My primary use case for SAP HANA is centered on real-time data processing and analytics. I use it to handle large volumes of information efficiently, which helps in maintaining accuracy and improving data-driven decision-making.
At Pass4future, I rely on SAP HANA to analyze performance trends, manage data integration, and enhance the overall quality of our learning resources. When learning from C_DBADM_2404 Exam practice questions, SAP HANA allows me to identify content patterns, track learner performance, and ensure that each question reflects the most current exam requirements.
Executive Manager & CO. Founder at Phoenix Consulting
Real User
Top 5
Sep 15, 2025
SAP HANA is my main background as a technical consultant. I have worked with SAP HANA from planning the implementation itself, installation, upgrade, and working in analytics on SAP HANA, Data Warehouse architect with SAP HANA itself on-premise and on-cloud. I also built development on SAP HANA, not even in ERP on SAP HANA. We build native Fiori applications on SAP HANA itself. For enterprise customers and big customers, I rate SAP HANA as nine.
We are a consulting company, and we use SAP HANA mainly to understand and recommend to our customers. It's an ERP system. Everybody needs an ERP system. You either have SAP HANA, Microsoft Navision, or you need an ERP system to do the accounting, production planning, purchasing, and sales.
Program manger at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
May 28, 2025
My clients use SAP HANA mostly for data virtualization and relational database tools. Data virtualization is the core function when discussing the use case for SAP HANA. I have done some integration of artificial intelligence technologies with SAP HANA.
HANA is used to analyze data quickly and build real-time dashboards, which allows us to track data live and monitor alerts. This helps in decision-making and responding to changes promptly.
Our primary use case is working with various clients in industries such as pharmaceuticals and other services. We support clients as implementers of SAP HANA, providing expertise in functionality, finance, logistics, and processes.
SAP S/4HANA recently established communication with SAP HANA database. No other database can be used with SAP S/4HANA application. SAP HANA can be used for real-time analysis and resolving queries. It has an in-memory database that uses RAM instead of hard drive disks, making it a very fast tool compared with any other relational database.
SAP HANA is an integrated solution to improve our organization's real-time data analytics. It's a cloud-based solution, and it's fantastic for us. We serve various businesses, especially in the Gulf area, such as Saudi Arabia, across different production, manufacturing, sales, and distribution sectors. Everything, including SAP analytics and business intelligence, is available within SAP HANA.
The use case revolves around the ERP system, covering standard modules that begin with procurement, extend through sales, encompass the entire spectrum of business processes, including commercial aspects, inventory management, and production, and conclude with sales and financial tracking.
There are no primary use cases of the solution in our company. We use SAP HANA as a database in our company because of the expiry deadline of our hardware, which is in January next year.
SAP HANA is one of the best databases known for its performance. Since the solution offers a functionality known as in-memory computing, its performance cannot be measured with other databases. If a customer has a large amount of data, especially data in gigabytes or terabytes, because of which they face performance issues, then SAP HANA is the database for them.
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Mar 9, 2023
We have a full landscape for SAP. Currently, my customer is using it. We are using the native HANA for the non-SAP sources. We have our data nodes for different business domains. The data is coming from non-SAP sources. The data is coming from different systems. We have a database warehouse approach.
My clients are using a specific technique called an in-memory database that is used with SAP HANA. The solution can be deployed on the cloud and on-premises.
In our company, we utilized SAP HANA to manage various types of information, for example, inventory, employee information, and accounting-related tasks, such as billing and employee surveys. The majority of our employee information was stored in SAP HAHA.
I've recently left the company where we were using SAP HANA. Our use case was for replication so that end users could use dashboard reports. I'm a senior manager.
SAP Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 23, 2022
We use HANA mostly for any live reporting directly from the ECC box or S/4HANA box. We also do some of the operational reports, where it is difficult to do or apply the logic directly in the ECC box. It's better to bring the data, do your logic in SAP HANA and do your reporting out of it. Or you can also push your data to BW as well, by doing all your logic, and you can also expose your HANA calculation directly to SAP Analytics Cloud as well as Power BI.
Commercial Manager at Natco Information technology
Real User
Dec 16, 2022
Our company uses the solution for our accounting system and our services department. We have 60 companies so we take each project step by step. Most of our companies have been using the solution for one or two years so they have already converted to implementation or training phases. We have 18,000 users across all of our companies.
