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You have to remember why companies buy from the likes of SAP: compliance. That’s the one thing that SAP excels in. Sadly this means that usability falls by th

You have to remember why companies buy from the likes of SAP: compliance. That’s the one thing that SAP excels in. Sadly this means that usability falls by the wayside. And while SAP‘s user interfaces are exceptionally bad, their competitors do not exactly prioritise ease of use either. In this case a subpar user experience is combined with an immature technology stack. SAP infamously stopped supporting 3rd party databases and now require their customers to use the in house HANA database instead. Problem is that HANA is not a great database. Painfully slow and lacks features. In this case, pre-sorted result sets.

tibbydudeza 4y ago
Our audits were all done by interns from the big accounting firm and they just dumped some of SAP tables and ran it via some internal tool and based on that they signed off our results. HANA - remember the first time we installed that in POSDM - it performed worse than the DB2 install we had before - we upped some settings/buffers/memorty and then they told us to turn on row indexing for one of the core tables (TLOG). I thought columnar was the magic here - why did we upgrade to this again ???.