We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata 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."It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"The product is very stable."
"The real-time information is great."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"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."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"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 improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"Oracle Exadata compatibility with the analytics could be better and the OBIEE could improve. Oracle BI to Exadata needs to be improved. Even if the full analytics practice for Oracle should be improved and when compared with other solutions it is weak."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"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."
"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."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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