We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"You can do hierarchical alert slicing and dicing out-of-box, which is not available in other solutions. I haven't come across that in Oracle or any other software provider."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"The product is stable."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"The solution does occasionally get a few bugs, but this is typical for any product."
"Support could be more reliable."
"The licensing cost could be made better."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"I don't see SAP actively supporting the solution now...a better support from SAP would be appreciated."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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