We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"It performs very well overall."
"The solution's integration is good."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a very stable database."
"The key element in this solution is its rapid response. If you have a question about prices, buyers, customers, providers, or services, you need the answer in a minute or two. That's the key benefit for us that a solution like BW gives us."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"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 solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."
"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."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"We are currently in a basic stage of analytics and the first goal we have is to make sure the numbers are correct. BW has some features that help you to build factors and ETL in such a way that it's easy to get to correct responses. That's the number one condition that you have to have in an analytic solution."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
"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."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."
"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."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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