We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like that it integrates to open-source."
"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."
"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 aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"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."
"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."
"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 warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Features like the fact that the solution is very fast and available on the cloud are some of the valuable attributes of the solution."
"Snowflake Analytics' most valuable feature is its inbuilt infrastructure for executing queries, which I don't have to manage based on my data volume as it's taken care of by Snowflake."
"Time Travel and Snowpipe are good features."
"It's a scalable solution because you can analyze a huge amount of data in the solution."
"The performance has been good."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"Very good flexibility and it offers computation completely decoupled from the storage."
"Considering everything I have accessed, the product's dashboard is good since it provides multiple good options, including customization options."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
"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."
"The problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."
"The solution should be more open to the cloud."
"What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP Business Warehouse is rigid."
"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."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features."
"Snowflake's Snowpark is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The tool should support EIM use cases. I guess the product is already working on it. I look forward to seeing inbuilt AI generative tools in the solution's future releases. The tool's price can be a little lower. The solution's on-premises support is also very limited. We have to rely on other support services to deploy it on-premises."
"The platform could work easier for AI implementation compared to one of its competitors."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms."
"Snowflake Analytics can improve the integration with machine learning tools and AI and it will make the solution more usable."
"The solution needs to consider including some updates in the future."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 30 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Snowflake Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. Snowflake Analytics report.
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