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SAP HANA Cloud

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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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  • Setup fee optional
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  • 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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have moved our customer HANA sidecar and other non-SAP products to SAP HANA Cloud. SAP HANA Cloud provides full capabilities for other HANA features.
  • Consolidate
  • Integrate well with S/4 HANA
  • Provide robust platform
  • Does not allow native calls from other databases
SAP HANA Cloud brings a robust platform for customers' non-SAP databases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use all SAP modules and just moved from on-premise to SAP HANA Cloud.
  • Performance
  • Less downtime on maintenance
  • More modern and intuitive UI
Ease on Maintenance and OS patching, scalable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP HANA Cloud has upgraded its speed and is way more user-friendly now.
  • Speed
  • More data
  • Webi not can't create my own dimensions
With SAP HANA Cloud, we now have the flexibility to create our own reports. SAP HANA Cloud helped provide our user base with seamless interactions.
Mohammad Anas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP HANA Cloud gives the users a single unit to store, access, and process the real-time data of our organization. Through SAP HANA Cloud we set up our databases connecting them to applications so that users can build models and applications using SAP HANA tolls. With the growing amount of data and records, various organizations take advantage of SAP HANA Cloud as it helps in improving scalability, flexibility, agility, etc. This makes high data processing and performance.
  • High Scalability which is the ability to increase its capacity based on users demands
  • Security in handling confidential data
  • Cost effective in subscription model
  • Ease of using the SAP HANA Cloud
  • Licensing cost can be improved
  • Integration with other applications
Scenarios in which SAP HANA Cloud is well suited is when organizations looking for expanding their business growth data and records, through SAP HANA we can get scalability and flexibility in the functionality according to the user needs and demands. Scenarios in which SAP HANA Cloud is less appropriate is when choosing the licensing cost and integrating it with other applications
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP S/4 Hana 1809 - PM, MM-IP, FI, ABAP, HCM, Real Estate. The reports are much faster if the code is optimized based on ABAP 7.5 syntaxes. Many tables are simplified, and new CDS views are introduced, which can be used to generate reports in a much-simplified manner. The product is consistently upgraded by SAP, and the 2020 version offers near-zero downtime during SP upgrades.
  • Speed
  • Digital transformation
  • Analytics
  • Easy delta restore on tables
  • Lesser memory issues
This is the future. In-Memory computing is for real. SAP HANA is not a database, but it's a platform. SAP is now coming up with a new product suite. SAP is also trying to offer more test systems hosted in the cloud for nominal prices. SAP BTP is another great offering with a one-year trial subscription.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP HANA as the backend database for S4/HANA and BW systems. Also, we have an enterprise SAP HANA system used for reporting. All analytics solutions are built on this system.
  • Faster query processing.
  • Efficient storage of data - Well compressed.
  • Graphical modeling tools for analytic applications that are not available in other databases.
  • 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.
Well suited for analytics and OLTP applications, where faster SQL processing is required.

Not well suited in scenarios where integration with 3rd party front-end tools like Power BI/Qlik View are required.
May 11, 2022

Good Investment

Tanay Pahwa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA is a powerful data management, processing, and access platform. SAP HANA was able to reduce our company's IT complexity, improve data management efficiency, and provide improved visibility, reporting, and compliance across the board. It is one of the most widely used database management systems; it has a well-designed and easy-to-use user interface, and it also allows you to scale as you go rather than having everything planned out in advance.
  • Risk compliance.
  • Reduced costs.
  • Enhanced productivity.
  • Poor customer support.
  • Requires more flexibility.
  • Occasional glitches.
The deployment took a long time and was a complicated process, but that was partly due to how far the company had to catch up in terms of digitalization and updating its key business systems. The availability of competent data specialists and HANA-experienced users was critical to the success of SAS HANA implementation.
Alexandre de Andrade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used SAP HANA as a database for SAP BW (SAP BE on HANA) and the performance gain was impressive. Activities that used to take hours are done in minutes after the change. This improved the recognition of the tool and the team and allowed a focus shift from performance problems to problems related to the business and increased the available analysis capabilities.
  • Performance
  • Manual data tiering
SAP HANA is well suited in scenarios requiring an improvement in the database performance in reading/consult data. But it does not fit some budget restrictions.
April 22, 2022

