We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"The load distribution capabilities are good, and you can perform data processing tasks very quickly."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"Databricks helps crunch petabytes of data in a very short period of time."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"There is a seamless integration with SAP S4HANA which is really valuable to our organization and its functions. Since the data is stored in the same ecosystem, it creates a simple process of building dashboards, without making the process cumbersome The Analytics Cloud provides standardized templates and storage options, making it easy to plug into existing structures. We're utilizing custom stories that have already been developed, streamlining the development process. It serves as a convenient starting point and contributes to the overall ease of development. Another advantage is that it doesn't provide the same level of calculation power as Power BI and Tableau. SAP Analytics Cloud emphasizes pushing analytics back into the database, recommending data manipulation and preparation outside of the platform. This approach is seen as an advantage, as it allows for more robust data handling."
"The user interface is quite good for developing reports out of models."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"SAP Analytics Cloud is a very good tool. The feature that's most useful for me is the reporting as it can be done via Google Chrome. The solution is also very nice, user-friendly, and easy to build. It's very easy to use the features of SAP Analytics Cloud."
"In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation of processes and how it works."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"It should have more compatible and more advanced visualization and machine learning libraries."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"Pricing is fine for the BI license, but when it comes to client license, that fee is a bit high."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"Its integration or connectivity with non-SAP systems, big data, and social media, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, et cetera, can be improved. This is where SAP has limited features as compared to other solutions."
"Could be more user-friendly; somewhat complicated to use."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"They need a better scalability rate."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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