SAP HANA: Really as Expensive as You Think?

Make an informed decision about adopting SAP HANA.

Certified Hardware

Then

When SAP HANA was first introduced (in 2010) SAP required the use of certified hardware to ensure that SAP HANA worked properly in all scenarios. Yes, this was more expensive, but it allowed SAP to create a controlled environment for the rollout of this new technology.

Now

Today SAP provides partners and customers with a more flexible system configuration option, thereby simplifying the bill of materials (BOM) to build your own infrastructure. Now, you can easily have a server and storage configured to meet SAP HANA specifications (in accordance with the SAP BOM) via one our hardware partners. This provides greater control of hardware costs in comparison to an appliance approach, and can reduce the hardware investment by up to 30%.

Virtualization

Then

As with the certified hardware requirement, SAP was not able to offer virtualization for productive environments. During the rollout of SAP HANA virtualization was available for test and demo systems only.

Now

Today SAP offers a virtualization solution for productive environments through our partner, VMware. With this you can increase your deployment methods for SAP HANA systems. This balances the operational costs in time and money for running and deploying both productive and non-productive SAP HANA Systems. The usage of virtualization can significantly reduce operations and hardware costs of the SAP HANA landscape.

The Bottom Line

INNOVATION! SAP has made significant strides to reduce the cost of adopting SAP HANA, and surely these cost reductions will help you convince your customers. But what if they’re still not convinced? Ask your customers: What will they do when they want to increase their competitive advantage by applying new innovations to their SAP solutions? The fact is, without SAP HANA these solutions and applications won’t be available to the customer. SAP HANA is the platform on which SAP is developing new applications and key solution enhancements. If you’re not on SAP HANA you’re simply not going to be able to innovate to the fullest extent. This not only applies to analytics but to transactional applications. Don’t let your customers be locked out from winning through SAP innovations built on SAP HANA!

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