SAP BW
September 25, 2019

My HANA Experience

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I work for a hosting service provider. I focus mainly on the maintenance of SAP HANA for clients but we also use it as our internal monitoring tool.
Pros and Cons
  • The data analytics the solution provides is very detailed.
  • Fast processing.
  • Better support , sometimes the releases HANA versions or SP are not very stable
Likelihood to Recommend
It would be well suited for organizations using OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) and OLTP (Online Transactional Processing) products.
Return on Investment
  • Reporting is much faster than our old solution manager, we've seen improvement in response time.
Alternatives Considered
I have not tried a similar product, we mainly work with SAP technology.
Support Rating
7
HANA versions that are released sometimes are buggy. More testing before releasing SP would be helpful.
Users and Roles
1
I use it in my role.
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