Is SAP HANA worth that expense?

It is evident that SAP HANA is very expensive compared to many other platforms and this luxury software is still the most preferred platform across the world. Now, it is quite natural to witness a dilemma on its value. Is SAP HANA worth that expense? How it had become a luxury product? Let us discuss the same in this blog.

“The problem seems to be that SAP has what they think is a great product, but their customers/potential customers don’t all see it the same way.” - Reported a SAP customer - Steve Rumby.

So what could be the different perception about this luxury?

The vision of SAP HANA

The earlier versions of SAP HANA were targeted manly on analytics, and played a vital role in big data “edge cases” which demands extreme speed in data transactions. This led to implication on big companies to add an additional server, SAP HANA to their existing infrastructure. While the adoption of SAP HANA enabled things that weren’t previously feasible. In this perspective, this revolutionary platform can’t be termed just “luxury”.

What people who feel that these features are not demanded in the near future thinks?

“Dior is a stunning work of art and such timeless beauty that almost makes you forgets about the price tag. But even though I admire the design very much, somehow I just don’t feel compelled to rush and order one for myself. For the simple reason that I can neither afford it nor (more importantly) do I really need it… Where would I possibly wear it? In case you didn’t get the analogy by now, there are SAP customers who need HANA just like I need a Dior dress, at least at this time.” – assumed by the users who believe that SAP HANA is not in great demand in today’s world. But, they do agree that if tomorrow’s environment would demand such systems at a larger scale.

However, SAP’s vision on SAP HANA has always remained extended than its various use cases. Starting from the first white papers to recently posts pages about the benefits and significance of SAP HANA, it remained focusing on using the new opportunities of in-memory for “normal” companies and “normal” This is nothing but a radical simplification of existing layers in SAP applications.