SAP HANA A Data Journey
December 06, 2017

SAP HANA A Data Journey

David Schuster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP HANA

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.
  • intuitive interface
  • easily scalable for large amounts of data
  • fast data access
  • filtering interface could use work
  • easier direct SQL-type language queries
  • more built-in visualization
  • one stop shop for data
  • easy to filter and query
  • takes some time to configure in the beginning
SAP HANA is much more intuitive and user-friendly than SQL and Python. This makes sense because it is a commercial application whereas SQL and Python are not. SpotFire has some advantages over SAP HANA in that it has a lot of built-in visualization capability, however, it cannot handle and store large amounts of data in the same way.
I believe that SAP HANA is very well suited for storing large amounts of data in an easy to access way. It acts as a commercially available alternative to freeware applications like SQL with all the technical support and polish that goes with being commercially available. I'd recommend it to anyone that needs well supported data storage solutions.