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reviewer1413237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Mining Data Scientist (CELONIS) at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
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Provides perfect performance, but needs better user experience and stability
Pros and Cons
  • "The feature that I like the most is that we can transport the data to our web data application. SAP HANA's performance is really perfect. We're working on big data, and SAP HANA is really working on high performance. We are happy working with it."
  • "The user experience should be better. Its user interface is not good. I also don't like the transition concept."

What is our primary use case?

We're writing SQL queries for the verification process, and we're using SAP master tables for tables. We write huge queries for processing data.

What is most valuable?

The feature that I like the most is that we can transport the data to our web data application.

SAP HANA's performance is really perfect. We're working on big data, and SAP HANA is really working on high performance. We are happy working with it.

What needs improvement?

The user experience should be better. Its user interface is not good. I also don't like the transition concept. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working in the SAP HANA environment for around two years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have experienced some glitches, and we are solving them with the help of our technical team.

How was the initial setup?

It is a bit complex, but if you follow the instructions, it can be installed. The initial setup could be easier.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

SAP HANA is expensive, which isn't a problem for us because it is processing the data so fast.

What other advice do I have?

It is an SAP tool. Therefore, replicating the data from SAP to HANA is easy because it provides a high-performance area without overworking the SAP site. Working with big data is really nice in the SAP HANA database.

I would rate SAP HANA a seven out of ten. I took some points because of the pricing, user experience, and stability issues.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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reviewer1489158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datawarehouse Lead | Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Operates well, good functionality and usability
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution operates well."
  • "I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."

What is most valuable?

The solution operates well. I had no problems with the functionality.

What needs improvement?

The current version we are using is lacking some unique features, we are upgrading to the newer version of this solution that has these features, S4 HANA.

What other advice do I have?

I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has. We are going to continue to use the solution.

I rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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it_user3372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of IT at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Databases, Decisions and Disruption

By now most of us are well aware of the data explosion, that businesses are creating more data than they can effectively manage. This is not a new problem. Throughout history societies have always made efforts to create repositories to organize, analyze and store documents (recorded knowledge). Some of these ancient repositories still exist today in the form of “brick and mortar” libraries. But just like anything else in a consumer’s market, demand (Time-To-Solution) eventually becomes greater than the supply (Information Available/Accessible).

The global economy is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation. Market dynamics and business rules are changing at an ever increasing speed. Those responsible for keeping the company on track for the future have a massive need for high-quality data--both from inside and outside the company. Technology decision makers are facing the challenge of having to create infrastructures that leverage speed, scale and availability.

Data technology must assist in the removal of silos and support collaboration and the sharing of expertise across the company and with business partners. Successful companies will need access not only to their own "Data repository" but to data from various heterogeneous sources. Today, finding mission-critical data or even being aware of all potential sources is more a question of luck and intuition than anything else.

How important is your data to your organization? How does your organization use its data? How do they access and interact with it? Are the decisions being made from data, innovative or disruptive in nature? What’s the value and impact?

According to a Forbes article written by Caroline Howard, “People are sometimes confused about the difference between innovation and disruption. It’s not exactly black and white, but there are real distinctions, and it’s not just splitting hairs. Think of it this way: Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors — in the same way that a square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares”.

Database accessibility is critical for rapid but sensible, innovative and disruptive decision making. A business database management system must be able to processes both transactional workloads and analytical workloads fully in-memory. By bringing together OLAP and OLTPL to form a single database, your organization can benefit dramatically from lower total cost up front. Additionally, gaining incredible speed that will accelerate their business processes and custom application.

SAP HANA DB takes advantage of the low cost of main memory (RAM), data processing abilities of multicore processors and the fast data access of solid-state drives relative to traditional hard drives to deliver better performance of analytical and transactional applications.

Fusing SAP HANA with a scalable shared memory platform will enable businesses and government agencies running high-volume databases and multitenant environments to utilize high-performance DRAM that can offer up to 200 times the performance of flash memory to help deliver faster insight.

Here’s my analogy: players go to the “Super Bowl” for one of two reasons, to watch or participate. To be successful in today’s global market companies must effectively participate or risk being on the sidelines watching.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user6855 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Why HANA Is Important

I’m not a great fan of SAP, or Oracle for that matter, but SAP’s HANA architecture is an unexpected innovation from a company that is rooted in serving the dull administrative needs of large organisations. In a nutshell HANA is an in-memory database capable of handling very large amounts of data with frightening speed. This is very timely, and more importantly will serve the needs of organisations for decades to come. While the focus is currently on the ability of HANA to address real-time analytics, the capability offered by HANA will serve us as we move into the feedback and control (cybernetics) era which has yet to unfold.

The current preoccupation with all forms of analytics (data mining, statistics, text mining, optimisation) and big data are predicated on very fast database systems. Traditional disk based technology is typically too slow and SAP has taken a simple idea – placing all data in much faster memory – and made it a reality. The idea is simple, but making it a reality is not. HANA enables many forms of business activity that were simply not possible before – real-time recommendations for customers, real-time tracking of very large distribution networks – and so on. This alone is enough to make HANA important for many businesses.

