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."
"Databricks has improved my organization by allowing us to transform data from sources to a different format and feed that to the analytics, business intelligence, and reporting teams. This tool makes it easy to do those kinds of things."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"The setup was straightforward."
"What my customers like best about SAP Analytics Cloud is the dashboard because it's pretty good."
"There is a really nice insight feature that I enjoy using."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"Easy to use."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
"The user interface is quite good for developing reports out of models."
"It is scalable."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"A lot of people are required to manage this solution."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"SAP Analytics cloud needs better exporting options."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"What could be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is integration, particularly in terms of extracting data from the source system. Currently, its data extraction mechanism doesn't have good integration and needs improvement."
"An additional feature that needs to be added to SAP Analytics Cloud is exporting because right now, you can only export to PDF and PowerPoint. It would be good to have multiple export options, for example, to Excel and other apps. Pricing is an area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud, apart from exporting."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"There should be more features for the time series charts."
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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