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."We can scale the product."
"I like that Databricks is a unified platform that lets you do streaming and batch processing in the same place. You can do analytics, too. They have added something called Databricks SQL Analytics, allowing users to connect to the data lake to perform analytics. Databricks also will enable you to share your data securely. It integrates with your reporting system as well."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"The technical support is good."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"I like how easy it is to share your notebook with others. You can give people permission to read or edit. I think that's a great feature. You can also pull in code from GitHub pretty easily. I didn't use it that often, but I think that's a cool feature."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
"I like the connectivity the solution provides with other products."
"The visualizations have been the most valuable feature."
"The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"The features that I have found most valuable with SAP ERP products are their good user interface, stability, functionality, and good interface options."
"A robust solution."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"In the next release, I would like to see more optimization features."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"Costs can quickly add up if you don't plan for it."
"The data visualization for this solution could be improved. They have started to roll out a data visualization tool inside Databricks but it is in the early stages. It's not comparable to a solution like Power BI, Luca, or Tableau."
"Databricks has added some alerts and query functionality into their SQL persona, but the whole SQL persona, which is like a role, needs a lot of development. The alerts are not very flexible, and the query interface itself is not as polished as the notebook interface that is used through the data science and machine learning persona. It is clunky at present."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"The product needs samples and templates to help invite users to see results and understand what the product can do."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"There is plenty of room for improvement. They have different products, and you need to integrate all of them to have one functionality. For example, data extraction happens in Datasphere. Then it would be best if you had some connection between the Datasphere and the SAP Analytics Cloud to get the data, as this is causing headaches sometimes. The knowledge base and Jedox also could be more meaningful. I have tried to search for some specific knowledge base and technology base, and I didn't find them. I have learned it by trial and error. There is room to improve the integrations between the different products. The AFS, and the Data action, need improvement. Sometimes they release new tools and updates, but not in my area."
"Statistical analysis should be a bit more profound than it is."
"They need a better scalability rate."
"SAP Analytics Cloud should improve the dashboard."
"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."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 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 Data Science Studio, 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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