SAP Business One works with SQL or HANA. My experience in HANA is configuring and administrating the database. We will also use it for the virtualization of all of our machines. We use SAP Business One and HANA as they have the same platform and databases.
Country Manager - Saudi Arabia at Misr Commercial Services Ltd
Real User
Top 10
Sep 23, 2022
We use it in order-placing and in the IBD integration, integrated business planning for forecast, and demand planning. I'm working in the sales and operation department. I'm not working in finance or production. Maybe the other teams are using it differently, or they're using different modules, however, for us at sales and operation, we are using it to place orders, developer CAST, track reports, and ensure accuracy.
We use SAP HANA as the source of SAP or SAP S/4HANA. We don't have a BW system in between, so we assess data from SAP HANA DB, and we use HANA data models in the HANA database and consume those into SAP.
We have used SAP HANA to do some tendering through the supplier management system. We have our own servers that are hosting the solution. Primarily we use SAP HANA to manage suppliers, they can upload the tender documents. We are then able to do prequalification based on the preset requirements. We then know who is qualified and who is not. Additionally, it has helped us send notifications to the suppliers.
I have customers who work with SAP, and I carried out performance research for them, comparing the different parameters of SAP HANA. The solution is generally used for data warehousing.
I was using the product for some research in technical drawings - in terms of making some drawings, the different parts, and the structure of the machinery. I don't know if it's available in the SAP HANA, however, there is a model for this to schedule the maintenance. The company wasn't using it. Sometimes the product furnishes a lot of insights, cultural insights that the company still is not ready to implement.
Head- IT at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Nov 17, 2021
We work with the latest update. We use the solution as a database. We primarily use it for the SAP application. Some of the use cases involve CDS Views, which provides a quicker processing of the report and the application.
Account Executive at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Oct 7, 2021
We use this solution for our CRM, and for our ERP, inventory, and supply chain management. It's basically used to run the majority of the company. We are customers of SAP HANA and I'm an account executive.
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Jun 4, 2021
We always make use of the latest version. We like that SAP HANA is a new technology. We also like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes. In light of the hosting cost, we find this to be very interesting. We also like the warm and cold data in respect of the solution's technology. There is a real team involved. The customer can initially utilize SAP ECC on the HANA interface and then go on S/4HANA. From this point on, doing upgrades will be very easy and smooth and the risk management will be extremely light.
Senior Engineering Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
May 11, 2021
We are solution providers. We are a supply chain organization and we deploy and supply chain solutions for our customers. We have a host of solutions and for each of our customers based on their environments. We customize their platform and deploy it. SAP HANA is one of our database endpoints.
I am currently using the latest version. But before that, before I jumped into the version, I used the initial version of HANA, as well. This initial version of HANA was not that great, it had a lot of bugs. But the latest version is very good. It's excellent. I'm afraid that HANA is not a relational database, it's a column-level database just like Sybase IQ. Sybase is also an activity product, an SAP product. SAP bought Sybase in May 2010. So normal Sybase is RDBMS. Sybase has one more variant called Sybase IQ. That is not RDBMS, that is a column-level database. Normal Sybase is a whole-level database. That's a column-level database. So SAP HANA is based on this column-level architecture. One more thing. The success of HANA primarily depends on the RAM and the storage. HANA became a success because the cost of the solar devices has fallen down substantially. I don't know about British Pounds, but in Indian Rupees, earlier in 2007, 2008, when I was working for Microsoft, one terabyte of a SAN device, used to cost around 22.5 LAK. I would say I would have had a 100,000. I think that's the nature. So one SAN device was costing 22 LAKs. The same SAN device, in 2013 and 2014, was costing around three LAKs. So the SAN device cost reduced by more than 200%. Also, in parallel, the RAM cost also decreased, and the technology and the fastness of RAM increased. This impacted the primary condition for RDB and RDBMSs like Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and the like, that they need to support the foreign key relationship, where I have a few tables. For example, if I have five to six tables, suppose the first table is employment information. The second table is employee career details or his project, something like that. Now, instead of populating the tables with the same information, the primary condition of RDBMS was to have a foreign key relationship between these two tables and reduce the redundancy. That was a primary condition, but in HANA, thanks to the cheap storage and high-speed RAM, I may not even bother to do a redundancy of data. I can combine all the tables and make a huge table. And as an entire table, whatever its size, I can pin the table in the RAM so that my access of information is not from the hard disk, but is directly from the memory, which is much, much, much faster. That is the beauty of HANA.
