SAP HANA Reviews

I've been working for 3 years with HANA. I started while with the hospital in Washington state. I liked that it can be easily managed with SAP HANA Studio. It is very easy to use and it gives me on time alerts of the health of the database. I can manage the security of users with easy role-based settings.

The focus of HANA for our organization is for the in-memory human gene analysis project.

As an SAP Basis and HANA Consultant, I provide the support for different customers with their SAP HANA Landscape, which is being used for the complete organization in talking about business problems, as SAP HANA is an in-memory appliance. As the name suggests, everything you use needs to be in memory and available to use on a real-time basis. So the business reports, status, monthly/yearly financial reports which have to broadcast are available in real-time with the use of SAP HANA.

We use it as the platform for transaction processing and analytical tool for day to day business decision making. It is used across the organization. It is used to address the problem of data analytics. We ingest data into the HANA platform for both historical and real time analytics as and when needed by the business.

I've worked on HANA for 1 year. It is wonderful that everything can be managed with SAP HANA. Along with being easy to use, it also gives you notifications on any failures of the database updating workflows. Managing users, their roles, and providing them access to various sections is fairly easy. With SAP HANA everything can be made on a real-time basis by making it in memory.

Actually, SAP HANA works as the backend of SAP Business One in the company, that allows us to run complex and heavy reports at record time, prevent system locks and in the future, we are planning to use SAP HANA as the analytic backend for all the company reports, geospatial, financial etc.

Within my current client's organization they implemented SAP HANA database for SAP SCM systems. It has upstream & downstream system flows. It is being used by department & not by whole organization. It solves client's reporting as well as real time API calls for faster access of data.

We used to SAP HANA to build a decision support system for retailers offering perishable goods. The core of the system is a machine learning algorithm that provides demand forecast based on transactional data (POS data) in real-time that are required for daily ordering decision as well as intra-day shelf replenishment. Thus, the provided demand forecasts are mainly used by store managers and clerks. However, we also implemented reports for the different management levels (e.g. store, region).

Historically, we close our month end results by the fifth business day, but there is a lot of manual work and long hours that are required to meet that goal. In between the first business day following month end and that 5th business day, it's really only the 3rd business day our CFO has transparency on results. Implementing HANA has sped up the ability to produce more timely information to allow for better decision making, enable forward-looking decisions for our organization, such as implementing robotics, and allowing key staff to do value-added work instead of menial reconciling tasks.

SAP HANA is used as a data repository for our business intelligence applications. It is used by our procurement, operations and compliance groups and it allows for strategic planning to maximize revenue and decision making. It also acts as the backend for our SpotFire front end analytical toolsets allowing reports and visualizations.

We use SAP HANA as a high-performance in-memory analytical database. We currently use SAP HANA for data in several of our service lines and continue to open it up to more regularly. We use HANA because of its ability to let our users analyze millions of rows of data with split-second performance. Basically, it allows our users to ask the questions they want to, not the the ones we've pre-aggregated answers for.

Before using SAP HANA, the client was storing the transactional data on Oracle DB based SAP BW DWH and they were using SAP BO as reporting tool. The report response time was drastically reduced after we moved to SAP HANA DB based SAP BW DWH and using SAP BO for reporting.

In my organisation, we have installed SAP HANA for training purposes. The organisation has also bought licenses of software and is providing continuous support to their clients in terms of services. Implementing SAP Hana for customers not only increases the speed and efficiency of data retrieval but also is a complete transformation of architecture design from the backend which is much better than older backed relational databases.

We are currently using HANA for real-time data warehouse reporting. Our present-day focus area is for production management with a vision to migrate [our] enterprise data warehouse to HANA. HANA is able to solve report availability latency and gave a huge boost on the performance. SAP HANA addressed the real-time reporting issues we were facing with some critical reports. HANA also helped unify all the legacy reporting applications into one platform serving as a corporate reporting tool.

SAP Hana is being used in our corporate level across the whole organization. Although we have non SAP sources for our reporting needs SAP HANA serves our needs for users who doesn't like to navigate to multiple sources for their day to day work. With SAP Hana our users are able to access reports, request code changes that are taken care of with SAP Data services.

We are currently using HANA for real time data warehouse reporting. Our present-day focus area is for Production management with an vision to migrate Enterprise Data Warehouse to HANA. HANA is able to solve report availability latency and gave a huge boost on the performance. How reports are available for business users in real time where in the past they have to wait a day to get the reports.

HANA Is used as:

• A data base for our OLTP system.
• A data base for Our OLAP System.
• A Data warehouse.
• Analytic engine for BI

It is mainly used as for Finance and Sales.

SAP HANA Solves many problems:

• Operational Reporting:- Leveraged SAP HANA as a scalable platform for Artist operational reporting of SAP and non-SAP data sources offering fast loading through real time replication, fast report generation and flexible navigation options with reduced administration effort. It offers new possibilities of analyzing big data of any format with the end goal to eventually provide customers self-service reporting capabilities on KPIs and to allow status tracking in real-time.
• Optimized profitability:-Sales & Marketing representatives face the challenge to identify the “value” of each Artist derived from sales, granted discounts, etc. In order to provide recommendations on what to offer each Artist for sales growth. Additionally, Sales & Marketing organizations need to analyze promptly several millions of Artist data from several data sources. There is a lack of a visualization, exploration and predictive analytics to support intelligent decision making through meaningful KPIs and a full view of Artist data.
  

SAP HANA addressed the real time reporting issues we were facing with some critical reports (such as sales, budgeting etc). SAP HANA also helped unify all the legacy reporting applications into one platform serving as a corporate reporting tool.