Pros and Cons of SAP HANA Cloud 2023

We have benefits from real time. As an example, there were reports that couldn't end and now can be run. Also, process chains have reduced time of execution and everything is loaded prior to starting business development.

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

We have changed our semantic layers of the BW and condensed them into 3. Before, we had many precalculations which now are made on the fly.

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We are currently helping a handful of customers standup their as-built digital twin - the ArcGIS Utility Network (UN) - on the HANA platform. The UN is a system of record and services editors - the people who build out networks. Since the UN is services based, there is no data warehouse (aka …

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Utility customers benefit from the graph and spatial capabilities that the HANA platform provides. The spatial capabilities are OGC 1.1 compliant and meet the SQL/MM 2003 standards. This means any spatial system that is OGC compliant can store and query data in the HANA platform. I'm looking to …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

The ability to push work into the platform benefits performance. It also benefits data governance because the architecture is designed to minimize the need to move data. The information view (calc view) capability enables creation of virtual schemas like snow flake and cubes. Software like ArcGIS …

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Yes, we have benefited from it's in-memory database design. It has improved our SAP performance significantly. It is also helping us to save users time and improve their productivity. Earlier data processing for some queries was taking almost half day which was very time consuming activity but now …

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These data types are helping us to analyse complex data and extract desired output for our management.

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Yes, it's advanced database architecture is helping us lot to get desired output for our management within seconds. Earlier it was taking very long time.

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That the beauty of it as I said we use it for analytics

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graphs and bars are the one which gives us the story behind our work every month

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The organization is still struggling to realize these benefits.
We do use delivered reports e.g. FAGLL03H
However we have no unfiform approach or way to leverage due to lack of knowledge and direction-> busy,

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Not that important yet
Company is busy with expansion and growth.

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It is the baseline to do analytics.
However analytics not yet realized.

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Important because data is becoming increasingly critical for analytics and insights

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yes, we use SAP PI/CPI to stream real-time business data to HANA cloud. Looking for other better ETL options to integrate on-premise datasources.

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its critical to have one database which supports both structured and unstructured data in one place.

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Before using SAP HANA Cloud, we would often have to wait hours or even days to access critical data, which could significantly delay our decision-making processes. However, with SAP HANA Cloud, we could access and analyze live transactional data in real-time, which allowed us to respond quickly to …

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One specific example of how we benefited from this capability is in our marketing and customer experience efforts. By using the JSON document store, we stored and analyzed unstructured data from social media and other sources to gain insights into our customers' needs and preferences. This allowed …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

The ability to embed complex business logic in SAP HANA Cloud significantly impacted our analytics operations. It allowed us to perform complex calculations and analysis directly in the database, avoiding unnecessary data movement and improving the efficiency of our analytics processes. This …

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From a business user perspective, the in-memory database has largely contributed to speed up data retrieval and analyzing large data sets. There are always ad-hoc business requirements from management, hence a real time view of transacational data gives a pulse of the business by visualizing …

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Our organization receives customer orders, shipping confirmation, order confirmation, etc in the form of EDI input from our customers and suppliers. The data format for this is JSON which combines with other transactional data in the database. Without combining the EDI data with the transactional …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

In the initial POC phase, several business logic where tested which removed one or two layers of data analyzes. The data retrieved after application of the business logic was much preferred by the users as it became easier to run their own ad-hoc data requirements.

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Yes , it has a lot of benefits. It is fast and easy to understand.

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These all data are exceptionally important for.our organization because for requirement of client

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SAP HANA was built in-house from the ground up as an in-memory database, which is a technological leap ahead of other databases. This is advantageous because the available memory is larger and less expensive than what is available elsewhere. SAP HANA is the best choice when we need to perform very …

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It is crucial as with growing dynamic business operations, interchangeability and being able to adapt to different processes becomes essential. Sap Hana allows us to leverage its functionality on complex cases.

