Overall Satisfaction with 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.
- quick real time analytics
- ability to ingest data from both SAP and non-SAP databases
- in memory function provides the ability for fast data
- slows down a bit when it has to do multiple calculations at the same time
- frequent updates from the vendor makes it really hard to plan for downtime and stay updated
- positive impact with the ability to analyze data real time
- positive impact due to the feature of being able to replicate data real time without much difficulty
- big positive impact since data can be ingested into SAP HANA from a non SAP database
We compared Microsoft BI with SAP HANA. The reasons to go with SAP HANA were - 1. ability to ingest data into HANA from a non SAP database 2. in-memory database resulting in faster real time analytics 3. ability to scale up 4. ability to replicate data real time 5. very solid integration to business objects 6. information modelling could be done in this platform itself.