I Love SAP HANA

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was really beneficial to our in-house application development, and it provided excellent process analysis and a solution for our decision-making process. It is appropriate and wise to address the obstacles of doing business using business application technology. The analytics process can be used to pick the ability in memory for all data, data processing, images, text, space, streaming, and time using SAP.
  • Marginal accounting - Reporting Analysis
  • Planning become useful using SAP SAC tool with HANA DB
  • Ledger Reconciliation become simpler
  • Publishing Accounting reporting
  • Application interfacing SAP to SAP
  • third party integration with SAP HANA
Finance reconciliation was smoother and faster at the period end close, data segregation for analytical reporting was better, and margin analysis for our sales and revenue accounting reporting activities increased to the next level. A simpler and more reliable method for OPEX and CAPEX planning. The ability in memory for all data, data processing, images, text, space, streaming, and time can be selected utilizing the analytics process has changed considerably.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP HANA to transform business's finance processes, with businesses big and small. The system allows us to make their lives easier, and more efficient, while allowing for a smooth transition from their old processes as well. This product has always run incredibly smooth and quickly, making for quick solutions to all of our problems.
  • Efficient financial reporting
  • Speed with usability
  • User friendly
  • Can be difficult to navigate
  • New users may have difficulty understanding as we transition
It is very well suited when a company is looking to transform their financial data and reporting processes. This will allow for easy transition that companies seek when going through these transitions. Alternatively, this system does not provide for full and total financial transformation to be used as a sole financial platform which may be a scenario where it is less appropriate.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used as a spatial data warehouse and spatial analysis tool.
  • 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
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.
April 21, 2022

SAP HANA review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA is used as core ERP solution. It was implemented as green field deployment covering Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Operations, Finance and Planning. Main challenge for that project was improvement in handling and planning of components, control of availability of components and management of production process with focus on proper reporting of steps. Another challenge was visibility of forecast and proper distribution of FG in DC network as per market segments demands.
  • Data Visibility
  • Demand - Supply relation handling
  • Interface
  • TMS integration
  • ATP hourly demand control
  • FIFO stock valuation
SAP HANA suits best for a typical manufacturing environment where integration of Manufacturing sites must follow individual demands of customer. In MTS scenarios - HANA will be as good as complete IBP implementation will provide support for deployment strategies ... basic MRP tools seem to be a little outdated. SAP is not managing well hourly schedules - so managing hourly demand traceability requires some extra enhancement and steps.
March 29, 2022

Review for SAP Hana

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA has allowed us to make extensive use of databases, and it was earlier very tedious to deal with the problems that we faced while working with large databases. It has made it convenient to fetch data, and the range of analytical tools has helped us with various use cases. Additionally, we can combine this retrieved data with many data sources, making it scalable and versatile. However, the company will now have to reinforce its team with specialists in this field and make the platform even better practically.
  • Highly scalable platform
  • Compression algorithm is optimized greatly
  • Provides real-time analysis
  • UI feels outdated and should be improved
  • Not the best option for small businesses
SAP Hana provides a great platform for large-scale organizations as it provides a wide range of functionalities that are critical for our organizations. We have mainly used it for quick data visualization as well as faster development and deployment of various projects and products. It is a perfect solution for security and risk compliance. SAP HANA helps us to separate the data easily and makes it convenient for the end-user.
Nabin Poudel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have been using SAP HANA Cloud as a real-time database for our weather stations located across the country. With its hybrid database architecture, our application can read and write data at an unmatched speed. It also gives us in-memory compression technology saving up to 10 times in storage space. The collected data can be used for modeling and analyzing within the SAP HANA Cloud. It provides an integrated data lake for storing and retrieving large sets of data. SAP HANA Cloud is a fast, future-ready, easy, and economical cloud database, best suited for delivering enterprise-level applications.
  • Real-time hybrid database for both transactional and analytical processing
  • In memory compression saving up to 10 times storage space
  • Integrated data lake
  • Integrated machine learning and reporting tools
  • SAPA HANA is very costly to set up on-premise, in the range of 50K USD for a lifetime license, I believe
  • Not suitable for small business applications where real-time data is not required
  • Harder to learn and integrate with existing systems
SAP HANA is best suited for enterprise-level applications where real-time data reporting and processing is done. It is also best for database compression and storage in the data lake. SAP HANA can run utilizing up to 56 servers with 168 TB of RAM to process the largest datasets available in today's time. It is not suitable for small applications where a real-time database is not required.
Alexandre Akchatel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA is one of the most evolved products from SAP as is quickly becoming essential for any future-facing organization. It is very responsive, comprehensive and rapid compared with past versions and enables our clients to quickly retrieve data all while supporting sa multitude of platforms. Its simply the best for any large entreprise.
  • Cloud capability best in class
  • Remote data synchronization is outstanding
  • Helps us help leaders make better decisions
  • Price and time needed to implement (but worth it)
  • Scare a new, even better version might surpass it as standards move quickly
  • Heavy technical knowledge needed to implement
It has enabled us to support clients with their complex data problems and aggregate their corporate functions into a single platform, ready for analysis. Its single interface makes it clear how to use and enhances communication for our clients. With this consolidation, we are able to provide to help our clients generate reports fast.
February 02, 2022

Outstanding Product!