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

The software provides a single in-memory data platform that supports both transactions and analytics on diverse data, a key requirement for applications supporting a modern, real-time digital business. In today’s digital economy, our firm cannot take action on stale insights, thus a true in-memory …

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As mentioned Sap Hana is a memory and in-built database that is developed to facilitate us the provide us the running time data.This part of it was used by my organization in lot of problems solving for the client as mentioned lot of graphical based analysis was done.

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Since working on a project with high complexity always wanted an application to have more datatype so that developers become easier. Sap Hana have various type of database that can be used multiple times at multiple places with different categories as local or global in our development. So it …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

As again mentioned above, Sap Hana has a high ability to solve all complex logical and analytical problems. Also, the data is highly secure, and unnecessary data movement is not so easy in other applications, but it is very easy in the sap Hana and further, it's highly secure as the security part …

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Yes, the SAP HANA Cloud in-memory database did help us in achieving our speedy transactions business application requirements. Most of our business applications needed the high speed, performance and parallel processing multiple instructions of in spite of the "n" number of transactions and it is …

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SAP HANA Cloud does support for the multi model data types which is the common requirement of large enterprise database. SAP HANA Cloud is a highly scalable solution for such requirement which was also one our use case while choosing the SAP HANA Cloud.

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

SAP HANA Cloud is flexible to add the resources quickly in order to meet the enterprise needs. It is helping as a tool to expand the large volume easily. Also SAP HANA Cloud is capable of integrating database from across enterprise with faster processing speed and less instructions.

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Its definitely a big yes , Having in-memory database engine works brilliantly well. Any big enterprise can take leverage of the in memory database to have their large business logics defined and store the outcome of the result in the RAM so the data can be consumed by the user by avoid the DB i/o …

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Having the support of these datatypes really help the organization , Considering the fact we are dealing with lots of application with in the org , each application produces different data which could be blob , document and big texts . Having them stored in the database helps a lot for the …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

That really helps since to apply heavy business logics there are cases where the org need to move the data to various other application . Having the capability of apply the business logics within the database and model it , Then the reports could be directly connected to that model to get insights …

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Operational Analytics allows you to perform reporting and analysis based on an application data model, without replicating the data in a data warehouse.For the purposes of SAP HANA its most important characteristics are that it is byte addressable like DRAM and can be treated by the CPU as RAM …

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The SAP HANA database supports two types of table: those that store data either column-wise ( column tables ) or row-wise ( row tables ). SAP HANA is optimized for column storage.An SAP HANA system is composed of three main components: the host, the system, and the instance. A host is the …

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(1) The Cloud Service includes use of SAP Cloud Platform, Identity Authentication, which may only be used for Authorized User authentication. (2) The Cloud Service includes use of SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning. (3) The Cloud Service includes use of SAP Central Business Configuration it …

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Operational Analytics allows you to perform reporting and analysis based on an application data model, without replicating the data in a data warehouse.Data Replication techniques in SAP HANA.Trigger based SAP HANA data replication.Generating time data in SAP HANA.Replicating data from HANA db to …

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Using HANA cloud for complex planning scenarios
Huge improvements in processing time which is well received by the business

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Currently we are only using relational and text features of HANA cloud which is quite important for enterprise applications
Spatial, graph and JSON currently not in use, however, open to use if use-case is requiring it.

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

We are trying to push as much business logic into the database to be very fast
Moreover we are using the federation capabilities (SDI, SDA) to combine several data sources

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The in-memory database of SAP HANA Cloud enables us to query huge amounts at a lightning fast rate. This enables our end-users to gain real-time insights in order to make better business decisions. Also, the total cost of ownership is less compared to the traditional landscape, since less …

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Currently, we have no real requirements for these advanced data types. At the moment, the business cases we work on, primarily involve the more traditional data types. However, we developed several Proof of Concept pilot projects, to investigate these advanced data types; we're especially keen on …

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This capability is an excellent option in any hybrid scenario, especially through the use of SDA (Smart Data Access). The data adapter connects to the source system, where the data resides through a virtual table on a remote source. When a query is executed on such a remote data set, with SDA an …