Technical Department Manager at Direcbusiness Technologies, Inc.
Real User
Nov 10, 2020
We have an ongoing cloud installation but mostly, we implement on-premises. We use this solution for SAP Business One. It's used mainly for analytic purposes, reporting, and the processing of large data.
Group General Manager-ICT at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 4, 2020
We use SAP HANA as our primary database for our enterprise business. The product is centrally hosted where all our business departments access the product through its sister product SAP ERP. The product hosts data for the deployed modules namely, Finance and Control (FICO), Materials Management (MM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and Sales and Distribution (SD). It also hosts the business warehouse (BW)/BI environment.
CEO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 30, 2020
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.
We are using on-premises, but I have also done some research in the last six months trying to go towards the cloud. We want to upgrade it because we also did the same thing with another company we are working with which is using the Sage X3 Cloud. We started with Sage Evolution, but now we are also moving to Save X3 Cloud.
SAP Consultant at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Jul 29, 2019
We use this solution for database storage. I am an SAP developer and consultant at my company. I examine the client's system and propose solutions that will ease their processes or make them faster. This involves programming, as well as other kinds of development. We are using the on-premise deployment model.
SAP HANA, also known as SAP High-performance Analytics Appliance, is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory, allowing users to avoid disk storage. The product combines its robust database with services for creating applications. SAP HANA is faster than other database management systems (DBMS) because it stores data in column-based tables in main memory and brings online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP) together.
The column-oriented...
My primary use case for SAP HANA is centered on real-time data processing and analytics. I use it to handle large volumes of information efficiently, which helps in maintaining accuracy and improving data-driven decision-making.
At Pass4future, I rely on SAP HANA to analyze performance trends, manage data integration, and enhance the overall quality of our learning resources. When learning from C_DBADM_2404 Exam practice questions, SAP HANA allows me to identify content patterns, track learner performance, and ensure that each question reflects the most current exam requirements.
SAP HANA is my main background as a technical consultant. I have worked with SAP HANA from planning the implementation itself, installation, upgrade, and working in analytics on SAP HANA, Data Warehouse architect with SAP HANA itself on-premise and on-cloud. I also built development on SAP HANA, not even in ERP on SAP HANA. We build native Fiori applications on SAP HANA itself. For enterprise customers and big customers, I rate SAP HANA as nine.
The typical use case for SAP HANA is because our firm is an SAP partner, and we are selling SAP products.
We are a consulting company, and we use SAP HANA mainly to understand and recommend to our customers. It's an ERP system. Everybody needs an ERP system. You either have SAP HANA, Microsoft Navision, or you need an ERP system to do the accounting, production planning, purchasing, and sales.
My clients use SAP HANA mostly for data virtualization and relational database tools. Data virtualization is the core function when discussing the use case for SAP HANA. I have done some integration of artificial intelligence technologies with SAP HANA.
We run SAP applications on top of SAP HANA ( /products/sap-hana-reviews ). It is primarily used within our SAP landscape.
HANA is used to analyze data quickly and build real-time dashboards, which allows us to track data live and monitor alerts. This helps in decision-making and responding to changes promptly.
Our primary use case is working with various clients in industries such as pharmaceuticals and other services. We support clients as implementers of SAP HANA, providing expertise in functionality, finance, logistics, and processes.
SAP S/4HANA recently established communication with SAP HANA database. No other database can be used with SAP S/4HANA application. SAP HANA can be used for real-time analysis and resolving queries. It has an in-memory database that uses RAM instead of hard drive disks, making it a very fast tool compared with any other relational database.
SAP HANA is an integrated solution to improve our organization's real-time data analytics. It's a cloud-based solution, and it's fantastic for us. We serve various businesses, especially in the Gulf area, such as Saudi Arabia, across different production, manufacturing, sales, and distribution sectors. Everything, including SAP analytics and business intelligence, is available within SAP HANA.
