SAP S4HANA on AWS Reviews

Our customers use the solution to deploy S/4HANA.

The product’s high availability is its best feature.

The solution is costlier than other products.

I have been using the solution for six to seven years.

The solution is very stable. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the product’s scalability a nine or ten out of ten. Our customers are medium and large enterprises.

I rate the ease of setup a nine out of ten.

One person can deploy the solution in a few weeks.

I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

An enterprise customer should do a proof of concept before purchasing the solution. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I have found a lot of the features that SAP S4HANA provides are very good.

SAP S4HANA on AWS could improve by having the entire solution available as a web solution. They only have Fiori right now, and it's a solution for certain modules, but not for all the modules that SAP currently has. We would like to see the GUI removed, it is not very good. We want it to be web-based.

I have used SAP S4HANA on AWS within the past 12 months.

We have approximately 1,000 people using the solution in my organization. The solution is scalable.

The technical support we have received has been okay. We need to get used to using the cloud solution coming from the on-premise version. The cloud service has lead time requirements, the time before they take your case or an incident, depending on the incident, whether it is a high-priority, medium, or low. All of the lead times or waiting times for the requirement have to be taken into account. This is something that people must be willing to accept when going to this type of service because when you have on-premise, usually, you have people dedicated to it. The times are a lot shorter.

The initial setup of SAP S4HANA on AWS is complex. The deployment took approximately one year. We had approximately 80 working on the functionality of the solution and 40 people from the IT department assisting with the deployment.

We used a reseller from Central America for the deployment. 

We pay a monthly fee for the use of SAP S4HANA on AWS for approximately five years. That's the time of the contract.

There are no additional costs other than the license. However, there are other costs that come from the partners or reseller who is doing the implementation. If you want any changes or anything that wasn't taken into account at the moment you were implementing it or you need support, the cost might be very high. This is something that needs to be taken into account.

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

I'm an SAP software developer. We use the product for many different functions; financial production, material management, distribution functions. Everything. 

CDS use would be the most valuable feature. The HANA database is also valuable. 

I'm on the developer side of the product and my view, for now, is that the product is fine. I'm comfortable with it. Based on my product experience, I don't have any problems with it. If I would suggest something it would be that they unify the developer tools. 
For the next release, it would be helpful if they would include a common development environment. 

I've been using the product for three years. 

The product has good stability

The scalability is fine. 

The technical support is very good. 

The initial setup is quite straightforward. 

I think there are some processes that could be improved but it's a great solution. 

I would rate this product an eight out of 10. 

The cost is a factor for our customers, so that is an area for improvement. That is, compared to its competitors, SAP S4HANA on AWS is a costly solution. 

More availability zones will help customers choose AWS.

I would like to see features that provide easier onboarding for ERP solutions like SAP. SAP has already partnered with S/4HANA on AWS for hosting its public cloud as well. More educational videos for customers to choose this cloud path would be great to have. That is, providing more documentation and marketing material would be better.

I've worked with SAP S/4HANA for four years and on AWS for about four years.

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.

It is scalable.

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

From a business process perspective, I would recommend that customers stick with the standard, which will help them to easily adopt the solution.

AWS is a market leader and pioneer in realizing cloud concepts and is once step ahead of its peers.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give SAP S4HANA on AWS an eight.

The use cases for this solution will depend on our customer's industry. It can be manufacturing, retail, HR, etc..

The Fiori interface is the most valuable feature. It's one of the highlights that they offer. The in-memory of S4 is very fast. 

Not just S4 but for SAP in general, the price is a little high because they have implemented a new licensing scheme on a number of connections. The price being too expensive is some of the feedback we get from our customers. 

In the next release, I would like to see more support for more cloud providers. Because right now it's only AWS and Azure that it certifies. 

I have been using it for the last four years. 

We have five to fifteen users consisting of our application team, infrastructure team, and some of our clients. 

For the maintenance of this solution you would need first, second, and third-level, so around five people in total. 

Their support is very good. They respond quickly. 

The initial setup is straightforward because they have templates that you can use to build on it. In terms of how long it takes to deploy, if it's basic it can be done within a day. 

There are a lot of factors, if there are migrations it usually takes around three months plus.

Planning is very important before undergoing an S4 implementation and upgrade. The functional components need to be planned and tested thoroughly. Otherwise, the lines will not be met. Try to do a Greenfield implementation because it will be much simpler.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

We implement it for our clients. Our primary use case is to virtualize our AX environment.

I like that they are very familiar with our VM which makes it easy to use.

Its best features are its interface. It has a user-friendly interface.

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

I have been using SAP S/4HANA for the last ten years. 

It's one of the most stable virtualization softwares I have used.

Scalability lacks on clustering capabilities. 

Our clients are mostly enterprise size. 

We contact technical support if we have issues but most of the time we can resolve an issue by ourselves. They're good but there's always room for improvement. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It can take one or two days depending on the setup. 

It usually only requires one person for the setup but on occasion, it can require two.

There should be the ability to deploy with clustering of different servers. They should add different types of advisory management.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

We are a technical services company and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our customers. We work with all of the SAP solutions.

This solution is suitable for many businesses and industries. For example, I have seen a complete solution for the construction industry.

This is a cloud solution.

This is a perfectly integrated solution.

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

This product needs to be made more available for the normal user, like those by Microsoft or Oracle. For example, it should be free for individuals, and usable on a laptop.

This solution has one of the most modern databases and it is very stable. I have not faced any issues with it.

This solution is scalable if you are talking about the functional or technical side.

I have a customer with nine hundred branches and has not faced any issues.

We handle the support of this solution for our customers. We implement all of the methodologies and all of the support tools.

I am a database expert and I have worked with Oracle products for fifteen years.

The business teams and technical teams have not complained about the initial setup, so I think that it is ok.

Licensing fees are on an annual basis.

This solution is fantastic, and I fully recommend it as I recommend all SAP solutions. All of their products are good for SMEs or for large enterprises.

From the functional side, there is very little room for improvement in this solution. There are always enhancements that can be made, of course.

It is not easy to find people with knowledge of the HANA database. People skilled in HANA are rare and expensive, unlike Oracle, where you can find thousands of CVs for database administrators.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.