SAP HANA - a fast and mature product with still new feature development by SAP
December 08, 2020

SAP HANA - a fast and mature product with still new feature development by SAP

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

SAP HANA, enterprise edition

Overall Satisfaction with SAP HANA

We have used different SAP HANA deployments in our testing environment:

Native SAP HANA:
In this deployment, we have developed a SQL Data Warehouse solution in SAP HANA, showing the benefit of using SAP HANA as a SQL Data Warehouse solution, if a department has not many SAP source systems as well as previous SQL skills from another vendor.

SAP BW/4HANA resp. SAP BW on HANA:
In this deployment, we have developed our Data Warehouse solution in our BW system, showing the benefit of using SAP HANA as a database for BW systems, if a department has mainly SAP source systems as well as SAP knowledge.
  • Best integration with SAP systems.
  • Fast in-memory technology.
  • Single node / scale-out deployments to support any sizing requirement.
  • Great High Availability & Disaster Recovery support.
  • Mature product.
  • Licensing might be a bit confusing.
  • Fast hardware is required.
  • Faster decision making.
  • Faster integration of data sources.
We have also used SAP Analytics Cloud as front-end technology in combination with SAP HANA. Our experience is that connecting both systems is simple and quickly done. We experienced fast illustration of our SAP HANA backend data in SAP Analytics Cloud and we can fully recommend to use both products together.
There are many SAP notes, SAP blogs and also SAP support for any issues occurring with SAP HANA.

Do you think SAP HANA Cloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP HANA Cloud's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP HANA Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP HANA Cloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP HANA Cloud again?

Yes

SAP HANA and Business Warehouse are a perfect match for leveraging the speed of SAP HANA. It is the technology to go for if SAP source systems are used for easy data integration. Further, with SAP HANA Smart Data Integration (SDI) a great possibility is offered in order to integrate various heterogeneous data sources in (near) Real-Time, Batch or Virtual.