The use case revolves around the ERP system, covering standard modules that begin with procurement, extend through sales, encompass the entire spectrum of business processes, including commercial aspects, inventory management, and production, and conclude with sales and financial tracking.
There are no primary use cases of the solution in our company. We use SAP HANA as a database in our company because of the expiry deadline of our hardware, which is in January next year.
We use the solution to store and migrate the data.
We use SAP HANA on a daily basis for end-to-end business processing. Also, we use it for maintenance management and appointing processes.
This is an in-memory database. It's designed to leverage the use of new generation, multi-threaded CPU architecture. We are service providers.
SAP HANA is one of the best databases known for its performance. Since the solution offers a functionality known as in-memory computing, its performance cannot be measured with other databases. If a customer has a large amount of data, especially data in gigabytes or terabytes, because of which they face performance issues, then SAP HANA is the database for them.
We have a full landscape for SAP. Currently, my customer is using it. We are using the native HANA for the non-SAP sources. We have our data nodes for different business domains. The data is coming from non-SAP sources. The data is coming from different systems. We have a database warehouse approach.
My clients are using a specific technique called an in-memory database that is used with SAP HANA. The solution can be deployed on the cloud and on-premises.
In our company, we utilized SAP HANA to manage various types of information, for example, inventory, employee information, and accounting-related tasks, such as billing and employee surveys. The majority of our employee information was stored in SAP HAHA.
I primarily use SAP HANA for procurement.
I've recently left the company where we were using SAP HANA. Our use case was for replication so that end users could use dashboard reports. I'm a senior manager.
We use HANA mostly for any live reporting directly from the ECC box or S/4HANA box. We also do some of the operational reports, where it is difficult to do or apply the logic directly in the ECC box. It's better to bring the data, do your logic in SAP HANA and do your reporting out of it. Or you can also push your data to BW as well, by doing all your logic, and you can also expose your HANA calculation directly to SAP Analytics Cloud as well as Power BI.
Our company uses the solution for our accounting system and our services department. We have 60 companies so we take each project step by step. Most of our companies have been using the solution for one or two years so they have already converted to implementation or training phases. We have 18,000 users across all of our companies.
SAP Business One works with SQL or HANA. My experience in HANA is configuring and administrating the database. We will also use it for the virtualization of all of our machines. We use SAP Business One and HANA as they have the same platform and databases.
We use it in order-placing and in the IBD integration, integrated business planning for forecast, and demand planning. I'm working in the sales and operation department. I'm not working in finance or production. Maybe the other teams are using it differently, or they're using different modules, however, for us at sales and operation, we are using it to place orders, developer CAST, track reports, and ensure accuracy.
We use SAP HANA as the source of SAP or SAP S/4HANA. We don't have a BW system in between, so we assess data from SAP HANA DB, and we use HANA data models in the HANA database and consume those into SAP.
We use this solution in conjunction with other prompted solutions primarily for real-time analytics.
We have used SAP HANA to do some tendering through the supplier management system. We have our own servers that are hosting the solution. Primarily we use SAP HANA to manage suppliers, they can upload the tender documents. We are then able to do prequalification based on the preset requirements. We then know who is qualified and who is not. Additionally, it has helped us send notifications to the suppliers.
We use this solution to custom build features. We are customers of SAP HANA and I'm a solutions manager working for a retail company in Finland.
I have customers who work with SAP, and I carried out performance research for them, comparing the different parameters of SAP HANA. The solution is generally used for data warehousing.
I was using the product for some research in technical drawings - in terms of making some drawings, the different parts, and the structure of the machinery. I don't know if it's available in the SAP HANA, however, there is a model for this to schedule the maintenance. The company wasn't using it. Sometimes the product furnishes a lot of insights, cultural insights that the company still is not ready to implement.
We work with the latest update. We use the solution as a database. We primarily use it for the SAP application. Some of the use cases involve CDS Views, which provides a quicker processing of the report and the application.
Our primary use of SAP HANA is the use of modules, such as Material Management (MM), and Sales and Distribution (SD).
We use this solution for our CRM, and for our ERP, inventory, and supply chain management. It's basically used to run the majority of the company. We are customers of SAP HANA and I'm an account executive.