Godfrey Chimbalanga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Real-time integration of business activities including finance, human resources, procurement, sales, manufacturing, and customer support is the goal of SAP HANA. With a single operating system, database, and user interface, companies deliver mission-critical services on a streamlined platform. With SAP HANA, we've been able to consolidate all our financial transactions into a single software system. With the data, we can generate business-critical reports from different departments at the same time.
  • 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.
  • SAP HANA requires a significant commitment of time and money because of the lack of hardware compatibility.
  • When implementing SAP HANA solutions, a variety of challenges might develop, such as when installing it partly on the cloud. The system is susceptible to failure at times.
  • The previous version of SAP HANA rapidly seems to be out of date due to a large number of updates. The fact that each new upgrade costs money and takes time may irritate users.
With SAP HANA the performance evaluations of different functions are made available in one platform. It also provides an opportunity to drill down on issues. SAP will not allow you to return to a conventional RDBMS since there will be no migration.
LAura Birt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This tool is helpful in accessing data from the databases and also beneficial in data management as well as the processing of the data. It has swift database backup and has modified our company’s way of database management. Moreover, the interface of this tool is another positive thing related to this tool. Maintenance work is also easily manageable.
  • Its data storage is great as it is capable of keeping the bulk of data.
  • We can get access in real-time from multiple databases.
  • The reports are customizable and reports are much beneficial.
  • It is a secure and reliable tool.
  • Highly scalable.
  • It is not a much easy tool to implement. IT guy is mandatory for the implementation of this tool.
  • Financial transaction management didn’t work well for us. Maybe it was some fault on our side.
  • Multiple PCs cannot operate with one single individual user.
Database management tools are unlimited in the market but there are very few that are consistent and have the propensity to store large data and to provide real-time access for multiple databases. There are multiple legitimate reasons for which we chose this tool and it is going great with us. Although its implementation and transaction management are two things that have made things a bit hard for us.
Yeo Sueiro Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's quite beneficial since it has exceptional analytical skills for making real-time decisions. Data processing is aided by its in-memory database technology, which allows for speedier transactions. SAP Hana is useful for storing and processing data in our database's columns and rows. It works well for transferring SAP ERP data to SAP Hana without interfering with other business processes.
  • Data from a remote database may be accessed in real time, which is convenient.
  • It's good for storing a lot of information.
  • Report generation using SAP HANA is rapid and simple.
  • Due to their various forms of business architecture, SAP Hana is not compatible with all ERP solutions, and while they offer a variety of solid alternatives and benefits, their subscription fees are a little pricey.
It is quite exact when it comes to acquiring data in real time. Due to parallel data processing, data transactions are extremely rapid. Data may be readily merged because it supports many databases such as OLTP and OLAP. It's proven to be beneficial for real-time data processing and transformation based on use and business requirements. It's ideal for data modeling and visualization. It is incredibly simple to query and retrieve data because it supports most databases.
Sreedhar Sree | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we decided to migrate our application to state-of-art technology, we considered SAP HANA as the correct choice, considering its security and risk management features. Especially we are looking for an option which has the best scalability features, in all areas SAP HANA stand tall.

