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… 1,000 live customers. Still, one of the top questions I get is, “Why doesn’t S/4HANA run on Oracle (or any other database besides HANA)?” This is a natural question, especially since SAP partnered with database vendors for our products prior to S/4HANA. Sometimes there is even speculation of an “S/4Oracle.” It’s not going to happen. Continue reading to learn what makes S/4HANA unique, and why ERP running on legacy database systems are now obsolete with S/4HANA and S/4HANA Cloud.
This is false. In 2019, roughly 1.5 years after this …

… Quotations
HANA Is Not Getting All of the Growth it Deserves?
Quite often, I wonder why there aren’t more people using SAP HANA. Don’t get me wrong, it’s SAP’s fastest ever growing product, it has a run rate of $1bn, there are a ton of developers, partners and appliances, and products and customers. I’ve been asked to do a webinar on why SAP HANA is different and it got me thinking.
This is often repeated but is false. The fastest growing product in SAP’s history is R/3/ECC. It is the product that …

… be performed, one should disengage entirely from SAP, or the costs will spiral, and the outcome will be far worse than using open source options. Open source databases like PostgreSQL work far better in the cloud than does HANA.
Itron
Itron are a manufacturer of Smart Meters, and they have partnered with us to deliver the Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (IEE MDM) powered by SAP HANA. Senior Program Director Moustafa Nazif joined me on stage to discuss their solution. Two things about Itron fascinate me in particular.
First, this is a fully functional translytical application (OLTP and OLAP …

… platform, despite its beginnings as an analytics database. The HANA Cloud Platform brings the capabilities of a full-scale cloud application platform for developers and ISVs alike.
The HANA Enterprise Cloud brings managed-cloud-as-a-services capabilities for businesses who would previously buy on-premises databases, and includes a partnership with IBM SoftLayer.
SAP S/4HANA will be available in the public or private cloud, depending on your requirements – or indeed on-premise. One thing is worth noting: S/4HANA is cloud-first, and on-premise second. Cloud users are first-class citizens in S/4-land.
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… support HANA. Many thought that HANA would be a great money maker for them.
More Maturity
This is what we get in HANA SPS08 – instead of a load of new features, we get a refinement of what we had, more maturity, more support options, more partners. I believe this is exactly what customers wanted and whilst SAP needs to get back to innovating (that’s what HANA is all about after all), customers will repay SAP with increased adoption.
Again, HANA was supposedly mature and enterprise-ready before SPS08. This is a constant pattern with HANA where it is …

… the cloud.
But I’m not sure this is indicative of the future and we are starting to see a shift with some customers considering large BW systems in the cloud – usually the SAP Cloud for large systems. In addition, we see a lot of use of the SAP BW on HANA Trial Edition which runs in the Amazon Cloud, and the Amazon Cloud is also now supported for smaller BW systems, which is also an option. In addition, there will be partner clouds by companies like EMC and T-Systems in 2014, and I’m expecting this to …

… John is quite misleading.
John Appleby is Not Biased in Favor of SAP?
“Disclosure: I don’t work for SAP and received no compensation for this piece, but I have consulted in the past with SAP on various areas of SAP HANA. Bluefin is a Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Services Partner.”
This is a ridiculous statement. Appleby may have received no compensation in terms of direct payments, but he received some benefit from repeatedly writing articles like this. Appleby was the primary outside of SAP shill at this time.
Can HANA be Made Reasonable in Price?
This comment from Appleby …