Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs SAP Business Warehouse comparison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."

"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."

"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."

"I like that it integrates to open-source."

"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."

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

"Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually."

"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."

"​Hybrid environments are complex to manage."

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

"The pricing model needs to be improved."

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

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

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

"Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support."

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

"The solution should be more open to the cloud."

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

"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."

"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."

"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."

"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."

"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."

"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The solution is quite expensive."

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

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