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An Oil Company based client wanted to do more than just prevent abnormal equipment behavior. It sought to harness sensor data to continuously monitor equipment health and predict potential malfunctions in advance. This would allow the company to avoid unexpected and costly shutdowns of key …

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SAP HANA Cloud can access SAP and third-party data management practices, including federation and replication methods. We use smart data access (SDA) and smart data integration (SDI) and access include ODBC, REST, data provisioning agent (DPAgent), and JDBC. A single database that can serve many …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

SAP HANA Cloud is designed to simplify the embedding of complex business logic that can be run in the database to avoid unnecessary data movement. Virtual Data Model, which provides real-time access to the transactional data and which therefore needs no data replication. Such well-designed tables …

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1) Report querying time have been saved a minimum by 25-30%
2) Large volumes of data sets available and responses time for DB queries are fractions of earlier stage
3) Makes a stable foundation for furthering the analytical and planning capabilities - with SAC getting enabled will give a great …

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1) Higher volumes of data from multiple sources as well as tech stacks integrated the tech landscape
2) Available data is used extensively using the cloud capabilities
3) Provides confidence to integrate with varied technological interfaces
4) To me (from a consulting mind) "Data is the pulse of …

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

The improved Demand forecasting calculations, MRP runs, Financial report generations, costing runs have all impacted positively due to the HANA DB. Enablement of Material ledger by default brings in certain discipline.

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Best for our enterprise data warehouse, our team replaced older server to SAP HANA Cloud. It drastically increased speed and productivity.

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Yes it supports multiple data types, our team replaced older server to SAP HANA Cloud. It drastically increased speed and productivity. Relational tables data we used.

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

SAP HANA Cloud has been designed to simplify embedding of complex business logic that can be run in the database to avoid unnecessary data movement. Yes it supports multiple data types, our team replaced older server to SAP HANA Cloud. It drastically increased speed and productivity. Relational …

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Yes we do have some applications using Database which needs in-memory database along with high throughput and high IOPS , using SAP HANA cloud has definitely helped to achieve the performance needed by the application which has benefited our customer.

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My organization uses Json document store and text heavily , it is crucial for us to work with Json document. without this Json type most of the pipeline and scripts which we have are going to break so yes we need these data types.

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Yes we have use this feature where we have to move data out of cloud for processing and push data back to cloud once processing is done , using the complex business logic we were able to run processing of data in the same cloud avoiding the egress traffic back and forth to the cloud.

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It has benefited from this capability because it can be deployed on the cloud, on premise etc.

SAP HANA Real-Time Processing

Data is kept in memory rather than on a disc by the multi-model database SAP HANA. This makes it possible to conduct quick transactions within a single system, which is quite helpful. Both structured and unstructured data can be searched for and analyzed using SAP HANA's sophisticated search, …

SAP HANA Data Type Support

I don't have much experience with this side of data types with SAP HANA.

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I was able to manage Master data management (MDM) for a supply chain project because of it. Even though the third-party app connection was difficult and time-consuming, the wait was worthwhile. The beauty of SAP HANA Cloud is that it enables you to hold enormous data volumes and have real-time …

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We have Kaspsis software before SAP so data execution was a very lengthy process but after SAP we can generate Data within minutes. Time reduction as well as employees hard work converted into soft work. So I love and confidant to teach other employees how to uses SAP. I learnt from SAP team now …

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My organization deal with lot of vendor so need to lot of data that we need to represent towords claint and vendor . We use SAP to exicutive All monthly data that represents to management. SAP connect our 3 unit in just one click. Data transfer from plant to plant is very easy

SAP HANA Complex Business Logic

We have stored lot of data but due to SAP no need to movement of data plant to plant only simple login and execution of all data. So data safety is the key role we found in SAP HANA . And movement of data reduced after SAP implementation. Increased capability of organisations

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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.

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

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