We are using SAP HANA for data management and data retrieval. Its UI made us very much comfortable to address all business issues with ease and accuracy. As a large organization with a wide variety of customers, we usually work with large datasets. After migrating, we get to know the intelligent design of SAP HANA.
  • Swiftly process the data
  • User Interface is best
  • Scalability
  • Customizable report generation
  • If any configuration goes wrong, identifying the issue via logs can be improved to understand the exact issue
  • If there is a easy way to integrate with other Non SAP apps, it would be great
  • Report generation time can be improved
  • SAP HANA is the go-to choice if you are looking for Security, Risk compliance.
  • This will help us to analyze data and can help us in decision making. (esp. live transactional data)
  • If we want to track structured and unstructured data separately and want to apply a different strategy for these, then SAP HANA can help by distinguishing the data.
  • Scheduling jobs is very easy, so monitoring and maintenance can be done without much.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA is used for modeling. It is the data warehouse which is used by the business intelligence team for storing data as well as for developing logical models for the finance, sales, purchase, invoice, logistics, demand, and quality teams. HANA Sidecar is used as a database and an analytical processor. It is the secondary database for SAP ECC.
  • Columnar storage
  • Good speed
  • In-memory database
  • Real-time analytics
  • Versatile
  • Scalable
  • Costly
  • Not good for heavy data processing
  • Does not support all ERPs
  • HANA update is time consuming
SAP HANA is well suited for developing data models that can be connected to data virtualization tools; the views can further be used for creating dashboards in Tableau or for creating reports in SAP Web Intelligence. SLT data replication is real time from ECC to HANA Sidecar, therefore it supports real-time data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mainly used SAP HANA for deploying and maintaining calculation views, attributes views, and others depending [on] the business and customer requirement. We used to have very quick responses in deployments, and our work was made very smooth with SAP HANA. Data retrieval is very fast compared to others. Overall it's a fantastic experience using it.
  • Database and data warehouse management
  • Business planning and consolidation
  • Implementation of a module for taxation
  • User interface should be improved
  • Integration with other products
It works very well where there is a requirement to quickly visualise data and quicker generation and deployments of different types of views. Although [the] user interface can be improved [it] gives the required things to get the things done. Integration with other products is where we see an issue now and I hope which will be resolved in future releases.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
- Supply Demand Initiatives - Flexibility at Scale to Tackle Your Company's Digital Needs
  • All the read & write operations, take place in memory
  • Data can be stored both in row and column format
  • Every column is a secondary index and there is no need to maintain separate indexes
  • Use the appropriate table type based on the usage
  • Avoid using indexes on non-unique columns
  • Get better performance by assigning range, hash
Best for Advanced analytical and transactional work and SAP HANA offers advanced analytical processing, data integration, and application development Areas of improvement include Using the appropriate table type based on the usage. ...Avoid using indexes on non-unique columns. ...Get better performance by assigning range, hash, and round-robin partitions to the large tables since the amount of data brought into working memory can be limited.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my current organization, we are using SAP HANA for [...] filling our timesheet. It has [a] simple, and better user interface so everyone can use it. If we don't have prior experience [with] it then also we can easily work on it. In our organization, we are more than 10000+ people who all are working on internal and external features, so it is very hard if you [don't have] this kind of tool which provides you [a] project-wise timesheet filing option in [the] form of bar sections. It helps me to see my overall timeline on different projects, and managers are able to export data easily. So personally, I love this tool, and I also recommended it to some of my friends who have their own startups.
  • Great user interface
  • Split view of projects and timesheet in single screen
  • Export for analysis
  • Easy to use
  • Session timeout and re-authentication should be in [the] background
  • Users should also have some accessibility of export timesheet; currently, it is not available for lower access level users
  • Timesheet for multiple dates can be filled on a single option currently, we have to click on every date
Best suited:
  1. It is well suited for large teams so [that] human interaction can be minimised with the tool
  2. Suited for multiple project handling
  3. Report analysis and gathering
  4. Less configuration required because lot of configuration are already there
  5. Less technical knowledge
Less appropriate:
Personally, I don't feel any area [...] where this tool is less appropriate because it has lot more features
Abdul Rehman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA is a quite good ERP in terms of Materials Requirement Planning(MRP). MRP helps to generate the finish good shop orders as per customer order demand as well as generates procurement orders for row material as per their lead time. SAP HANA gives a clear picture of the current load on the work center and the Shop Floor manager can distribute the load to another work center if any is overloaded.
  • Material Requirement Planning
  • Capacity Requirement Planning
  • User Interface
  • Master Data Setup
  • T-Codes Numbers
  • Material Management
Blanket Purchase Order functionality with Supplier Schedule gives an option to issue a purchase order to Supplier for a longer period of time like 6 months or 1 year and send requirement schedule later on otherwise in normal scenario organization has to release a new purchase order every time that becomes very difficult to handle by user perspective.
December 28, 2021

SAP HANA review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP HANA helped me in creating subscriptions, renewals, and upgrading features. Invoice and billings can be created in SAP for any type of subscription be it prepaid or postpaid and it helps in achieving the subscriber to allow different kinds of discounts. It's a powerful tool for my organization and my project.
  • Subscription creation
  • Invoice and billings
  • Promos
  • Concurrency
  • Low latency
  • Handling duplication data
SAP HANA is best suited for creating subscriptions but in an asynchronous way. It's less appropriate in case of low latency and concurrency
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