We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance 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."The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"The database is solid."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."
"The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day."
"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability."
"The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"I like how it blends no-code and ABAP code for complex transformations during data loading."
"Out of the box, this solution has a lot of standard features."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"The UI is completely new, beautiful, and user-friendly. There are some other helpful features like global filters and advanced tools. We can perform custom calculations easily From a technical perspective, the performance has been enhanced and optimized for a limited number of flows. The content settings are more advanced, and there are so many other features that I can't name them all."
"The solution is useful for connecting with external systems."
"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"We would like the ability to add more storage without having to upgrade to Oracle Exadata."
"In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing."
"The license cost could be cheaper, especially for long-term contracts."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"There's the complexity in migration from BW to BW/4HANA, especially with data migration."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". 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". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Apache Hadoop, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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