We are end users of SAP HANA and I'm assistant vice president of our company.
The internet of things, big data, and utilization of block chain will be possible with HANA.
We always make use of the latest version. We like that SAP HANA is a new technology. We also like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes. In light of the hosting cost, we find this to be very interesting. We also like the warm and cold data in respect of the solution's technology. There is a real team involved. The customer can initially utilize SAP ECC on the HANA interface and then go on S/4HANA. From this point on, doing upgrades will be very easy and smooth and the risk management will be extremely light.
We are solution providers. We are a supply chain organization and we deploy and supply chain solutions for our customers. We have a host of solutions and for each of our customers based on their environments. We customize their platform and deploy it. SAP HANA is one of our database endpoints.
We are using this product for IAM.
We use it for database virtualization.
I am currently using the latest version. But before that, before I jumped into the version, I used the initial version of HANA, as well. This initial version of HANA was not that great, it had a lot of bugs. But the latest version is very good. It's excellent. I'm afraid that HANA is not a relational database, it's a column-level database just like Sybase IQ. Sybase is also an activity product, an SAP product. SAP bought Sybase in May 2010. So normal Sybase is RDBMS. Sybase has one more variant called Sybase IQ. That is not RDBMS, that is a column-level database. Normal Sybase is a whole-level database. That's a column-level database. So SAP HANA is based on this column-level architecture. One more thing. The success of HANA primarily depends on the RAM and the storage. HANA became a success because the cost of the solar devices has fallen down substantially. I don't know about British Pounds, but in Indian Rupees, earlier in 2007, 2008, when I was working for Microsoft, one terabyte of a SAN device, used to cost around 22.5 LAK. I would say I would have had a 100,000. I think that's the nature. So one SAN device was costing 22 LAKs. The same SAN device, in 2013 and 2014, was costing around three LAKs. So the SAN device cost reduced by more than 200%. Also, in parallel, the RAM cost also decreased, and the technology and the fastness of RAM increased. This impacted the primary condition for RDB and RDBMSs like Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and the like, that they need to support the foreign key relationship, where I have a few tables. For example, if I have five to six tables, suppose the first table is employment information. The second table is employee career details or his project, something like that. Now, instead of populating the tables with the same information, the primary condition of RDBMS was to have a foreign key relationship between these two tables and reduce the redundancy. That was a primary condition, but in HANA, thanks to the cheap storage and high-speed RAM, I may not even bother to do a redundancy of data. I can combine all the tables and make a huge table. And as an entire table, whatever its size, I can pin the table in the RAM so that my access of information is not from the hard disk, but is directly from the memory, which is much, much, much faster. That is the beauty of HANA.
We have an ongoing cloud installation but mostly, we implement on-premises. We use this solution for SAP Business One. It's used mainly for analytic purposes, reporting, and the processing of large data.
We use SAP HANA as our primary database for our enterprise business. The product is centrally hosted where all our business departments access the product through its sister product SAP ERP. The product hosts data for the deployed modules namely, Finance and Control (FICO), Materials Management (MM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and Sales and Distribution (SD). It also hosts the business warehouse (BW)/BI environment.
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.
We are system implementers and we have many clients who use SAP HANA. Some examples of our customers are factories, hospitals, and other businesses.
We primarily use the solution as a kind-of database for our workloads.
We primarily use SAP HANA for machine learning and deep learning.
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.
We are primarily using the solution for the BW system of SAP. We also use the legacy reporting, which is very good. The solution is quite fast.
The deployment model used was on-premises.
I am the technical consultant at our firm and our primary use case of the solution is to manage our databases.
We're using the on-premises deployment model.
We are using on-premises, but I have also done some research in the last six months trying to go towards the cloud. We want to upgrade it because we also did the same thing with another company we are working with which is using the Sage X3 Cloud. We started with Sage Evolution, but now we are also moving to Save X3 Cloud.
We use a hybrid deployment model for this solution. Our primary use case of SAP HANA is for business intelligence.
We use this solution for database storage. I am an SAP developer and consultant at my company. I examine the client's system and propose solutions that will ease their processes or make them faster. This involves programming, as well as other kinds of development. We are using the on-premise deployment model.