On the horizon however, and virtually unseen by most commentators, is the need to implement real-time feedback and control systems. It’s all very well to analyse current activity, but at which point is action called for, and what type of action will rectify a situation? Recommending additional purchases to customers in real time might not be optimal, and the response rate might start to drop off. At what point is remedial action needed, and how should the algorithms be modified? This is where we are headed – not just analysis, but analysis of analysis – a level of awareness within systems.

Massive computing ability is needed and there simply is no way that slow disk based technology will deliver the goods. HANA is a foundation for this move into a brave new world – and there are no real alternatives. There is a saying in technology markets that ‘if it works it’s already obsolete’ – I would make HANA an exception to this rule. For many organisations it will be a solid investment that will see them move into an age of real-time, intelligent business systems. Who would have thought that such an innovation would come from a German software company rooted in dull software applications that serve the needs of business administration.

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Java Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Has good stability and an easy setup
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial setup is straightforward. It usually takes around eight months but it depends on a customer's requirements. We can spend a month or two customizing."
  • "SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project."

What needs improvement?

Compared to Oracle, the licensing could be better. 

SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have around 12 years of experience implementing SAP HANA. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It depends on the enterprise, but the average enterprise has 20 employees. They buy two accounts to use the SAP S4HANA. It means that on average the enterprise will buy 20% to buy the license.

How are customer service and technical support?

So far technical support is good. If we have any problem that a local partner cannot resolve for the customer, they will write to SAP and support will help fix the problem.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. It usually takes around eight months but it depends on a customer's requirements. We can spend a month or two customizing. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The SAP license fee is more expensive than other solutions like Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate SAP HANA a nine out of ten. Not a ten because of the price. 

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
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reviewer1396107 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
A scalable and stable solution with valuable features
Pros and Cons
  • "All features are valuable."
  • "They can improve their technology for the CRM subsystem. There are other products that are better and more effective for the CRM subsystem. Its price could be better. It is expensive."

What is our primary use case?

We have a lot of clients from different industries, such as factories and hospitals. We have deployed it on the cloud as well as on-premises for various clients.

What is most valuable?

All features are valuable. 

What needs improvement?

They can improve their technology for the CRM subsystem. There are other products that are better and more effective for the CRM subsystem.

Its price could be better. It is expensive.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SAP HANA for several years. I have been using it since they launched the HANA database.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. We have installed SAP HANA for around 15,000 users.

How are customer service and technical support?

I would say they are average. Sometimes, they are not able to answer our questions, or their answers come very late after we have already resolved the issue. They should be more familiar with the product.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used our own product, which we developed on our own. After engaging SAP, we substituted our own product with SAP HANA.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution. We plan to continue using this solution for our clients. 

I would rate SAP HANA an eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
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Technical manager at SAFE-SAS
Real User
Huge bandwidth and offers real time results
Pros and Cons
  • "It has a very huge bandwidth and data transfer."
  • "The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing."

What is most valuable?

It is a memory database that has all the content of the database. Once the database is turned on, it is loaded in the server RAM. It has a very huge bandwidth and data transfer. Once you try to do any queries against this database you can get the result very fast. You can get real-time output or results. This aspect is very helpful to me.

What needs improvement?

From the deployment-side, I don't have any issues with the solution and haven't heard of any problems from clients.

The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing.

For how long have I used the solution?

I implement this solution and I've been doing so since 2015.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable. I use the Linux operating system and find it to be quite stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. You have horizontal or vertical capabilities. You can upgrade the server itself in case the memory is at capacity. The resources of one server are not enough because it's big. According to your requirements, you can expand by adding more servers into one big cluster.

How are customer service and technical support?

I don't go through the official support team from SAP, but most of the time I use the website to find the answers I need. It's very detailed and most of the problems that I've faced in the past while handling the implementations I can find on the website or on the internet.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before using SAP HANA, we used other SAP products.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. For one system, the stand-down system, it will take about four to five days for implementation from scratch. I often handle implementation, so for me, it's straightforward because I have some experience in this area. You do need a skilled team. You have to understand many areas if you want to deploy it yourself. You have to have experience with the storage, the network, with operating systems, etc. 

I know SAP itself recommends that you have to have a certificate or a certified person that can deploy SAP HANA.

What about the implementation team?

We are an integrator, so we handle the installation for clients.

What other advice do I have?

The SAP portfolio is huge. It covers all industries and fields. It is very wide horizontally or vertically. It has modules for all industries, fields, and for all departments: accounts, HR, production, they have a solution for each industry and for each department in any organization.

There are some applications that are very sensitive to the delay or the latency so for these types of applications I would recommend SAP HANA. However, if these are not concerns, there may be other database technologies that would be more cost-effective than HANA.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Technical manager at SAFE-SAS
Real User
Useful for real-time analytics, but the pricing could be better
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is stable."
  • "The installation process could be more straightforward."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution in conjunction with other prompted solutions primarily for real-time analytics.

What needs improvement?

The pricing on this product could be reduced, and the installation process could be more straightforward.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution as integrators for about five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

How are customer service and support?

I do not have any experience with customer service and support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not straightforward. It took us between seven and 15 days for deployment. We have over ten people using this solution in our organization.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I am not sure about the licensing costs for this solution, but the feedback I have received is that it is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. It is a good product, but it is expensive.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Integrator
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