Advantages of HANA over BWA

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am currently working on my thesis on the topic SAP BW on SAP HANA.

One of the topics that i want to emphasize is on the technical and the functional advantages of HANA over BWA.

P.S: I have collected some points after going through most of your discussions but i would welcome your opinions on the same.

Thank you.

Regards,

Joe

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Quite simply, BW 7.30 with BWA and HANA, were quite similar. Starting with 7.3.1 and moving to 7.4, the feature set has diverged when running on HANA. Some simple research will give you the answer to this, but the following article is a good place to start.

http://www.saphana.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/2814-102-2-5167/EIM203_updated_Madrid.pdf

Message was edited by: John Appleby

[randy_middleton]

Interesting Question.

As far a an opinion is concerned;

I posed this question to a Google search.

"  what are functional advantages SAP BW vs SAP HANA   "

The Resultant listing.

[   https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20are%20functional...       ]

The first url answer is;  Why SAP-HANA should start replacing BW!, SCN 2012.

The third; Does HANA Replace BW, (hint NO).

As you are writing an academic paper  this could be the answer.  My opinion there are none, no advantages. 

From a current global ROI business perspective list the pros and cons for each, SAP BW and SAP HANA.  My own opinion ten pros for SAP HANA;

1)  Newer technology

2)  Easier to deploy in the cloud

3)  More head room, going forward bigger OLTP capacity.

4)  Simple presentation of end result to you customer.

5)  Show the customer an iPad with the solution running.

6)  Show a youTube video with the SAP HANA cloud solution running

in side an e-mail.

7)   SAP HANA cloud solution is more affordable to smaller companys, $10 million to $100 million annual sales. 

😎   A cloud deployment of SAP HANA localized by region based on language and culture.

9)  I prefer SAP HANA cloud and mobile application deployment.

10) Current market conditions are move to mobile applications.

There are plenty of consultants that will point out the flaws in the above.  And we can reduce the question to a matter of semantics.

But I hope this helps you and you can use it. 

[abhishek_shanbhogue2]

Hi Joe,

You can look for detailed info on the below topics for advantages of HANA over BWA

- Performance (Reports, Batch Jobs, Data Retrival)

- Index Creation and retrevial

- Data compression and storage (Row Vs Column)

- Data modelling (BW Vs HANA Studio)

Thanks

Abhishek Shanbhogue