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."In the manufacturing industry, Databricks can be beneficial to use because of machine learning. It is useful for tasks, such as product analysis or predictive maintenance."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"We are completely satisfied with the ease of connecting to different sources of data or pocket files in the search"
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution is very simple and stable."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The tool's most valuable features are the BI and planning functionalities. I value being able to integrate smart planning with BI for analysis. The solution is user-friendly."
"It offers good backup capabilities."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"Easy to use."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. We haven't tried all of the features yet. The graphing and the ease of using the analytics tools have been great. It's all drag and drop; you don't need to code anything."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"The product needs samples and templates to help invite users to see results and understand what the product can do."
"This solution only supports queries in SQL and Python, which is a bit limiting."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Databricks' technical support takes a while to respond and could be improved."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"It would be nice to have more guidance on integrations with ETLs and other data quality tools."
"The query plan is not easy with Databrick's job level. If I want to tune any of the code, it is not easily available in the blogs as well."
"I would like to see improved support for third-party systems, lower cost of acquisition, and better graphics and interface design."
"Sometimes we have difficulty connecting to a SharePoint list."
"The security, authorization, and live connection to the back-office system features can be improved. A business analyst colleague who creates complex financial management reports has mentioned that he wants to see more fact and visualization features. It would be helpful to have more visualization features to be able to prepare more stories or reports for executives. For example, Tableau has some visualization features that are not present in this solution."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"I would like to see reporting to the Analytics cloud directly."
"Could be more user-friendly; somewhat complicated to use."
"It's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"The integration with other vendors and solutions could be improved."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 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, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, 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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