SAP S4HANA on AWS vs Virtustream xStream comparison

"I recommend SAP S4HANA if your team is well-prepared and your internal organization is educated before implementation."

"I appreciate the reliability and performance of SAP S/4HANA on AWS. It demonstrates high integration and stability, making it a widely used choice in various industries, including manufacturing, such as factories, carmakers, and battery production. It effectively covers a broad spectrum of business areas, which is beneficial."

"SAP S4HANA's most valuable features include backup, security, storage, infrastructure, and enabling AI."

"I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten because it covers all the fields, has a big maturity, and has something other solutions are missing, which is speed."

"The system has the capacity to manage all these departments in a single box and they're all integrated."

"It is indeed a stable solution, but it depends on how you architecture the component in AWS. If the component has the right architecture and is properly provisioned and placed, then it will be a stable platform."

"The most valuable features of SAP S4HANA on AWS are that it's simplified and the analytical capabilities are good."

"After the implementation phase of the product, it becomes a very stable tool."

"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."

"Doesn't have a common development environment."

"Currently, AWS has data centers in only a limited number of regions compared to other cloud providers like Azure or Google Cloud."

"I would like scalability to be improved in the future for faster performance."

"The product can be very complex."

"The platform's front-end user interface needs improvement compared to other applications."

"This solution is very resource-intensive, including high memory and CPU utilization."

"The solution is costlier than other products."

"I would like for them to have more integration with virtualization platforms."

"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."

"The licensing of the product is reasonable but the cost of the hardware is exorbitant."

"The vendors have different pricing, ways of serving, security, and providing the service. You go and compare the offerings. Some might be better with smaller companies. For example, Microsoft Azure can handle small and medium-sized companies best but still can cover some large companies. Whereas Amazon AWS and IBM are going to cover sized companies. There's no clear advantage. Probably Amazon AWS may have been the first to be certified by SAP as a cloud-hosting partner. Then Microsoft Azure and IBM were certified at the same time. You have to partner up and be certified by the software."

"It is a significant investment, around six hundred thousand dollars, and it involves both a one-time on-premises installation on servers and a cloud subscription with different flavors for SAP S4HANA."

"SAP S4HANA's pricing model should be more flexible and transparent - there's a lot of negotiation and internal factors, and some customers get better value and services for the same product."

"Compared to its competitors, SAP S4HANA on AWS is a costly solution."

"I rate the price of SAP S4HANA on AWS an eight out of ten."

"The pricing is a little bit high."

"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the highest price, I rate the solution's pricing an eight."

"The solution is a bit expensive, we are still negotiating the price."