SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud vs vCloud Air comparison

SAP and Virtustream are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. SAP is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.1, while Virtustream is ranked #23. SAP holds a 1.7% mindshare in ISI, compared to Virtustream’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Virtustream users who would recommend it.

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

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88% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

vCloud Air and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud are competing in the cloud services sector. While vCloud Air offers favorable pricing and support, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud's robust features make it an attractive option despite cost considerations.

Features: vCloud Air is known for its seamless integration with VMware infrastructure, hybrid cloud solutions, and reliability. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud provides powerful in-memory computing capabilities, advanced analytics, and exceptional data processing and management features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCloud Air benefits from compatibility with VMware tools, simplifying deployment for enterprises, and offers reliable customer service for cloud migration processes. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud provides comprehensive deployment services, with dedicated service and support for data management and enterprise applications, though it may involve a steeper learning curve.

Pricing and ROI: vCloud Air's setup cost is competitive, focusing on cost-effective scalability and generating positive ROI through flexible pricing models. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud may require a higher initial investment due to premium services and advanced features, but businesses focused on data analytics and performance see a notable return on investment.

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Categories and Ranking

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vCloud Air

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is 1.7%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCloud Air is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Suresh Tanneeru

Vice President at Dataflix

High stability, reasonably priced, and important for digital transformations

Customers need to be better educated about using the solution's cloud for digital transformation. SAP as a legacy system is missing that flavor. The solution is not a traditional ERP software so should be used as a digital transformation tool. That is the story to project to customers, partners, and sales teams. This will help the solution grow faster than GCP, AWS, or Azure. In fact, Google Cloud Platform is now collaborating with SAP for digital transformation. The solution should offer affordable modules that are customized to startups with 50 to 500 employees. Most people think of SAP as being only for big enterprises but it could be very useful for smaller companies. There are 40,000 to 50,000 startups in APAC each year and that is a large volume. Many of the solution's modules could be used by those startups. Google is targeting this market with chat boards and automation tools at a reasonable price or with six months of free usage. SAP should come up with this kind of module and include sandbox so providers can play with a few of the POCs.

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Saurabh Chandratre

Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora

With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.

All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.

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Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

It has significantly streamlined our operations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

SAP HANA Cloud can be quite costly compared to other solutions. The high licensing costs make it an expensive option, particularly for smaller customers. However, they offer solutions for mid-sized...

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What needs improvement with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

SAP should adopt more rapid changes in market processes and customer needs to deliver solutions that meet new industry requirements swiftly. SAP finance needs to be more advanced to keep up with cu...

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Overview

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a fully scalable and secure private managed cloud solution. It empowers organizations to unlock the full value of SAP HANA in the cloud - accelerating growth and innovation, driving IT and business transformation, quickly delivering business outcomes, and reducing risk.

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vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.

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Sample Customers

FC Bayern Munich, Reuters News Agency, MEMEBOX

Lumeta, LifeSite, Clear Tec Solutions, National Physician Services, Queens University of Charlotte, California Natural Resources Agency, Pacific Disaster Center, Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Columbia Sportswear , CSS Corp

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