We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA 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."Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"It handles high volumes of data very well."
"It is a very stable database."
"The solution's integration is good."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"I like that it's quite quick."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"If I want to have good reporting, then I have to buy a separate license."
"The product needs to improve with more performance and fewer data layers."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"Support could be more reliable."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. 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 BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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