It has a learning curve from an ABAP developer standpoint, but once you know your way around them it is a very powerful tool. The introduction of CDS and its execution within HANA will allow you to create complex data models easily and the extraction of the data is lightning fast compared to previous iterations of the SAP application that used other databases. Also, using it on cloud will make it easier to work with the database as you don't have to worry about the high end hardware requirements.

I don't have any complains about the performance from S/4, but I've heard colleagues mention that analytics don't always perform as promised/expected.

SAP Hana allows you to drill down into the data and get really granular by going to the individual transactions. Interfacing with Tableau and Excel gives you the ability to take the data and create some visualizations that can tell a story to leadership and decision makers.

I love that this software easily interfaces with Tableau, Excel, etc. We deal with hundreds of thousands of lines of data so it is important to be able to interface with other applications.

Sometimes the connection between SAP Hana and our other applications becomes unstable so we have downtime where we can't use it.

frustrating and very slow to learn and easy to forget when you don't use regularly.

The reporting functionality seems powerful, but very hard to get quality data into the system to report.

Not a single screen I have come across from purchaings, to time sheeting to project management (EPPM) can be navigated or used without specialist training. It is completely unintuitive to use, with standard OK or Cancel buttons randomly appearing in different locations, no limits to the size of drop boxes, obscure acronyms and crazy numbering systems with alpha numeric codes often having 3, 4,5 or 6 zeros in the middle and no two codes will have the same length - some are 9-digit, some 6 and some are 5-digit.

Overall this software has been a good option for the company running on SAP ERP. The process of loading the data to warehouse has been faster in HANA cloud than other tools

The best thing about this application is it is on the cloud, which has saved a big in maintenance costs. The Data extraction of the data for reporting from this application is very fast.

Compared to other competitor tools like Azure or Snowflake. This seems to be little expensive. The only least thing about the software

SAP has always been good when trying to emulate your needs as a company to an ERP. All the configuration, Z programs and setups are so broad that you can practically do anything with SAP, but switching to HANA was mostly to take advantage of it's new database and the cloud option.

With SAP HANA we are moving to the future of our company switching from the previous version SAP ECC. This new system has improved from the last version specially when reporting. Becuase all fields are indexed, extracting info and running reports are really fast and some fixing in the security side has solved problems of roles and object we had before.

The Business partner transaction "BP" is something I still don't understand its reasoning. The complications of having customer, suppliers, employees, contacts, etc in one single transaction has complicated things for us but I guess is just matter of getting acquainted to it.