Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs SAP Business Warehouse comparison

"Helps our customers to discover trends, which provides useful information based on their business."

"Microsoft Analytics Platform System's most valuable feature is its ecosystems and seamless integration with other Microsoft reporting platforms and databases."

"This solution will connect to any database, you can combine databases, and you can create a cube or tabular model."

"The Cube Solution is quite different when compared to the rest of the competition and has unique functionality for advanced analytics."

"This is a well-integrated solution and that integration empowers results."

"I like that it's integrated with other Azure products."

"It is closely integrated with other products in the MS portfolio."

"We leverage its capabilities for many applications. We can integrate with our databases, like Oracle, MySQL, or any other, using Microsoft Integration Services."

"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."

"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the advanced structuring of data capabilities. You can get different structures of data to suit your needs."

"The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is transformation, where I extract data from different sources, particularly the raw data. Then I do some transformations and store that in a format that allows me to do reporting easily."

"The real-time information is great."

"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."

"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is that it's a seamless integration platform. A valuable feature in the tool is the monitoring alert that makes you aware of what process chain has failed. There's no manual monitoring required if you have configured an alert system, so the process chain can run in the background, and you can get alerts about it. The functionalities I find good in SAP Business Warehouse are alerting and monitoring. If you have configured the tool and have integrated it with SAP Solution Manager, then it's a good product to use."

"The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is its hybrid functionality, allowing users to leverage both SQL-based data warehouse capabilities from HANA and feature-based data warehousing from BW."

"Machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities need to be more friendly for beginning users."

"The flexibility of this solution needs to be improved because you cannot make changes at every one of the different steps."

"We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us."

"Releases of new products and functionality is never accompanied by associated documentation, training and resources that adequately explain the release."

"Functionality needs to be more up-to-date with competing products."

"I think the biggest problem with the product is that it does a data ingest model, which is very expensive."

"The pricing model needs to be improved."

"Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support."

"Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users."

"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."

"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."

"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."

"We are very unhappy with technical support. First of all, they send their sales agents or pre-sales agents and most of them who don't know the solution as a properly trained tech would. We have an on-site SAP representative who is supposed to help us with our high priority and production issues, and they're not satisfactory to say the least."

"The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance."

"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."

"A few things which are missing include the visualization of reports. That's where your costs and licensing become heavy. When it comes to this database compared Microsoft Warehouse, it's an expensive solution."

"The initial price is lower than Oracle, but extensive use of SQL may lead to a higher total cost of ownership."

"Users have to pay extra for premium-level technical support."

"We are currently paying $200,000 a year for all the different parts of the suite during an ingest model Microsoft now charges us $700,000 a year."

"I rate Microsoft Analytics Platform System a seven out of ten for pricing."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."

"The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."

"Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."

"The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."

"It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."

"I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."