Expanding Section: The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA

The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA

S/4HANA has been artificially restricted so that it only runs on the HANA database. Although not part of the research, I have thoroughly analyzed the technical merits of SAP’s argument for why this is necessary and found all of SAP’s claims in this area to be without merit. SAP intends to use the artificial restriction of tying S/4HANA to HANA to push Oracle and other database vendors out of being used for S/4HANA. What will likely occur with S/4HANA being ported to non-SAP databases is covered in the Brightwork article Why SAP Will Have to Backtrack on S/4HANA. HANA and S/4HANA more from a technical perspective are covered in a number of articles in the Brightwork dedicated to HANA and S/4HANA.