Hana service provider comparison

The vendor benchmark "SAP Hana service providers in comparison" offers users a standardized market overview and concrete strengths and weaknesses of the providers become transparent.

In recent years, there has only been a modest number of Hana projects on the market, mainly in the analytical and less in the transactional environment. Experience with Hana in analytical use (e.g. BW on Hana) has now grown significantly, and reference projects and successes are available.

By focusing on individual key processes, such as with the "Simple Finance" solution or the S/4 Hana solution provided in 2015, the first complete solution based on Hana, it is to be expected that a significant change will take place in transactional use in 2016/2017.

The service provider market in German-speaking countries is prepared for the expected "run on Hana" with a comprehensive range of solutions.

This benchmark is based on who has what focus here and how mature the offering actually is. The use of Hana is more than just a technical upgrade.

The right strategy, the right technology platform and a clear business case for the business processes can determine the success and costs of a Hana project.

The number of companies with solutions in the context of "Hana" has grown significantly in recent months in view of the enormous market potential of the topic and the contents of the providers' offerings are naturally very differentiated.

From a field of around 150 providers, 33 providers were evaluated whose range of solutions can be described as truly mature and operational and who already have both experience and references.

January 32 is too late!

An open letter from SAP

Dear Sir or Madam, Based on recent customer feedback, we recognize that our "more-of-the-same" scheme for Limited Professional Users (LPU) has been very well received. [...] Since LPU can no longer be purchased via the current price and conditions list (PKL), [...] we are making it possible to purchase these users at a later date.

We can only offer this for a limited period as a gesture of goodwill. In our view, the definition of the scope of use of the LPU must therefore be carried out at short notice - even if the actual subsequent purchase does not take place at all or only in the future.

[...] According to the information available to us, DSAG stated at its annual congress in connection with SAP Germany's current "more-of-the-same" regulation that LPUs only need to be defined when they are subsequently purchased.

[...] we would like to clarify that this is not the case. Rather, SAP only offers the "more-of-the-same" compensation provision for LPUs in such a way that only those LPUs can still be acquired; firstly, which have already been acquired by the respective customer in software contracts with SAP with a detailed description of the restricted rights of use or; secondly, insofar as a definition for LPUs already previously acquired is subsequently agreed by January 31, 2016, for LPUs in the inventory (the complete LPU inventory can be subsequently defined, or a subset).

If and as long as SAP still offers the subsequent purchase of LPUs described in detail in the sense of the "more-of-the-same" regulation, the LPUs defined subsequently in this way can be purchased accordingly.

If you see the need, please contact your SAP sales representative as soon as possible so that a corresponding supplementary agreement can be agreed between our companies by the aforementioned implementation deadline.