When most of the SAP customers thought about HANA implementation, One Major question which IT management will face from business is what are benefits and ROI with HANA implementation since the cost of HANA implementation is HIGH compared to other RDBMS.

This question will need to be addressed to gain business confidence for go ahead for HANA implementation. To address this question

  • List the IT problems which your customer is facing
  • List SAP Strategy on the products which you are using in you landscape
  • List the facilities available in HANA and check how these will address the issues you have
  • Prepare ROI with HANA.
  • Present the same with Business and get go ahead for HANA implementation.

Typical Concerns when ECC is loaded for Transaction and Reporting

  1. Daily Jobs are running for more time for which business owners might be waiting
  2. The Data insight with the reports may be not real time
  3. Downtimes for DB related activities
  4. Downtimes for Application related activities
  5. Considerable Data growth
  6. When ECC is being used as OLTP / OLAP use cases
  7. When many reports are running during business time, End users experience Slowness in system performance.
  8. By the time business see the reports, the Data may be updated in the system. Repeated reporting would take its own wait time.
  9. SAP has not published any further road map on SAP ECC which would be available on all Databases. On its road map it is S/4 Hana which will be available on only HANA Database. So adopting HANA would help us to leap into digital world.
  10. Dynamic decisions based on DATA are not real-time, may mislead also

Beore understanding the solutions for above concerns, Will see the benefits with HANA   for IT and Business

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With the above benefits, ROI on HANA will be in the below aspects

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Since the world move is towards digitization, IT systems should adopt the suitable IT environments  which keeps you ahead of competitors. For all ERP customers In-memory DB is one such choice to decide on.

Please share your views on this aspect which helps your IT and Sales Teams to adopt SAP HANA.